MacKenzie Schuller
MacKenzie is a modern dancer based in Boulder, CO. Her dancing and teaching are infused with a sense of play, curiosity and wonder. MacKenzie’s embodied practice is shaped primarily by the study of release technique and contact improvisation. While her interests are constantly expanding, she is always playing with the foundational dynamics of effort and ease, finding fluidity in and out of the floor, and moving to the point of exhilaration. She is inspired to move with appreciation and the capacity to be influenced and changed, always available to the moment that creative energy is ready to take direction and form. As much as technique, MacKenzie's classes orient towards building a malleable relationship with the body, and listening for how the body wants to express and experience itself. Her life has shown her that presence with her body positions her as a conduit for deeper connections with her environment and everything that resides within it.
Keith Haynes
Keith Haynes, a Houston native, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in the Denver/Boulder Metropolitan area. He received a B.F.A in Radio/Television from Stephen F. Austin State University and an M.F.A in performance and choreography with a secondary emphasis in video projection design from the University of Colorado Boulder. Currently, Haynes is the co-artistic director and choreographer for VisKosity Dance Collective (www.viskositydancecollective.com) alongside creative partner, Vivian Kim, MFA .
Killian Von Holdt
Killian is originally from Golden, Colorado. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wyoming with her BFA in Dance Performance and BS in Business Management with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship. In 2016, she furthered her studies abroad in London.
Killian has trained with The Limon Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ririe-Woodbury, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Kaleidoscope, Boston Ballet, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. In addition, she has worked with choreographers Darrell Grand Moultrie, Tai Jimenez, Charmaine Hunter, Mark Willis, Jarek Cemerek, Robert Sher-Machherndl, General McArthur Hambrick, Jacob Mora, Pablo Ruvalcaba, Thayne Jasperson, and others.
Killian has performed with Denver's Hannah Kahn Dance Company since July 2019 and Boulder's T2 Dance Company since October 2022. When she is not in rehearsals, she teaches at Joyful Soles Dance & Performing Arts and Redemptive Dance Ministries.
She hopes to use dance to improve the lives of those around her. She strives to inspire her audiences, instill confidence in her students, provide opportunities for expression, and keep dance relevant and accessible. She is grateful for the opportunity to work alongside so many talented artists.
Katrin Roach
Originally from Marion, Indiana, Katrin Roach grew up dancing at Community School of the Arts. She graduated from high school from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She continued her dance education at SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, NY, spending one semester abroad in Perth, Australia to study at Western Australia Academy of the Performing Arts. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2020 with a concentration in Choreography. While at Purchase College she performed new works by Nora Petroliunas, Doug Varone, and Annie Rigney, as well as repertoire by Trisha Brown and Ohad Naharin. Katrin has attended Bodytraffic’s company summer workshop, Transformation Danse Montréal summer program, Doug Varone and Dancers winter and summer programs, and B12 contemporary dance summer workshops in Berlin, Germany. She danced with the Relevations Dance Company in Indianapolis, Indiana from 2021 to 2022. Currently, she is teaching at Colorado Conservatory of Dance and is a freelance dancer in Denver, Colorado.
Alex Tenreiro Theis
Originally from Colorado, Alex Tenreiro Theis earned her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. As a freelance performer in New York City for ten years, she had the pleasure of working on projects with Yoshito Sakuraba, Jonah Bokaer, Pamela Pietro, Rohan Bhargava’s ROVACO, Eryc Taylor Dance, Angie Moon Dance Theatre, Netta Yerushalmy and Gregory Dolbashian to name several. She has had the opportunity to perform internationally at Mash International Choreography Festival (Israel), Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Festival (Spain), Avant Garde International Dance Festival (Mexico), ASWARA University Building Bridges Workshop (Malaysia) and the FIDCDMX Festival (Mexico). As rehearsal director and company member of Yoshito Sakuraba’s Abarukas, she led numerous workshops and artistic residencies surrounding the contemporary form at institutions such as Barnard College, Martha Graham School, MoveNYC Summer Intensive, Manhattanville College, and Fini Dance Festival among others.
Hannah Welch
Hannah Welch is a dancer, teacher and creator passionate about the artistry and power of movement. She received her classical ballet training as a high school student from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under the direction of Ethan Stiefel. She holds a BFA in contemporary dance from UNCSA under Brenda Daniels and was awarded the Sarah Graham Kenan Scholarship for Excellence. Hannah has studied with American Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Charlotte Ballet, Complexions, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, and Keigwin + CO. She has had the privilege to perform classical repertoire by Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Agnes DeMille, Jose Limon, and Twyla Tharp as well as premier original roles by Susan McCullough, Mariangela Lopez, Helen Simoneau, Dusan Tynek, and Ted Thomas. As a professional artist in New York City, performance highlights included dancing at Lincoln Center, Bryant Park and NY Fashion Week. She co-founded Awakening Movement serving as Artistic Director teaching, choreographing, and producing new works in NYC and touring regionally. She enjoys connecting with students across the United States teaching ballet and contemporary and is eager to share her love of movement and craftsmanship to the next generation of artists.