Spark Artist

Carlyn Hudson is an independent choreographer originally hailing from Nyack, New York. Her early dance education was focused on Classical Ballet and Jazz, before studying at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College, from which she graduated with aBachelor of Fine Arts in 2008.

Carlyn performed as a member of the Connecticut Ballet prior to relocating to Portland, Oregon in2010. Once in Oregon she co-founded an all-woman, contemporary dance collective called SubRosa and then, in 2017, she jumped off to begin producing work under her own name. She has continuously produced full length dance concerts since then and she recently took on co direction of Women Choreographers of the Pacific Northwest in the interest of helping to uplift other women artists of the region. She has set work at Northwest colleges and universities, in addition to theater productions in Chicago, IL, and her work has been presented at Connecticut Ballet’s Under The Stars, Unveiled Dance Festival, Pacific Dance Makers, Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival, Union PDX Festival of Contemporary Dance, and the Ballet Alliance Festival among others.

Carlyn’s work is based in ballet technique. It’s intricate but clear and has been described as having a “dash of humor noir in a creamy base of impeccable musicality.” Carlyn continues to educate students in classical ballet, pointe technique and dance composition while prolifically producing original works of classical and contemporary dance.