SP Faculty Archives

As a founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Nora Heiber danced for the company for twelve years after which she served as a Board Trustee for ten years. She was a part of the teaching staff for the LINES BFA Program at Dominican University of California and Training Program, offering a workshop entitled “Creating a Life of Dance,” in which she strived to bestow students with tools such as proactive problem-solving, confidence-building, and energy management for the purpose of enjoying a thriving professional career. Heiber also joined the faculty of Nevada City’s Holt Ballet Conservatory. Heiber is also one of the founding members of San Francisco GYROTONIC® where she has taught GYROTONIC® methodology since 1988. As a Master Trainer, Heiber has provided training to many GYROTONIC® trainers who currently teach all over the world.

Nora Heiber is also a Certified Mediator in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). She and her husband Cliff hold an ongoing partnership with CNVC Certified Trainer, Facilitator, and Mediator Aya Caspi that includes several collaborative online and in-person workshops. In addition to NVC, Heiber and Cliff have hosted a variety of workshops and personal retreats on their twenty acre property, including Permaculture Design, Nutrition, Dance, GYROTONIC®, and Yoga. They are dedicated to creating a peaceful environment that is in accordance with nature for the support of life-affirming trainings and activities.

For the past 35 years, Heiber has intuitively searched for a way to combine compassion and kindness with power and influence as a way of creating a non-adversarial approach to negotiating collective bargaining agreements on behalf of dancers, choristers, solo singers, and production staff of the opera and ballet in her work as the Western Executive for the American Guild of Musical Artists. In addition, Heiber integrated her growing knowledge of NVC while counseling pre-professional dancers and working with clients as a Master Trainer of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®®. Currently, Heiber is offering her mediation services as part of a court program through the Conflict Resolution Center of Nevada County.

To learn more about Heiber’s work in Nonviolent Communication, visit reclaiminglifenvc.com.

Dominique Hargrove is a powerhouse, a divine vibrant being. She is a storyteller, revisiting and reimagining all aspects of herself and allowing her experiences to shape her reality. Diving into realms of love and collaboration, she is exploring empathetic and compassionate ways of listening and learning from her ancestors, family, and friends on how to cultivate and sustain a thriving community. As a teacher, she invites her students in the process of self-reflection. Co-creating a space where her students feel called to swim in the pools of their inner truth and create/perform movement from the space of authenticity.

Dominique Hargrove has had the pleasure of training with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Hubbard Street, Homer hans Bryant, LINES Ballet’s BFA Program at Dominican University of California, Guy Shoromi, and Sidra Bell. She has had the opportunity to choreography and perform internationally in Portugal and Vancouever and domestically throughout the Bay Area. Hargrove is currently an arts education teaching artist in the San Francisco and Oakland area. She is excited to be back in the sacred space of the studio diving into the ritual form that is movement medicine.

Natalya Shoaf is a Bay Area dance educator, choreographer, and performer. She received her formidable dance education from Burbank Dance Biz, Patsy Metzger Dancers, Media City Dance, and Los Angeles High School for the Arts. Shoaf holds a BFA in Dance from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California. Natalya Shoaf is a dance educator for Oakland School of the Arts and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. As a performer, she has worked with Robert Moses Kin, OysterKnife, Flyaway Productions, dazaun.dance, and many more. Shoaf is a performing artist with dawsondancesf/works and guest choreographer for Cal State East Bay. She also joined the LINES Ballet Summer Program faculty in 2024.

With an intention to create art that aims to illuminate the human soul, Dazaun Soleyn (he/she/they), has presented work in the Bay Area since 2013. He received a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of South Florida and continued his dance education at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. Recently, Dazaun graduated from California College of the Arts with a Masters in Architecture (MArch). Dazaun is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, a GYROTONIC® Instructor, Reiki Master, and Apprentice Herbalists. His mediums include dance, architecture, sculpture, and interactive installations.

Raised in San Francisco, Chuck Wilt is a choreographer, educator, drag artist known as Fuchsia, and the Artistic Director/Choreographer of UNA Productions. They are genderqueer, second generation Queer, and a proud pup parent.

In 2022, Chuck was a Resident Choreographer for the 20th Anniversary of the Springboard Danse Montreal Program and was the recipient of Springboard/Gibney’s inaugural ILLUME Award. Chuck was a selected CUNY Dance Initiative Artist in Residence at Brooklyn College (2019–2020) and a selected Artist in residence at Berkeley Ballet Theater (2020). In 2019, Wilt was the recipient of the Rainin Opportunity Fund—premiering COLORING at and in association with the ODC Theater. In 2018, Chuck was a selected Artist in Residence of Dance Initiative (CO) and an Artist in Residence at the 92nd St. Y’s Harkness Dance Center (2018–2019). In 2017, Chuck was a selected choreographic fellow for the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab made possible by generous support from the Ford Foundation.

Chuck has created new work for Ormao Dance Company, LITVAK Dance Company, Springboard Danse Montreal, KSU Dance, Post:ballet with the Kronos Quartet, SALT Pre Professional Company, the University of Maryland, Ailey Fordham BFA Program, Mason Gross Rutgers University, Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, Berkeley Ballet Theater/Post:ballet/SF Girls Chorus, NYU Tisch Dance, and the ODC Youth Company. They have set solo repertory at Ailey Fordham, SUNY Purchase, and LINES. Chuck has choreographed and produced two music videos for band Figs Vision, one of which is an official selection for the 40 North Dance Film Festival. They have also choreographed and produced ARIEL, a dance film that was an official selection for the Festival Of Recorded Movement in Vancouver.

