2025 Staff
Ann Glaviano is a writer, dance-maker, DJ, and born-and-raised New Orleanian. Since 2013 Ann has directed the New Orleans-based performance project Known Mass, which is an ongoing collaboration between New Orleans dancers and artists in other disciplines, aesthetically and ethically motivated by devised-theatre and DIY performance traditions. Ann recruits professional dancers, the ultra-classically trained and the twenty-first-century contemporary weirdos, to perform alongside Ultimate Frisbee athletes and roller-derby bruisers; she invites musicians who are typically more oriented to the rock-club scene to create lush noisescapes for the dancers to inhabit. The resulting pieces tend to be preoccupied with community – how it’s built and how it’s dismantled – and foreground the fine line between the banal and the absurd, playing out with both humor and poignancy what the writer and dance-maker Deborah Hay calls “the full, the sensuous, and the completely unremarkable.” From 2013 to 2019 Ann has produced and directed 11 collaborative projects with local dancers, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists.
As a freelance dancer Ann has performed with the New Orleans Ballet Theatre and the New Orleans Opera Association, among many others. She has choreographed for Hulu’s television show The First, an episode directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang). Ann’s dance film 01_fieldrecording had its world premiere in January 2019 at Highways, an experimental performance art venue in Los Angeles, selected for the inaugural event of their MOTION CAPTURE series. In February 2019 she was an Associate Artist in Residence with the legendary Deborah Hay at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In March 2019 her solo work was presented at COAST DANCEfest in Ocean Springs. Most recently (September 2019) she performed in a dystopic faux-corporate durational art installation in Dresden, Germany.
A student of Karl Rogers and Eric Nordstrom, Ann hosts and guest-teaches contact improv classes and jams in New Orleans and beyond. She administered the (currently on hiatus) Vector Series of technique, improv, and phrasework classes for professional dancers through Known Mass.
Other contributions to the New Orleans dance community have included a writing and analysis project, NOLA Dance Reader, and Dance in NOLA, an online catalog of weekly classes, auditions, workshops, and other resources for local adult dancers that Ann maintained as a community service from June 2013-April 2015. She initiated the Contact Improv New Orleans group and volunteered as site editor for the New Orleans Dance Network in its inaugural year.
Hazuki Nabana is a versatile dancer, choreographer, freestyler, back dancer, and battle artist. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2013, she has trained extensively in Hip Hop, Waacking, Popping, House, and Locking at several renowned dance studios.
Her dynamic career includes performing at the Pasadena Rose Parade with Kool & the Gang, and collaborating with major brands such as Fitbit, Coach, and Adobe Stock. Hazuki choreographed for SLOW MO DESTRUCTO, a Japanese game show by Nerdist Industries, and has appeared in productions for National Geographic, America’s Got Talent, and Pride celebrations.
She has danced in numerous music videos, concerts, and live shows, and currently teaches Hip Hop at Salt Dance Studio—sharing her skills and passion with dancers of all levels and backgrounds.
Born and raised in Richmond, VA; At the age of 10 Brandon Penn began his dance training at the Pine Camp Cultural Arts Center where he studied with Annette Holt, Rodney Williams and Willie Hinton learning a variety of styles. He later enrolled into the School of Richmond Ballet where he studied under Igor Antanov, Malcolm Burn, and more.
After spending three years at the Richmond Ballet Mr. Penn was accepted as a trainee of the company whilst completing his senior year. After graduating, Brandon spent one year at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase College Conservatory for Dance, studying under Larry Clark, Taryn Russell, and Ted Kivitt and others. After spending a year at SUNY, Penn was offered a position with Atlanta Ballet 2.
After two years there, Brandon was offered a company position with the Columbia City Ballet. Later, after much experience and repertory under his belt, Brandon accepted a principal contract with the Fort Wayne Ballet getting the opportunity to dance the works of Gerald Arpino, Edward Sterling and many more. Since, he has taken upon a freelance career and guested from coast to coast. He would like to immensely thank his family for all of their love, support and words of wisdom.
Magnolia Machado has spent the past 8 years teaching and choreographing for young ballet and contemporary dancers, as well as performing in several freelance projects. Among them: Presenting Denver’s Summer Dance Festival, Between the Bones Dance Collective, and Meow Wolf.
She has also danced in work by Corina Kinnear for Johnson & Johnson Amsterdam, and performed at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles for the second time this year. Magnolia is currently captivated by Butoh and engaging in the practice under the guidance of Meshi Chavez. Though a lifelong performer, Magnolia dances for the purpose of celebration, rebellion, prayer, and connection—regardless of the form.
Cardin Chung is an LA-based artist whose work interweaves creative technology, dance, music, and visual art. Guided in his dance journey by Corina Kinnear, Cardin trained under NW Dance Project, and then studied under Franco Nieto at Open Space Dance. As a musician, Cardin studied classical piano under Karla Dudley and stepped into jazz music thanks to tap dancing in his youth. Now he’s a fourth-year student at the University of Southern California, pursuing a BFA in dance with minors in jazz piano and web development. Throughout his dance journey so far, he’s had the privilege of performing works by FLOCK, Ihsan Rustem, Roderick George, Bret Easterling, Layla Amis, Victor Rottier, and Lauren Edson.
Beyond the studio, video games played a defining role in his childhood, sparking an obsessive affinity for immersive experiences, unconventional story-telling, and creative coding. This foundation fuels his work—spanning wearable tech to interactive installations and performances—where he fuses movement, music, and technology to create experiences that couldn’t be told in any other way. He strives to build technology that de-centers technology, reawakening a sense of tactility and self-awareness.
