Trained at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City.  B.A. Dance / English, Hope College. MFA Choreography, University of Maryland-College Park.  Adjunct Faculty at Towson University & Director of Studio Dance Program at Greenbelt Community Center.  Founding Artistic Director & Resident Choreographer of alight dance theater.
Styles: Modern / Contemporary; Ballet
Currently based in the D.C. metro area.  Available to travel throughout the year pending prior engagements.

Barry is a choreographer who resides in NYC. For the past five years he has been Associate to Broadway choreographer, Denis Jones. He specializes in musical theatre choreography for shows, master classes for studios or groups, Audition prep classes, and setting pieces for dance studios.

Kate Thomas came to NYC to study at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance with such notable teachers as Ms. Graham, Yuriko Kimuro, Kazuko Hirayabashi, Takako Asakawa and David Hatch-Walker. Ms Thomas founded B.Muse Inc, a not for profit corporation to support her passion for choreography and dance education. B. Muse, Inc. provided dance programs, lecture demonstrations and performances to schools in Harlem, the South Bronx, and throughout Upper Manhattan. She introduced a specific program for children in Upper Manhattan called the Morningside Dance Development Program to bring dance to areas that often were overlooked. B.Muse, Inc. has received support from the New York State Council for the Arts, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Newman’s Own Foundation, California First Foundation Citibank and others. Ms. Thomas began teaching dance to children in 1993 and developed an approach that was utilized by many studios and pre-schools throughout the city. Ms. Thomas introduced her toddler program to The School at Steps, under the title “Little Steps” in 2000.  In 2002, she became full-time at The School at Steps in the position of Registrar, became Co-Director in 2003 and in 2004 was named the Director. She currently teaches Advanced Contemporary Ballet Repertory in the Pre-Professional Program. Thomas continues to choreograph for her contemporary ballet company, Ballet Neo. The company has performed at the Downtown Dance Festival (August 2006), Dancers Responding to AIDS, International Dance Festival, An Evening with Chamber Ballet, Ballet Arts Showcase, Steps Faculty Showcase and Academy of Performing Arts in Hudson, NY. In 2008, Ballet Neo premiered “Measurement and Caution,” music by Nini Raviolette and Acoustica in the New Choreographers on Pointe’, Ballet Builders, at the Kaye Playhouse in New York City. An exciting new collaboration began in 2009 with Grammy Award winning violinist, composer, Mark O’ Connor.  A full-length ballet “The Appalachian Suites Project, Flowers of Darkness, The Women of Monongah” inspired by the largest industrial disaster in the United States, the Monongah, West Virginia mining disaster of 1907. Ballet Neo performances of this work in progress include APAP at Peridance 2012, two New Choreographers on Pointe’s Previews at the 92nd Street Y and the Ailey Citigroup Theater, John Prinz and Friends at the Ailey CitigroupTheater. In the position of Director, she has redefined and developed the academic year curriculum-based program in all three divisions (Young Dancers, Technique and Pre-Professional), has created new programs for the Young Dancers Program, and has enhanced the Summer Programs offered by the school.

Shannon Thomas is a choreographer and dance studio owner of The Legacy Dance Studio, located in Port Orange, Fl. She trained at Oklahoma City University (OCU) and prides her self on teaching excellent technique and age appropriate choreography.

Choreographer with 15 years of experience in creating and staging small pieces for ABC,YAGP,VKIBC competitions, and full length ballet for dance theatres: 2008-present time numerous staging of Nutckracker for more than 12 ballet schools throughout Chicagoland 2011 – Ballet Swan Lake (Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Marius Petipa) 2010 – Ballet Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Pavlivka - Mayorov) 2009 – Ballet Snow Queen (Konstantin Vasilyev - Tatiana Petrova)

Contemporary choreographer and dancer.

Alison Cook-Beatty received her BFA from the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, receiving the Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Scholarship Award. She has performed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Taylor 2, as well as working and performing with numerous choreographers and companies in NYC. Her choreography has been commissioned by companies including BalletNext, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Infinity Dance, Carolina Ballet Theater and The Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee. In 2012, Cook-Beatty founded Alison Cook Beatty Dance. She has received the 2013 sjDANCEco Award for Artistic Merit & Best Choreography and the 2014 Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship Award from Career Transitions For Dancers. Most recently, she was selected for DEVICES 4, a mentorship program led by choreographer Doug Varone and as a choreographer for the Barcelona International Exchange (BIDE) program.

