Alekzeta Cantu (she/her)

Dancer

Alekzeta was born in San Antonio, Texas. She started her dance training as a flamenco dancer. Alekzeta then attended ballet summer intensives at Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Texas Ballet Theater, American Ballet Theater, Ballet Austin, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. 

She joined Alonzo King LINES as a trainee in 2020 and will be returning to the program next fall. 

Maggie Batterman (they/she)

Dancer

Maggie Batterman was born in Madison, WI. In 2016, they moved to Chicago to train at the Joffrey Academy of Dance until 2018, when they received a scholarship from Claire Bataille to study at the Lou Conte Dance Studio. Maggie has attended summer intensives at Oklahoma City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Academy, Arts Umbrella, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. In 2019 they joined the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, from which they will graduate this May.

Lexi Duff

Dancer

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Margarita Armas (she/her)

Choreographer

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Margarita Armas began her ballet training at Artistic Dance Center and Miami City Ballet School. In 2014, Margarita took a brief break from her ballet training to explore Modern and Contemporary with Marie-Louise Gaschler. She attended summer programs in Miami City Ballet School, American Ballet Theater, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. At age 15, Margarita was selected by Miami City Ballet to perform with the company’s 2015-2016 Season programs & MCB Tour to New York City and Chicago. Margarita was featured in the second season of the Teen Vogue’s Strictly Ballet Series. She was also the recipient of the Silver Award in the 2018 YoungArts Ballet Category. Margarita began to explore choreography for Miami City Ballet School’s Student Choreography Showcase. In 2019, during her second year as a Professional Student with Pacific Northwest Ballet, she choreographed at the Guggenheim in New York City for a collaboration with Dance Lab New York and the Joyce for "Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet”. Margarita is now pursuing a career as a freelance choreographer.

Lily McDonald (She/her)

Choreographer

Lily McDonald is from Quincy, California. She started her dance training at the age of three at a small local dance studio. At the age of twelve, Lily moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she trained as a competition dancer and attended many competitions from the years 2013-2017. In 2017, Lily fell into the world of concert dance along with modern and postmodern dance work. She continued training in that direction at the ODC Dance School in San Francisco from 2016-2019. Lily left in 2019 to attend the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program where she will be graduating from the program in May 2021. Lily has attended many summer programs over the years, including The Rock School for a Dance Education, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Lily is planning to move to London in the fall to receive her BA in Dance from London Contemporary Dance School in the Spring of 2024.

Josephine Shadle (she/her)

Dancer

Josephine started her ballet training at Pacific Northwest Ballet School at age 8. She is now a dancer in their professional division. She has attended summer intensives at Ballet Austin, San Fransisco Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theatre.

Kelsey Boyle (she/her)

Dancer

Kelsey began her journey with dance at the age of 13 when she started ballet. She took to the art of classical ballet immediately and immersed herself in the art form wholeheartedly. After graduating high school, she went on to dance with training programs and performed in company productions under Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, State Street Ballet, City Ballet of San Diego, and Carolina Ballet. After a period of self study and reflection, she realized that her true strengths lied in the art of contemporary dance, knowing that her personal mission was to infuse dance with strength and power rather than put that side of herself away to fit the classical ballet mold. She now dances with the Alonzo King Lines Ballet training program and will graduate in May of 2022, and is excited to see the future of contemporary dance unfold in front of her and play a role in its progression.

Joshua Shwartz (he/him)

Dancer

Joshua Schwartz was born in Portland, Oregon. He began his training at Portland Festival Ballet, then continued at Oregon Ballet Theatre. After attending Pacific Northwest Ballet’s summer intensive, he enrolled in their Professional Division program for two years. He then trained in San Francisco Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s summer programs. While in Pittsburgh, he created an original piece for their choreography workshop.

He is currently dancing as a Corps de Ballet member of Los Angeles Ballet. 

