Kyle Seguin (Founding Director) danced with the Alabama Ballet under the leadership of Wes Chapman and Roger VanFleteren, where performed many principal roles including, Count Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, Franz in Coppelia, El Capitan in George Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, the title roles in Dracula and Romeo and Juliet, and works by Robert Battle and Teri Weksler. Concurrently, he earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where he graduated with honors after developing an assessment tool for eating disorder risk in professional ballet dancers.
Before founding West Suburban Ballet Conservatory (WSBC), Seguin severed as both Pre-Professional Division Liaison and Academy Ballet Master at the Joffrey Ballet, and was on faculty at Columbia College Chicago (Anatomy, Kinesiology) and the Chicago High School for the Arts (Men’s Technique, Pas de Deux). His choreography has been featured at the Universal Ballet Competition (UBC) Finals Gala, Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Finals, the Alabama Ballet, and the Arova Contemporary Ballet, among others. Mr. Seguin consistently coaches students to place at international ballet competitions and was a scholarship presenter for YAGP for four seasons. In 2022, he received both the Best Choreographer Award at UBC in Chicago, and the Outstanding Teacher Award at YAGP in Indianapolis. In 2024, Mr. Seguin and the WSBC Faculty received the Outstanding Teacher Award at YAGP in Chicago and the Outstanding Classical Coach Award at UBC in Chicago. During the 2023/2024 season, Mr. Seguin served as both Founding Director of WSBC and Education Director of The Florida Ballet, where he became certified in the ABT® National Training Curriculum (Pre-Primary through Level 3). Seguin’s former students are dancing in professional companies throughout the US and abroad, and in 2024, Seguin joined Texas Ballet Theater as School Principal.
Mr. Seguin is trained on all Stott Pilates apparatus and in 2009, founded One Hundred, a boutique-style Pilates and dance studio in Chicago’s Lakeview East neighborhood. He developed and branded Pilates, dance, and fitness programs that allowed the studio to see thousands of clients of all ages. He oversaw all operations and developed a work-study scholarship program for high-school and college students, as well as a mentorship program for Pilates instructors in training.