Category: T@L Faculty

Chanel was born in Sacramento, California and moved to San Francisco in 2021. She began her journey with movement and wellness 10 years ago when she started taking yoga classes for stress management. She developed her love for community, culture and art after spending 3 years backpacking through Europe, Asia and Australia. She was introduced to the Pilates Method when traveling Australia, which led her to get a certification in Mat Pilates. She continues her education with Polestar Pilates and is currently becoming a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. You can find her taking beginning Ballet classes at the dance center!

Brooke Terry (she/her) is a dance artist, choreographer, and movement investigator. Native to Saint Louis, Missouri, she began her dance journey at 3 years old, and at the age of 10 shifted toward the pursuit of a more serious pre-professional dance education at the Center of Creative Arts Saint Louis (COCA).

In May of 2022, Brooke graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA program at Dominican University of California, where she completed a Psychology Minor, an Honors Program Certificate, and earned Departmental Honors. Through four years of training in the Bay Area, she has graciously studied with Marina Hotchkiss, Gregory Dawson, Maurya Kerr, Christian Burns, Brett Conway, Carmen Rozestraten, Kara Davis, and James Graham. Her training at LINES has allowed her to perform works by Sidra Bell, Dexandro “D” Montalvo, Nick Korkos, and many others. While in the program she also presented her choreographic thesis project, stone2dust, with mentorship from Kara Davis. Brooke has spent summers training at The Alvin Ailey School, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Kansas City Ballet, and at her home base dance organization, COCA, under the direction of Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd.

Brooke is jump-starting her post-graduate professional dance career with dawsondancesf, REYES Dance, and Xochipilli Dance Company, while joining the TEENS at LINES program faculty in the Fall of 2022. She aims to continue sharing her experiences as a young Black individual navigating the world of today through dance, joy, and gratitude.

Marlayna Locklear hails from Milwaukee, WI. She began her training at the age of 12 at City Ballet Theatre and went on to graduate from Milwaukee High School of the Arts and University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA with a BFA in Ballet and Jazz. Marlayna was one of the founding members of The Milwaukee Dance Connection and has gone on to dance with Eleone Dance Theatre, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, Owen Cox Dance group, NuWorld Contemporary Danse Theatre, Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company where she served as the company Jazz and Contemporary instructor as well as Resident Choreographer for DCDC II.

Marlayna is a freelance artist and teaches and choreographs at Universities around the nation.

Jenelle Gaerlan (she/they) is a multi-disciplined creative and freelance dancer from Portland, Oregon. Having trained in contemporary, jazz, modern, ballet, hip hop, house, waacking and movement improvisation/freestyle, Jenelle has done work for Nike Inc., DarVejon Jones Dance Ensemble, BodyVox Dance Company (under Emmy Award-winning choreographers Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland), Soulskin Dance, Fray Show by CandyBomber Productions (premiered at Stanford Live), and Robert Moses’ KIN.

Jenelle’s dancing comes from a place of coexistence and interconnectivity between movement languages. The way she chooses to reveal her experience through movement and storytelling bleeds into their teaching practices in the classroom. How can we tell our stories, while applying new information in class to deepen the quality of our narratives outside of that space? Using house dance philosophies (a club dance style centered around the music, footwork, grooves and the cypher/circle) as a focal point for her curriculum, Jenelle looks forward to facilitating a different way to approach music and dance in her Teens at LINES course this Fall.

Jenelle currently dances for Robert Moses’ KIN and is fascinated by the intersection of music, visual media and movement. With expertise in dance, choreography, video production, design and creative direction, she is now relocated in the Bay Area to build and connect with other multifaceted artists.

Ananda Bena-Weber is an interdisciplinary performing artist and choreographer whose award-winning work tours the United States and abroad. She recently returned to the Bay Area from New York City where she taught for 16 years at Marymount Manhattan College, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Mark Morris Dance Center. Ananda is the Associate Artistic Director of the Sierra Nevada Ballet, and an adjudicator for Regional Dance America. She specializes in applying deep relaxation and specific alignment to ballet technique to heal and prevent injuries and to maximize pleasure in movement. Bena-Weber is a member of Actors Equity Association, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and a board member of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents.

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Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Daiane Lopes da Silva is a choreographer, educator and artistic director of Kinetech Arts, where she investigates the intersection of dance, science, and technology. She is a faculty member of Alonzo King LINES Dance Center and Western Ballet, and has taught at ODC Dance Commons, Sonoma State University, and various international dance schools. Daiane leverages her broad practice in ballet, contemporary dance, yoga, Tai chi and meditation to help students gain efficiency and elegance in their movement.

Daiane has choreographed more than ten full-length performances. Her work has been performed in South America, North America and Europe. In addition to choreographing for Kinetech Arts, she has also created works for Dance Brigade, West Bay Opera, Robert Moses’ Kin, Lake Tahoe Dance Collective, and Western Ballet. Her main residencies include Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, CounterPulse, SAFEhouse Arts, and Estalagem da Ponta do Sol Residency in Madeira, Portugal.

Daiane studied at The Municipal Ballet of São Paulo and at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Brussels. She has performed with Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, Companhia de Dança de Almada, KUNST-STOFF Dance Company, Labayen Dance, little seismic dance company, Robert Moses’ Kin, and in works of Sara Shelton Mann, among others. For more information about her work, please visit www.kinetecharts.org

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