Kyra Olson is originally from Wolcott, Connecticut where she began her training at Studio One and Triple Threat Dance Company. She danced competitively for seven years then decided to focus primarily on ballet after graduating high school in 2016. She attended Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts and graduated from their two year post-grad program. During this time, she was featured as Odette and in a contemporary ballet piece by Victoria Mazzarelli. In 2018, she joined the Ruth Page Civic Ballet Training Company and had the opportunity to travel to Spain, Colombia and Mexico. While there she got to perform as Aurora, American Beauty Rose from the Nutcracker, Raymonda, Swan Lake Pas de Trois, Giselle Peasant Pas, Esmeralda Pas de Deux, Meetings Along the Edge by Venetia Stifler and Pasaje del Tiempo by Victor Alexander. In the summers of 2019 and 2021, she attended Ballet Summer Workshop in Estonia where she performed in their Gala and was featured in works by Viki Bromberg Psihoyos, Konstantin Keykhel and Triinu Upkin. Since joining the Minnesota Ballet in 2020, she has had the opportunity to perform Concourse by Petr Zahradnicek and in Karl von Rabenau’s Sleepy Hollow and The Nutcracker. She is excited for her fourth season with Minnesota Ballet.