Eddy Tovar trained at the National Ballet School in Havana. He began his professional career in Brazil at the Bale do Estado de Goias before joining the Orlando Ballet under the direction of Bruce Marks and the late Fernando Bujones. Eddy rose through the ranks of

Addison Browne is a dancer, choreographer, and arts leader from eastern North Carolina with a career spanning performance, choreography, teaching, and administration. A former company member with US International Ballet, she performed in both classical repertory and contemporary works, with featured roles such as the Canary

Carrie Cornelius is originally from Cleveland, Ohio and began studying ballet seriously in high school, although she has been dancing since she was two and a half. Carrie trained and performed with the City Ballet of Cleveland under Courtney Laves-Mearini. She attended summer intensives at Ballet

Megan is a first-year student at Hood College in the Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. In May 2022, she graduated from Messiah University with a B.A. in Psychology. Her sister Jessica danced with MBT for 10 years, and Megan can confidently say that after

Allison Cannon began her classical training at age four at Berrend Dance Centre under the direction of Patricia Berrend, graduating in 2016. During her early training, she performed featured roles such as Snow Queen and Flower Soloist in The Nutcracker and a soloist in Choo-san Goh’s

Erin Mahoney-Du received her formal ballet training at Princeton Ballet School. In her senior year of high school, Mrs. Du was invited by then Artistic Director of American Repertory Ballet, Septime Webre to join ARB. In 1999, she moved to Washington, DC to join The Washington

Rachel Knudson is an ABT Certified Teacher in all levels (pre-primary to Level 7). She regularly participates in ABT’s Raising the Barre Series – a program for certified teachers that highlights different aspects of ABT’s National Training Curriculum. She holds a Master’s Degree in Dance Education

Jill began her professional ballet training at the Milwaukee Ballet School. In 2013, Jill received scholarships to train at the Joffrey Ballet School New York and continued her training in New York until 2016. Jill trained with the American Repertory Ballet on scholarship for two seasons,

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Ninel Cherevko was born and studied dance in Ukraine. During her years as a student, one of her teachers was a direct student of legendary A. Vaganova. Upon graduation, she joined Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and continued her dancing career in Ukraine, and

Stephanie Wendell believes the performing arts have the power to change lives. With more than 20 years of experience as an educator, director, choreographer, performer, and arts administrator, she is passionate about creating spaces where young people develop confidence, resilience, creativity, and a true sense of

Anneliese began studying ballet locally at The Ballet Academy of Beltsville. She continued her training at Suitland High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. While there, Anneliese was introduced to Horton, Graham, Jazz, and African techniques. Mrs. Parisi would later study all of these techniques

Jenny is a dedicated mother to her three children, Gray, George, and Ella, who is an MBT dancer. Before relocating to Maryland to focus on her family, Jenny had a successful career as a Senior Claims Analyst in New York City, where she managed insurance defense

Samantha Baybado began dancing in California at Contra Costa Ballet under the direction of Zola Dishong and Richard Cammack. In high school she moved to the Pacific Northwest and began dancing with The Portland Ballet under the direction of Nancy Davis. There, she performed original works

Iren Chashper grew up in Beersheba, Israel, and began her training in Bat-Dor School of dance. After moving to Canada, she graduated from George Brown College (Toronto) in dance performing studies. Right after graduation, she moved back to Israel And joined Goshen Theatre- 2002-2018 (Israel). During

Runqiao Du, Founder and Artistic Director of "Runqiao Du Ballet Coaching," a ballet educational program that provides quality live virtual ballet lessons for worldwide accesss. The program also conducts teacher training workshops, seminars, as well as in-person summer and winter ballet intensives. As an active member

Faith Lee began her dance training in Washington State, studying the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) curriculum through age 10. She later expanded her education by training in both the Cecchetti and Balanchine methods before receiving her formal training at Maryland Youth Ballet, where she graduated

Shady Mohamed is a native of Egypt and has lived in the Northern Virginia area since 2013. From 2004 to 2013, Shady performed as a dance soloist and principal dancer with the Cairo Opera Ballet in Egypt, and from 2013-2015 performed as a principal dancer with

Devon “Steel Toe” Wallace is a versatile and energetic dancer, choreographer, and performing artist who has studied and trained in many styles within and outside of street dance culture for over 12 years. His talents and versatility have granted him consistent work with Modern Dance Company

Katerina Rodgaard is originally from Maryland. She began her training with Irena Prochotsky and Daweh Zhang and also at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She continued her training on scholarship at Point Park University where she received a BA in Dance with a concentration

Matina earned her BFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from Elon University. Since 2012, Matina has choreographed in the region, and in 2016, was appointed Artistic Director of the regional modern dance company alight dance theater (ADT). Under ADT, her theatrical and dance education-based work –

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Ryan Carlough is a native of North Potomac, Maryland. Mr. Carlough began his dance training with CityDance where he had the opportunity to work closely with and perform works by Gallim and Koresh Dance Company, as well as original choreographies by William Smith, Maleek Washington, and

JR has been with B. Funk Dance Company for over 20 years. She has studied all styles of dance and has been teaching and choreographing in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania for the past 20 years. She has participated in various workshops such as DMA, NUVO,

Elizabeth Gaither has had a 22-year career as a professional ballerina. She began her ballet studies with her mother, Gloria Gaither in Miami, receiving 3 years of high honors in the Royal Academy of Dance Examinations. She continued her training at the Houston Ballet Academy, joining

Dmitri Malikov is a distinguished ballet educator, choreographer, and former principal dancer who graduated from the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy, studying under Alexander Khmelnitsky, Maxim Martirosian, and Mark Ermolov.
Mr. Malikov performed as a soloist and principal dancer with several ballet companies throughout Eastern Europe and

Da’Shown Rawl studied Ballet and Modern at the Baltimore School of the Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the prestigious Dance Department of George Mason University (GMU). While at GMU, he had the opportunity to perform works by Alejandro Cerrudo, Andrea Miller, David Grenke, Doug

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