Chelsea started dancing in the San Francisco Bay Area at age 14. She began studying ballet, but soon branched out to different forms of dance including jazz, Brazilian, and salsa. Soon after, she was introduced to belly dance and became instantly mesmerized, studying with Suhaila Salimpour. At 16 Chelsea studied in New York with dance legend, Luigi (Eugene Louis Faccuito). At 18 she resumed study with Suhaila and Jamila Salimpour, and eventually began assistant teaching in their classes.
She has been teaching since 2008 and has choreographed for and performed with “Suhaila Dance Company” as well as a company dancer for many years. Along with belly dance, hip-hop is another of Chelsea’s passions. Studying with and teaching under Allan Frias from 2011-2015 as well teaching at "New Style Motherlode" and "Flying Yoga. Recently she choreographed for and danced in a music video for Grammy winning producer Narada Michael Walden who has produced artists such as Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston.