Kirsten Cooper

Kirsten Cooper trained in Washington State then moved to Los Angeles when she was nineteen years old. She trained at Edge Performing Arts Center in Hollywood for five years. She also assisted Rhonda Miller, Jeff Amsden and Liz Imperio. While in Los Angeles she worked in film, video and stage. Kirsten danced on Costa Cruise Lines, toured with LADF, demonstrated on LADF and Jeff Amsden instructional videos, Sony Disc Industrial Film and numerous ABBA hair shows.

Kirsten now teaches full time in the Seattle area as well as traveling the U.S. to do choreography and master classes. She has run a pre-professional jazz company out of Westlake Dance since 1997. Her goal with her students is to train them for dance careers and instill in them that hard work is just as important as talent. Her students have performed at “Sign Of the Times”, “Dance This” @ The Moore Theatre and the PONCHO gala benefit. Her company was honored to dance in the Tanzsommer Dance Festival 2006 in Austria. Many of her students have gone on to do the one-year study program at Edge and the summer program Dance With The Force. They have toured with Paul McCarthy, Backstreet Boys, Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion. They have done videos with Fiona Apple and Black Eyed Peas, as well as the movie “Dreamgirls”, “Dancing With The Stars”, “American Idol” and the remake of “Fame”. She currently has students dancing in the Hysterica Dance Company (LA) and Odyssey (Salt Lake City).

Kirsten continues to share the passion of dance with all whether in the classroom or with her choreography on the stage. She feels blessed to be able to do this as her job. She also is very proud of her newest production, her daughter Tristan Isabella.