Collaborators (Past & Present)

HANNAH ALBIN (She/They), BFA University of California, Irvine, is a vibrant performer and choreographer inspired by the intersection of dance, philosophy, and the human condition. She’s had the opportunity to train under Dante Puleio, Kathryn Alter, Lar Lubovitch, Peter Stathas, Jaqculyn Buglisi, and Dr. S. Ama Wray. While a trainee of the Limón Dance Company they performed solo roles in Missa Brevis and Dances for Isadora. She then collaborated in multiple works for the Next Festival of Emerging Artists with Tashara Gavin-Moorehead and Salt Link Festival with Lindsey Matheis and Joshua Manculich. Hannah’s choreography has been awarded by the Medici Circle for her research in the gender binary and creating living wages for dancers. Their work has been shown through Putnam County Dance Project, WAXWorks, and Choreography on the Edge. They now perform with the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company and the Megan Flynn Dance Company while working as a freelance choreographer and dance educator. Hannah loves to create dance through improvisation, joy, and collaboration.

ELIZABETH JUNE BERGMAN is a dancer, dancemaker, scholar, and educator based in Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from Temple University, an MFA from The University of Iowa, and a BA from DeSales University. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College, and previously served on the faculty of The University of Iowa, Temple University, and Bryn Mawr College. Bergman is also a 500-hour certified yoga instructor and has taught a range of movement styles to a diverse range of ages. Her creative work takes the form of solo performance, dance scholarship, dance films, and collaboration with other dance-makers and artists and has been presented nationally and internationally. Bergman has offered master classes and choreographed dances in collaboration with The Collective (Baltimore), tbd. Dance Collective (Omaha), and students at Creighton University (Omaha). Her screendance work has been shown in dance film festivals and on Iowa Public Television. As a dancer, Bergman has performed in the work of many choreographers including Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Armando Duarte, Eloy Barragan, Deanna Carter, Joanna Rosenthal-Read, Lynn Bowman, Rosy Simas, April Sellers, Amy Lynne Barr, Analia Alegre-Femenias, Emily Gastineau, Tori Lawrence, Nichol Mason-Lazenby, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, and Christina Eltvedt. She began working with Megan Flynn Dance Company in spring 2020. http://www.elizabethjunebergman.com.

SARAH BRAVIAK REID began her professional dance training at the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts High School in Denville, NJ. While in school Sarah interned with the Freespace Dance Company and project:Smith making her NYC debut with Freespace 2 in 2011. In 2013, Sarah studied at the Florence University of the Arts in Italy where she had the to choreograph and perform site-specific, solo works alongside the Florence Dance Company. Sarah continued her education at Muhlenberg College double majoring in Dance (Education) and Psychology where she taught modern and jazz classes at the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center, and was a member of DanceMax Moving Company under the direction of Teresa VanDenend Sorge. Sarah has also studied with Pilobolus Dance Theatre taking their summer workshop series in 2014. Sarah has performed in the works of Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Ruth Clark, Karen Dearborn, Olase Freeman, Lynn Grossman, Randy James, Lisa Peluso, Jeffrey Peterson, Donna Scro, Blythe Smith, Nicole Smith, and Meredith Stapleton. After graduating from Muhlenberg in January 2015, Sarah moved to Philadelphia to pursue her work as a dance artist and teacher.

MEREDITH CLEMONS an Oneonta, NY native, is an Environmental Health Scientist, who holds a Masters in Public Health from GWU. As a performing artist, she is interested in exploring interdisciplinary creation. Her training began with Donna Decker at the Decker School of Ballet. She received her B.A. in Dance with a performance concentration from Muhlenberg College and has studied at the American Dance Festival (North Carolina),  Impulstanz (Vienna), and Accademia dell'arte (Italy). Meredith has performed repertory by Bill T. Jones, Sidra Bell, Ohad Naharin, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Lar Lubovitch.  Her original creative collaborations with Meredith Stapleton have been performed in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA.  In New York, Meredith has had the pleasure of working with HiveWild, kaycruddco, Megan Flynn Dance Company, and The Equus Projects.

ANNIE CORRAO is a graduate of Muhlenberg College, where she earned her BA in Dance. While at Muhlenberg, Annie had the opportunity to train and perform under Karen Dearborn, Megan Flynn, Jessica Lang, Trinette Singleton, and Heidi Cruz-Austen. Since graduating Annie has performed with New York based choreographers in Festivals at Arts on Site, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and with Amanda Selwyn Dance Company. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, Annie worked in Westchester, NY, where she taught dance and children's theater. Annie earned her MFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA

AMELIA ROSE ESTRADA is a Boston- based performing artist, educator, and writer, currently pursuing a PhD at Tufts University. Amelia makes work with her artistic partner, Elle Jansen, under the company name MELLE. She grew up outside of Boston where she attended the Cambridge School of Weston and had the pleasure of studying dance under Nailah Randell-Bellinger and Martha Armstrong-Gray. She moved to Pennsylvania to attend Swarthmore College where she received an honors B.A. in Dance and Classical Studies. In Philadelphia, she performed with Megan Flynn Dance Company, Timbeque, and Brian Sanders' JUNK. In 2017 she had the opportunity to travel to Cuba and study for two weeks with Danza Contemporanea de Cuba where she was certified to teach Tecnica Cubana. She is a writer for Thinking Dance, a master class/substitute instructor for the Swarthmore College Dance Department, and a teaching artist with BalletX's Dance Exchange.