San Francisco, CA

Experience: Brian Carey Chung, artistic director and choreographer of COLLECTIVE BODY | DANCELAB , a creative think tank for new dance, which debuted at Baryshnikov Arts Center in November 2009. He has created works for Ballet Santa Barbara, Cedar Lake Ensemble II, Connecticut Ballet, Reverb Choreographic Competition, Joffrey Ballet School, LINES Ballet School, Aarhus International Choreographic Competition, 92nd Street Y, and Luna Negra Dance Theater, and was assistant choreographer to Karole Armitage on the 2008 Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of HAIR. His performance career includes the companies of LINES Contemporary Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispanico of New York, and Armitage Gone! Dance where he also served as rehearsal director. Brian has taught master classes internationally and at the University of Hawaii, Stanford University, and New York University, and was on the ballet faculty of Lines Ballet’s San Francisco Dance Center. He holds the MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry (May 2008) from New York University where he also served as an adjunct professor. Brian is an ABT® Certified Teacher who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. He has an avid interest in the future of American dance, devoting much of his week to teaching and private coaching at Joffrey Ballet School, Peridance Capezio Center, and Dance New Amsterdam. Further, Brian is a certified Gyrotonic® instructor and teaches privately throughout the city.

Owner of PC Dance Company
Area: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Contemporary, Lyrical, Hip Hop and Jazz
Choreography Award in 2011 for Lyrical at Adrenaline Dance Top live finalist at Primetime for contemporary!
Top scoring studio in 2011!

Choreographer, Director, Instructor, Costume Designer
Atlanta, Georgia
With a relentless vision for style and innovation, Cherrise Wakeham has shared her passion for dance with hundreds of students and several companies, studios, and intensives in the southeastern U.S. Founder, director and choreographer for Project 7, a non-profit, Atlanta-based professional dance company, Cherrise was most recently chosen as a finalist for the 2010 Capezio ACE Awards in New York City for her work, Be Your Love.  In 2009, her piece, Vogue, performed by Roswell City Dance, was recognized as Dance Spirit Magazine's 2009 Editor's Choice, Video of the Year. Her presentation of The Movement Gallery: Midnight in the Garden was commissioned by Flux Projects for the Flux festival held in October 2010 in Atlanta, GA. Receiving the highest of praises from the faculty of The Pulse on Tour, Project 7 was invited to perform at both the 2008 and 2010 Pulse national galas in New York City for their performances of Freewave, Singer and Be Your Love.
Reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0QZT-PhIM

MFA in Theatre Arts with a dance emphasis from the University of Arizona.  BS in Education from Loyola University Chicago.   
Emily currently resides in Atlanta where she is an Instructor in Dance in the Agnes Scott College Dance Studies Program and a Teaching Artist for Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center. Emily's Spring 2011 projects also included the creation of a choreographic work for the Brenau University Dance Department as well as participation in the Kennedy Center's Artists as Educator's Seminar, Laying a Foundation:  Defining Arts Integration and the eight-hour Artists as Educators Seminar, Anatomy of a Lesson:  Planning Instruction developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Her commissioned K-6 dance assembly program entitled The Everyday Life of Dance was created in collaboration with Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center with grant funding from MetLife and was added to the YAWAC roster in 2010.  In conjunction with this assembly program, and through YAWAC, Emily is currently delivering to Atlanta Public and Fulton County school children multiple dance residencies developed around standards of exploring movement and language arts. Yewell Volin is scheduled as a guest faculty member at the Cangelosi Dance Project's Summer 2011 Intensive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is Board Vice President of D'AIR Project, and a Board member of the Jazz Dance World Congress.

