Kris has been the leading dance expert in the southern region/Gulf Coast for over 25 years, where she continues to teach, choreograph, coach, and mentor students to become professional dancers or guide them toward a path in the performing arts through stage or film. She currently freelances, teaching, coaching, judging, and consulting for dance companies and artists regionally and nationally. She is a certified member of Dance Educators of America and Dance Masters of America Chapter 3 (STADT), where she was voted 2023 Member of the Year and served as a board member for six years. Kris is a past Miss Dance of Dixie/DMA Chapter 37 and received several scholarships as a dance student.

Kris has taught on the prestigious faculty of the Atlanta School of Ballet, Breanu University, Ballet Tennessee, Virginia School of the Arts, University of South Carolina, Columbia Classical, Griffin Ballet, St. Joseph’s Academy Dance Department, Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts in Mississippi, and several others over the past forty years. She has been a guest teacher at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS, the Dance Educators of America Las Vegas Nationals, several summers at the South Carolina Summer Dance Conservatory, Tanzproject in Bonn, Germany, the Georgia Governor’s Summer School, and several others. Her choreographic works have been performed for the University of South Carolina Centennial Gala and USC dance program, the Southeastern University dance department, the University of Lafayette dance department, Ballet Tennessee Company and School, Griffin Ballet, Georgia Dance Theatre, Giacobbe Academy of Dance, and Mississippi Gulf Coast Ballet Theatre in Biloxi, to name a few. She has received many reviews from the NYC Fringe Festival, Scotland Fringe Festival, and SC Columbia Times; choreography awards at the Alabama Panoply Festival, where she was a two-time overall winner; and recognition from American College Dance Festivals, Mount Baker Ballet Washington, Pacific Regional Ballet Festival, Southwest Regional Ballet Festival, New York City Fringe Festival, Jazz Dance World Congresses in Chicago and Buffalo, Columbia Classical Ballet Gala, and The International Choreographers Showcase in Spain, Austria, Scotland, and Lithuania. Kris choreographed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for Theatre Baton Rouge/Baton Rouge Little Theatre.

Her full-time professional performance career, spanning twenty years, included modern dance companies in Atlanta with Several Dancers Core under Sue Schroder, with performances in Atlanta, Houston, and NYC. Additional companies included Dance Force Company under Douglas Scott, where she was featured in works by Peter Pucci and Randy James, and Room to Move under Amy Gately. She was featured in the Walt Disney Magical Moments held at the Fox Theatre and was a featured performer with the International Choreographers tour in Spain, Austria, Scotland, and Lithuania.

She has judged and taught for Dance Masters of America, Dance Educators of America, KAR, Headliners, Elite Dance Cup, Encore Competitions, Dance Troupe, Little Miss Louisiana Beauty Pageant, Cinderella Texas State Pageant, Pure International Pageant, Regency International Organization, Miss Slidell, and others. Kris received the 2014 Louisiana Arts Leadership Award, was named a 2014 Most Influential Businesswoman, received the 2017 LSU Women’s Center Esprit de Femme Award and the WAFB Power of 9 Award, was a 2015 Honoree at the Manship Theatre, and was a 2023 Best Dressed Honoree. Kris is active in the community as a member of City Club Baton Rouge, Quota Baton Rouge, Krewe of Artemis (member and Queen), Krewe of Orion (Queen and Orion Queen Club member), the Best Dressed Cancer Ball Committee (Capital Gala), the Big Buddy program, the Dancing for a Cause program, and the Capital Area United Way, and she continues to serve the community through main-stage and outreach dance performances, Community Connections, and board membership with many nonprofits in the area.

Kris received her BFA in Dance and Choreography at Louisiana State University and performed with the modern and ballet company under director Terry Worthy. Kris’s early training includes Mary Munro, Giacobbe Academy of Dance, Giordano Dance Centre, Tremaine Dance Centre, Roland Dupree Academy, and many more.

Kris was the Artistic Director of the Cangelosi Dance Project School and Company for forty years, where she operated and managed a dance studio, taught daily classes at all levels, and choreographed for company and recreational dance students. Kris continues to give outreach performances, lectures, and in-school class demonstrations.