Keenan Kampa

Keenan Kampa

Born: February 3, 1989
in Washington, D.C.
Keenan Kampa is an international ballet dancer, model and actress, landing a major role in the movie High Strung (2016).

Kampa started dancing at the age of four. She studied at the Conservatory Ballet in Reston. Kampa was raised near Reston, Virginia From 2003 to 2004, she was part of the Boston Ballet's Summer Dance Program.

In 2007, when she was eighteen years old, she was invited to study at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, the second American to be admitted to the academy after Ryan Martin. After three years, she graduated at the top of her class and with a Russian diploma. She accepted a contract with the Boston Ballet after two seasons, she was invited to dance with the Mariinsky Theatre, becoming the first American in history to do so. She returned to the United States in 2014 for hip surgery. She planned to return to Russia, but decided to remain in the United States.

Movies for Keenan Kampa...

High Strung
Title: High Strung
Character: Ruby
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.
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Jerome Lejeune - To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters
Title: Jerome Lejeune - To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2015
Type: Movie
To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters is a new documentary on the life of Jerome Lejeune, the Father of Modern Genetics that was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his death. Filmed on two continents, it contains numerous interviews with former colleagues, families, current medical researchers, and others, all who express the importance of Jerome Lejeune in both the history of medicine and the defense of the dignity of human life.
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Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
Title: Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
Character: Brides
Released: June 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A spectacular special event edition of Swan Lake in 3-D starring Ekaterina Kondaurova and Natalia Vodianova, model, actress, and storyteller, was recorded and broadcast live from the historic Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Russia, the city where the world's most loved ballet was created. This was a 3-D live screening celebrating two hundred seventy-five years since Russian ballet started in the exquisite splendor of the Winter Palace.