Parsons Dance
Parsons Dance was founded in 1985 by Artistic Director David Parsons and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Howell Binkley. The company performs works selected from repertory created by Parsons and commissions new dances from established and emerging choreographers. Parsons Dance provides enriching experiences through education and outreach programs, post-show discussions, open rehearsals, studio showcases, video workshops, open company classes, summer workshops for pre-professional dancers and in-school workshops for public school students. All these activities are driven by the vision of Parsons, who combines his choreographic gifts and talent for training dancers with a real passion for the art form. @parsonsdance.

David Parsons (he/him)
David Parsons was raised in Kansas City and arrived in New York on a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey School. He then understudied with the Paul Taylor Dance Company before becoming a company principal dancer. After eight years, he began his choreographic career by setting work on the Taylor Company and such companies as the National Ballet of Canada, Batsheva Dance Company and the Paris Opera Ballet. He co-founded Parsons Dance in 1985. His work has been commissioned by American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and more. Parsons has received three Choreography Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment of the Arts; the Dance Magazine Award; a Howard Gilman Fellowship; and the Capezio Award. 

Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington (she/her)
Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington is the founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture and leader of The House of Balenciaga. Black trans femme Washington is also the creative director of Masterz At Work Dance Family. She creates highly visual work fusing street dance, street jazz, ballroom and hip-hop that is informed by her own experiences as a queer teenager who found refuge in dance. Her choreography has been featured at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Fire Island Dance Festival, Hudson Valley Dance Festival, Summerstage and Times Square’s Trans Day of Visibility.

Luke Biddinger (he/him)
Luke Biddinger was raised in Colorado. After moving to Pennsylvania at 14, he studied at Touch of Class Dance Studio. In NYC, he has trained at Steps on Broadway, Kanyok Arts Initiative and the New York City Dance Alliance, which honored him as its 2021 National Teen Outstanding Dancer.

Odin Brock (he/him)
Odin Brock was raised in Woodbridge, VA. He received his BFA from George Mason University’s School of Dance in 2024. While in college, he was an apprentice for Chamber Dance Project, the Washington, DC-based company devoted to partnering contemporary ballet with live music. This is Brock’s first season with Parsons Dance. 

Joseph Cyranski (he/him)
Joseph Cyranski began dancing at age 8 in his hometown of New Baltimore, MI, and went on to study at Marymount Manhattan College, where he received his BFA in 2020. He recently performed with Chicago-based company Giordano Dance. This is his second season with Parsons Dance. @joe_cyranski

Justine Delius (she/her)
Justine Delius is from a Paris suburb, where she trained in ballet and jazz before attending the Conservatory National of Paris in 2017. She appeared in Paris with MIXITY, the music hall cabaret sensation. In 2021, Delius arrived in New York to study at The Ailey School. This is her second season with Parsons Dance. @juju.dls

Emerson Earnshaw (he/him)
Emerson Earnshaw was raised in Cedar Hills, UT, where he trained at the Utah Conservatory of Performing Arts. He continued to train as a member of Brigham Young University’s Contemporary Dance Theatre and at the GibneyPRO Professional Certificate Program. This is his first season with Parsons Dance.

Megan Leigh Ziminski (she/her)
Megan Leigh Ziminski received a BFA in dance from the University of Arizona in 2019. During college, she attended intensives at Hubbard Street, Giordano Dance, the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company and the Rockettes. After graduation, she assumed the role of Rockette in the 2019 Radio City Christmas Spectacular. This is her fourth season with Parsons Dance. @megangarcia11

Joanne Hwang (she/her)
Joanne Hwang was raised in Sydney, Australia, before graduating from Point Park University with a BFA in dance and a minor in musical theater. She has continued to train with such companies as BODYTRAFFIC, Move NYC and The Pillow Project. This is Hwang’s second season with Parsons Dance. @joannehwang_

Téa Pérez (she/her)
Téa Pérez is from Dallas where she trained and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 2021, she graduated from The Ailey School/Fordham University with a BFA in dance. An understudy with Parsons Dance for one season, she was promoted to company dancer in 2022. @tea_perez

