Sydney Jones, originally from Westmont, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She began her training at the Center for Dance under the direction of Jan Forster. As a member of their competition company, she earned multiple awards including Third Runner-Up to Miss IDC at the International Dance Challenge Nationals in 2013. She attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts for high school where she worked with teachers and choreographers such as Randy Duncan, Nick Pupillo and Lizzie Mackenzie. She graduated magna cum laude from Point Park University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance, and she worked with choreographers including Aszure Barton, Kiesha Lalama, and Colleen Hooper. After college, she joined South Chicago Dance Theatre and now dances with Inaside Chicago Dance. She has choreographed five concert dance pieces, two of which were presented at the Inaside Choreographic Sponsorship. She also choreographed for New Dances 2020 with Thodos Dance Chicago and DanceWorks Chicago. In 2021, she won Inaside’s choreography competition and will be setting a piece on the company in the fall. Additionally, she teaches at many studios in the Chicagoland area and has choreographed countless high-scoring competition routines. She is so excited to join the team at Artistic Pursuit!