Kymberlee the Dancer

Kymberlee was born 27 years ago in Huddersfield, west Yorkshire. Although always interested in dance and imitatingthe stars that she admired on the television (Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, and Janet Jackson), she was also a budding Scientist! At the age of 8 years old, Kymberlee relocated to London with her family and joined a local Youth Centre. At 10 years old she met her Choreographer and Mentor for 8 years, Kat B and began to participate in his classes at the Youth Centre. This Led to Kymberlee not only performing with the biggest Street dance group in East London, but at 14 years old, also learning how to be a strong choreographer and develop the management skills needed in order to run such a successful dance organisation. Kymberlee showed that at such a young age she had the ability to take responsibility for a group of approximately 40 young people and went on to assist Kat in the running of the team. The group went on to do many performances including the European Youth Talent Showcase in Finland alongside groups from all over Europe.

At the age of 16, Kymberlee was teaching regular Hip-Hop dance classes at the sixth form college she attended in order to study Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics A-Levels. She went on to form a group who then performed at Local Theatre and Dance Events in East London. After completing her A-Levels, Kymberlee Gained a place a Greenwich University in order to study Biomedical Science and so relocated to South London. Here, she stopped dancing in order to concentrate on her Degree. After Two years of studying, Kymberlee was asked to create a Dance workshop in South London. Kymberlee soon regained her passion for dance and choreography and set up a dance group known as "Darkside". The idea behind Darkside was initially experimental: To see if a professional dance group could be created with a group of 14-21 year olds whom had no prior dance training. The experiment was a great success and after approximately 18 months of training, the group went on to do numerous paid Theatre performances and Talent Showcases.

At the age of 21, Kymberlee became a cast member of the Stratford Theatre Royal production of 'Da Boyz', a Hip-Hop adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors'. Whilst working alongside many other Hip-Hop dancers from many areas of the UK, Kymberlee realised that her passion for dance also included old school styles such as Popping, Street Locking and Break Dancing. Whilst Training with the productions Choreographer known as "Steady" (UK All stars BBoy Crew) Kymberlee enhanced her Technique in all three disciplines. Once the Production run had ended in August 2002, Kymberlee gained her first Music video feature as a dancer for award winning UK girl band Misteeq, the video was entitled 'Hip-Hop style'.

Whilst working on the professional productions, Kymberlee continued to work with her group Darkside, who in July 2003 went on to gain 2nd place in the UK Street Dance championships, out of a total of 35 groups in all who had entered! By December 2003, Kymberlee was teaching a total of 5 hip-hop classes a week, including a class in the Youth Centre where she first began. Kymberlee continued to perform in Showcases around the UK and teaching workshops in Schools, Colleges and Universities around London.

In September of 2004, Kymberlee gained a spot in a huge Televised and Internet advertising campaign for the Nike Women's Spring Dance Collection 2005. The commercial was a 15 second Solo Spot, choreographed by dance legend Jamie King and directed by the world renowned Johan Renck. The Campaign "Take Sport - Add Music" was released in February 2005 in all of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Kymberlee then travelled with Jamie King to be a special guest performer at the Nike Clashdance Event in Rome. In September 2005, Kymberlee was informed that her Nike commercial had been viewed by the 'Queen of pop' Madonna and that she wished to have Kymberlee feature on the first video for her new album 'confessions on a dance floor'. The Single was entitled 'Hung Up' and in October 2005 Kymberlee filmed with Madonna whilst being Choreographed once again by Jamie King and directed by Johan Renck.

In November 2005, Kymberlee secured a second advertising campaign with Nike. This time the commercial involved a 30second solo spot filmed in Lisbon, Portugal to be released in February 2006. The commercial was one of three, again incorporating some of the most sought after female dancers and choreographers in the world, entitled "Tell Me I'm Not an Athlete". The Pieces were choreographed by both Jamie King and Luther Brown, and directed by Dawn Shadforth. On the release of the Nike Women commercials, Kymberlee signed with Nike to become the first and only street dancer/choreographer in the UK contracted as a 'Nike Athlete'. She then worked on many events across Europe known as the 'Nike RockStar workouts'.  In the UK, The event was attended by 2100 up and coming dancers over 3 days and filmed for MTV's 'Four to the floor'. Kymberlee choreographed sessions in Krump dancing as well as being a judge to decide which of those 2100 would win a ticket to L.A and work with Jamie King. Kymberlee was also involved in teaching and judging at similar events for Nike in Barcelona, Istanbul and Tel Aviv.
Kymberlee also featured as a Character Madonna's next video feature entitled 'Sorry', released in February 2006. The Video was shot in London and included Kymberlee free styling on roller skates! Kymberlee worked again with Jamie King, now as the Director and Richmond and Tone Talauega as the Choreographers.

In January of 2007, Kymberlee signed to Nike, not only as a dance athlete, but also as the Dance Consultant for Europe, The Middle East and Africa. This includes Kymberlee advising the brand on how to connect with dancers across these regions and create strong and lasting communication to enhance their marketing strategies. Kymberlee continues to teach across these regions, as well as speak publicly about her experiences as a dancer and choreographer in the hope to inspire others.