TChuck is a faculty member with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. They have taught improvisation and repertory at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado College, University of Maryland, Alvin Ailey Fordham, and NYU Tisch Dance BFA Programs. They have also taught technique and improvisation and set repertory for the New Dialect Summer Intensive, NYU Tisch Summer High School Program for two years as well as Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Programs. With UNA company members, Wilt has taught at the LINES Training Program, Velocity Dance Center, Gibney Dance Center, Lowell High School, ODC Dance Commons, SF Arts Institute, LAB Sessions/IATI Studios, and Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts. Additionally, the company has engaged in outreach in NYC including lec-dems and workshops with Williamsburg Charter, Brooklyn International, Beacon High Schools, and the Professional Performing Arts School and in SF at Lowell High School. Wilt is also a certified GYROTONIC® teacher.

Chuck graduated from NYU Tisch and has performed for and assisted international choreographers.

Photography: Courtesy of UNA Productions

Alice Svetic is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Oakland, CA. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Alice received their BFA in Dance from University of Wisconsin-Madison and their MFA in Dance from Hollins University, where they were an adjunct professor of ballet and contemporary dance practice. Their research centers around critical feminist and queer dance teaching perspectives, viewership politics, and the performative body. Alice is currently a dance artist with SF-based Alex Ketley’s The Foundry and a teaching artist with the Alonzo King LINES Training Program, Marin Dance Theater, and Marin Ballet.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program

Photography: Alice Svetic | © Julianna Hom

Natasha Adorlee is an Emmy Award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, composer, and educator in San Francisco, CA. A first-generation Asian American woman, Natasha began choreographing in 2014 while maintaining an award-winning dance career with Robert Moses’ Kin, ODC/Dance, Kate Weare and Co., and The San Francisco Symphony. After winning over ten international awards for her acclaimed short film Take Your Time in 2018, she became a sought-after filmmaker, choreographer, and composer. Most recently, she was commissioned to create for Joffrey Ballet’s Winning Works, Kansas City Ballet, BalletX, Ceprodac (Mexico), Kawaguchi Ballet (Japan), Ballare Carmel, Ballet22, and Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. Natasha has also created original work for Pixar Animation Studios, Oculus, National Geographic, and New Yorker Magazine, and she founded Concept o4 to create multimedia dance-based experiences advocating for more accessibility to the arts. Awarded an NEA Grant, Dresher Fellowship, and Jacob’s Pillow Choreographic Fellowship, Natasha is pursuing a prolific creation period while sharing her knowledge through Dance on Camera workshops. She is also an Artistic Advisor for Ballet22.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program

Photography: Natasha Adorlee | © Rob Suguitan

Tatum Quiñónez began her training at Master Ballet Academy in Phoenix, Arizona. She then continued her training at Ballet West Academy and the BWA trainee program. She spent her summers at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet West, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Quiñónez then joined Oregon Ballet Theatre’s second company, OBT2, in 2019. She has performed works by George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Willam Christensen, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell, James Canfield, and LeeWei Chao. Quiñónez joined LINES Ballet in 2021.

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Originally from New York, NY, Marusya Madubuko began her pre-professional training at age 15 with Premiere Division Ballet under the tutelage of Nadege Hottier. In 2019, Madubuko competed at the Royal Grand Prix in Italy, winning second place for her contemporary and classical solo. She has trained with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, the Royal Ballet School, and at San Francisco Ballet School where she had the opportunity to dance repertoire including Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker and Cinderella, as well as George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2021, she participated in BalletUnleashed’s first creative project “Switchback”, working with choreographer Cathy Marston to create a solo. Madubuko joined LINES Ballet in 2021.

Katie Roy is a dancer / visual artist / scientist / educator who thrives off of creative process and believes there is immense power and beauty in multidisciplinary exploration.

Katie began her training at New England Ballet in her hometown of Wayland, MA. She started her performing career with Boston-area touring company Dance Prism.

Katie graduated from Dickinson College in 2015 with a B.S. with Honors in both Physics and Mathematics. Through participation in the co-curricular Dance Theatre Group, she also had the opportunity to perform work by Sarah Skaggs and NYC-based Pam Tanowitz and Christopher Williams, among others. Katie returned to Dickinson as a guest artist in the fall of 2015 to premiere a work based upon concepts in acoustic physics and presented the piece in its early stages in a collaborative salon with Professor L. Koss to discuss connections between differential equations and art.

Katie moved to San Francisco in 2017 to complete two years with the LINES Ballet | Training Program, during which time she performed work by choreographers Alex Ketley, Brett Conway, David Harvey, Erik Wagner, and Maurya Kerr. She was chosen to be a student choreographer to develop new works on her peers twice, with guidance from Christian Burns. In the fall of 2018, Katie began to teach the inaugural ChoreoLab class for Teens @ LINES, and since then, she has had the honor of watching her students perform works created in studio lab sessions at festivals across the Bay Area. Katie has also worked as the Training Program Coordinator since 2019.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet | TEENS at LINES, Training Program, and Summer Program

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