Luke Romanzi (he/him)
Luke Romanzi trained at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before joining Rock the Ballet, a contemporary ballet company, where he was featured on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness. In 2018, he was accepted into the Young Choreographer’s Festival and was designated a YoungArts finalist. This is his third season with Parsons Dance. @lukeromanzi

New Chamber Ballet
New Chamber Ballet believes that small is beautiful and expressive. Currently in its 21st season, the company is redefining the way audiences experience contemporary ballet and chamber music with up-close, in-the-round performances. Praised by The New York Times as “one of the small-scale delights of the New York Dance Scene,” New Chamber Ballet is noted for its groundbreaking collaborations with composers and musicians in bold, sculptural dances that draw equally from ballet and contemporary dance.

Founded by choreographer and composer Miro Magloire, the company has performed nationally from California to Massachusetts, and internationally from Germany to Guatemala. Its artistic home remains in its ongoing series in New York City. @newchamberballet

Miro Magloire (he/him)
Lauded as “refreshingly original” by Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times, Magloire is the founder and artistic director of New Chamber Ballet, for which he has created over 100 ballets in his signature sculpturesque style. Born in Munich, he started his career as a composer, studying with Mauricio Kagel, before moving to New York to pursue his dance career. He has also created works for the New York Choreographic Institute, the Sarasota Opera and the American Academy in Rome.

Nicole McGinnis (she/her)
Nicole McGinnis received her early dance training at Pasadena Dance Theatre and the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet in Los Angeles. In 2018, she joined Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s graduate program, where she had the opportunity to perform with both the company and the school in works by George Balanchine, Lew Christensen and Stacyee Pearl. She has been a member of New Chamber Ballet since 2021. @nicole_cait

Amber Neff (she/her)
Nominated by Pointe magazine as standout performance of 2022, Neff has been a member of New Chamber Ballet for 12 seasons. She performed featured roles for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Claudia Schreier & Company and Emery LeCrone DANCE, and was a member of Boston Ballet and Richmond Ballet. Neff received her training in New York at The Dance Design School, The HARID Conservatory and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre. @amberjneff

Reed Luplau (he/him)
Reed Luplau was born in Perth, Australia, and graduated from the Australian Ballet School. As a performer, Luplau’s credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and the original revival of Fiddler on the Roof. In television and film, Reed has appeared in Beauty, Fosse/Verdon, Halston, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Five Dances and Mao’s Last Dancer.

His choreography credits include Places, Please at Lincoln Center, Broadway Bares, Phish at Madison Square Garden, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Disney Cruise Line productions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Santa Fe Opera and Hudson Valley Dance Festival.

Reed has worked with prestigious companies such as The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and West Australian Ballet. He is currently developing When We Touch, a dance narrative set to music by LP and focused on the final week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. @reedluplau

Derek Ege (he/him)
Graduate of The Juilliard School. Dance: Trey McIntyre Project, Keigwin + Co, Zvidance, The Metropolitan Opera and The Lyric Opera of Chicago. Theater: national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Muny and Ogunquit Playhouse. @derek.ege

Alex Haquia (he/him)
Regional theater: Gatsby: An American Myth at American Repertory Theatre and Cats at Fulton Theatre. National tours: Rock the Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispánico. Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Ailey School/Fordham University. @alexhaquia

Gabriel Hyman (he/him)
Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and King Kong. National tour: Hamilton. TV/Live Performance: The 76th Tony Awards; Super Bowl LV Halftime Show with The Weeknd; Pose; Succession and The Gilded Age. Former dancer of Ailey II and The Metropolitan Opera. Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from The Ailey School/Fordham University. @gabehyman

Yusaku Komori (he/him)
Yusaku Komori began his dance training at five years old. Komori has performed in many productions and TV shows in Japan. Upon moving to New York City, he joined Ailey II, Bad Boys of Dance with Rasta Thomas and many other projects. He also worked alongside Hugh Jackman as a main circus character in the film The Greatest Showman and in the 2022 Ryan Reynolds film Spirited. @artofnouse.dance

