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.

YUJIN KIM was born in Busan, South Korea, and studied Korean traditional dance for two years before beginning ballet lessons at age 12. She trained at the Young Ji Kim Ballet Studio, the Peniel International Arts School and the Pre-Korean National University of Arts, then attended Switzerland’s Department Tanz de Hochschule Musik und Theater on full scholarship. The winner of numerous competitions in South Korea, Kim was awarded a gold medal at the 2005 Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition. She has danced with Sun Hee Kim Ballet Company, National Opera Company of Korea and the Covenant Journey Musical Group. Kim joined LINES Ballet in 2011. In 2013, Kim was invited to perform at the Korea World Dance Stars Festival and selected for the cover of the dance magazine Momm.

JEFFREY VAN SCIVER of Los Angeles, trained at the Juilliard School and the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California. He has danced with Southern California Ballet, Copious Dance Theater, Dawson/Wallace Dance Project, San Francisco Opera Corps de Ballet, and dawsondancesf, for which he received an Isadora Duncan Award nomination. Van Sciver is a Dizzy Feet Foundation scholarship recipient, Shenson Performing Arts Fellow, and received both the Princess Grace and Chris Hellman awards in dance. Van Sciver has performed works by Karen McDonald, Rennie Harris, Sandrine Cassini, Sidra Bell, Gregory P. Dawson, Nina Flagg, and most recently, Jose Navas at the Springboard Danse Montreal. He joined LINES Ballet in 2013.

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

Faith Alexis is a born and raised Bay Area native. In 2023, she received her BA in Dance from Saint Mary’s College of California, under the training of Shaunna Vella, Cathy Davalos, Rogelio Lopez, and more. Her training also includes the SRJC Dance Program under the tutelage of Casandra Hillman and Tanya Tolmasoff and Mills College under Robert Moses and Suhaila Salimpour’s tutelage. Faith Alexis is currently a part of Full Out Studio’s management and their dance company INQ, under the direction of Rocko Luciano and Alli Fritz. In addition, she is also a company member of CDE, directed by Rachel Garcia and Jessica Lim. Alexis is passionate about hip hop, whacking, jazz funk, modern, contemporary dance, as well as how those genres translate through a queer-focused lens. She recently performed in the San Francisco International Hip Hop Dancefest, various hip-hop competitions all over California, and has been featured in multiple dance films. In 2023, Alexis was also invited to perform her original work “Dancers Move Act II” at ACDA in Arizona. Faith looks forward to growing and being in collaboration with HeART with LINES.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Youth and School Programs

Photography | © Andrio Jordan