People Title

Year 5 Fellows

Kayla Banks

Kayla Banks
Year 5 Fellow

KAYLA BANKS (Afro-Native non-enrolled Choctaw and Creek Freeman and Eastern European) is a choreographer, dancer and actor from Denver, Colorado with a B.A. in Performing Arts/Business Administration. She has danced professionally with Impact Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson and Dancing Earth. Recipient of the New Expressive Works and CoHo Theater Residency where she debuted an original work in March 2019 around multi-ethnicity and an original dance musical in 2021. Her work is featured in the virtual gallery yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives as Afro-Native artist. Her focus is on wellness, dance technique, spirituality and expression with Earth and living creature connections.