Christine Betsill Restrepo is a native to the Carolinas. She received a bachelors in vocal performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Christine has danced throughout the Midwest for Linda Lehovec and Dancers, Glass House Dances, Wally Cordona, Barking Dog Dance Co, and RTG Dance. She is a founding member/choreographer for Anna Sapozhnikov‘s Moyamo Dance and the co-founder/artistic director for the Thread Meddle Outfit. Mrs. Betsill Restrepo was on faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College from 2004-2007. This fall, she will be pursuing her MFA in choreography at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Johannah Wininsky is from Sharon, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was the honored recipient of the Vannie L. Shiery Award for excellence in choreography and performance. She has worked with the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre as Artistic Director and choreographer and has danced for James Hansen‘s Dance Assemblage, NYC, Dance Alloy, Pittsburgh and RTG Dance, Linda Lehovec and Dancers, and Glass House Dance, Chicago. She is the co-founder/artistic director of Thread Meddle Outfit and a founding member/choreographer for Moyamo Dance. She currently teaches dance at New Trier High School in Winnetka IL.

Anna Sapozhnikov is the founder and artistic director of MOYAMO DANCE, a company featuring many dancers and choreographers from the Chicago land area and the Midwest. She has served on dance faculty at the Youth Performing Arts High School in Louisville and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for the 2005–2006 school year. Her choreography has been produced in various venues throughout Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado, and Kentucky. Anna has received numerous grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, who found her work to be “stunning, impressive, and skillful." Anna will be teaching Modern Technique and Dance History at the Dance Center of Columbia College in the fall.

Julie Rudder has a BA in psychology from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a BFA in sculpture from University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is currently a MFA candidate in art theory and practice at Northwestern University

Alicia Warren has a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois. While at UIUC she performed in numerous works, including a re-staging Lar Lubovitch‘s “North Star.” She was the recipient of the 2002 Talent Student Award because of her dedication and enthusiasm for dance. Alicia has been teaching at the Paula Aubrey School of Dance since 2004. She also was artistic director of the Junior Kankakee Kompany. Alicia made her professional performance debut in 2005 with Mordine and Company. Alicia is currently teaches dance at ARCC Ballet & Dance.

Allisa-Zee Hartmann received her BA in Dance and Theater Arts from Beloit College in 2004. During her Program she had the opportunity to debut a variety of choreographic works, two of which were adjudicated at ACDFA and one (“Get In The Ring”) that was invited to the National festival in Washington D.C in 2004 as a runner-up. She also traveled to Moscow, Russia as a soloist to perform in a national competition, for which her group won the grand prix. Since 2004 she has danced in Chicago with Perceptual Motion Inc., RTG Dance, ReBound Dance, Adler Danztheater Project and many independent choreographers. She is currently dancing for ecnDanceworks, The Space/Movement Project and Thread Meddle Outfit, as well as slowly building her own repertoire of dances. Zee is also an experienced costume designer who works specifically with modern dance choreographers.

Andrea Fenwick-Trench graduated with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.F.A. degree in Dance. Before attending college, Andrea graduated from The Youth Performing Arts High School in Louisville, Kentucky where she trained intensively in modern, ballet, and jazz dance. Andrea has performed with Linda Lehovec & Dancers and Moyamo Dance Company. She has taught dance throughout Illinois, Kentucky, and New York since 1998. Currently, Andrea teaches children classes in modern, creative dance, ballet, jazz, and tap. She is the Artistic Director of Elite Dance Academy in Homer Glen, and is an assistant preschool teacher at the Welcome Place Preschool located in Lockport, Illinois.

Angelica Palomo started out with Mexican Folkloric dance at the age of 4. Since then she has learned other cultural styles of dance such as cumbias, salsa, freestyle, ballet, African, hip hop, & modern. She has just received her B.A. from Columbia College in dance and will further her education with a certification in Pilates and yoga.

Melissa Schleicher-Sanchez hails from the small midwestern city of Freeport, Illinois where she began her training in jazz and tap dance at the tender age of four. By 12, Melissa had discovered the worlds of modern dance and ballet. She became a member of New Expressions Dance Theater under the direction of Jill Johnson where she remained until the age of 18. As an undergraduate in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign‘s Department of Dance, Mrs. Schleicher-Sanchez performed in the works of faculty members Elizabeth Johnson, Linda Lehovec, Luc Vanier, and Renee Wadleigh as well as works by Mark Morris, Kraig “Bopi" Patterson and Twyla Tharp. In addition to performing, Melissa loves to choreograph and used her talents to produce two pieces for performance in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and an evening-length piece produced at the Armory Free Theater in Champaign, IL. She relocated to Chicago in 2004 and made her debut in the city‘s dance scene in January 2006 as part of Thread Meddle Outfit in Rebound Dance‘s Breaking Ground.