Cindy Welik-Salgado has been a proud member of Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot since 2009. She transitioned from the role of performer to repetiteur in 2020, staging works on Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp, NDT2 in The Hague, STRUT in Perth, and Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal. Since graduating from the Juilliard School with the Princess Grace Award in 2005, she has performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Peter Chu’s ChuThis, and on various projects for Mia Michaels and Andy Blankenbuehler. As a choreographer, Cindy has collaborated with many diverse artists to create short films, short works, and a full evening length dance theatre piece produced in New York and Montreal. Cindy was a co-founder of Artists Striving To End Poverty (recently renamed Arts Ignite) and organized a series of advocacy videos called Dancers for the Poor People’s Campaign. She was an Assistant Rehearsal Director for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and the Assistant Choreographer for Crystal Pite with NDT's Kunstkamer. Cindy assisted on Cirque du Soleil’s Delirium, generated in preproduction on Hamilton, In The Heights, and other Broadway shows, and most recently was Associate Choreographer of Andy Blankenbuehler's, Only Gold. She has taught company class, workshops and intensives around the world and has been on faculty with New York City Dance Alliance since 2012.