Rune Houchin grew up in Colorado where he started clogging at High Country Conservatory of Dance at the age of 7 and expanded into ballet shortly after. At age 10, he shifted focus primarily to ballet under Mallory Henry, at Henry Academy of Dance in Fort Collins. He attended the Open World Dance Foundation summer intensive in New York City at 14. After dancing in Master Ballet Academy’s 2017 summer ballet intensive he was thrilled to be invited to be part of MBA’s exceptional pre-professional program. Rune competed in the YAGP International New York Finals in the classical pax de deux category in 2019, his first year of YAGP competition. His second year doing YAGP was in 2020 and he took second classical and top twelve contemporary in YAGP San Francisco. Rune is in his 3rd year at MBA and has performed in MBA’s productions of The Nutcracker, Snow White, and MBA’s Golden Swan Gala.