Shota Sekiguchi (he/him)
Regional theater: Gatsby: An American Myth”  at American Repertory Theatre and Few Words: A Dance Cycle at A.C.T. of CT).  Sekiguchi has also worked with Capezio, Redken, Longchamp, The Bail Project and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Alvin Ailey graduate. @shota_sekiguchi_

Leggy Bones Physical Theater
Casey Howes and Jacob Warren are a Brooklyn-based physical theater duo. They met while dancing for the world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater, where they performed, taught and choreographed all over the world for the better part of a decade. They left Pilobolus in early 2020 and founded Leggy Bones Physical Theater, a new vessel for them to develop their unique brand of acrobatic partnering and visual storytelling. Shortly after, they debuted their first film We Were Apart, and over the following year released multiple award-winning dance films and music videos. Howes and Warren have choreographed and collaborated on a wide array of productions, ranging from site-specific immersive experiences to Hollywood films and everything in between. When they’re not working, rock climbing or juggling, Howes is probably crafting miniature creatures out of felt, and Warren is most likely training to be a ninja.

Casey Howes (she/her)
Born into a distinguished family of Los Angeles surf bums, Casey Bronwyn Howes forsook her sunshine and freckled destiny for a life of sweat, criticism and pliés. After graduating from SUNY Purchase, Howes moved to Brooklyn, New York, and joined Pilobolus Dance Theater, where she learned how to tell a story, harness the forces of light and shadow and defy gravity. In 2021, Howes helped create and starred in New York Times Critic’s Pick Endure: Run Woman Show, a site-specific immersive theater piece in Central Park. Howes is also half of Leggy Bones Physical Theater, a multi-disciplinary creative vessel she started with her partner who shall not be named here because this is Howes’ bio, and not his. Beyond that, Howes is a decorated competitive rock climber, is almost good at the antiquated art of felting and usually makes mean lemon squares. @regally_serene

Jake Warren (he/him)
Standing at 6 feet, 6 inches, Jacob Michael Warren excels at seeing over people’s heads in crowds and struggles in economy class on airplanes. He grew up playing soccer and saxophone, but spent most of his time trying to be a ninja – and really hasn’t let go of any of those influences. He is one half of Leggy Bones Physical Theater, one sixth of the Harmonica Lewinskies and one whole gentle giant, despite playing hulking, violent villains the majority of the time. When he’s not teaching, choreographing or performing, he’s probably shoveling noodles into his mouth, or trying to prove that gravity is a myth and youth is a lifestyle choice. @leggybones

The Verdon Fosse Legacy
The Verdon Fosse Legacy’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the artistic and intellectual property of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, including the copyrights in the dances and the trademark rights in the names Bob Fosse® and Fosse®. The Verdon Fosse Legacy wishes to foster and educate performers, directors and choreographers, as well as scholars and students interested in American film and musical theater. We partner with universities, dance studios, museums, libraries, publishing companies, film screenings and non profit organizations to honor the work of Verdon and Fosse. Our goal is to reconstruct Bob Fosse’s choreography with the original intent and integrity. The Verdon Fosse Legacy oversees the licensing of Bob Fosse’s work for non profit and for profit commercial use. @verdonfosselegacy

Bob Fosse (he/him)
Bob Fosse became, in 1973, the first director in history to win the Oscar, Tony and Emmy Awards in a single year for his spectacular triumphs in the film version of Cabaret, Broadway’s Pippin and the television special Liza with a Z.  Fosse won the first of his eight Tony Awards as choreographer for The Pajama Game, followed by Broadway credits as director and choreographer of Redhead, Little Me, the film and Broadway versions of Sweet Charity, Chicago and Dancin’. He also created the legendary choreography for Damn Yankees, New Girl in Town and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Fosse was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for Lenny and All That Jazz. Fosse’s writing credits include the Tony-nominated book for Chicago alongside Fred Ebb, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for All That Jazz with Robert Alan Arthur and the screenplay for Star 80. 

