calartsdance CalArts Dance is shocked and saddened that the University of the Arts is closing and our hearts go out to all of you affected.
In light of this news, the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts is now reopening applications for our BFA Dance transfer students. The application fee will be waived. We invite you to continue your academic journey with us. Please visit calarts.edu/admissions or click on the link in our bio.
If you have any questions about this application process please do not hesitate to contact our Assistant Director of Admissions for CalArts Dance, Kevin Whitmire.
Photo credits: Cheryl Mann
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Roll 01 / who you're hiring
I build audiences for arts organizations, and I can show you where the numbers moved.
Communications and content strategist with a CalArts BFA and a Johns Hopkins MA in Communication. From 2022 to 2026 I managed social media and communications for the School of Dance at CalArts, where I grew following by more than 30% and supported year-over-year enrollment increases of 17%. I built and led the digital content team there, ran paid campaigns across Meta, Google and LinkedIn, and shipped 100+ posts a year against the recruitment calendar.
Now I work freelance: I run communications and day-to-day operations for Burbank Dance Academy and take on short-form video and brand work for lifestyle and wellness clients — recent ones include Weelicious and Holistically Loved, including a Weelicious reel that hit 147K views on a page that usually tops out at 20K. On a contract with Allevalux, a lighting-technology startup, I ran the company's LinkedIn and grew views per post from 400 to 2,000.
My background is unusual for this field, and it's the reason the work lands. I came up as a dancer and movement director — credits in Man About Town, Flaunt, Hunger and RollaCoaster, plus commercial work: a session with John Legend, a print campaign for United Airlines, and shoots for Google across Beam, Pixel and Nest. I know what a shoot day actually costs, what a performer can give you on the fifth take, and how to make thirty seconds carry a whole program.
Strategy through execution — I do the planning and then I do the work.
Editorial calendars, channel planning and campaign arcs built around a real programming schedule.
Daily management, community response, and the monthly reporting that shows what actually worked.
Reels and TikToks shot, cut and captioned. Built to survive the first three seconds.
Positioning, voice and collateral that holds together across every channel.
One shoot, a season of assets. Shot list built around your calendar.
Editorial and commercial credits — the shoot-side experience most comms hires don't have.
Class schedules, private lessons and studio bookings, run so nothing double-books and families always know where to be.
Invoicing, tuition and payment tracking in Square and QuickBooks, plus the admin behind it: shared inboxes, accounts and the studio website.
What I plan in, build in, and measure with.
Tell me about the organization and what you're trying to grow. I'll come back with a point of view.
keelyuchida@gmail.com