Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø

Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management , interdisciplinary art, and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, contemporary choreographer, experimental curator and event producer. Dance has brought her around the world but always back home to VT, where she has had the opportunity to create new programs, curriculums, organizations and events for dancers and the public. Hanna is the founder of the Vermont Dance Alliance, the INSTINCT Experimental Dance Festival , and ANIMAL Dance Performance and Production Company . Hanna currently directs ANIMAL Dance, based in Burlington VT.

Photo from Kimball Union High School

Millie Heckler (she/her) is a Vermont-based interdisciplinary artist and the Founder and Creative Director of puSHErbody–a dance company and community initiative centering intuitive breathwork, athleticism, and personal narrative. She danced professionally with Street Dance theater pioneer Rennie Harris and afro-contemporary company, Charles O. Anderson/dance theater x. She holds an MFA in Dance and Social Justice from UT Austin and BFA in Dance from CU Boulder. Millie was introduced to House dance through her former teacher, Rennie Harris, at CU Boulder. Since, she has been an avid student of the culture, learning from Kim D. Holmes, CEBO, Cricket, Marie Kaae and Wesley. She is deeply grateful for how her House dance practice continues to reveal deeper layers of self-awareness, community-empowerment, playfulness, bliss through rigor, and connection.

Julian Barnett is a choreographer, performer, educator, and arts advocate. He collaborates across disciplines to create performances that investigate socio-political possibilities for transformation, connection, and empathy. His work has been presented globally, with notable performances at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Gibney, The Joyce Theater, Tangent (Montreal), Performatica (Mexico), La Briqueterie (France), Kampnagel (Germany), and i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong), among others. Julian was a danceWEB Scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna and received a New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award nomination, a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and a US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship. He has performed with artists such as Steve Paxton, Jeanine Durning, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Elkins, Abigail Levine, Laurel Jenkins, Johannes Wieland’s tanztheater in Germany, and The Metropolitan Opera with Doug Varone. Julian’s teaching work extends internationally, with roles at Gibney, Dance Italia, b12 (Berlin), and universities including Princeton, NYU Tisch, Juilliard, CalArts, Middlebury, and more. Born in Japan, Julian grew up in Northern California, lived in NYC for over 20 years, and now calls Vermont home.

 Jessie Owens is a dance artist, and a structural integration and embodiment practitioner. She holds a BA in dance from Smith College and an MA in Embodiment Studies from Goddard College. She is the founder/director of ERGO/movement, a performance project based in Vermont where she creates large and small stage productions, immersive and site-specific works, and films. She is a member of the experimental movement and sound collective, soft rocks. She shares a full and beautifully creative life with her partner in their off-grid home in the mountains.

Michael Bodel makes interdisciplinary dance works. Many rely on objects, text and sensorial elements. His process involves wide-ranging research and both serious and silly play; collaborators vary from project to project. Past works have included dances choreographed to oral histories of immigration, a pageant set in an apple orchard, a puppet opera version of La Sonnambula, and a work for bodies, live sound and sacks of grain. Michael has studied and often integrates large-scale puppetry and kinetic objects. His choreography interweaves nuanced gestures, high-energy and full-bodied action, and loosey-goosey stuff.

Photo Credit: Kay McCabe

Caitlin Morgan is a Burlington-based creative with roots in the Midwest and NYC, interested in flow-state embodiment as a means of eliciting nuanced, collective understanding and alchemical impact. Her work—commonly inspired by ecosomatics, communication theories, and postmodernism—has been featured across New York, Vermont, Ohio, and Michigan, including for the Junction Dance Festival (as a ChoreoLab artist in residence), the Small Plates Choreography Festival, Teatro LATEA, Mark Morris Dance Center, the Actors’ Fund Arts Center, and more. Woven around her movement research, Caitlin edits novels, performs with ANIMALDance and other local makers, and facilitates classes at Lines Vermont, Studio 3, and Sangha Studio.

Photo credit: Taso Papadakis

Laurel Jenkins is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and mother. Her choreography emerges from rigorous experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogues in the realms of contemporary dance, opera, music, and theater. LA Weekly writes that she creates “extraordinary movement/sound pieces in which the body becomes the most versatile of instruments, playing the music of an invisible dimension.” Through an ever-evolving choreographic process, Jenkins reimagines the contours of our collective experience, by engaging themes of individual interiority, human relationships, and our connection with that which is beyond human. Her teaching is informed by the Skinner Releasing Technique and Trisha Brown.