Dancers and Collaborators

Amy Love Beasley

is an artist whose investigations explore visual and moving mediums.. She received a BA in Visual Arts, with a minor in dance, from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she also danced with The Robert Ivey Ballet. Beasley has had the good fortune of participating as a performing artist in works by various choreographers including Gerri Houlihan, Niki Juralewicz, BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Talani Torres, Christina Tsoules Soriano, and Jan Van Dyke, and she is currently a member of John Gamble Dance Theatre. In the spring of 2007, she received her MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member at UNCG and at Elon University. She continues to explore her crafts, creating and performing in North Carolina.

Alona Christman

Alona was born and raised in Bellingham Washington. She started dancing at the age of five and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a BFA in Dance. She has performed for such artists as Paige Barns, Sonia Dawkins, Bill Evans, Kuntz and Company, Wade Madsen, Mary Sheldon-Scott, Deborah Wolf, and others. Alona is a long time member of Dance Gallery, as well as a founding member and dancer for Bellingham Repertory Dance. She manages the Firehouse Performing Arts Center that she and her husband Matt Christman created, as well as teaches at Core Kinetics. A movement and Pilates studio in Bellingham. Outside of dance Alona enjoys sailing and motorcycle adventures with her husband, as well as yoga, running and a good novel.

Hannah Lindberg

has always been an avid mover. Growing up, she was involved in several styles of dance including ballet, jazz, hip- hop, and competitive Irish-step dancing. This training evolved into a B.F.A in Dance Performance and Choreography from Western Washington University. She has performed in original work by Wade Madsen, Kraig Patterson/bopi, Alan Good, Rick Merrill, Nolan Dennett and Susan Haines. Hannah attended Bates Dance Festival Summer 2009 in Lewiston, Maine where she had the privilege to study intensively under Victoria Marks and Michael Foley, as well as perform in a repertory hip-hop/modern fusion piece under choreographer Jennifer Archibald of Arch Dance Company, N.Y.

She currently serves on faculty at Whatcom Community College in the Dance Program teaching all levels of Modern. Hannah is Mat Pilates Certified, teaching several classes in the Bellingham community. She is currently pursuing her full Pilates apparatus certification through Balanced Body University. In 2010, Hannah danced with 127th st. dance Company in Seattle, WA and is now pursuing professional projects in the Seattle and Bellingham areas.

Kathleen Kelley

is a choreographer, teacher, and performer currently residing in Urbana, IL while she pursues an MFA in Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Working in both live performance and dance film, her artistic work investigates the details and stories inside of human denotata and mythology. After receiving her BFA in Dance and her BA in Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, she began her professional career based out of Brooklyn, NY. She has presented work in several venues in New York, Illinois, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and her most recent piece, within this field, a collaboration with Minneapolis-based artist Tamin Totzke and Brooklyn-based Renée Archibald, was shown at the Krannert Art Museum and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. She is very happy to be sharing the stage again with Susan Haines and Talani Torres.

Sarah Schermer

A dancer, artist and writer all her life, Sarah Schermer received a BFA in Performance and Choreography from Western Washington University in 2009 and has continued to live, create and teach Pilates in Bellingham, WA since then. She grew up on the Olympic Peninsula and received both excellent training and a passion for movement from Mary Marciel, director of Port Angeles Dance Center. Over the last six years, Sarah has performed and choreographed in the Bellingham dance community with such groups as WWU Dance Department, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Kuntz and Company, and her work has been chosen for On the Boards “12 Minutes Max” in Seattle, ‘Siphonophore’ her first independent performance project (2010), and countless collaborations. At WWU, Sarah studied with Susan Haines, Penny Hutchinson, Rick Merrill, Kraig ‘Bopi’ Patterson, Pam Kuntz and others. She has also had the pleasure of working with Katrina Thompson during a restaging of Trisha Brown’s ‘Glacial Decoy’ in 2009, Josh Beamish (Vancouver, BC ‘s‘ Move: the Company’, Pablo Cornejo (Seattle, WA), and other notable choreographers in the Pacific Northwest area.

Shannon Tallman
is originally from Everett, WA where she attended Everett Dance Theatre and Comerford School of Irish Dance. She has a BFA in Dance from Western Washington University. At WWU she worked with Penny Hutchinson and Kraig Patterson from the Mark Morris Dance Company. Shannon also performed solo work with Pam Kuntz and Nolan Dennett. In 2009-2010, Shannon was a member of the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company and worked with choreographers Pablo Cornejo and Josh Beamish. In the spring of 2010 she was invited to perform in New York at the 92nd street Y's anniversary celebration series under the direction of Molissa Fenley and choreographer Penny Hutchinson. Shannon teaches Pilates at WWU and works with the schools as part of WAPA arts outreach.

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