Ardyn has always been in perpetual motion.

She began her love for movement at community drum circles in her North Carolina hometown. Ardyn distinctly remembers the omnipotent presence of the late Baba Chuck Davis and his company, the African American Dance Ensemble, taking up residency in Durham every summer.

Ardyn attended the American Dance Summer Festival where she studied West African forms, House, Waacking, Breaking, Ballet, and Modern dance techniques. She counts Baba Chuck Davis, Sherone Price, and Teena Marie Custer as some of her most influential early mentors.

In 2015, Ardyn spent a year living at the UNC School of the Arts studying Limon and Cunningham techniques. She then moved to Los Angeles to study at the University of Southern California, Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.

While at USC, she met mentors d. Sabela Grimes, Moncell Durden, and William Forsythe. The almalgamation of the social dance forms studied with Durden, the ballet-based improvisational technologies taught by Forsythe, and the Hip Hop movement system codified by Grimes informed Ardyn’s movement vocabulary. She began synthesizing information across forms and became particularly curious about the intersections between European and Afro-diasporic forms.

Since graduating Summa Cum Laude from USC in 2019, Ardyn has been able to travel to battles and club events globally. Her exchanges with other dancers throughout Europe, in South Africa, and in Latin America have continued to inform the development of her movement vocabulary. She currently teaches “Funkamental MediKinetics,” a movement system created by d. Sabela Grimes, William Forsythe Improv Technologies, and her own curriculum. She teaches for “Art of” Ballet Intensive in Zurich and Madrid, and has taught House and Improvisation for Hubbard Street Dance Company, Laguna Beach Dance Festival, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Ardyn is currently a faculty member at the University of Southern California as well as being a freelance artist in Los Angeles. She works as an associate for choreographers Ebony Williams and Max Pham. With Ebony she has been part of the choreographic teams for Doja Cat (Coachella 2022, Brandcast 2023, VMA’s 2023, “Scarlet Tour” 2023), Warner Bros’ (“Collision” workshop, 2022), Kid Cudi (tour prep, 2022), and Tate McRae (Hollywood Bowl, 2022). With Max Pham, Ardyn has been a choreographic associate for artists such as Conan Gray, Meg Donnelly, and Thai rapper “Milli.” She is currently represented by Bloc talent agency.

Ardyn is passionate about the body as a vessel for comedy, and experiments with exaggerated physicality via her social media platforms. In 2019, she began collaborating regularly with comedic social media sensation, Smac McCreanor. Ardyn performs alongside Smac (and others) as a regular cast member in Kat Burn's’ “Raggle Taggle Dance Comedy Hour,” at UCB Theatre in Los Angeles.

Ardyn genuinely believes dance to be one of the most effective and healing forms of communication.