Tony d’Alelio (he/him)
Tony d’Alelio was last seen on Broadway in the revival of Gypsy, starring Audra McDonald. He made his Broadway debut in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. National tours include Hamilton (Samuel Seabury), Cats (Mungojerrie), Matilda the Musical (Michael Wormwood), Kinky Boots and Beauty and the Beast (LeFou). He has appeared on TV’s MTV Video Music Awards, Good Morning America, We’re Here and The Tamryn Hall Show. Off-Broadway credits include Atlantic Theatre Company’s This Ain’t No Disco. @tonydalelio

Mattie Love (she/her)
Originally from Utah, Mattie Love is a 2023 Chita Rivera Award winner for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway show. Her credits include Madonna’s The Celebration Tour, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Wicked and Radio CityChristmas Spectacular, plus TV’s Fosse/Verdon and New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square. @mattildalove_

Dario Natarelli (he/him)
Dario Natarelli is a New York-based performer, choreographer and dance educator specializing in tap dance. He was most recently seen in New York City Center’s 2025 Fall For Dance program as a soloist and co-choreographer with Michelle Dorrance. Broadway/Off-Broadway credits include Illinoise, three New York City Center Encores! productions  – Oliver!, Wonderful Town and The Tap Dance Kid and more. Other credits include Vail Dance Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, TV’s Maestro and SNL, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow and work with Jared Grimes, Justin Peck, Joshua Bergasse, Damian Woetzel, Debbie Allen, Lorin Latarro and more. Deepest thanks to his family, teachers and supporters, especially his late mentor, Robert L. Reed, who always said, “respect the dance.” Go In Rhythm. IG: @dario_natarelli

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company seeks to develop the next generation of ballet dancers, choreographers and audiences. The central mission of ABT Studio Company is to prepare its exceptionally promising dancers, ages 16 – 22, for careers in American Ballet Theatre’s main Company or other leading ballet companies worldwide. ABT Studio Company serves as the crucial vehicle for transitioning from student to professional performer. Nearly 85 percent of current American Ballet Theatre dancers are alumni of ABT Studio Company, including sixteen principal dancers and eleven soloists. Each season, ABT Studio Company commissions emerging and established choreographers to create new works on ABT Studio Company dancers, serving as a platform for new choreography. ABT Studio Company engages the broadest possible ballet audience by performing classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoire in a range of venues around the globe. @abtstudioco

Yannick Lebrun (he/him)
Yannick Lebrun began training in his native country of French Guiana at the Adaclam School under the guidance of Jeanine Verin. After graduating high school in 2004, he moved to New York City to study at The Ailey School as a scholarship student. Lebrun was a member of Ailey II and joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2008. Lebrun was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2011, and in 2013 France-Amérique magazine highlighted him as one of the “50 most talented French people in the United States.” In November 2016, Lebrun was a guest performer with The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. In 2019, he choreographed Saa Magni, his first work for Ailey II. For American Ballet Theater Studio Company he created Lora in 2021 and Human in 2024. He was a nominee for the 2024 UK Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for outstanding male modern performance in Dancing Spirit. @yannicklebrun

Kayla Mak (she/her)
Kayla Mak grew up in Rye Brook, New York, and is of Japanese, Chinese and Cuban descent. She trained at Westchester Dance Academy and Ballet Academy East before studying at The Juilliard School in New York City, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance in 2025, under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack and associate director Mario Alberto Zambrano. Mak was the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Award. Mak joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2024. @kaylamak10

Jon Lehrer Dance Company
Jon Lehrer Dance Company (JLDC) began in 2007 in Buffalo, NY, and has received critical acclaim nationally and internationally. Jon Lehrer moved the company to his hometown of New York City in 2019, where they have become a vibrant addition to the city’s dance community. Under Lehrer’s artistic direction, the company showcases his unique choreography and definitive style. His extensive background in both the modern and jazz dance idioms fosters choreography that is organic, athletic, artistic, entertaining and often humorous, reflecting human experiences.

