Photo by Catlyn Griswell
Melissa Koh Krienke
Director of Operations
Melissa Koh Krienke is a dancer, teacher, and artist here in the Pacific Northwest. She started dancing ballet at the age of 3 and her passion grew from there. Melissa trained through high school with Ballet Chelsea and got her BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts. She has performed with Beth Terwilliger, Converge Dance Festival, the Chihuly Garden and Glass, Dance This, Bridge Project, Tint, PRICEarts N.E.W., Forthun+Rome Dance Theater, Intrepidus Dance, Seattle International Dance Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
Melissa is now dancing professionally; teaching Ballet, Pointe, and Contemporary; and is a co-founder of Trillium Dance Collective in Seattle.
In her free time Melissa enjoys board games, reading, and snuggling with her black cat, Mochi.