Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Baylee McAllister is a Senior from Fishers, Indiana getting ready to receive her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance and Minor in Arts Management from Indiana University. Her latest performances include works: Norri 4x3 by DaEun Jung and Sentient Beings by Elizabeth Shea in IU Contemporary Dance Program’s 2023 Production Cultural Immersions. She has also performed: Schemas by Justin Sears-Watson, Allies and Activists by Stafford C. Berry Jr. and Villanelle by Selene B. Carter on the Ruth N. Halls Stage. She had the opportunity to work with Phoenix Rising Dance Company performing Culturescape by Justin-Sears Watson and Margo Korn at Waterstreet Dance Festival in 2022. Baylee spent her Junior year Spring semester studying dance in Paris, France, working with astounding dance professionals: Wanjiru Kamuyu, Sébastien Thill, Anna Chirescu, Aurélia Lefauchaux, LaMichael Leonard, Clint Lutes, Asha Thomas, Michelle Jacobi, Madison Mainwaring and Michael Foley while also receiving choreographic experience in Berlin with Heidi Weiss, Paris with Nathalie Pubellier and Amsterdam with Maurice Causey. Her outside training includes: the Boston Ballet Summer Intensive, Eisenhower Dance Detroit Winter Intensive and an internship at Dance Kaleidoscope in Indianapolis, IN. She is a proud recipient and first place winner of the Molly Parsley Festival of Creativity Award for her choreographic work, Chasing Rabbits (2022). Baylee is looking forward to continuing her dance journey by performing in Sentient Beings by Elizabeth Shea at the Dumbo Dance Festival in NYC and attending the LINK audition festival in Salt Lake City, Utah this Summer.