Kylie Vinitski
Photo by Erica Ruch
Kylie Vinitski, originally from Livonia, MI, graduated from Western Michigan University in April 2019 with her BFA in Dance. At Western, she had the privilege of working with choreographers Monique Haley, Seyong Kim, and Joshua Manculich, and dancing in Kate Skarpetowska’s Tidal Intersections and Aszure Barton’s Happy Little Things (Waiting on a Gruff Cloud of Wanting). While at Western, Kylie joined ConteXture for her first season as a company member in 2017. After she graduated from WMU in 2019, Kylie moved to Chicago to dance on scholarship at Hubbard Street’s Lou Conte Dance Studio under the mentorship of Ethan Kirshbaum. Kylie relocated to Metro-Detroit in 2021 where she continued to dance professionally with Contexture Dance Detroit and has performed at festivals such as Detroit Dance City Festival, Detroit Dance Exchange, Oakland Dance Festival, Maggie Allesee Choreography Competition, RAD Fest in Kalamazoo, MI, Dumbo Dance Festival in New York City, and Fluid Expressions Artist Festival in Chicago, IL. Kylie also danced with Artlabj for two seasons where she toured Europe in 2022 at the Tanzhafen Festival in Linz, Austria.
Kylie has choreographed for Michigan State University's Orchesis Dance Society, Grand Valley State University's Elite Dance Club, and Suttle Dance Company. Summer 2022, Kylie won the Emerging Choreographers Project competition and created a new work on the dancers of Young Dancer’s Initiative in Ann Arbor. Kylie has had the honor to choreograph for Churchill High School’s CAPA dance program where her choreography was chosen to perform in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Oakland Dance Festival College Showcase.
Spring of 2025, Kylie received her MA as a Dance Teaching Artist at Wayne State University with her thesis, “Effects Of The Creative Process For Pre-Professional Learners In Dance: Enhancing Well-Being Through Personal Expression.” Through this program, she has had the honor to collaborate with the undergraduate students of Company One at Wayne State under the mentorship of Lisa Wilmot and work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate pedagogy course under the direction of Dr. Doug Risner.
Kylie is a Senior Company Dancer with ConteXture Dance Detroit moving into her 9th season as a dancer and has been promoted to Company Manager for season 12. As Company Manager, Kylie manages social media accounts, updates the company website, assists in grant writing, writes applications for dance festivals, and assists in event planning. Kylie is also the Artistic Director of the Pre-Professional Summer Program (CPSP) granting opportunities for artists ages 13-18 to train and perform alongside professional dance artists in Detroit.