Natasha Adorlee is an Emmy Award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, composer, and educator based in San Francisco, CA. A first-generation Asian American woman, she was the final Artistic Fellow with Amy Seiwert's Imagery. Natasha began choreographing in 2016 while maintaining an award-winning dance career with Robert Moses' Kin, ODC/Dance, Kate Weare and Co., and The San Francisco Symphony. After winning over ten international awards for her acclaimed short film Take Your Time in 2018, she has been a sought-after filmmaker, choreographer, and composer ever since. After attending SUNY Purchase and graduating from UC Berkeley, Natasha was invited to join ODC/Dance. As a performer, Natasha has danced a vast repertoire of works and contributed original choreography, sound design, and art direction to over 20+ ODC/Dance repertory works. In addition, Natasha has created over 20 original dance-based works spanning stage, film, and immersive performance mediums. Most recently, she was commissioned to create for Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works, Kansas City Ballet, Richmond Ballet, BalletX, Ceprodac (Mexico), Kawaguchi Ballet (Japan), Ballare Carmel, Ballet22, and Imagery. Natasha has also created original work for Pixar Animation Studios, Oculus, National Geographic, and The New Yorker Magazine. Natasha founded Concept o4 to create multimedia dance-based experiences advocating for more accessibility to the arts. In 2024, Natasha was awarded the Grand Prize at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival for Blooming Flowers and the Full Moon and received an NEA Grant, a Dresher Fellowship, and a Jacob's Pillow Choreographic Fellowship. She is currently pursuing a prolific creation period while sharing her deep knowledge of movement and film with the greater community through Dance on Camera workshops. Natasha also serves as an Artistic Advisor for Ballet22.

Glenn Edgerton has had an international career as a dancer and director. At the Joffrey Ballet, he performed leading roles, classical and contemporary for 11 years under the mentorship of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. He danced the classics of John Cranko and Sir Frederick Ashton along with innovative choreographers like Twyla Tharp, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Paul Taylor and Laura Dean. In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where he was immersed in the repertory for five years. After retiring from performing he became the Executive Artistic Director of NDT 1 leading the company for a decade and presenting the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, among many others. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA while teaching at UCLA and CalArts. He was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. Edgerton joined Hubbard Street as Associate Artistic Director in 2008. From 2009-2020 served as Hubbard Street’s Artistic Director bringing the company to world wide recognition while fostering the next generation of dancers and choreographers. Many of those dancers turned choreographers are leading the dance field today, like Alejandro Cerrudo, Rena Butler, Robyn Mineko Williams, Penny Saunders, Emilie Leriche, Alice Klock and Florian Lochner among many others. As of fall of 2020 he joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK as an instructor, teaching ballet with an emphasis on the work of Jiří Kylián and Gerald Arpino. In 2022 Edgerton was invited by American Ballet Theater to teach company class and set the iconic work of Jiří Kylián’s, Sinfonietta. Glenn has continued on at the University of Oklahoma and is currently an Associate Professor of Ballet.

Morgan Sicklick is originally from Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Morgan received her training at the Irine Fokine School of Ballet. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance and a minor in Marketing from Butler University in 2013, performing works by Paul Taylor and Nacho Duato. Morgan received multiple performance and academic awards and earned a Butler Summer Institute Research grant in 2012. In August 2013, Morgan became an inaugural member of Kansas City Ballet’s (KCB) Second Company. Her repertoire with KCB includes works by Michael Pink, Victoria Morgan, Septime Webre, George Balanchine, Todd Bolender, Devon Carney, and Anthony Krutzkamp. Morgan also performed with Moving Arts in July 2015. In 2015, Morgan joined Wonderbound in Denver, CO under the leadership of Garrett Ammon and Dawn Fay. She has originated 20+ roles in works by Garrett Ammon and Ballet Master/Assistant to the Artistic Director, Sarah Tallman, and performed at the 2017 Vail Dance Festival with Wonderbound. As a choreographer, Morgan has created works for Wonderbound, various dance schools, and independent artist collectives and set an original work on KCB's Second Company. Most recently, she choreographed for KCB’s 2024 production of New Moves and created a piece for New Paradigm Dance Theater’s participation in the 2025 Regional Dance America MidStates Festival. Morgan has taught ballet, pointe and pre-pointe, repertoire, and contemporary movement and partnering to students of all ages throughout her career. She currently serves as Board Secretary for New Paradigm Dance Theater and was on the Board of Directors for Kabbalah Experience, a non-profit organization for adult spiritual education.

