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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To inquire about classes at LINES Dance Center with Sally Miramon, send her an email.

Sally Miramon was trained at the University of Utah and has over twenty-five years of ballet training and over ten years of ethnic dance training. She has trained and taught with Ratimir Antic Exq., M. La Nova, Ron Guidi, and Yehuda Maor. She has performed with the Utah Festival Ballet, Theatre Ballet of San Francisco, Pacific Dance Theatre, Pepper Smith’s Arabesque, Amorfia, and Kathy’s Dance Inspirations. Her dance experience includes being an assistant director, ballet mistress, choreographer, and costume designer.

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Born and raised in New York, Dexandro Montalvo is a San Francisco based director, choreographer, dancer, and dance educator. A professional dancer with Robert Moses’ Kin (RMK) and various other companies for over six seasons, his choreographic commissions include works for RMK, Liss Fain Dance Company, LINES Ballet’s Training and Summer Programs, The Black Eyed Peas, DanceWorks Chicago, MINI (USA), Mini Amp Live, SF Ballet School, Concept o4, Dance Mission’s Dance Brigade, Sleepy Hollow Performing Arts Center, Cardinal Ballet, University of SF Dance Ensemble, Marin School of the Arts, & the ODC Dance Jam. Dexandro and his choreography have appeared on the MTV, BET, Telemundo, and Fox networks. He is a past Artistic Director of the Dance Theatre of San Francisco (in his tenure DTSF won two of the four Isadora Duncan award nominations including “Outstanding Choreography” for his ballet, “Pent”). Additionally, he was awarded a 2019 Saint Louis Inner Circle Award for “Such Sweet Thunder”, won an Izzie Award for his choreography in “Art Behind Bars” in 2014, and was nominated for another with “Impluse” in 2015 (RMK commission).

As a dance educator, Dexandro currently teaches at SF Ballet, USF, Dominican University of California (LINES Ballet BFA Program), LINES Ballet Training Program, and ODC Dance Commons. Dexandro also serves as Assistant Director and Rehearsal Master of ODC’s pre-professional teen company. He has also taught at many other schools including Stanford University, SUNY Purchase College, and Sleepy Hollow Performing Arts Center. Dexandro holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College.

Learn more at DexandroMontalvo.com

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Guggenheim Award winner Charles Moulton began his career dancing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1973–1976. He created and set works on the Joffrey Ballet, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project and many other dance companies in the US and abroad. He won 1989 Dorothy Chandler Arts Achievement Award and received support for his work from the NEA, NYSCA, The Jerome Foundation, and New Music USA. Moulton directed many theater and opera productions and created numerous works for film and television, including choreography for 2,000 dancers in the Matrix Reloaded.

Charles Moulton is a founding co-director of Performance Space 122 in downtown Manhattan and is widely regarded for his signature work Ball Passing, in which large groups work together to solve a living puzzle. Over its more than 40 year history, Ball Passing emerged as a powerful tool for learning and change for community centers, corporations, hospitals, management teams, performing arts organizations, and those with special physical and emotional needs. Moulton lives in Oakland, CA and is the co-artistic director of Garrett + Moulton Productions with choreographer Janice Garrett.

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Photography | © Charles Moulton

Laura O’Malley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and trained on full scholarship at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. She has danced as a soloist with Stuttgart Ballet and Dutch National Ballet. Among the leading dramatic roles performed by O’Malley were Giselle in Giselle, the Sylph in La Sylphide, Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin, Lulu in Christian Spuck’s Lulu, and Olympia in John Neumier’s Lady of the Camelias.

Falling in love with self-expression and contemporary dance, O’Malley later danced for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and SFDanceworks. She created works with many contemporary choreographers and performed leading roles in notable pieces from William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Wayne McGregor, Jorma Elo, Marco Goecke, Alonzo King, Hans Van Manen, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Azure Barton, Nacho Duato, Alejandro Cerrudo, and Danielle Rowe.

O’Malley co-directed SFDanceworks from 2019–2021 and has choreographed for various dance films, LINES Ballet’s education programs, Berkeley Ballet Theater, American Ballet Theater’s choreographic incubator, and SFDanceworks. She rejoined LINES Ballet as Ballet Master from 2021 to 2022.