Emily served as a faculty member of the USA International Ballet Competitionduring June 2010.  She was a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for 3 years and has worked in adjunct dance positions at Emory University, Brenau University, The University of Georgia and the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School.  Yewell Volin spent 3 years teaching at Kennesaw State University; one as an Interim Assistant Professor of Dance and two additional years serving as an adjunct in the program.  She was a faculty member at the Giordano Dance Center where she often returns to teach classes and at the Lou Conte Dance Studio; both in Chicago. Emily performed in Chicago with the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and River North Dance Company. She went on to become a company member of Sam Watson’s,  Wats on Dance!, The University of Arizona Dance Ensemble, and Jazz Dance Theatre South and performed throughout the US.  Emily was a faculty member for the International Dance Exchange And Scholarship program (IDEAS).  Her choreography has been selected to compete in the Jazz Dance World Congress Leo’s Competitive Event on three occasions and has been featured at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the Gainesville Ballet, the Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre, and Kennesaw State University as well as in other venues.  Emily has also choreographed and performed for national trade and industrial shows.

Artist’s statement: I am compelled to find common elements among the humanities, sciences, and arts, and wish to engage others in this exploration.  Dance is the most-compelling way.  The defining structure is to be taken naïvely, without artifice.  Any complexity is emergent from simple rules, structures, or interactions. I define a piece with an architecture which gets instantiated in layers:  this gives a movement vocabulary, use of space, attending colors, music, and interactions. My dancemaking follows two strands.  The first develops games with collaborative elements.  In the other strand, we explore boundaries and transitions of phase as occur in regions of space, movement, time, music, or performer-audience.

Pieces performed publicly include Game 1.3 (August 2010 at Ailey Citigroup Theater as part of Dance N.Y. International), Game 2.2 (at the Choreographers’ Lab, Jacob’s Pillow, August 2010), Three, Two-by-Two, Two movements from Webern Op.5.

Training outside dance includes courses in theory, composition, ethnomusicology, computer music at the University of Michigan School of Music and conducting (Juilliard Evening Division).  Ph.D. in physics, University of Chicago.

Experience: Teach lyrical jazz, Choreographer & Teacher, worked in USA & Europe, Studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York & at the Martha Graham School. Also with A.C., Suzy Taylor, Mia Michaels and Juan Gautreaux. Founder of the Ballet Vage Company in 2010, Artistic Director at the Sunrise-Studios (Conservatory). Loewenrosen also published a book about what it means to be in relationship with a dancer. Titel: Gebot des Schnees. Until now only available in German. Under the name of blicklicht you find some music by Mike Loewenrosen.
Availability: Currently based in Vienna metro area. Available to travel for workshops, master classes and choreography intensives throughout the year pending prior engagements.

Robyn received her BFA from the Boston Conservatory. She was assistant to the director at Franklin School for the performing arts in Franklin MA, and owned and directed Spectrum Dance Theatre in Townsend MA for nine years. Robyn has danced professionally with MJT Dance Company of Boston, Granite State Ballet, Marblehead Ballet, Judah Dancers, Atlantis Contemporary Dance Company and Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble. She has taught Ballet and Modern in area studios throughout MA and NH.  Robyn’s choreography has received critical acclaim throughout the New England area.

Robyn is currently a faculty member at Southern New Hampshire Dance Theatre in Bedford, NH. She teaches Ballet and is a guest Modern instructor and choreographer. Robyn’s piece entitled “The Prayer Basket” was recently adjudicated and selected to be performed at The Regional Dance America’s National Festival in April of 2007. Robyn is also artistic director of Saving Grace Dance Ensemble.  She has choreographed and produced concerts for inner city outreaches, local churches and has brought the ensemble to Project Dance in New York City.  Robyn Goulette brings a message of hope, healing and refreshment in her diverse choreography. She offers artist work that will move your soul and stir your spirit.  Robyn has composed contemporary, classical and lyrical works that are consistently threaded with thematic movement and dramatic portrayals.  Robyn’s teaching and coaching style is demanding yet encouraging.  Her charisma in rehearsals cultivates artistic, personal and spiritual growth. Robyn’s combined personal experience of dancer, teacher, choreographer, friend, mentor, daughter, wife, and mother offers repertoire pertinent to our lives.

Location: Milford, NH