Kay has been trained as a ballet dancer for 16 years, and has training in Philippine and Korean folk dance, as well as Hawaiian dancing, and has been involved with ballroom, as a competitor and performer since 1991, across England, South Korea, and various parts of the U.S. She has been awarded numerous gold, silver and bronze level awards in Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire competitions and has trained with world and national champions like Vivienne Ramsey, Victor da Silva, Eric Luna, Georgia Ambarian, Shirley Johnson, Bruno Collins, and Michael Chapman. In 2005, after winning second nationally with her first professional partner, barely three months after she started training in cabaret (ballroom, ballet, gymnastics), she won second place in the U.S. Open with world champion, Eric Luna. In 2006, after being consistently ranked second nationally, for two years, with three different professional partners, Kay won the 2006 U.S. Open Pro Am Cabaret Championship. Video: USDSC WORLDS 2006.

As a fine artist, her work has been sold, exhibited, and featured at various galleries and events in the Philippines, South Korea, England, and various parts of the U.S. for more than 30 years. Several of her pieces are owned by UNICEF. She was the first Filipino woman painter to have an exhibit in Seoul, South Korea in September 1992, and founded a group, the International Artists and Poets Society when she was in Seoul from 1992-1993.

Kay has also worked on integrating her visual arts with her interests in ballroom dance and in autoethnographic and creative non-fiction. She has produced five video shorts Video: Inside Notes – Part 1, all through grants from the Institute of Race & Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin; the Pennsylvania State University; St. Lawrence University; Florida State University; and Swarthmore College.