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Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Laura O’Malley | © RJ Muna

Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a choreographer and director from the Berkshires, Massachusetts. She is based in San Francisco where she is the Associate Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer, and company dancer with Post:ballet. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School (with the Artist as Citizen Award). She has received commissions from Post:ballet, LINES Ballet Training Program, The Juilliard School, and Metropolis Ensemble. She is currently in process for an evening length immersive theater show with Post:ballet entitled Magma as artist-in-residence at the Midway. Moscelyne’s film say i am you was recently selected for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Dance Camera West.

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Photography: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison | © Kristie Kahns

Anne-René is a modern dancer, choreographer, Alexander Technique teacher, yoga instructor and the founder and artist-director of the dance company Sculpted Motion. Anne-René received her undergraduate degree in dance from Point Park University, her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Alexander certification from The American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York City. She re-located to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009 after 20 years in New York City. She is currently on faculty for all of LINES Ballet’s education programs, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Square One Yoga and she maintains a private Alexander practice. She continues to travels as a guest artist to universities across the country.

In New York she had the pleasure of assisting Jane Kosminsky at The Juilliard School for ten years in the dance division and at national conventions and in the making of her DVD; For Dancers; The Alexander Technique. Anne-René was on the faculty at DNA (Dance Space Center), Dancewave, Mark Morris Dance Center and she has been a guest teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, Long Island University/Brooklyn, Barnard College, The Next Stage Project, Joffrey Jazz Summer Intensive, Mills College, San Francisco State University, Penn State, Bucknell University, Hope College and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

Her work has been performed at the Cowell Theater, McKenna Theater, Z-Space, ODC Commons, Mint Plaza, ChoreoProject, Dance New Amsterdam, Kumbel Theater, City Center Studios, Makor Theater, Evolving Arts Theater, Mainstage Theater, Discovery World and Knickerbocker Theater.

Anne-René’s approach to teaching contemporary/modern dance and her creative process integrates the concepts of the Alexander Technique. The dancer is encouraged to identify and change inefficient habitual patterns in order to access resiliency, expansion, risk taking and the freedom to explore the range of motion and expression in the body. The dancer will gain clarity, efficiency, softness, strength and truth in movement, breath and performance quality. Sculpted Motion creates choreographic works that stimulate the viewer viscerally, emotionally and kinesthetically by using movement containing strong circular shapes, organic undertones and rich details with an athletic and sensuous aesthetic.

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Jayla Powell grew up in Southern California and began dancing at the age of three. She spent four years attending Temecula Valley High School where she continued to advance in dance education and expression. Her dance evolution began to take shape while teaching and growing at Temecula Dance Company. Jayla attends San Francisco State University, where she studies Childhood Development with aspirations to help children develop using various modalities, including movement.

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Photography: Alexia Shea

Tatum Quiñónez began her training at Master Ballet Academy in Phoenix, Arizona. She then continued her training at Ballet West Academy and the BWA trainee program. She spent her summers at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet West, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Quiñónez then joined Oregon Ballet Theatre’s second company, OBT2, in 2019. She has performed works by George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Willam Christensen, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell, James Canfield, and LeeWei Chao. Quiñónez joined LINES Ballet in 2021.

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Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Tatum Quiñónez | © RJ Muna

Joe Rayhbuck is an accompanist, performer, and producer specializing in drums and percussion. For the first twelve years of his life he studied traditional tribal drums and rhythms in Zaire, Africa. After relocating to California, Joe was an active participant in the California Baptist University Choir and Orchestra, where his live and studio experience included more than 8 albums and 10 national tours. His professional career has included tours in over 30 states with 4 albums reaching the Top 10 Americana and Folk radio charts. Other tour performances and discography include; Soapbox Symphony (Nationwide), Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours (Nationwide), Sona Mohapatra (Hayward, CA), Jack Wilson and the Wife Stealers (Seattle, WA), Matthew Steward (San Francisco, CA), and VOLCANO (Los Angeles, CA).

Joe also spends his time seeking other gifted musicians and collaboration through his own production studio company Fat Coda Studios. Currently, Joe is exploring the relationship between music and dance. His expertise now extends into the modern and ballet dance community, were he regularly accompanies dance classes at City College of San Francisco, Mills College, LINES Ballet Center, and ODC. In addition, his work has been commissioned by several dance companies in the Bay Area including Underdog Dance, Wax Poet(s) and Mona Khan Dance Co. Joe is always looking forward to new opportunities of collaboration, performance and growth.

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