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Alethea Alexander

Alethea (M.F.A., University of Washington) is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. Her teaching appointments include the University of Washington Department of Dance (2017-2023), Whatcom Community College (2014-2016), Velocity Dance Center’s SFD+I summer festival (2019, 2022), Cornish College of the Arts (2020-2023), as well as recurring guest teaching for ODC Dance (2013), Bellingham Repertory Dance […]

Lucie Baker

Raised in Seattle, Lucie Baker choreographs, performs, practices, and teaches concert and social dance forms. Graduating from The Juilliard School in 2008, Baker has worked with artists such as Jane Comfort, Tamar Rogoff, Erica Essner, Adam Barruch, Sidra Bell, Wade Madsen, Colemxn Pester, Yara Travieso, Phantom Limb Company, Seattle Opera, Arc Dance, Chamber Dance Company, […]

Charlotte Boye-Christensen

Charlotte Boye-Christensen, a native of Copenhagen received her formal training as a choreographer/performer/educator in Copenhagen, London and New York earning her MFA in dance from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Charlotte has created work on companies and institutions around the world, including for Danish Dance Theatre, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballet West, […]

Erricka Turner Davis

Erricka Turner Davis has performed with Poetry+Motion, 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Chamber Dance Company, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Opera, Sankofa Theatre, Oakland Ballet, and Spectrum Dance Theater. She received her BFA in Ballet Ed. with Honors from The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her MFA in Dance from The University of Washington, Seattle, […]

Claudette Evans

Claudette Evans, a student of yoga for more than 20 years, originally trained as a musical theater performer and was an athlete in her youth. She now spends her days as a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and studio administrator. She is passionate about the study and practice of yoga, as well as the training and […]

Devin Marie Muñoz

Devin Marie Muñoz, Mexican American Seattle based photographer & videographer, has been honing her skills ranging in dance photography to editorial storytelling and film for the past few years. As a dancer herself, Devin blended her photography skills with her seventeen years of dance experience, bringing about the perfect fusion of her two passions. With […]

Tonya Lockyer

Tonya Lockyer is an award-winning choreographer, writer, cultural producer, and performing artist working internationally. She was named “one of the key cultural change-makers in the Northwest” by The Seattle Times. Her work in performance has been seen at Lincoln Center; National Museum of Women in the Arts; New York’s Joyce Theater, Dixon Place, and New […]

Alia Swersky

Alia Swersky is a movement artist, performer and educator deeply engaged in dance improvisation, durational time-based art, film, site-specific work, and environmental installation. She is an artist and an educator with degrees from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in dance from the University of Washington.  Her artistic path over the last two decades […]

Markeith Wiley

California native Markeith Wiley is a multi-dimensional art maker, who creates out of necessity. Their vast movement vocabulary spans a lifetime of influences. As of late, they dabble in dance, sound, theater, a combo of all three or none of the above. Wiley has been an arts educator in Seattle for a while now. When […]

Amelia Bolyard aka Solvej Noa

Amelia Bolyard (Solvej Noa) was trained in Ballet, Graham, Jazz, Musical Theater dance, and Character (Flamenco) in the preparatory program at Cornish College. Additionally, she is trained in Afro-brazilian dance and self-taught in the street style “House”. After completing her training at Cornish, Amelia danced for multiple Seattle contemporary and ballet companies. Amelia has taught […]