Kelli Rhodes Stevens is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Oklahoma City University, where she received her Bachelor of Performing Arts degree in Dance Performance. Kelli has served as choreographer of Oklahoma Opera and Music Theatre Company’s productions of Seussical the Musical and most recently Guys and Dolls. She also choreographed the OCU Vocal Arts Academy’s performance of Footloose. Her choreography can be seen on the stages of the Oklahoma National Teenager Pageant and Oklahoma’s Outstanding Teenager Pageants, and was featured on OETA Oklahoma City’s television program Gallery. Mrs. Stevens is a frequent guest choreographer and master teacher at dance studios in Oklahoma, Texas, and Illinois, where her unique music theatre, jazz, and lyrical choreography has won numerous awards at state and national dance competitions and scholarship pageants.

In addition to the extensive training she received at OCU, Kelli’s knowledge of dance was achieved through her studies at Ballet Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma, Southern Methodist University, and the Gus Giordano Dance Center in Chicago.

Kelli currently teaches all levels of jazz classes, including Basic and Beyond Basic Movement Jazz, all levels of ballet, choreographs for the American Spirit Dance Company, and serves as the faculty supervisor of the Spirit of Grace Liturgical Dance Company.