Filmmaking for Dance | Natasha Adorlee is from Overland Park, Kansas, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English. She is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, film director, and composer. She trained with American Ballet Theatre and was an inaugural member of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet training program. She performs with ODC/Dance, the San Francisco Symphony, is a former member of Robert Moses' KIN, and is a guest artist with Kate Weare Company (New York). In 2018, Natasha received an Emmy for her work in the TV special Baseballet 2: Into the Game. In 2014 she was the recipient of an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for her performance in Two if by Sea, choreographed by Kimi Okada. Natasha is the Founder and Artistic Director of Concept o4. Through Co4, she directed, choreographed, and danced in the film Take Your Time (2017), which became an official selection of the Mill Valley Film Festival. The film was also the recipient of six awards, including "Best Short" by the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Red Rock Film Festival, and Valley Film Festival. Recently, Natasha composed and wrote the song "Pink & Purple" for the Pixar short "Out" on Disney +. Besides writing music under her name, she also serves as the Video Director and Host for Ubisoft Studio SF.

Contemporary & Ballet | Lorris Eichinger started training in Grenoble at the National Conservatory and continued at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Danse de Marseille. After training at The School of American Ballet in New York from 2010 to 2013, Eichinger joined the Professional Division program of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. He then moved back to France to dance with the Jeune Ballet de Lyon. Eichinger danced with De Dutch Don’t Dance in the Netherlands in 2015, and then moved to Israel to join Kamea Dance Company in 2016. He joined LINES Ballet in 2019.

Floor Work | Anna Gichan is a deaf/hoh freelance dancer. She received her B.F.A in Dance from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, completing a year abroad at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel where she immersed herself in the gaga movement language. Anna has performed at Park Ave Armory, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, Loews Jersey Theater, Newburgh Illuminated Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Roulette, Yi Gallery and more. Her work has been presented at CultureHub LaMaMa, Gibney, The Tank, Flux Factory and supported by the Brooklyn Arts Exchange Disabled Artist Space Grant and CDI Brooklyn College. Anna currently is an admin assistant for Dancers Group based out of San Francisco.

Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Conditioning | Theresa Knudson received her training from Lois Ellyn in southern California. She attended intensive programs at American Ballet Theatre, NYC, Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, Maple Conservatory, José Limón West, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Theresa began her professional career with Nouveau Chamber Ballet under the artistic director of Lois Ellyn. As a freelancer Theresa has performed with Diablo Ballet, Oakland Ballet Company, Wonderbound, ARC Dance, Mark Foehringer Dance Project | SF, Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet, and with many independent choreographers. She has taught for over a decade for several schools including: Lois Ellyn Ballet Studio, Academy of Dance Redwood City, Van der Zwaan Dance Studio, and Moving Arts Studio. She has guest taught at ODC, Orinda Ballet Academy, and San Francisco Youth Ballet Academy. Theresa holds a BA in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton, and is the founder of BlackBox Studios, Halcyon Dance Project, and the Co-founder & Executive Director of Ballet22.

Bharatanatyam | Preethi Ramaprasad is a multifaceted dancer, musician, and researcher. She has toured and taught Bharatanatyam, a form of South Indian dance, in India, Europe, and the United States. A disciple of Prof. Sudharani Raghupathy from Chennai, India, she is committed to South Asian expressive forms around the world in scholarship and performance. She co-curates the “Varnam Salon” and San Francisco’s first Indian choreography festival, “When Eyes Speak.” The latter was selected as a “Critic’s Pick” in the SF Chronicle. Ramaprasad’s work has been funded by and earned accolades from: Gluck Fellowship, Zellerbach Family Foundation, American Conservatory Theater ArtShare Fellowship; SAFEhouse Arts Lead Artist Fellowship, All-Rounder Yuva Kala Bharati for Young Artists; Guru Sanjukta Panigrahi Award; and the National YoungArts Scholarship. Ramaprasad is a doctoral candidate in Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. Her research focuses on representation and the performance of myth among transnational Bharatanatyam practitioners.

Modern Technique, Composition, & Partnering | Ryan Rouland Smith hails from Colorado, where he received his training at the Denver School of the Arts. In 2013 Smith graduated Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Dance and Choreography. While a student at the American Dance Festival, he had the opportunity of working with John Jasperse, Reggie Wilson, and performed in the first reconstruction of Bill T. Jones’ Love Redefined. Smith had the pleasure of joining Kate Weare company in 2014 performing in and originating roles in such works as Dark Lark, Unstruck, Marksman and Praise. Most recently Smith has performed in Stefanie Batten Bland’s Look Who is Coming to Dinner and the collaborative process between Kate Weare and ODC leading to Up for Air / Decameron. He joined ODC in the Fall of 2021.

Hailing from Maysville, Kentucky, Calvin Thomas received foundational training at the Otto M. Budig Academy of Cincinnati Ballet. He has supplemented his studies at Boston Ballet School, The School of American Ballet, Ballet Austin Academy, and The School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. His career start began with the Cincinnati Ballet and Ballet Austin. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2011 he has performed with Company C Contemporary Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, Oakland Ballet Company, Dance Theatre of San Francisco, Kiandanda Dance Theater, Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Garrett Moulton Productions, and ODC/Dance. His repertoire includes works by Thang Dao, Gregory Dawson, Yuri Zhukov, and Maurice Causey among others. When not dancing he still enjoys time in the studio sharing knowledge and teaching the next generation of dancers. He has recently developed a passion for coaching from the inspiration of his mentor, Shannon Bresnahan.