Jaclyn grew up in Los Angeles and received her core training at California Dance Arts. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and went on to study at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from which she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance in 2008. While attending UCSB she received the Dorthy and Sherril C. Corwin award for her choreography, Broken Affinity. Jaclyn was a member of the Senior Dance Company at UCSB, which had the opportunity to dance with Santa Barbara Dance Theatre in their two week tour of Beijing, China. After graduating she was offered a position with California Contemporary Ballet and danced with the company for two seasons. Jacklyn joined Napoles Ballet this season.

JACLYN  S T R Y K E R

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Photograph by Rob Kunkle