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By Lue Dowdy, LUE Productions
La-Kyshia is a ball of beautiful energy.
La-Kyshia N. Reddick was born on May 13 in Fontana, California. Currently, she resides in Highland, California. She is inspired by her parents and grandparents who have supported everything that she has done since she was little. The support and love have given her the green light to run the race and become a force to reckon with in the world of dance.
She’s always been an honor-roll student and was placed on the Dean’s Lists at San Bernardino Valley College. She began performing in preschool; her first dance performance was Salsa, and Boy George, ” I tumble for ya”.
La-Kyshia has always loved to work-out at home. Jane Fonda and her dad were her inspirations. She was part of Jr Mission, Usher, Choir, worked in the nursery and praise dance team at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church as a youth- teen.
She has modeled hairstyles for a beauty salon, and has been part of the Coronoid Girls as Eastern Star in San Bernardino. She participated in Talent shows at Fresno State University as she attended Grand Session for the youth supervised by Eastern Stars yearly until the age of 17. She attended San Bernardino Valley College as a Liberal Arts/Arts/Graphic Design major. Taking jazz dance classes there is when her hobby became a career.
La-Kyisha began dancing with multiple choreographers doing different styles of dance such as Jazz, Modern, Caribbean, Brazilian, West African, Afro-Jazz, Hip Hop, and Praise Dance. During this time, she also modeled for WNOPhotography.
La-Kyshia’s hobbies are: organizing, Dancing, cleaning, creating looks: Fashion, nails, and interior design, museums, art, festivals, gathering with family, impacting children, working-out, having a good time everywhere she goes, teaching zumba/dance at the gym, fashion shows, and reading.
She has always been a lead/supervisor at jobs that she has had from past to present. She enjoys everything she does in her career. She works for the county and has been running successful after-school programs for the past 18 years at 12 different schools for CAPS in San Bernardino. She is a huge impact in her program to her leaders and students.
La-Kyisha has taught dance, fashion design, fitness, sign language and art to students. She has run one of the biggest after-school programs since 2018. She has been able to show students that they can show off their talents right here in San Bernardino, by performing at Cal State University, Arroyo, and other schools and theaters. She is currently a coordinator at Paakuma’ helping to build strong leaders and expanding the children’s education. She currently is attending school in San Bernardino County.
La-Kyisha lets her work speak for itself. She considers herself as a “canvas on a daily”. Make sure you follow THE DANCE PRINCESS on all social media platforms. Until next week. L’s!
