Jaime Hickey

Jaime Hickey was born in Bayonne, New Jersey and received her early training at New Jersey Ballet. Jaime furthered her training at Walnut Hill School for the Arts before moving back to NJ to complete her training at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT. Jaime attended summer intensives at The Rock School, San Francisco Ballet School, Kaatsbaan, and ABT where she became a National Training Scholar.

Following her time at JKO, Jaime joined ABT II (now ABT Studio Company) and joined The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago in 2009. Jaime performed work by choreographers including Christopher Wheeldon, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Yuri Possokhov, Frederick Ashton, Ronald Hynd, Gerald Arpino, James Kudelka, and Julia Adam. In 2013 Jaime joined Ballet West where she performed roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty.

Jaime completed the ABT National Training Curriculum becoming certified in Pre-Primary through Level 7 and was invited to join the faculty of the ABT JKO School Children’s Division. She then became a ballet teacher at the Swedish National Ballet School in Gothenburg, Sweden. Jaime and her family have since moved back to the US where she joined the Joffrey Academy of Dance Chicago faculty and is thrilled to be on faculty at the Kansas City Ballet School beginning this year.