Katelyn Altmann (she/her) is a movement-based artist, choreographer, and improvisor currently residing in Milwaukee, WI. She received her BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. During that time, Altmann performed in works of Joe Goode, Simone Ferro, Maria Gillespie, Esmé Boyce, Daniel Burkholder, Dawn Springer, Melanie George, Esther Baker-Tarpaga and worked with artists such as Ishmael Huston-Jones, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Irene Dowd among others. She is a current performance and collaborative artist with Wild Space Dance Company, Hyperlocal MKE, Danceworks, and Li Chiao Ping Dance. Katelyn has presented both her solo and collaborative work throughout Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota, Seattle, and New York. She has performed at the Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Dance Masters of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Dance Council, BDF/Gibney Connect NYC, GALLIM S.I., CNADM, MKE Fringe, Danceworks DanceLAB Get it Out There, Moving Queries, and her work was selected to be presented at the American College Dance Association’s North Central Conference. During her time at UW-Milwaukee, Altmann received two Undergraduate Research Fellowships immersed in movement research. Katelyn’s work lives in embodied study, tested and realized through creation processes, improvisational strategies and performance. This takes shape through porous embodiment, visceral play, connection, and radical attunement.

Katie Edwards is a dance instructor/choreographer/performer who has been dancing for 18 years, training in nearly every major genre of dance, including ballet, contemporary, lyrical, tap, jazz, modern, hip hop, musical theatre, ballroom, and more. Performances include the lead (Aurora) in the Sleeping Beauty ballet, Dance Festival for a Cause in Madison, WI, and last spring’s GIOT performance. She has taught at several well-known MN dance studios, including Creo Arts and Dance Conservatory, Dance Conservatory of Southern MN, and Metropolitan Ballet, and is currently teaching at A Step Above Dance Academy in Madison, WI. Katie has choreographed several musicals and other dance pieces and is best known for her visuals and powerful emotional portrayals through performance.

Ashley Ray Garcia (She/Her) is a dancer and choreographer from Michigan. She received her BFA in Dance-Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During her time at UWM, she has worked with Maria Gillespie, Simone Ferro, Mair Culbreth, Daniel Burkholder, Melissa Anderson, and Dani Kuepper. Through her love of traveling, she has had the opportunity to perform in Michigan, Wisconsin, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. Her work has been presented at College Dance Festival in Michigan 2023, Get It Out There in Wisconsin 2023, RAD Fest in West Michigan 2022, ACDA in Wisconsin 2022, and Central de la Danse in Paris, France 2022. She is currently a dancer with Wildspace Dance Company and Danceworks Performance Company. Garcia enjoys choreographing, performing, and improvisation and looks forward to gaining knowledge through both exploring and experience.

Jessica Lueck is a Milwaukee dancer attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has attained two degrees, one in Dance Performance and Choreography and the other in Information System and Technology. Through the duration of her time at UWM, she has studied modern, ballet, jazz, improvisation, composition, Alexander technique, laban movement analysis, applied anatomy, and numerous other master classes. She has also performed in works created for several UW-Milwaukee Faculty Shows, working with Artists such as Emma Draves, Daniel Burkholder, Maria Gillespie, Deb Loewen and Parijat Desai. Before attending UWM, she has had training from the Milwaukee High School of the Arts, where she studied modern, ballet, pointe and composition under Sandra Jordan and Dean Drews, with additional instructors such as Amie Ferrante and Petr Zahradníček assisting in her training. She has also had numerous Master classes during this period including Milwaukee Ballet and Alvin Ailey II Company and more. More recently, Jessica has performed with Wildspace Company as a Freelance artist, began performing with Danceworks Performance Company and has taught ballet through Brio Studio Brookfield to further her studies in art and movement.

Erica Meier is a Milwaukee based dancer, educator, and arts administrator. Erica started collegiate dancing at Winona State University where she was on the Hip Hop Dance Team. Upon transferring to UW-Milwaukee, Erica pursued a BFA in Dance. She trained in contemporary choreography and performance under the teachings of Simone Ferro, Daniel Burkholder, Dani Kuepper and several other professional artists and guest artists. During her education, her movement research was accepted for presentation at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research. She has danced with several groups and artists including, Revamped, Lady J, Vicki Lynn Mirage, Milwaukee pride fest and DanceCircus. She has been heavily involved in community arts participating in world water day dance, the ACE program, and Fringe Fest. She has been a judge for Badgerette dance competition and has worked as a guest artist at studios around the midwest. She currently works as a teaching artist at Danceworks MKE and a dance teacher and project manager at Aspire Dance Center.

Kaitlyn Moore is a Milwaukee-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She graduated from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2020 with a BA in Dance as well as a minor in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies. She has a passion for both performance and teaching and is able to continue both in Milwaukee and surrounding areas. Her passion for performance continued with opportunities such as dancing professionally as a Milwaukee Bucks Dancer as well as performing with musicians like Bell Biv DeVoe, Riolanza and WebsterX. Throughout her time at UW-Milwaukee, she had the opportunity to study under many talented professors and guest artists such as Mair Culbreth, Emma Draves, and Caitlin Mahon. Along with her training at UWM, Kaitlyn has trained with a variety of different companies, programs, and classes throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, and Salt Lake City.