Jeremy Dumont-Eton is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City as well as a member of the national Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. Upon graduating from college, he joined the international tour of West Side Story playing historic venues such as the Chatelet Opera House in Paris, the Esplanade on the Bay in Singapore and Tokyo's Bunkamura Theater, to name a few. While living in New York, he worked for Camp Broadway and toured the U.S. as a teaching artist for their summer tours. Having a background in arts education, Jeremy has overseen several musical theater programs including Park Cities Studios, the Dallas Academy of Music and Theater and served as Director of Education for Casa Manana in Fort Worth, TX. He is currently the director of the upper school theater department for Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue WA.
In addition to arts education, Jeremy is a renowned choreographer whose work has been seen at various theaters across the country. Select credits include: 42nd Street, Guys & Dolls (Bucks County Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center), West Side Story (North Carolina Theater), Spamalot, Jekyll & Hyde, Matilda (Casa Manana), A Winter's Tale (Shakespeare Dallas), Eugene Onegin (Dallas Opera), Much Ado About Nothing (Oklahoma City Rep)
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Michael Naffier is a Colorado-born artist on a mission to redefine and revolutionize the way music and dance are perceived together. Always somewhere between definable structures, his multi-medium approach to curation and facilitation carves out spaces that are accessible and empowering. His philosophy stems from the belief that all practices—whether creative or not—are deeply interconnected, and these connections can be further deepened through holistic embrace.
He graduated in 2023 from the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as a BFA dance major with a concentration in Choreography for Stage and Screen. There he received training in styles such as hip-hop, house, contemporary, ballet, jazz, and gaga; he studied under Sabela d. Grimes, Tiffany Bong, William Forsythe, Fiona Lummis, Jermaine Spivey, Dawn Stoppiello, Jennifer Lott, Bret Easterling, Dante Rose, and more.
Along the way, he discovered a love and passion for music composition, production and performance. Utilizing his unique perspective as a dancer and movement maker to inform his musical process, Michael has done commissioned work for choreographers, scored evening-length works, performed live for dance events and shows utilizing Ableton Live and MIDI instruments. He is currently developing a framework that gives dancers the tools and language to connect more deeply with music and themselves
Alexandra Lockhart, a dancer/choreographer and teacher originally from Colorado, earned her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, during which she also trained at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Australia. She has attended and performed at festivals throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Her work has been featured by NASA Sun Science, Gibney Dance Center, Chen Dance Center, Fiske Planetarium, Hudson River Museum, West End Theater, National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, Cal Poly, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Alexandra has been an artist-in-residence at Green Box Arts and was awarded an artist-in-residence position at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Most recently, she worked as an Art and Science Consultant with the Southwest Research Institute for the NASA PUNCH Mission.
Alexandra has partnered with outdoor companies such as Patagonia and prAna, and hosts outdoor community movement classes. She has been a guest teacher and lecturer at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Michigan, and University of Colorado Boulder.
Dan Dumont-Eton is a Choreographer, Artist, and Software Engineer. During his performance career, Dan was a company member of Nimbus Dance Works in New York, Evolving Doors Dance in Colorado, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Utah. Throughout his career, he had the pleasure of performing works by Daniel Charon, Sam Potts, Doug Varone, Alwin Nikolais, Angie Simmons, Raja Feather Kelly, Ann Carter, and many others.
As a dance teacher, he has taught dance to all ages and abilities across the United States. During his time in Ririe-Woodbury and thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, Dan was able to teach internationally in South Korea, Mongolia, and France. Performing mostly in Contemporary Dance companies, Dan also likes to incorporate release-technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Horton into his classes. His deep love for floor work and accessibility combine together to offer students from any background a chance to express themselves in their own voice and movement.
Dan grew up in Parker, Colorado and is excited to be returning to Parker Dance Academy as an Alumni for this intensive.
Steph Baer is a multihyphenate Los Angeles–based creative director and performer working at the intersection of movement, sound, design, and technology. With a BFA from the University of Iowa, Steph’s career has taken her across some of the world’s most iconic stages — from the storied halls of the Paris Opera Ballet under Uri Killian to the dark, immersive world of Sleep No More in New York City. Her fingerprint can be found across countless music videos, feature films, and television projects, where she has collaborated and performed with a fierce drive to push boundaries, spark emotion, and create lasting impact.
Over time, Steph’s creative journey has expanded beyond performance, evolving into directing global campaigns for brands like Starbucks, Roc Nation, Dolls Kill, TokiDoki, and Sony Pictures. At the height of her craft, Steph creates full sensory worlds — blending movement, custom visuals, soundscapes, technology, and design to stir the senses, spark connection, and leave a lasting imprint.
As a dance educator, Steph draws on her classical training and contemporary voice, and has taught at renowned institutions like Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, and top studios in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. She’s passionate about creating a safe space, using sharp emotional intelligence to help dancers break past technique and step into presence, vulnerability, and fearless artistry.
Signed with Go 2 Talent Agency in Los Angeles, Steph moves fluidly through movement, image, and sound — always chasing that charged edge where art stops behaving and starts breathing.
Past Staff
Other Previous Staff for Week of Dance
Amy McMurchie Choreography
Dan MontEaton Modern
Samantha Vastine Contemporary
Kira Lyn Musical Theatre
Nile Russel Partnering
Nicolle Ament Modern
Morgan Kuas Ballet/Yoga