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  • Jenelle Gaerlan

    Jenelle Gaerlan

    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

    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

    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

    Natasha Adorlee

    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

    Faith Alexis

    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

  • MAËL AMATOUL

    MAËL AMATOUL

    Maël Amatoul is native to the French Riviera. He embarked on a journey at the PNSD Rosella Hightower in Cannes, where he trained in ballet and contemporary. Amatoul has worked on pieces by choreographers including Jean Christophe Maillot, Christophe Garcia, Hervé Koubi, and Francesco Curci. In 2022, he was awarded a Scholarship of Excellence in Art and Culture from the Côte d’Azur University. After seven years in Cannes, Amatoul decided to open his dance experience to new techniques and joined The Ailey School. There, he had the opportunity to learn and perform works by Alvin Ailey and renowned choreographers such as Ray Mercer, Branndi Lewis, Renee Robinson, and Clifton Brown. After attending the LINES’ Summer Intensive in June 2023, Amatoul joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet as a company dancer.

    Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Maël Amatoul | © RJ Muna

  • Caroline Rocher Barnes

    Caroline Rocher Barnes

    Caroline Rocher Barnes trained at the Conservatoire de Montpellier in France with Madame Claparède and later graduated from the Rudra Béjart Art School in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1998, she moved to America to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York. In 1999, Mrs. Rocher Barnes joined The Dance Theatre of Harlem under the mentorship of Arthur Mitchell, was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2000 and then Principal Dancer the following year. Her professional career extends internationally as she danced with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Germany, the Lyon Opera Ballet in France, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco.

    In 2001 Mrs. Rocher Barnes was named “25 to watch” in Dance Magazine. She also collaborated with international ballet star Vladimir Malakhov at the Career Transition For Dancers Gala in New York and was invited to perform at “Le Gala des Etoiles du 21ème siècle” in Paris in 2004.

    Mrs. Rocher Barnes has performed works by acclaimed choreographers such as Marius Petipa, John Cranko, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Hans Van Manen, John Neumeier, Maurice Béjart, Maguy Marin, Jacopo Godani, Robert Dekkers, Dwight Rhoden, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Arthur Mitchell, Michael Smuin, Glen Tetley and Alonzo King.

    Alongside her dance career, Mrs. Rocher Barnes has been a great advocate for passing on her craft to the next generation of dancers. For the past 15 years, she has been teaching worldwide and in 2015, she traveled to Cape Town as part of The LEAP-SOUTH AFRICA Project. There, she taught young dancers at the CAPA Art School, and in the public schools located in the townships of Khayelitsha, and Guguletu. She currently teaches at The School of The Washington Ballet and at The Citydance Conservatory. She is also Adjunct faculty at George Mason University and at Prince George’s Community College, and she’s part of the LINES Ballet Summer Program faculty.

    Mrs. Rocher Barnes graduated Summa Cum Laude from Saint Mary’s College of California and holds a BA in Performing Arts.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Discovery Project, Summer Program

    Photography | © RJ Muna

  • Jon Bond

    Jon Bond

    Jon Bond began his dance training at Center Stage Dance Academy in Long Beach, CA at the age of 10. He then studied at the Orange County H.S. of the Arts in Santa Ana, CA under the direction of Jim Kolb & Cindy Dolan Peca. After moving to New York City in 2005, Jon studied and performed with the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s DTB Ensemble. As a member of the ensemble he’s had the prestigious honor of performing with LeAnn Rimes at the White House, New York’s City Hall, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as part of, “Protégés of Ballet” and with Aretha Franklin at the historical Apollo Theater. Jon was a member of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet from 2007-2015. There he worked with and toured the works of Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Jacapo Godani, Stijn Celis, Jo Strømgren, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Richard Seigal, Jiří Kylián, Alexander Ekman, Luca Veggetti, Didy Veldman, Regina Van Berkel, Emanuel Gat, Andonis Foniadakis and Hofesh Shechter.

    Jon was a featured “Top Ten Performances of 2013″ in the Dec’13/Jan’14 issue of Pointe Magazine as well as on the cover of Pointe Magazine‘s Oct/Nov 2010 issue. His work as a performer also includes 2011’s season 8 of SYTYCD, the WNBA Sparks’ Sparkids, Fiona Apple’s “Paperbag” video, Featured Soloist at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater and Guest Artist for the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo. He can also be seen dancing alongside Emily Blunt in the Major Motion Picture, ‘The Adjustment Bureau’. In 2004 Jon spent eight weeks as a Winner Circle Finalist on Star Search on CBS. That same year, he served as an ambassador of dance representing the United States at the annual Australian Dance Championship, where he won International First Place Soloist in the Battle of the Stars. As a choreographer, he was invited to perform his work at the Seventh Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival in Palm Desert, CA where he won the Jean Ann Hirchl First Place Solo Award. Jon was a 2013 Capezio Ace Awards finalist. His work can also be seen across the U.S. on many schools, competitive studios and youth companies such as the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA/OCHSA), Colabo Youth Dance Collective, Cedar Lake’s 360 summer intensive, Cedar Lake’s CEDAR LAB and recently at NDT’s “SWITCH 2016” . Jon currently dances with The Nederlands Dans Theater.

    Learn more at www.jonbond.me

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  • Lynn Brilhante

    Lynn Brilhante

    To inquire about classes at LINES Dance Center with Lynn Brilhante, send her an email.

    Lynn Brilhante is described as having a dynamic, fluid, and gutsy style of dance and choreography. She brings a fresh and innovative approach to the world of Contemporary Jazz and shows a unique ability to merge and update various elements, while in the process, creating her own trademark style. These talents have earned her a nomination for the L. A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Choreography, finalist honors in the Choreography Festival Under the Stars, the Dance Masters of America Choreography Award, and the Robbi Award for Choreography.

    Lynn has been guest Artist/Choreographer at Die Werkstatt in Düsseldorf, Germany, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (S.O.T.A.), and a guest instructor at San Francisco Ballet School. Her success in transferring her love of dance through teaching is evidenced by a flock of loyal students both in the San Francisco Bay Area and in numerous workshops and master classes throughout the world. Lynn boasts a long and impressive resume of choreographic and performance achievements, spanning the diverse media of stage, film, television, and video. She is currently at teachers at LINES Dance Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dance Center

    Photography: Lynn Brilhante | © Jamie Lyons

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