Annie Wegener LeFort is the founder of EatMoveMKE, a company that promotes mindful eating, daily movement practice, and community building in our city. She has been teaching yoga for 5+ years and dancing in Milwaukee since 2018 with Panadanza’s student dance company and since 2022 with DIPC. Annie has been performing with Samba da Vida MKE since 2019. She has performed with the Community Spirit Choir lead by Kiran “Q the Sun” Vedula, participated in Pina Bausch’s The Nelken-Line: MKE, “Gendhing in the Garden” at Lynden Sculpture Garden. She has trained with Capoeira Nago and practices with Acroyoga Milwaukee. Annie believes that there is a dancer in everyone if they give themselves permission to explore and play.

Jo Brockway (She/Her) is originally from Wisconsin, where she danced in Water Street Dance Milwaukee’s trainee program for the 2021 to 2022 season. In the summer of 2022 she moved to Chicago for a year dancing with Common Conservatory where she got to work with artists like Robyn Mineko Williams, Noelle Kayser, and more amazing artists. In March of 2023, She performed in MashUp Contemporary Dance’s 7th annual International Women’s Day Festival, with choreography by Ashley Tomaszewski. Jo is now a company member of Three Point Project, which is under the direction of Ashley Tomaszewski. Jo believes that every artist can be their unique selves and that is what creates the real magic.

Zoe Glise (She/Her) is a movement-based artist born in China and located in Milwaukee, WI. She is a company member with the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, Madison Contemporary Dance, and Wild Space Dance Company. She also worked with Nova Linea Contemporary Dance as their first company apprentice. Zoe received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance and Choreography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Zoe worked with Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Simone Ferro, Maria Gillespie, Dani Kuepper, Gina Laurenzi, and Dan Schuchart, training in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Improvisation, African, Composition, and more. In 2019, with the help of the National Endowment for the Arts grant, Zoe collaborated with Joe Goode to create a dance film, which was presented at the North Central American College Dance Association. In 2022, Zoe was selected to attend the Camping Residency at the Centre National de la Danse, where she took classes, taught, and performed in Paris, France.

Lawton Hall (He/Him) is a Milwaukee-based composer and researcher whose creative practice includes chamber music, multimedia and visual works, and electronic music. Inspired by history as well as research on musical algorithms, social agency, and sonic perception, his works explore rhythm, harmony, and timbre with a focus on the intersubjective dimensions of music. Recent projects include works for 5th House Ensemble, Hypercube, Khemia Ensemble, cellist Ashley Walters, and percussionist Abby Fisher at venues such as the New Amsterdam Composers Lab, the So Percussion Summer Institute, the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute, and Nief-Norf.

Lawton earned the Bachelor of Music degree in theory and composition from Lawrence University. He was a Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he obtained Master’s degrees in composition and musicology. He teaches music theory and composition at UWM and co-owns Meltwater Studios, an artist space in Milwaukee’s Harbor District.

Greta Jenkins is a dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and personal trainer. She is brand new to the Milwaukee area and grew up dancing in northern Kentucky at MJM Studios and the Kentucky Center Governor’s school for the Arts. She received her BFA in dance performance from Ball State University. While at college, Greta became fascinated with combining the two worlds of artistry and athleticism to create authentic contemporary movement connections for the body and soul. Also in school, Greta had the opportunity to learn and perform the repertoire piece “Steps in the street” by the Martha Graham Dance Company. She also performed work by Chicago choreographer Jamey Meek and had the privilege to train and perform at the Radio City Rockette Summer Intensive in NYC. Greta has also performed in Milwaukee, Sheboygan, and Madison as a trainee with Waterstreet Dance MKE. This is Greta’s first season with Danceworks Performance MKE.

Catey Ott Thompson, director of Catey Ott Dance Collective since 2005, has a BFA and MFA in dance from UWM. Catey resides in Milwaukee after dancing in NYC for 14 years with Soundance, Heidi Latsky, Allyson Green, Sean Curran, Bill Young, Li Chiao-Ping, Eun Jung Choi, Aviva Geismar, Chris Ferris, Mary Seidman, and others. She has performed at Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church, 92Y, DNA, Gibney Dance, Green Space, BAX, Solar One, The Flea, Muller/The Works Studio, Danceworks, MKE Fringe, UW-Madison, UWM, Marquette University, Milwaukee Ballet and others. Catey was a faculty member at Marquette University for 9 years and is currently teaching a wide range of classes at Milwaukee Ballet.

Isaac (They/She/He), also known as Ivy, has been passionately involved in the art of dance and dance making for over 17 years. Robertson first started their training in post modern and Graham styles under the direction of Lisa Andrea Thurrell and Robert E. Cleary. Ivy also studied classical ballet at Madison Ballet under the direction of W. Earl Smith. Later, from 2010-2014, Robertson danced with Kanopy Dance Company for four seasons. They attended summer dance programs on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Isaac studied as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee studying contemporary dance and choreography from 2014-2017. Isaac received their Cosmetology license in 2018 and is now a Senior Stylist at Drybar Milwaukee in the third ward. Ivy has been a company dancer with Danceworks MKE for four years.

Catey Ott Thompson, director of Catey Ott Dance Collective since 2005, has a BFA and MFA in dance from UWM. Catey resides in Milwaukee after dancing in NYC for 14 years with Soundance, Heidi Latsky, Allyson Green, Sean Curran, Bill Young, Li Chiao-Ping, Eun Jung Choi, Aviva Geismar, Chris Ferris, Mary Seidman, and others. She has performed at Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church, 92Y, DNA, Gibney Dance, Green Space, BAX, Solar One, The Flea, Muller/The Works Studio, Danceworks, MKE Fringe, UW-Madison, UWM, Marquette University, Milwaukee Ballet and others. Catey was a faculty member at Marquette University for 9 years and is currently teaching a wide range of classes at Milwaukee Ballet.