COMPANY ARTISTS
Tara Clark— trained at Ballet Hispanico, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Ballet Academy East in NYC. She holds a BA in Classical Ballet from the Hungarian Dance University. While training abroad, she danced repertory by Hans van Manen and Jacopo Godani, as well as perform in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She has attended summer intensives including SAB, ABT & Bolshoi Ballet. She has performed professionally, and in soloist roles, with Dances Patrelle.
Kouadio Davis— began his training with the Holbrook-Wade School of Dance. He also trained at New York State Summer School of the Arts with Daniel Ulbricht and Carolyn Adams, Alvin Ailey, Nutmeg Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Lines, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Springboard Danse Montreal. He won awards at Youth America Grand Prix in 2017 & 2018, and is a graduate of Ellison Ballet. Kouadio is a current member of Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Lindsey Donnell— began her training at La Petite Dance Studio and Midland Festival Ballet under Susan Clark. She is a cum laude graduate of Butler University, degrees in Dance-Arts Administration and Journalism. She has performed with the Nashville Ballet and is in her 11th season with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Her repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Ulysses Dove, Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, Geoffrey Holder, Donald Byrd, Dianne McIntyre, and Robert Garland.
Erin Ginn— began her ballet training with Karen Gibbons-Brown and later attended Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. She was a Junior Competitor at the 2002 International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi and began her professional dance career as an apprentice with the Cincinnati Ballet. Erin earned a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance from Indiana University. Erin has danced professionally with Rebecca Kelly Ballet, SENSEDANCE, Lydia Johnson Dance, Nomad Contemporary Ballet, Neglia Ballet, ViewPointe Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, and Columbia City Ballet. Erin is also a Certified Pilates Instructor.
Catherine Gurr— trained at the Barbara Sandonato School of Ballet and studied at the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, where she danced in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker with the company. She graduated from Elmhurst Ballet School in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet in the UK. She has attended summer programs at Boston Ballet School, The Royal Ballet School, The Royal Danish Ballet and Carolina Ballet. She has performed with Ballet West, Dances Patrelle, Neglia Ballet, and Lydia Johnson.
Carla Hernandez— joined the Teresa Carreno Ballet Company in 2018, rapidly ascending thru the ranks. In addition to corps de ballet parts, she was given soloist and principal roles such as Giselle Act II, Don Quixote and Corsaire Pas de Deux, and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. She has also performs professionally with the Connecticut Ballet.
Miku Hirayama— is from Yamaguchi, Japan. She began her dance training at the age of 4. She has trained with Y Dance Company in Kanagawa, Japan, and performed works by Kazuhiko Yoshimoto, Yumi Hariyama, Igal Perry, Richard Chen-See, Nicholas Palmquist, and Johannes Wieland, among others. A Peridance Certificate Program graduate, she's performed professionally with Nimbus 2 and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company.
Francis Lawrence— was born in Melbourne, Australia and studied with Lorraine Blackbourn before furthering his studies at the Australian Ballet School. He has danced with The Australian Ballet Company, New York Theatre Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. He has performed works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, Alvin Ailey, Ulysses Dove, and in productions of Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris, NYCC Encores! I Married an Angel, and The Wiz.
Mary Ann Massa— is a BFA in Dance Performance graduate from The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. While at Purchase, she had the opportunity to perform works by George Balanchine, Gregory Dawson, Michelle Thompson Ulerich, and a duet at the Kuan Du Arts Festival in Taiwan by Norbert De La Cruz III. She attended workshops & programs at Ballet X, San Francisco Conservatory, and Rock School, among others. She has performed professionally with New Jersey Ballet and Complexions.
Carlie Preskitt— began her dance training at Oklahoma City Ballet School before attending the University of Oklahoma on scholarship earning a BFA in Ballet Performance and BS in Neuroscience. After graduating, she joined Oklahoma City Ballet’s second company and was later promoted to apprentice. She has guested with Tulsa
Ballet, Central Oklahoma Dance Company, Hartel Dance Group, and Ballets with a Twist.
Molly Rumble— began her training at Virginia Ballet Theater, Ballet Virginia, and Virginia Beach Ballet Academy. She continued her dancing joining the Butler Ballet at Butler University performing works by notable choreographers such as Gerald Arpino and Patrick DeBana. She graduated cum laude with a BA in Dance Pedagogy. She has performed with City Ballet of San Diego, Twyla Tharp Dance, Ballet Surreal, as a guest artist with Neglia Ballet. Prague Festival Ballet, and as a corps of 60 swans in Derek Deane's Swan Lake at English National Ballet.
Jennelle Ohene-Agyei— began her classical ballet training at the Anne Hebard School of Ballet in Kingston, New York. She performed with Catskill Ballet Theatre for over 10 years. She is a two-time scholarship recipient of the American Academy of Ballet Summer Intensive and attended the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive in New York City. Jennelle is a graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, BA in Political Science and Chinese language and literature, and a Masters of Management Science in International Affairs.
Vanessa Salgado— is a graduate of the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University BFA Program at Lincoln Center, and spent summers at ABT, CPYB, and Lines Ballet. She has performed professionally with José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Buggé Ballet, Deborah Lohse's ad Hoc Ballet, Nejla Yatkin's NY2Dance, Darion Smith's Janusphere Dance Company, and the Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre. She has danced in works by Alvin Ailey, Max Luna Ill, Juanjo Arques, Amy Seiwert, Gabrielle Lamb, and Emery LeCrone. She has a certificate from The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has been an Associate for the Education Department at NY City Center. She is creator of Crafterina® a series of dance education books for families.
Deanna Beasom
Cassandra Coulas
Barton Cowperthwaite
Taeler Cyrus
Erik Debono
Laura DiOrio
Da’Von Doane
Matthew Donnell
Shoko Fujita
Ramon Gaitan
Dorrie Garland
Kaitlyn Gilliland
Duane Gosa
Josiah Guitian
Meredith Hinshaw
Virginia Horne
Alejandra Iannone
Justin Jo
FORMER ARTISTS
The CONTINUUM Community extends far beyond the above artists.
These are previous CONTINUUM artists.
Allison Jones
Ted Keener
Natalie Lambelet-Palacios
Kate Loh
Charles McCall
Milan Misko
Josep Maria Monreal
Haley Neisser
Nick Peregrino
Emily SoRelle Adams
Courtney Sauls
Kerry Shea
Kate Thompson
Shelby Traum
Matthew Uriniak
Eric Williams
Stephanie Wolf