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Angelica Polk

Lecturer in Dance

Portrait of Angelica Polk

Angelica Polk is a performer, choreographer, and dance educator from Western Massachusetts. She is the rehearsal director and performer for Kia The Key & Company. She holds a bachelor’s in Dance and Arts in the Community and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Cambridge College. Angelica continues to artistically challenge and enrich the lives of many dance communities such as Jacob’s Pillow and various educational settings and communities. She is the founder and director of an all inclusive majorette dance line, The Community Ambassadors of Spirit and Performance Team, C.A.O.S. C.A.O.S. is a unified collective of studio and community dancers willing to learn majorette style and perform their own creations of choreographed stands to reaffirm our power and strengths together for both our enjoyment and for seasonal parades. Angelica was honored to have been a featured dancer and on the cover of the New England Regional ACDA Dance Conference in 2016 at Springfield College. She also had a life changing opportunity and studied dance history at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy and visited Rome and Venice. Angelica is skilled in many dance forms and techniques such as Horton, VopJazz, Contemporary, West African, House, and Hip-Hop.