Caitlin Kline!

Tell your life story in 3 sentences.
I spent most of my childhood playing the violin, doing theater, and romping in the snow with my brother and sister in Boulder, Colorado. After living in Germany for a year as an exchange student, I came to Stanford and began my adventures as a Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity major and an RA.

How did you get involved in dance?
When I was fifteen, a friend invited me to learn to clog with a traditional American dance team. Clogging made my feet so happy that I soon taught myself to fiddle and clog simultaneously. When the square dancers found out I could fiddle, they recruited me to play for them…and then to dance. All they had to do was let me fly and I was completely hooked. When I came to college I did’t want to stop, so I founded the Whirlwinds and also learned to swing dance. Now I’m a complete dance addict and enjoy anything that involves being lifted off the ground and getting dizzy!

What do you do besides dancing?
When I’m not dancing I like spending time outside, hiking, camping, snow-shoeing, sledding, and backpacking. I also love talking to people, making chocolate truffles, and being happy.

What are your life goals?
Eventually I think I’d like to teach 6th grade, but in the meantime I’m working on becoming trilingual, backpacking through the Alps, and mastering every dance aerial I see.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A magic wand to make people happy.