Alexander Anderson

Alexander Anderson (@zanderander) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and stager based in

New York City. Originally from South Florida, he graduated from the Alexander W. Dreyfoos

School of the Arts in 2010. He was then accepted into The Juilliard School where he graduated

with a BFA in 2014. During his time at Juilliard, Alexander performed works by renowned

choreographers such as Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, Jirí Kylián, and

Alexander Ekman. He was also honored with the 2012 Dizzy Feet Foundation Scholarship Award and the 2013 Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship Award.

Post-graduation, Alexander joined Nederlands Dans Theater 2, progressing to the esteemed

Nederlands Dans Theater 1 in 2017. His standout performance in Crystal Pite’s “Solo Echo”

garnered critical acclaim, earning him Dance Europe Magazine’s critic’s choice for 'Outstanding

Performance by a Male Dancer' in 2019. In 2020, Alexander became an Artistic Associate at

Gibney Company, where he was later named the Inaugural Choreographic Fellow, premiering a

new work in the “Gibney Fellow” program in 2022.

Alexander's passion for dance extends beyond performance. In March 2024, Alexander

self-produced his show “Falling Elsewhere” in New York City. He also appears in the Paramount

feature film “Smile 2”. As a stager, he has staged Edward Clug and Marco Goecke’s productions, including Goecke's critically acclaimed “Midnight Raga,” which won the Gouden Zwaan for the most impressive dance production in 2017. Residing in New York City, Alexander has served on the faculties of the Ailey Fordham BFA

(Professional Division), Peridance, Steps On Broadway, Gibney Dance, School of American

Ballet (SAB), and ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. He has received choreographic

commissions from Ballet Austin II, Peridance (Youth Ensemble), Houston Contemporary Dance

Company, Buglisi Dance Theater, SFDanceworks, The Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Hubbard

Street Dance Chicago (Create Summer Intensive), Owen/Cox Dance Group, Central

Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Springboard Danse, and The Juilliard School Summer Intensive.

Spenser Theberge

Spenser Theberge is a performer, creator, and educator based in Los Angeles.  His work is centered in multidisciplinary practice, including the use of dance, theater, text, film, design, and pedagogy to create genre-defying, innovative performance, visual art, and education environments.

His commissions and collaborations span a range of artists and organizations including The Broad Museum, Taylor Swift, Gibney Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LA Dance Project, MOCA Geffen, The Juilliard School, NAVEL, Savage x Fenty, Ben Platt, the NY Times Magazine, The Today Show, LAX Festival, and Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, among others. 

Spenser is the first ever Artist In Residence at The Juilliard School of Dance, as well as an Artist In Residence at USC’s Kaufman School of Dance, and a former faculty member at the California Institute for the Arts.  He has been an invited guest educator at the National Theater of Taiwan, BE Moving, Nuova Officina della Danza, CLI Conservatory, Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, and Springboard Danse, among others.  

Spenser has performed the works of the world’s most influential choreographers as a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater and The Forsythe Company, and has been a guest artist with Kidd Pivot, Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, the ARIAS Company, Astrid Boons. He is a YoungArts winner, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a Princess Grace Award winner, as well as a proud graduate of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics and The Juilliard School. 

Reed Tankersley

REED TANKERSLEY is from Northern California, and earned his BFA from the Juilliard School. Shortly after, Reed joined Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour and has continued to perform with the company. Reed has performed in numerous Tharp works including “In the Upper Room”, “Nine Sinatra Songs”, “The Fugue”, “Brahms Paganini”, “Ocean’s Motion”, “Eight Jelly Rolls”, and “How Long Blues”. He has also worked as a répétiteur for Tharp’s “Baker’s Dozen” on Alabama Ballet. In 2019, Reed ran away to the circus and toured the country as the lead performer in Cirque Du Soleil’s, “Volta”. Reed is a YoungArts Winner and one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”.  

Reed has taught at many universities and preprofessional programs throughout the country and abroad including UCSB, University or Minnesota, University of Texas, NYU Gallatin, and the Venice Biennale Festival.

Ariel Scott

Ariel Scott is a dancer, choreographer, and educator whose choreographic work investigates the uncovering of self and the desire to be known. By recognizing physicality as a uniquely adept avenue for authenticity, Ariel uses dance to make the unfathomable fathomable. Ariel’s work has been presented in Dear Body Love Me, VOICES: UNBOUND, and High Voltage showcases, among others. Her screendance “All a Blur” has been presented in ScreenDance RoadShow and in Black Lives Rising Virtual Dance Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Experimental Film. Ariel holds a BFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she nurtured her love of dance and choreography, and an AA from Santa Monica College, where her commitment to the craft of dance began. Since becoming a certified Countertechnique teacher in 2024, Ariel has delighted in sharing the joy of dance through frequent open classes in Los Angeles and as guest faculty at institutions including the California Institute of the Arts and Loyola Marymount University. Ariel is currently a dancer with Kybele Dance Theater, an LA-based contemporary dance company.

Jordan Lang

Jordan was born and raised in Long Island, New York where he began his dance training at the age of 12 with David Sanders Dance Dynamics and later Seiskaya Ballet Academy. Continuing to pursue his passion for the art form, Jordan chose to attend Marymount Manhattan College’s BFA program with a ballet concentration in 2015 after receiving a scholarship from the New York City Dance Alliance College Scholarship Foundation. While at Marymount, Jordan was a part of the Marymount Manhattan Dance Company from 2015 to 2019 performing works from a variety of choreographers as well as partaking in educational outreach programs for young children. Throughout his college career Jordan danced as an assistant for NYCDA as well as worked exclusively with his dear friend Martha Nichols on countless projects. In the summer of 2019, Jordan joined Ballet BC under the direction of Emily Molnar. In his time with Ballet BC, Jordan had the honor of performing multiple works by Vancouver native Crystal Pite, later artistic director of Ballet BC Medhi Walerski, Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, and Aszure Barton. While at Ballet BC Jordan was able to continue his passion for working with children through outreach programs while recognizing one of his greatest passions in collaborating with choreographers in the creative process such as David Raymond, Tiffany Tregarthen and Dorotea Saykaly. In 2021 Jordan began working with Yin Yue Dance Company as a guest artist on new creations as well as acting as the  assistant choreographer for a new work with the Boston Ballet. In 2022, Jordan went on to join Ballet Jazz Montréal as a guest artist under the direction of Alexandra Damiani,  performing works by Adonis Foniadakis, Juliano Nunes, Crystal Pite, Anne Plamondon, and Ihsan Rustem. In his time with the company, Jordan was given the opportunity to choreograph on the dancers for multiple fundraising events, expanding him into the role of choreographer. Within the last few years, Jordan has had the good fortune to perform in theaters across the globe, meeting and collaborating with artists from around the world as well as acting as guest faculty for many contemporary intensives held across the U.S.