Allegra Searle-LeBel
Allegra has been dancing and choreographing since she could tell people
to sit down and watch. She received her BA from UC Berkeley in a combination of Dance,
Theatre, and Performance Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. Her dance studies
continued at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Teaching credits include GrooveLabs,
various Oakland elementary schools and summers with the Berkeley/Oakland Alvin Ailey
Camp. She has performed and shown her own work in Arcata, Berkeley, Los Angeles,
Portland, NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle. Her recent introduction to the Seattle
area finds her creatively invigorated!
Eliza Larson
Originally from the East Coast, Eliza is delighted to call Seattle home.
She graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, with a BA in dance and English.
While there she performed in works by Jan Erkert, Heather Klopchin, KT Neihoff,
Anthony Roberts, and Janice Roberts. Since then Eliza has completed MFA level course
work in dance and performed in Maryland and Washington DC before fleeing to the
Pacific Northwest. In Seattle, she has studied and performed at Strictly Seattle
and is a staff member at Cornish College of the Arts.
Graham Stockdale
Graham has been dancing since the age of 14. Originally from Colorado Springs,
he now lives in Seattle where he received a BFA from Cornish. Currently
he is teaching dance and performing around the community. He loves all
dance but specializes in tap and acrobatics which enabled him to work
with Savion Glover.
Christine Weh
Christine graduated cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts with her BFA in Dance
in 2005. She began her training in Portland, OR from Cynthia Tosh and
continued to perform with Portland Community Ballet. She has worked with
choreographers Tonya Lockyer, Pat Hon, Gary Masters and Mary Sheldon Scott.
She currently teaches ballet and creative movement and is the administrative
assistant for Cornish’s Preparatory Dance program.
Bridget Gunning
Bridget Gunning is a corporeal artist who lives in Seattle. She began
using her corpus as a mode of expression in 1996. She studied dance at
the University of Arizona where she holds a BA in Sociology. Her
studies piqued her interest in the intersection between community and
the performing arts. Her explorations extend to and beyond modern
dance, improvisation, Skinner Releasing and aerial dance. Bridget
collaborates with Manifold Motion and The Asterisk Project both in
Seattle. This is her first project with Weaving Dance Company.
Jessica Schroeder
Jessica began her dance training in her hometown of Portland, OR under the direction of Christine Donald.
She moved to Seattle to attend Cornish College of the Arts where she graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a B.F.A. in dance in 2007. While at Cornish, Jessica worked with numerous choreographers
including Bebe Miller, Courtney Harris, Pat Hon, Susan McClain and Peter Kyle.
Morgan Nutt
Morgan Shaw Nutt is a transient soul who has just recently, and on a whim, transplanted
herself to Seattle. Since graduating magna cum laude from The Ohio State University with
a B.F.A. in Dance in 2005, she has moved four times. As a student, she studied dance
with Karen Elliott and Bebe Miller, stage managed shows under the wing of David Covey,
and performed the works of Zvi Gottheiner and Susan Hadley. As a professional, she
has performed in NYC with ETC Dance and the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company. She
has choreographed modern dances for the Penn State Dance Company, musicals for Cochise
College, a beauty pageant for the city of Sierra Vista and all manner of dance for
LimeLight Academy of the Performing Arts in southern Arizona. Her real ambition is
to open an arts center in the rural Montana county where she grew up. For now
though, it is all about just getting to dance.
Amy Weaver
Amy is a Washington native who moved from Wenatchee to Seattle six years
ago to earn her BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts. While
there she worked with Deborah Wolf, Wade Madson, and Donald Byrd,
among others. She has also toured extensively in the US with Impact
Productions in the off Broadway show, The Masterpiece, including
dancing with them in China for the International Festival of The
Arts. Since graduating in 2005, she has been privileged to work with
Cheronne Wong, Consuelo Palmer-Bormann, Northwest Dance Syndrome,
Vania Bynum, Jerboa Dance, Chimera Dance Theater, as well as Amii
LeGendre in Strictly Seattle 2006.
Karen Geenay Brown
Originally from Colorado Springs, CO, Karen received her B.F.A in Dance
from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. While dancing at
Cornish she performed in choreography from Tonya Lockyer, Peter
Kyle, Deborah Wolf, Wade Madsen, Mary Sheldon Scott, Gerard Thoret.
Karen has also performed in 2003 Strictly Seattle with Crispin
Speath. She previously taught modern and jazz dance at Fountain
Valley High School, Attitudes Performing Arts, in Colo. Springs, CO.
Karen is currently dancing in Seattle with Jerboa Dance and Vanio
Bynum's "Arts For A Greater Good".
Andrea Burchak
Andrea graduated with a BFA in Dance in the spring of 2006 from Cornish College of the Arts.
While attending she presented work for New Moves and was privileged to have danced for
Deborah Wolf. Andrea has recently become a Certified GYROTONIC instructor at the
GYROTONIC Movement Center in Wallingford, and has most recently danced for Pilar Villanueva
in 12-Minutes Max at On The Boards.