Ophelia Martin Weber (she/her)

Dancer

Starting ballet at 11 years old, Ophélia's dance journey began at Uptown Dance Center in Houston, TX. After attending her first summer program at Magnus Northwest Dance in 2013 her dance training moved her to Portland, OR where she continued to learn under the instruction of John Magnus for the following 2.5 years. Ophélia went on to dance at The Portland Ballet, Long Beach Ballet, and Northwest Classical Ballet for the remainder of her high school years. Within that time she also attended other summer programs such as Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory (2014), Long Beach Ballet (2016 and 2017), International Summer Ballet School in Dresden, Germany (2017) to name a few. After graduating high school, Ophélia participated in Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Pre-Professional Summer Program (2018) and joined PDX Contemporary Ballet mid-season as an apprentice in the spring of 2019 before returning to San Francisco as a trainee at Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Training Program.
She is currently wrapping up her final year at Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Training Program.

Annie Lester (she/her)

Choreographer

Annie Lester is from Baltimore, Maryland and started dancing in the Baltimore School for the Arts' TWIGS after school dance program. She trained from 2014-2017 at various local dance studios, including Midatlantic Center for the Performing Arts. From 2017-2019, she joined the Washington Ballet's Professional Training Program, and continued on to dance in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater's High School Full Time program for her senior year of high school.

Annie has attended summer programs with Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, and American Ballet Theater. She is currently dancing in LINES' Training Program.

Isa Arredondo (she/her)

Choreographer

Isa was raised in Wenatchee, Washington. She began her competitive dance training at her local studio, and began choreographing for musical theatre in 2016. She has choreographed for many staged musicals since. She is also a dance teacher through the non-profit Stage Kids, and teaches private lessons in the Wenatchee area. Isa plans to major in acting and pursue a career as a professional actress.

Aleigha Mayo

Dancer

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Ava Moses

Dancer

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Delci Syvertson (she/her)

Dancer

Delci grew up in Bellingham, Washington, beginning to dance at the age of three. She began to pursue ballet more seriously at Northwest Ballet Academy in Bellingham, before moving to Portland, Oregon to pursue ballet through The Portland Ballet’s Career Track Program.

She has had the privilege of attending intensives like Summer Dance Lab in Walla Walla, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Ga’aton Israel, and Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, which changed her entire perspective and approach to dance and research.

In May 2020, she graduated from Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance under Marissa Parmenter, Russell Clarke, Brian McGinnis, and Joy Davis. Every opportunity to perform is a privilege for her since graduation, and she is so excited to perform with Ancient Lakes this summer!

Victoria Coleman (she/her)

Dancer

Hailing from Sacramento, California, Victoria received the bulk of her classical training from the School of the Sacramento Ballet while spending her summers at intensives including Het Nationale Ballet (Dutch National Ballet), LINES Ballet, B12 Research or Die, Art OF, and Marin Dance Theatre. She recently graduated from the University of Utah with a BFA in Ballet and a BA in Communication. After a year of freelance work in Chicago, she is currently dancing with Alonzo King LINES Ballet as a trainee

Sarah Yasmine Marazzi-Saassoon (she/her)

Choreographer

Sarah Yasmine Marazzi-Sassoon is an American, Italian choreographer and a Junior at Barnard College of Columbia University where she is pursuing a self-designed major that combines Dance, Evolutionary Biology, and Literature. She was raised in Paris, France where she trained in ballet at the Académie Américaine de Danse de Paris from 2005-2015. She then moved to San Francisco where she trained at the San Francisco Academy of Ballet until 2018. She has attended several intensives including Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Ruth Page in Chicago on a full scholarship. Her work has been staged across the U.S., including at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre in New York City, and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. During the pandemic she has worked on creating two dance films. The first, commissioned by the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, was created entirely remotely and the second, featuring Chloe Brown and Luchian Munteanu, was rehearsed and filmed adhering to social distancing guidelines.

Camille Tokar Pavliska (she/her)

Choreographer

Camille Tokar Pavliska was born in Floresville, Texas. She trained at Ballet San Antonio Academy, Dance Center of San Antonio, and was a company member of San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet. Camille attended summer intensives at Houston Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, and National Choreography Intensive

After graduating high school she joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet as a Trainee in their Training Program.

Zehao Huang

Zehao Huang was born in Guanzhou, China. He is currently completing his Bachelor’s degree in music production and piano performance at Seattle Pacific University. Zehao has performed at festivals around the Pacific Northwest.

Evan Brown

Evan Brown was born in Seattle, Washington. He specializes in guitar and drums, and has been composing for multiple years. He currently attends university in Victoria, BC studying political science.