Kelly Slough trained at The Washington School of Ballet under Mary Day and went on to dance with The Washington Ballet and The State of Alabama Ballet.  After moving to New York, she worked with Mark Morris as a dancer in the original cast of the opera “Nixon in China.”  She also danced with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company and was a principal dancer with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.  She has taught at George Mason University, Rutgers University, and Hunter College as well as master classes for the Lubovitch Company in the US and abroad.