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On a Monday morning in 2014, just days after performing with the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Kelly Robotham walked into Armour Dance Theatre in South Miami and asked its director, “Do you have a job?”

Within weeks, Robotham found herself in the classroom, introducing young children to the art form that had shaped her own life. And she was good at it. Over the next decade she advanced from faculty member to community programs director, and now, to artistic director.

“After leaving Ailey, I wanted to move back to Miami,” she said. “I came to Armour and started teaching. That’s when I discovered my passion for it.”

Now, a decade later, Robotham is making history as only the third pe

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