MARCIE MAMURA is an artist, educator, and collaborator based in Philadelphia, and works with The Naked Stark. She currently engages the intersections of health, humanities and the arts as Humanities Education Coordinator at Thomas Jefferson University. She earned a BA in Theatre/Dance from Kansas State University and an MFA in Dance from the University of Oregon. Marcie’s work as a teaching artist in Philadelphia communities includes Girard College-Dream Camp, Asian Arts Initiative, CHI Movement Arts Center, Camp Sojourner Girls’ Leadership Camp, Art Sanctuary/Opera Philadelphia, and ArtWell. She is part of the Director’s Team for Camp Sojourner Girls’ Leadership Camp, a year round program focused on activism and youth development for Philadelphia girls. Previously, Marcie was a Lecturer in Dance at Muhlenberg College and an Education Mentor for the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center (MCDC). She also worked as Adjunct Faculty in Dance at Drexel University where she contributed as Assistant Director for the FreshDance Drexel Dance Ensemble. As a freelance artist, she’s performed works by artists Mina Estrada, Gabrielle Revlock, & Nicole Bindler. Her choreographic work has been presented in IL, MN, NC, and PA. She is a founding member of TRANSForm Dance collective http://transformdancecollective.blogspot.com/. Marcie is wildly curious about community practices, creative language intersections, and artful exchange.

KATRINA JULIETTE MUFFLEY was born in Imperial Beach, California, and received her classical ballet training at the Ballet Conservatory of Chula Vista under the direction of Paz Soriano. In 2012, she graduated with Magna Cum Laude, Latin Honors, and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts Honors Award from the University of California, Irvine obtaining a BFA in Dance (specializing in Performance) and a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior. Since moving to NYC in the fall of 2012, she has had the privilege of dancing for Mike Esperanza & BARE Dance Company, Ashely Stafford, Awakening Movement Dance Company and Philadelphia based choreographer, Megan Flynn. Katrina feels truly blessed to have a loving family who support, motivate, and inspire her life's endeavors.

MEREDITH STAPLETON  is a dance artist, scholar, educator, and birth doula. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa. She grew up in Harvard, MA training at the Acton School of Ballet and performing with Commonwealth Ballet Company.  In 2013, she graduated from Muhlenberg College as a Dance Major and Women's Studies minor.  In Spring 2012, Meredith studied in Arezzo, Italy at Accademia dell’Arte. She has attended many summer workshops, including Burklyn Ballet Theater, Alonzo King Lines School of Ballet, the Boston Conservatory, on scholarship with Summer Stages at Concord Academy, and Doug Varone & Dancers. Meredith has performed works by Corrie Cowart, Trinette Singleton, Meredith Rainey, Sean Curran, Teresa Fellion, The Bang Group, Heidi Cruz-Austin, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and  Jeffrey Peterson. Since moving to Philadelphia, Meredith has worked with DanceSpora, Nora Gibson Contemporary Ballet, Moth Dance Theater, DRIGGProductions, Evalina Carbonell, Sean Thomas Boyt, Kat Sullivan, The Naked Stark, and Antonia & Artists. She rehearses her own stage, site-specific, and film projects out of Headlong Studios and Mascher Space Co-op. Meredith has taught at Happy Feet Dance Studio, Concord Academy, Haddonfield School of Dance, Muhlenberg College, Koresh School of Dance, Philadelphia Dance Academy, and PlayArts.

TERESA VANDENEND SORGE, EdM MFA is a dancer and dance educator who recently moved to Cincinnati where she teaches dance at NKU and Miami Valley Ballet Theatre. Teresa is a 2023 recipient of an Arts Wave Catalyzing Impact Grant for her choreography showcase initiative Synergy Series with Rowan Salem. Teresa’s choreography and scholarship has been shared at multiple venues and in many community settings, including the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Mayo Clinic, Northern Kentucky University, National Guild for Community Arts Education, Arts and Literacy Conference at UPenn, National Dance Education Organization annual conference. Teresa is the founding Director of Koresh Kids Dance. An outreach initiative of Koresh Dance Company, Koresh Kids Dance serves nearly 500 Philadelphia public school children each week. For nearly a decade she was a full-time lecturer at Muhlenberg College in the department of Theatre and Dance specializing in dance education and developing a dance education laboratory. She remains a part time lecturer at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia using creative dance and choreographic practices to encourage empathy and kinesthetic awareness for medical students. Teresa received her EdM at Temple University and her MFA at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Teresa and Megan are long-time collaborators and recently co-produced “Mothering & Mourning” in the juried primary line-up for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.