FOUNDER
Carey Pickens founded Danceproof to spearhead her solutions-based dance science portfolio to both the international dance community and non-dancers alike.
Carey has a wide-ranging skills set including extensive international teaching, coaching and certification in dance science, ballet, pilates (mat and equipment) anatomy, physiology and dancer wellness.
A trained dancer, Carey performed in the U.K, Canada and Bermuda. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance, London, in Dance Education and is an Associate of the Academy. She also graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London with an MSc in ‘Dance Science’. She is a member of the International Association of Dance Science and Medicine and attends their annual conferences where research is first ‘aired’. Carey is certified in Pilates mat and equipment with both Stott Pilates and PhysicalMind and, has over 20 years international experience instructing pilates.
Carey is a strong advocate of physiological and psychological well being amongst dancers and promotes safe dance practice. Carey designed and taught the dancer wellness courses at both Italia Conti, London and Vitacca Dance, Houston. She has established a reputation for diagnosing injury compensation patterns, muscular imbalance, faulty biomechanics, postural misalignment and designing rehabilitation programs. She ran dedicated diagnostic clinics at both academies.
Carey has a well developed strategic business sense honed from an earlier career as a change and strategy consultant for KPMG Management Consulting and Boston Consulting Group and has an M.B.A from a top European business school.
Her depth of experience and diverse qualifications have uniquely equipped her to create and deliver her varied portfolio of dance science solutions.