Kerry was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.  She trained at Minnesota Dance Theatre, the Milwaukee Ballet School, the School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet.  She has studied ballet with Frank Bourman, Pat Hon, David Howard, Zvi Gotheiner, Christine Wright, Jackie Villamil, Diane Cartier and Luba Gulyeva.  She has studied contemporary/modern dance with Loyce Houlton, David Voss and Jeremy Nelson.  She has also studied yoga with Peter Rizzo and Gyrotonics with Jurgen Bamberger.

Kerry has performed professionally with Minnesota Dance Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, Avilla/Weeks Dance and Ballet of the Dolls.  Her classical repertoire includes roles in Coppelia, Giselle, Firebird, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Gardee, Les Sylphides, Romeo and Juliet, and Paquita.  Her Balanchine repertory includes Symphony in C, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Serenade, The Four Temperments, Stars and Strips, and Chaconne.  Kerry has danced in the works of Sir Kenneth Macmillan, Yuri Grigorovich and Rudolph Nureyev, as well as having first hand experience with such artists as Loyce Houlton, Kent Stowell, Lisa de Ribere, Clark Tippet and Glen Tetley. 

Kerry teaches all levels of ballet at the University of Idaho.  She also teaches ballet for Festival Dance.

Greg Halloran
Mary Heller
Kerry Parker
Shelly Werner
Diane Walker


Visiting Artists

Alumni