Makino Hayashi is a choreographer, based in Portland, OR. She was born in Kumamoto, Japan where she began ballet at Kumamoto Ballet Studio. She moved to the U.S. and has danced professionally with Colorado Ballet from 2002-2008 and with Oregon Ballet Theatre since 2010 and has performed primarily soloist and principal roles. She retired from OBT in 2023. She has guested with several companies in the U.S. and Japan. She has been choreographing and teaching contemporary and ballet at all levels since 2014. Her recent choreographic work “The Message 2024” has world premiered for Oregon Ballet Theatre Made in Portland in Portland, OR in June 2024. She also choreographed “The Rose” in 2023, “What do you see…” in 2018, and “Brothers and a Sister” in 2014 for OBT. “What do you see…” was performed for Women Choreographers PNW in May 2024 and Union PDX in 2022 in Portland, OR. She choreographed “Inside Voice” for Boulder Ballet New Moves in Boulder, CO, and “Seven Wonder” for Oregon Origins Project II in Portland, OR in 2023. “KIZUNA” for Ten Tiny Community Healing Dances for the city arts program in Portland, OR in 2021. “Black Earth” was performed for 'In a landscape' Classical Music in the Wild throughout the state of Oregon by Hunter Noack in 2019 and was also performed at the choreographer competition SzólóDuó in Budapest, Hungary in 2020. She will be choreographing a new work for Nevada Ballet Theatre in 2025 spring. Her work “Footprints” for the Inspire Dance Centre senior group got into the top 12 at the YAGP Huntington Beach, CA competition. “Be You” was performed for OBT2 performance OBT2 Raw Pieces of Eight in 2021. Makino’s dancing roles include works by Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Matjash Mrozewski, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Nicolo Fonte, Helen Pickett, Jennifer Archibald, Rena Butler, and Christopher Stowell. She has guested with; Washington Ballet in Washington DC, Festival Ballet in Rhode Island, The State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara CA, Okamoto Ballet in Fukuoka Japan.

Lighting Designer

Monique L’Heureux is an award-winning Lighting Designer and a long-time collaborator of Artistic Director and Producer, Molly Lynch (National Choreographer’s Initiative since 2005, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and multiple collaborations with Ballet Pacifica).

Some of Monique’s past work includes: Ma Cong’s French Twist for Smuin Ballet (originally created for NCI), Palm Desert Choreography Festival collaborations with Charlotte Griffin and Maté Szentes, 10+ seasons with Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet (Luckman PAC in LA and the Ailey Center and Dance Theatre Workshop in NY), 10+ seasons with Ballet California, 5 seasons with Barak Ballet; blue13’s Bollywood Delicious and Khel; Lighting Director for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and World Music at the Hollywood Bowl; Motion Picture and Television Fund event featuring Hugh Jackman, Chita Rivera, Dick van Dyke, and Kristen Chenoweth, Regional Dance America festivals across the country, and of course, countless productions of The Nutcracker, to name a few!

She has taught at universities and colleges, is the recipient of four Lester Horton Dance Awards, and is a member of the IATSE. Monique is also an artist and award-winning photographer, and has been shown in many galleries and public spaces, including the Long Beach Public Library and a permanent installation at Glendale Adventist Hospital.

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Costume Coordinator

Kaity Kistler is a costume designer and technician located in Orange County, California. She graduated from Orange Coast College in 2024 with an associate’s degree in Apparel Construction and is currently pursuing a double major in Drama and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She was a costume design intern at South Coast Repertory for part of their 2023-2024 season, working on Quixote Nuevo, A Raisin in the Sun, and A Christmas Carol. At UCI, she is currently assisting in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts costume shop, where she has worked on 9 to 5: The Musical, New Slate, Gloria, Dance Visions, and Starmites. Other credits include UCI’s La Belle et la Bête as assistant costume designer and Wish You Were Here, Little Shop of Horrors, Galilee, 34, and Prelude to a Kiss, the Musical at South Coast Repertory as stitcher.