Born and raised in Blackstone, Massachusetts, Kelsey began dancing at the early age of four. Throughout her years as a dancer and athlete, Kelsey developed a love and respect for movement, and continued her dance training at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of the Five College Dance Department, where she holds a BFA. She has studied under the direction of movers such as Jennifer Nugent, Paul Matteson, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Leslie Frye-Maietta, Thomas Vacanti, Paul Dennis, and others.

 

From 2015-2016, Kelsey performed in Pilobolus Dance Theater's Megawatt, with a select cast of Five College dancers. During the summer of 2016, Kelsey danced with Vacanti Ballets, presenting work in both Boston and New York.  Later that year, she was cast as Juliet in Umass Amherst's department wide production of Peril in Thine Eye, a contemporary rework of Romeo & Juliet. From 2016-2017, she was featured in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Story/Time, under the direction of Jennifer Nugent and Shayla-Vie Jenkins. In 2017, Kelsey worked with Kinsun Chan, and was a featured dancer in his new work, Nudge. In the same year, she worked with Bebe Miller on her piece The Blues Project, and was a featured soloist. Kelsey's list of performance repertory also includes works by Leslie Frye-Maietta, Chris Aiken, Thomas Vacanti, Deborah Goffe, and Bronwen MacArthur. 

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In 2018, Kelsey recieved the Virginia J. Wagner Scholarship, awarded annually to a student who has made valuable contributions to the Five College Dance Department's Programs and Productions. In March, Kelsey was selected to perform her original solo Small Memory at the American College Dance Association's National festival, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington D.C. Adjudicators Gerald Casel, Gerri Houlihan, and James Sutton lauded the work as "a delicate movement poem, pure in it's essence and profound in it's performance and simplicity."

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Recently, Kelsey has worked as a dancer at Boston Moving Arts Productions under the direction of Jenna Pollock in the creation of her new piece, Work, commissioned by David Orr and performed at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theater. She has also worked as a rehearsal director and representative for David Dorfman Dance in the creation of an original work set at the Five Colleges, a guest performer with Prometheus Dance, studying under the direction of Korhan Basaran, and performing in his original work, RAu, and now as a guest dancer for Boston Dance Theater. 

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Kelsey is not only a mover, but a maker. She has presented original work at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., 92nd Street Y, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Montclair State University, Boston University, the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Onstage Dance Company, Green Street Studios, Arts on Site, Jennifer Mueller/The Works HATCH series, The Craft, Alchemical Theater Laboratory, and Newburgh Illuminated Festival.