The Untold Truth Of Kylie Jefferson

Publish date: 2024-04-17

As well as a gifted dancer, Kylie Jefferson is also a talented choreographer. In a 2020 interview with Dance Spirit, she shared that her proudest career was choreographing rapper ScHoolboy Q's music video for "CHopstix" in 2019, which starred rapper Travis Scott. "I was able to hire friends I grew up dancing with — African-American women performing ballet exceptionally on TV," Jefferson told the magazine. "It was the first time the community I grew up with and my craft were aligned." According to The Cinemaholic, Jefferson ended up receiving a Universal Dance Award nomination in the category of Favorite Music Video Performance for her work.

Working with music videos spurred her to mentor young dancers and perform live. In 2018, The Cinemaholic reports that Jefferson landed a dancing stint on The Late Show With James Corden, but also had to take a gig as a personal assistant. It wasn't long before "she increasingly grew weary of the 9-to-5 job." In 2020, shortly before her big break on Pretty Tiny Things, she appeared as one of forty-five Black women who opened the 62nd Grammy Awards. Though Jefferson is still new at pirouetting on the small screen, we're confident this is only the first of many times we'll be seeing her grace our TVs. After all, as the dancer-actress told Teen Vogue in 2020, she has "always wanted to be a catalyst of bringing classical ballet to mainstream entertainment." Mission accomplished!

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