Choreographers

Loni Landon is a dancer, choreographer, and movement consultant based in New York City. Her work is commissioned by dance companies and filmmakers across the country, in addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Projects. Loni is also the Co-Founder of...

Menghan Lou is a professional dancer and upcoming choreographer with extensive experience in ballet, contemporary, and modern dance who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned choreographers while dancing for the Nederlands Dans Theater for over nine seasons. These days, Menghan runs his...

Choreographer, performer, and teacher Carla Mann creates dances for stage, alternative sites, installations, and film. Her work has been catalyzed by collaborative ventures with artists in other disciplines as well as in dance. Her choreography has been supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission...

Lindsey Matheis grew up in Colorado before moving to North Carolina. She began dancing under Kirstie Tice Spadie at the NC Dance Institute and later at the North Carolina School of the Arts under the directorship of Susan McCullough. After graduating from the modern department...

Franco Nieto was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. Franco was an athlete playing football for seven years before making his choice to dance. Franco began his training at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and Columbia Dance, later studying under Tracey Durbin as a...

Born in Vancouver, Simone Orlando received her early dance training at the Carisbrooke School of Dance, the Vancouver Academy of Dance, and the Goh Ballet Academy. She completed her training at the National Ballet School in Toronto and subsequently joined the National Ballet of Canada...

Kevin Pajarillaga is a Filipino American, born and raised in Silver Spring, MD. Kevin trained at Citydance Conservatory, Point Park University and Springboard Danse Montréal. Professionally he has worked with companies including NW Dance Project, Yin Yue’s YY Dance Company, Sonya Tayeh Dance, Bruce Wood...

From Hillsboro, Oregon, Andrea Parson began dancing to country music records in her living room and went on to become a leading dancer for NW Dance Project where she danced, choreographed, taught, and mentored for 11 years, earning a prestigious Princess Grace Award in the process. Andrea is currently on faculty at Pacific University, working on her own projects, and can be spotted in Sellwood walking her cat in its stroller.