Victor Talledos is an international independent artist based in SF. He began his dance training at Conservatorio de Danza in Mexico City and graduated from Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2008, he moved to NYC to attend the Ailey School for two years. Victor has performed for Proyectos en Movimiento dance company and Ballet Moderno de Mexico-Las Bestias in Mexico. In 2010, Victor moved to San Francisco and became part of the Bay Area Dance community, he has worked for Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company, Copious Dance Theater, Labayen Dance San Francisco, Alayo Dance Company, The Anata Project, RAWDance SF, among others. As a choreographer, Victor has shown his work in venues including Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dance New Amsterdam for the “Latin Choreographers Festival” in NYC, Dance Mission Theater for the “Latin American Contemporary Choreographers Festival” in SF, Safe House Arts, Cowell Theater. He has been a guest choreographer for Labayen Dance, Copious Dance Theater and Emote Dance Theater.
Victor is currently faculty member for all education programs at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, from Teens at LINES to the BFA Program at Dominican University of California. He is part of the Modern Dance faculty at Berkeley Ballet Theater and teaches open classes (ballet, modern and contemporary) at Alonzo King LINES Dance Center. Victor has also taught in places including ODC Dance Commons, Shawl Anderson Dance Center, and Westlake School for the Performing Arts and has been a guest artist at Stanford University, guest teacher and choreographer at Mills College, guest choreographer at The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA). He has taught workshops in Amarillo, Texas, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. Aside from his professional dance career, Victor is also a visual artist, part-time model and photographer.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican, Dance Center, School Programs, Summer Program, Teens at LINES, Training Program
Photography | © Victor Talledos
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.
To inquire about classes at LINES Dance Center with Charles Torres, send him an email.
Charles Torres M.A. is currently a master/coach in demand throughout the country. He was a principal dancer and guest artist with Ballet West Arizona, Smuin Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, and San Francisco Opera Ballet. He has danced all the full-length ballets, a full Balanchine repertory, and a vast repertory of contemporary works. Charles received his Masters degree in 21st Century Leadership from St. Mary’s College and is a Floorbarre certified teacher through the Zena Rommett Foundation.
He is currently a freelance guest dancer, ballet master, coach, mentor, and teaches at San Francisco’s LINES Dance Center and at DSG in San Francisco and San Rafael.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dance Center
Keelan Whitmore from Rockford, Illinois, trained at the Rockford Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet School/New School University, and graduated from Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy and St. Mary’s College L.E.A.P. Program where he received his B.A. in Dance. As a member of Kansas City Ballet from 2001-2006, Whitmore performed works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. In 2006, Whitmore became a member of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. His choreography has been showcased in workshop and gala performances presented by Kansas City Ballet, Virginia School of the Arts, the LINES Ballet Training Program, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican, and Regional Dance America, which presented Whitmore with its National Choreography Recognition Award in 2005. That same year, he co-founded Kansas City–based multi-disciplinary ensemble Quixotic Fusion. Whitmore danced with Alonzo King LINES Ballet from 2006-2013. He is currently a soloist with TanzTheater Muenster in Germany.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Summer Program
Photography | © RJ Muna
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