Contemporary

Sabra Johnson began her training in gymnastics at age 4 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. At age 16 she attended Dance Impressions in Bountiful, Utah where she trained for two years in Ballet and Jazz. She spent a year in Las Vegas, Nevada where she danced and taught at The Dance Zone training in Ballet, Jazz, and Contemporary before moving to New York City.  Soon after moving she became a contestant on the Fox Reality Show Season 3 So You Think You Can Dance, and became the first female winner.

Katherine Roarty holds a BFA in Dance and Business from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Katherine's choreography credits include: We Are The Tigers (Off-Broadway), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Assistant Choreographer), Shaken Not Stirred, GMA Icona Pop, Littlest Christmas Tree (Assistant Director/Choreo). She is a co-founding member of MinuteZero, an immersive theater company in NYC.

Native New Yorker Ani Taj is a choreographer, performer, teaching artist, music-head, and founder of The Dance Cartel. Ani has choreographed contemporary musicals, plays, concerts, music videos, art parties, flash mobs, and more. She is fueled by her research trips to Brazil and loves to make dances inspired by Carnaval.

Neil Haskell is a bona fide triple threat, who has mastered all levels of performance from singing, dancing, and acting. He truly lives up to the title of all-star on Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance.

Caroline Lewis-Jones, from South Carolina, has been dancing for over 28 years. At the age of 18, she moved to New York City where she performed for six years. Her credits include the VMA’s with NSYNC, the Latin Grammy Awards, WNBA National Commercial, a French Energy Commercial, Disney Industrials, Britany Spears and Madonna Me Against the Music video, MTV’s Body Rock Fitness Video, and more. 

Albert Blaise Cattafi has been dancing since the age of 5, thanks to his sister Eléna, and since that time has established himself as a fine young artist. His training includes the renowned faculties of both The Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and Kelly Allen's For Dancer's Only in New Jersey. 

Mark Caserta, a native of Philadelphia, began his training at the Jason Douglas Dance Academy, where he studied tap, hip-hop, and acrobatics. He furthered his training at the High School for Creative and Performing Arts and The Ailey School, on Fellowship Scholarship. Here he studied Horton, Graham, ballet, jazz, hip-hop and African dance. He has also trained at Philadanco and Complexions Contemporary Ballet summer intensives.

Mackenzie Martin, an Oklahoma native, is a working dancer, teacher, and choreographer in Los Angeles. Her professional credits include music videos, back up dancing and performances with Missy Elliot, Polica, Sharaya; for Sephora, Ceasar’s Palace, and LA’s Choreographers Carnival; recording artists Hybrid Digital, Dez Cleo and Dario Benitez, and rap artist Oh Blimey.

Jaclyn Walsh named "25 to Watch" in 2015 by Dance Magazine, trained at the Walnut Hill School and received her BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of the Tisch Achievement Scholarship in Dance. Jaclyn has been a dancer in Keigwin + Company since 2011, performing in prestigious venues across the world, from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Tessandra Chavez began training in dance at the age of 5, choreographing at 11, and started her dance company, Unity Dance Ensemble, at the age of 15. Since then, Tessandra has gone on to achieve several choreography awards, including the 2004 Jazz Dance World Congress Silver Leo for Excellence in Choreography.