Kirby Reed

Kirby Reed is the Artistic Director of Ascension/The Kirby Reed Project and founder of House of Ascension; Mr. Reed is a former Joel Hall Dancer, Mr. Reed was picked twice for top Jazz Classes In Chicago out of ten must take classes in the city in Dance Spirit Magazine Jan., 2005. Voted Best Hip Hop teacher by Chicago Magazine (Best of Chicago) Aug. 2003. Currently teaching at Columbia College, Joel Hall Dance Center, and Francis W. Parker where he is developing a dance program for the upper school. Mr. Reed has received 2 awards in Canada for best choreography and seven consecutive nominations from The Black Theatre Alliance for best choreography in a Music/Dance program. Having choreographed musicals such as West Side Story, Anything Goes, Honk and Fame. He has worked in various capacities in the dance community, as a dancer, choreographer and instructor. Kirby has traveled extensively both in and out of the country teaching master classes and judging future dancers, through Dance America, Dance Olympus, Dance Educators of America and International Dance Competition to name a few. He has appeared as a dancer for television, in movies and live in concert with a variety of today's pop and hip hop artist.