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  • 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.

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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.

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  • 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

  • Alonzo King

    Alonzo King

    ALONZO KING has been called a visionary choreographer, who is altering the way we look and think about movement. King calls his works ‘thought structures’, created by the manipulation of energies that exist in matter through laws, which govern the shapes and movement directions of everything that exists. Named as a choreographer with ”astonishing originality” by the New York Times, Alonzo King LINES Ballet has been guided by his unique artistic vision since 1982. King has works in the repertories of the world’s leading ballet and modern companies and has collaborated with distinguished visual artists, musicians and composers across the globe.  His work has been recognized for its impact on the cultural fabric of the company’s home in San Francisco, as well as internationally by the dance world’s most prestigious institutions. Named a Master of Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005, King is the recipient of the NEA Choreographer’s Fellowship, the Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award, the US Artist Award in Dance, NY Bessie Award, and the National Dance Project’s Residency and Touring Awards. In 2015 he received the Doris Duke Artist Award in recognition of his ongoing contributions to the advancement of contemporary dance. Joining historic icons in the field, King was named one of America’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures” by the Dance Heritage Coalition. He is a former San Francisco commissioner, and a writer and lecturer on humanity and art. He holds an honorary Doctorate from Dominican University, California Institute of the Arts, and The Juilliard School. In 2024, he also received the Minyon Harlin Award from UCSF for his service to women and girls with HIV.

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  • Nicholas Korkos

    Nicholas Korkos

    Native San Franciscan Nicholas Korkos has performed with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Aszure Barton & Artists, the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Omaha, six times with the San Francisco Symphony, SF DanceWorks, Hubbard Street 2, Loni Landon Dance Project, Zhukov Dance Theatre, Robert Moses’ KIN, project agora, tinypistol, and has developed new work with Sonya Tayeh, Josh Prince and Reed Luplau, respectively. In addition to performing, Korkos teaches at the LINES Ballet Education programs, Marymount Manhattan College, Gibney Dance, Peridance Center, Steps on Broadway, and has taught company classes for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Gibney Company, Bodytraffic, and San Francisco Danceworks. In 2021 he conceived, directed, choreographed, performed in, and crowdfunded for the dance film Being Alive, a Dance. Korkos was recently featured as one of two dancers navigating life and love in the James Kinney/Pierre Marais documentary short Bound by a Thread.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican, Summer Program

    Photography | © Patrick Lupinski

  • Marlayna Locklear

    Marlayna Locklear

    Marlayna Locklear hails from Milwaukee, WI. She began her training at the age of 12 at City Ballet Theatre and went on to graduate from Milwaukee High School of the Arts and University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA with a BFA in Ballet and Jazz. Marlayna was one of the founding members of The Milwaukee Dance Connection and has gone on to dance with Eleone Dance Theatre, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, Owen Cox Dance group, NuWorld Contemporary Danse Theatre, Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company where she served as the company Jazz and Contemporary instructor as well as Resident Choreographer for DCDC II.

    Marlayna is a freelance artist and teaches and choreographs at Universities around the nation.

  • MARUSYA MADUBUKO

    MARUSYA MADUBUKO

    Originally from New York, NY, Marusya Madubuko began her pre-professional training at age 15 with Premiere Division Ballet under the tutelage of Nadege Hottier. In 2019, Madubuko competed at the Royal Grand Prix in Italy, winning second place for her contemporary and classical solo. She has trained with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, the Royal Ballet School, and at San Francisco Ballet School where she had the opportunity to dance repertoire including Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker and Cinderella, as well as George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2021, she participated in BalletUnleashed’s first creative project “Switchback”, working with choreographer Cathy Marston to create a solo. Madubuko joined LINES Ballet in 2021.

    Photography: Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Dancer: Marusya Madubuko | © RJ Muna

  • Kathy Mata

    Kathy Mata

    To register for classes at LINES Dance Center with Kathy Mata, visit kathymataballet.org.

    Kathy Mata trained with Ms. Tatiana Svetlanova of the School of Russian Ballet, Mr. Alan Howard of the Academy of Ballet, The Royal Academy of Dancing, and others. She was a member of the California Imperial Ballet, Pacific Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet. Ms. Mata has taught adult dancers since 1985, and she has taught at LINES Dance Center in San Francisco since 1995, specializing in adult ballet. Kathy Mata Ballet was created in 1988 and has been showcasing original works synthesizing contemporary and classical dance forms since. Her company often incorporates multi-cultural dances and music, including gospel, Afro-Cuban, Japanese, Brazilian, Chinese, and modern dance, with classical ballet.

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  • Catalina O’Connor

    Catalina O’Connor

    Catalina O’Connor is a dancer and teaching artist based in the Bay Area. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2019 where she studied Dance, Hispanic Literature, and Art History. Catalina was an assistant teaching artist for Jia Wu’s AAIACE (American Alliance of International Arts, Culture, and Education) inaugural Summer camp in Suzhou, China in Summer 2019. She is currently an instructor at Ace Dance Academy and subbing classes for the Shawl Anderson Youth Program. She is a member of Davalos Dance Company and has performed their work in Panicale, Italy and around the Bay Area. Catalina has also collaborated with Kaveri Seth, Hailey Yaffee and Andrew Merrell & Randee Paufve. She is excited to join the HeART with LINES program as an assistant teaching artist and hopes to continue learning from her colleagues and students.

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