KJ Dye is a dance artist, educator, and collaborator who uses movement as a vehicle for transformation, truth-telling, and community building. Their work engages embodiment, justice, and collective becoming through performance, facilitation, and somatic inquiry. KJ holds an MFA in Dance and an Interdisciplinary Specialization in Teaching and Learning for Diversity, Social Justice, and Community Engagement from The Ohio State University, where they received the 2021 Graduate Associate Teaching Award. At OSU, KJ contributed as a Graduate Associate with Be the Street, a performance studies project focused on human mobility and placemaking, and curated OSU Dance Department’s inaugural Community Conversations series—an artist-led platform for dialogue, disruption, and creative action. KJ earned their BFA in Dance, magna cum laude, from Slippery Rock University, and is a certified Embodied Social Justice Somatic Practitioner.

KJ has taught throughout the Puget Sound as a teaching artist and educator at institutions including Velocity Dance Center, Cornish College of the Arts, Dance Fremont, Bainbridge Dance Center, Bellevue College, Bremerton Dance Center, eXit SPACE, and Pacific Lutheran University. They are currently on faculty at The Northwest School, where they teach dance and theater arts to students in grades 6–12. As a performer, KJ has worked with Seattle-based companies Michele Miller and Catapult Dance, Marlo Martin’s BadmamarDANCE, and The Three Yells, and has collaborated with artists such as Maya Soto, Nico Tower, Paige Barnes, Ellie Sandstrom, Eddie Taketa, Daniel Roberts, Ursula Payne, and Jennifer Keller. Their choreography has been presented nationally, and their teaching practice challenges contemporary patterns of disembodiment centering somatic literacy, shared authorship, communal art-making, and inclusive, justice-driven pedagogy.