Photography: Lindsay Rosenberg 

about -

Sydney Richardson is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a current UCLA Dance and African American Studies B.A. Double Major with a Minor in Theater (Class of 2025).
 

Her goal is to has to spread the joy of dance to individuals of all abilities, ethnicities, and financial backgrounds.

Sydney began dancing at the age of 9 and is trained in Classical ballet, jazz, liturgical, lyrical, contemporary/contemporary floorwork, hip hop, tap, acro, Russian ballet, improvisation, compositional technique, and modern. From Summer 2020 to Spring 2021, Sydney advanced her training through taking Dance courses at Santa Monica College concurrently as a high school senior. She trained in Horton Technique under Seda Aybay and Karen McDonald, jazz under Marissa Osato-Moreno, and ballet under Charlotte Richards and Sofie Monat-Gaydos.

Sydney has learned from choreographers and dance practitioners including Susan Foster, Marina Magalhães, Zena Bibler, Natalie Kamajian, Felicia Vann, Gracie Whyte, Diana Toledo, and SAMMAY Dizon Penaflor. Additionally, Sydney has choreographed and taught students of all ages since 2019 in ballet, jazz, hip hop, liturgical, contemporary, lyrical, and stretch and conditioning through assisting at The Studio Art of Dance (2019-2020), leading the dance seminars at her high school, Da Vinci Design(2019-2020), founding the Da Vinci Dance Troupe, a pre-professional dance company at her highschool (2019-2021), teaching Hip Hop 1 for ages 8-12 years old at Artistico School of Dance in Westchester, CA (2021), and substitute teaching courses at local Los Angeles studios.​

Sydney is consistently working on a way to bridge her multiple interests of dance, videography/production, and classical music as a creator and performer to form work that empowers marginalized voices, spreads positivity, and breaks racist ideologies of dance.  Besides dance, Sydney can be found with her head in a book, singing and grooving to gospel music with family, and journaling about her thoughts and dreams.