Nikoletta Kennedy ‘25

Nikoletta Kennedy is a senior at Northeastern majoring in Health Science with a minor in Spanish with plans to matriculate to medical school. Born and raised in New York City, she began the first three years of her ballet training at the Joffrey Ballet School. Following, she trained at the School of American Ballet for six years in which she performed roles in the Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Circus Polka, and Coppelia. She then trained at Manhattan Youth Ballet for five years, under the training of Deborah Wingert and Daniel Ulbricht, where she performed roles in ballets such as Balanchine's "Serenade", "Who Cares", and Jerome Robbin's "The Concert: Mistake Waltz", and "Union Jack". Additionally, at her time at Manhattan Youth Ballet, she was established as a Resident Student Choreographer and choreographed two ballets for the school. Since being with Harvard Ballet Company she has been the Off-Campus Liaison for the past four years, two of which alongside Anna Torten Rabinowitz (2023) and Peyton Darby (2024). In the summer of her freshman year she was in Boston Ballet's Swan Lake Act III and in her free time she teaches local Roxbury youth ballet as a teacher with BalletRox. Outside of ballet, she works part-time as a visiting student in the Sabatini Lab at Harvard Medical School.