Jon Lehrer Dance Company’s expressive style is based on three main elements of movement – circularity, ​three-dimensionality and momentum – which combine to create a form that is best described as “organically athletic.” With creativity, athleticism and the ability to make new and innovative modern and jazz dance accessible to all audiences, the company has made quite a name for themselves in the dance world. Striking the elusive balance between art and entertainment, Jon Lehrer Dance Company showcases a dynamic, fun and distinctive style which fuses jazz and modern dance, creating a true spectacle onstage which can be enjoyed by dance experts and novices alike.

Jon Lehrer Dance Company’s mission is to share and spread the joy of dance through performance, education, community engagement and artistic collaboration. With choreographic works by Lehrer, the company brings edge-of-your-seat excitement to audiences worldwide through a signature style of movement that is organic, athletic, artistic and accessible.

Jon Lehrer (he/him)
Jon Lehrer, raised in Queens, New York, took his very first dance class at age 19 at the University at Buffalo. While dating a dancer, Lehrer teased her about how easy it must be to get an A in a dance class. The girl dared Lehrer to try a beginning level modern dance class and his life was changed. Jon ultimately received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance.

As a professional, Jon has danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Paul Sanasardo, John Passafiume Dancers, in Merv Griffin’s “Funderful” in Atlantic City, NJ and in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. In 1997, Lehrer was hired by Giordano Dance Chicago, the world’s preeminent jazz dance company. After only three years he was promoted to rehearsal director, becoming associate director two years later. During his ten years with Giordano, Lehrer became the resident choreographer, creating seven original works on the company that received rave reviews all around the world.

Lehrer started his highly anticipated company in 2007 in Buffalo, NY, relocating the company to his home of New York City in 2019. Jon Lehrer Dance Company has already received critical acclaim nationally and internationally. Under his artistic direction, Jon Lehrer Dance Company showcases Lehrer’s unique choreography and embodies his definitive style. His extensive background in both the modern and jazz dance idioms fosters choreography that is organic, artistic, accessible and often humorous, reflecting life experience and the human condition.

Mahalia Brookes (she/her)
Originally from the US Virgin Islands and raised in Tampa, Florida. Brookes earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance at Marymount Manhattan College. She is currently a dancer with Jon Lehrer Dance Company, bringing passion, versatility and artistry to every performance while continuing to explore the power of movement and storytelling. @majesticmahalia

Cristiana Cavallo (she/her)
Cristiana Cavallo hails from Utica, New York. She graduated from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. Cavallo has danced with Jon Lehrer Dance Company since 2014, and is now the associate director. She is also the executive director of JUNTOS Collective. @cristianajoan

Kristen Hedberg (she/her)
Kristen Hedberg, originally from Richmond, Virginia, is a NYC-based dancer and writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Now in her fourth season with Jon Lehrer Dance Company, she also contributes to The Dance Enthusiast and works as a grant writer for Fran Kirmser LLC and Faustine Lavie Dance Project. @kristen.hedberg

Michael Miller (he/him)
Michael Miller, originally from Long Island, New York, graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance. He is currently in his fourth season with Jon Lehrer Dance Company and is the company’s rehearsal director. @michaellmillerr

Riccardo Passera (he/him)
Riccardo Passera is an Italian-born, New York-based dancer whose training spans Caribbean, ballet, modern and contemporary styles. A graduate of The Ailey School, Passera teaches with Notes in Motion’s Education Ensemble and is currently dancing with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company and Jon Lehrer Dance Company. @rickypasse

Austin Shaffer (he/him)
Austin Shaffer, originally from Columbus, Ohio, is an artist, performer and choreographer based in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from Slippery Rock University. Shaffer is currently in his first season with the Jon Lehrer Dance Company. @Austinshaffer4

Leah Suskind (she/her)
Leah Suskind graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance. She participated in the GibneyPro Pilot Program, and has attended summer programs at Jacob’s Pillow and Orsolina 28. After being an apprentice with Jon Lehrer Dance Company for two years, Suskind is in her third season as a company dancer. @leahsuskind

Mitchell Takeda (he/him)
Mitchell Takeda, originally from Tainan, Taiwan, is a performer based in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Ball State University. Takeda is currently in his second season with the Jon Lehrer Dance Company. @mitch_tak_45