Camryn Varney is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. She began her involvement with dance in childhood, and has pursued it with care and purpose ever since. Her education began in creative movement, modern dance, and junior musicals with the Morehead Elementary Dance Company. She quickly fell in love with the art form and began training in competition jazz dance with Amber’s House of Dance.
Camryn attended Weaver Academy, a specialized public high school where she trained in Horton and ballet techniques, and developed choreographic skills. In 2022, Camryn began attending University of North Carolina School of the Arts. This conservatory environment gave her the resources to take a leap deeper into concert dance, and equipped her with a high level of pre-professional experience. She has studied with master dance educators in various styles such as contemporary, ballet, Horton, Limón, Cunningham, West African, Countertechnique, Release technique, partnering, floorwork, improvisation, choreography, and dance for film/Screen Dance.
She has danced works by notable choreographers such as José Limón, Darrell Moultrie, Sidra Bell, Trey McIntyre, Ashley Lindsay & Grady Bowman, Gaspard Louis, Pascal Rioult, Kayla Farrish, Chalvar Montero, and Stewart/Owen Dance. In 2024 she attended the Abraham In Motion Summer Intensive and saw the start to a paid professional dance experience as a guest teacher with Weaver Academy, and a guest company performer with SUAH West African Dance Theatre. Camryn is set to receive her BFA from School of the Arts in May of 2026.
Dance is one of my life’s greatest treasures. Dancing is freedom, vulnerability, healing, growth, athleticism, expression, humanity, and so much more. Dance vanishes in the very act of materializing, keeping us open in the space between retrospection and anticipation, yielding total presence with one another and with self. In these fleeting moments, dance has the power to make a change in the hearts of performers and audience alike. My hope is that in the field of dance, we will continue making space for one another to express ourselves creatively, and that the magic of dance will continue to unite us in the name of love for art and community
Camryn Varney