instructors

Anthony Manuel

Anthony Manuel teaches Hip Hop from 4:30 – 5:30 and Jazz from 5:30 – 7 pm on Mondays at Luminz Studio. He also is a prolific choreographer creating high energy dance for dancers and circus performers.

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Aurora Corsano

Aurora Corsano has danced in the work of post-modern choreographers Yoshiko Chuma, Mary Fulkerson and Angus Balbernie in Europe and New York. From 2001 – 2003 Aurora performed through out…    read more

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Bronwyn Sims

Bronwyn Sims is an actor, acrobat and educator. She has appeared in film (Next Stop Wonderland, Dischord, Trial by Fire) and on television including a role in the Emmy award…    read more

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Carrie Simmons

Carrie Simmons is originally from Wisconsin and moved to Brattleboro in 2005 with her husband so he could complete his masters at SIT. They both fell in love with the…    read more

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Christina Conger

Christina Conger was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She began dancing at the age of 6 to help with her style as a figure skater, and she hasn’t stopped…    read more

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Cyndal Ellis

Cyndal Ellis is a graduate of Smith College in anthropology and dance now residing in Marlboro, VT. She is a dance choreographer, performer, and teacher currently specializing in Tribal Fusion…    read more

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Damon Honeycutt

Damon Honeycutt is a transdisciplinary artist whose work involves the cohesion of many traditions. He holds an MA in Conscious Evolution and Integral Studies from The Graduate Institute and a…    read more

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Donlin Foreman

Dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company (1977 – 96), Donlin Foreman was directed by Ms. Graham in all her major male roles. As co-founder of Buglisi/Foreman Dance (1993 -2005),…    read more

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Elizabeth Hallett

Elizabeth has been dancing for 25 years. Growing up she studied many forms of dance in Connecticut and New York City. The first class she taught was Hip Hop which…    read more

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Emily Wiadro

Emily Wiadro grew up in CT and has been dancing since she was 5 years old. She has a BA in English and Dance from Skidmore College. In 2002, Emily…    read more

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Jahnavi Newsom

Jahnavi Newsom is addicted to capoeira. This has influenced her movement style and the way her brain works. She first started doing capoeira about 7 years ago, and feels that…    read more

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Jennifer Moyse

Jennefer Moyse is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in acting. She performed regionally in musical theater in and around New York…    read more

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Kate Tarlow Morgan

Kate Tarlow Morgan, New York City-born choreographer, writer, and urban archaeologist has lived in rural New England since 1998. Her interest in local place and its history inspired her most…    read more

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Marshall Jarreau

Marshall Jarreau was trained in the modern dance program at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The majority of his 10 years of dance experience comes from the stage and…    read more

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Molly Gawler

Molly Gawler grew up on Buttermilk Hill on a small farm in Maine. She danced from a young age and studied Vaganova ballet with Russian teacher and choreographer Andrei Bossov….    read more

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Mucuy Bolles

Mucuy Bolles has performed as a soloist and principal dancer with many acclaimed companies such as Feld Ballet, Elisa Monte Dance, Zvi Dance, Buglisi/Foreman Dance, Complexions, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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Nina Kunimoto

Nina Kunimoto has been studying flamenco for ten years and has performed in a flamenco dance company in Tucson, Arizona and solo in Tokyo, Japan. She has studied with Jose…    read more

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Sakura Shimada

Sakura Shimada studied modern dance, ballet, Jazz, Japanese fusion dance in Japan where she is originally from. She moved to New York City in 1997 to study dance. In New…    read more

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Sarah White

Sarah White is a San Francisco native with a Master of Research in Social Anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and a B.A. in Performing Arts & Social Justice…    read more

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