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  • David Harvey

    David Harvey

    David Harvey is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, The Kirov Academy of Ballet and the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. He then danced for Alonzo King LINES Ballet from 2007-2014, and continues his relationship with LINES Ballet’s education programs as a returning faculty member and choreographer. Harvey has also worked as a dancer and collaborator with Bobbi Jene Smith, Tom Weinberger, Sarah Foster Sproull and David Raymond + Tiffany Tregarthen. He has been a member of Kate Wallich’s The YC since 2015.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet |  BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

    Photography | © Jobel Medina

  • Lacey Heffernan

    Lacey Heffernan

    Lacey Heffernan is a dance artist and educator from Charleston, SC. In Charleston, Lacey performed with Annex Dance Company and Dance Lab’s Entertainment Company. In 2017, Lacey graduated from College of Charleston, where she earned a BA in Arts Management and Dance with a concentration in Performance and Choreography. Since moving to the Bay Area, Lacey has had the opportunity to perform with PUSH Dance Company, Visceral Roots Dance Company, and Call It Art. Lacey is a youth faculty member at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, ODC, HeART with LINES Community Program, and Ace Dance Academy.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Youth and School Programs

    Photography | © Hillary Goidell

  • Nora Heiber

    Nora Heiber

    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.

  • Courtney Henry

    Courtney Henry

    Courtney Henry, from West Palm Beach, Florida, began her training at Palm Beach Ballet Center. As a high school senior, Henry was a finalist in Youth American Grand Prix’s “Stars of Tomorrow” program in New York City. After graduating from A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, she returned to New York to attend Fordham University/The Ailey School, where she earned a B.F.A. in dance.  Henry has worked with choreographers including Francesca Harper, Troy Powell, Robert Moses, and Elisa Monte, and joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 2011. In 2013 Henry was honored with the Princess Grace Foundation – USA and Chris Hellman Dance awards.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | LINES Day Workshops, Summer Program

    Photography | © RJ Muna

  • Ryan Huber

    Ryan Huber

    Ryan Huber (he/him) is a multimedia artist with over a decade of experience providing musical and visual services for Bay Area dance and theater groups. He works at UC Berkeley and is a member of the San Francisco-based band, Battlehooch. In addition to music and video editing, he is passionate about yoga and biology.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dance for PD® at LINES

  • Erica Rose Jeffrey

    Erica Rose Jeffrey

    Dr Erica Rose Jeffrey believes in the power of movement connected to positive social change. A ‘dance activist’, she seeks to create positive ways of seeing, participating and collaboratingin, around, and through dance. Involved in multiple communities, she has worked internationally as a peacebuilder, facilitator, performer, educator, and arts leader. Erica Rose co-founded the Dance for Parkinson’s Australia program with David Leventhal in 2012.

    Erica Rose is the first Dance for PD® certified teaching artist in Australia. She holds a PhD in Creative Industries, focusing on Dance and Peacebuilding from Queensland University of Technology, a M.A. in International Relations-Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Queensland, and B.S. degrees in Dance and Mediation and Conflict Resolution from Indiana University.

    She is a Director of Dance for Parkinson’s Australia working in Partnership with Dance for PD®. Erica Rose has presented workshops with Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, the Sydney Opera House, The Australian Ballet, Ausdance, the Belconnen Arts Centre, and other organizations throughout Australia. Working with Dance for PD®, she is supporting the expansion of training and class opportunities in China, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Japan.

    Erica Rose is also a co-Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia, implementing and researching peacebuilding projects in the Asia and Pacific regions. Her research has included work in the Philippines, specifically in Mindanao, Fiji, Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), and the United States. As a Director of PaCSIA, she is currently engaged in community level peacebuilding projects, including many with arts and culture components in Australia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea. Her recent publication, Dancing through the dissonance: Creative movement and peacebuilding was published in 2020 in Manchester: Manchester University Press.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dance for PD® at LINES

  • ArVejon Jones

    ArVejon Jones

    To inquire about classes at LINES Dance Center with ArVejon Jones, send him an email.

    ArVejon Jones is from Compton, CA. He attended San Francisco State University where he majored in Dance and minored in Japanese. ArVejon has studied rigorously in many dance forms including Tap, Hip Hop, West African, Ballet, Jazz, Haitian Folklore, some AfroCuban Folklore, AfroBrazilian Folklore, and various Contemporary dance techniques (Horton, Limon, Release, and Graham). He has danced all over the US and Canada, and he studied in Brazil. In the Bay Area, he has been a student apprentice with ODC Dance SF and has worked professionally as a freelance artist with Copious Dance Theater, PUSH Dance, SOULSKIN Dance, and Sean Dorsey Dance, among others. He has been a featured Dancer in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2014) and recently was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Performance—Ensemble” for his work in 2017. In Boston, he performed throughout the Northeast with Prometheus Dance and Jean Appolon Expressions in addition to being contracted for 2 years as a Lead Teaching Artist for the Boston Ballet’s “Education and Outreach Initiative.” Currently, he is finishing a 20-city tour with Sean Dorsey Dance.

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  • ANNA JOY

    ANNA JOY

    Anna Joy was born and raised in Rochester, NY, where she began her training at Draper Center for Dance Education. She traveled to Trujillo, Peru, to perform in the Festival Internacional De Ballet Trujillo and attended competitions throughout the U.S. She spent summers at American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, The Royal Ballet School, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet.

    In 2019, Anna competed in Dance Prix De New York where she was offered a full scholarship by Cynthia Harvey to the Upper School at American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. She moved to New York, NY, to attend the school where she also participated in projects, including performing in New York Fashion Week. She graduated in 2023 and joined the Washington Ballet School as a Trainee from 2023–2024. Anna joined LINES Ballet in 2025.

    Photography: Anna Joy

  • Ben Juodvalkis

    Ben Juodvalkis

    Ben Juodvalkis composes original music for a variety of industries. He has created over 50 scores for dance companies across the United States. In addition to composing for film, museum installations, and theater, Ben works from his studio in San Francisco as well as on location with his mobile custom built electronic instruments.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dance for PD® at LINES

  • Maurya Kerr

    Maurya Kerr

    Maurya Kerr is a choreographer, educator, performer, and the artistic director of tinypistol, where her choreographic work has been honored by numerous awards, grants, and commissions. She was an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and completed her MFA through Hollins University in 2016, writing her thesis on people of color and their access to, or prohibition from, wonderment. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years and teaches extensively in their educational programs. She most recently performed in The Foundry’s ‘Deep South’ and BodyCartography Project’s ‘felt room’ at SFMOMA and the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Museum. In 2017 Maurya Kerr co-founded the tiny little get down, a quarterly dance party intended to defiantly and subversively fortify otherness through embodied joy and the power of the collective.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

    Photography | © Andrew Weeks

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