Carey Pickens – Texas, USA

Originally from London, UK, Carey founded Danceproof, a Dance Science Consultancy in 2021 (Houston. TX). She mostly works on a 1-1 basis with dancers enhancing their physiological & technical performance, preventing injury & injury rehabilitation. She also creates & delivers dancer wellness talks, lectures, & short courses. In 2024, she started working with Houston Ballet and is on their Ballet and Health & Wellness faculties teaching Pilates, conditioning & ballet.

A trained classical dancer, Carey performed in the U.K, Canada & Bermuda and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance and certified in dance teaching. She also graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London, with an MSc in Dance Science. She is a member of IADMS (International Association of Dance Science & Medicine).

Carey is certified in Pilates (mat & apparatus) with both Stott and Physicalmind and, in September 2024, she became an authorized Scolio-Pilates® practitioner. Carey has scoliosis and works 1-1 with dancers with scoliosis (Houston Ballet referrals and Houston-wide dancers).

Prior to moving to the U.S, Carey taught for 10 years with the renowned vocational Musical Theater school, Italia Conti, London, where she was part of their Ballet faculty teaching Ballet & Pilates. She created & delivered Anatomy & Dance injury courses for Italia Conti and ran a dedicated Clinic for preventing & rehabilitating dance injury. She has also taught for Arts Educational, London, Vitacca Dance, Houston, Somerset School of Dancing, Bermuda and was the Artistic Director for Whistler Dance Theater & Adacemy, Canada.

Carey has a well-developed business sense honed from an earlier career as a Change & Strategy Consultant for KPMG Management Consulting & Boston Consulting Group and has an MBA from a top European Business School.