Kiona Daelyn Email and Phone Number

Founder of Wingbeat Movement Arts, a multidisciplinary dance company offering performances and community education in modern, aerial, and improvisational dance.

Performing, choreographing, and teaching modern dance and aerial dance (since 2005)Teaching hatha yoga, yin yoga, and meditation to children and adults in person and online (since 2009)

Leading regular group conversations with therapy staff around how to better support clients of marginalized and historically disenfranchised identities.

Managing twenty apartments including repairs, yard maintenance, and filling vacancies

Teaching ballet, modern, and jazz dance classes to children and adults

Teaching aerial silks classes

Guest Choreographer for professional and student companiesTeach technique class in contemporary ballet, Graham-based floorwork, and modern sequencing to company dancers.Teach ballet and modern technique to Teen InternsChoreograph work for Visionary Dance Theatre and Teen Intern program shows

Managing front desk operations including payments, waivers, and booking eventsCreating and implementing curriculum for youth circus programMarketing Designing workshops and camps in aerial artsInstructed prospective teachers in the teacher training program in rigging, spotting, and aerial skillsTeaching trapeze and aerial silks to youth and adults

Facilitated community and school trainings on diversity, equity, and inclusionCoordinated program outreachManagement of two youth community centersCase managementDesigned and instructed inclusive sex education curriculum for youthDesigned, created, and implemented a new youth center facility in South BayServed on various committees in collaboration with other community-serving organizations and schoolsSupervised a team of four youth services staffSupervised youth directly and led programming at youth drop-in centers

Organizer, volunteer coordinator, climber, and actions trainer

Creating and teaching a 4-level youth ballet curriculum

Performed as a dancer and aerialist in choreography by John Malashock and guest choreographers

Taught yin yoga and modern dance

Designed and implementing curriculum for a 4-level ballet program for children ages 5 to 12.

Coordinated the yoga and healing arts portion of the first Raise The Vibration event.Raise the Vibration is a gift to the city of Philadelphia. The event on May 22, 2011 included live music, collaborative art, a children's creative corner, food, science and humanities education, yoga, reiki, breema, and other healing arts. All services, performances, food, and water was free.

Taught jazz dance and creative dance classes for seniors age 65+Creative dance includes dance improvisation, conditioning, and injury prevention.

Created and taught an afterschool yoga program for local middle school studentsTaught public mixed-level hatha yoga classes

Created and implemented a fundraising and marketing campaign to send a humanitarian aid worker abroad.

Dancer, aerial dance instructor

Coordinated peer-to-peer education programSupervised four staff in activism, outreach, community education, and volunteer coordinationServed as media and political liaisonOrganized donor events

Taught sex education classes for children and teens in public and charter schoolsCreated and coordinated direct actions and campaigns on reproductive justice and sex educationWorked with local and state officials to discuss reproductive justice and sex education policyCoordinated volunteer participation in direct actions and campaigns