Teachers

Adrianna Audoma

Adrianna Audoma

Adrianna Audoma is a Portland based dance artist with 20 years of dance experience, ranging from classical ballet training to highly athletic contemporary modern work to various improvisational studies. Adrianna has been a collaborative member of Tongue Dance Project since 2016 and is currently co-producing...

Andre Baker

Andre Baker

Andre has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for the past 20 years, having performed for many years in and outside the Portland area. He’s a former Trail Blazer Hip-Hop Dancer and participated in the hit TV show “So You Think You Can Dance” in 2006...

Natalia Bar

Natalia Bar

Natalia Bar was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She graduated Odessa Ballet Academy where she studied with Alla Ryndina, a former pupil of Vaganova. Ms. Bar was invited to join Odessa National Theater of Opera and Ballet, where she danced classical and contemporary repertoire by choreographers...

Quincie Bean

Quincie Bean

Quincie Bean was raised in Utah and began dancing at the age of 3. She completed her pre-professional training at Provo Civic Ballet before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, she joined Modas Dance’s year-round program in Santa Fe. Her next move took her to Chicago where she danced for Cocodaco Dance Project, NOW Dance Project, and Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre.

Armando Brydson

Armando Brydson

Armando Gómez Brydson was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and studied at the Vicentina de la Torre Academy of Arts. He began his career as a dancer with Endedans Contemporary Ballet and later joined Malpaso Dance Company.

Christopher Carvalho

Christopher Carvalho

Christopher Carvalho, originally from St Louis, Missouri, began dancing early in his life at Renee Johnson’s Dance Studio in Ellisville, Missouri. Growing up, Christopher was a competition dancer studying jazz, ballet, hip hop, tap, modern, partnering, and ballroom while playing soccer and running short-distance track...

LeeWei Chao

LeeWei Chao

Born in Taipei, Taiwan. LeeWei Chao started his ballet training at age 15. In 1996, LeeWei joined Joffrey Ballet Concert Group in New York City, followed by dancing with Joffrey Ballet Chicago, and Milwaukee Ballet. He started his choreography work while he was dancing with Milwaukee Ballet Company. LeeWei was featured in the August 2018 issue of Dance Teacher Magazine.

Casey Davenport

In addition to teaching ballet classes for youth and adults at NW Dance Project, Casey Davenport is the Director of Ballet + Pointe at Innovative Dance, DOTY Performance/Dance, and is senior ballet faculty at Chehalem Valley Dance Academy (CVDA) encompassing over 15 years at the front of the studio. Casey has taught on faculty at Stites Dance Center and Da Vinci Arts Middle School. Casey’s joy in ballet is impacting as many students as possible with quality, conceptual training, and humor.

Mariecella Devine

Mariecella Devine

One of Portland’s most popular hip hop dance teachers, Mariecella Devine, has taught hip hop in the Portland Metro area for over 20 years. Mariecella has performed and collaborated with Michael Curry in his production of Spirits, and with James Canfield, founding Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director, in his world premiere of CQ (Charmed Quark) at the American Choreographers Showcase and the Joyce Theater in New York City.

Beatriz García Díaz

Beatriz García Díaz

Beatriz García Díaz was born in Havana, Cuba, and began her dance education at the National Ballet School and the University of Arts of Cuba. She started her professional career as a dancer with Danza Teatro Retazos Company, where she spent three years working with...

Kylie Dimick

Kylie Dimick

Kylie Dimick, from Soldotna, Alaska, began dancing at age three and trained under notable teachers such as Diana Brooks, Aram Manukyan, Clayton Cunningham, and others. In 2018, Kylie graduated from Boise State University with a Bachelor of Science and Minor in Dance, joining Idaho Dance Theatre while earning her degrees. Kylie also serves as NW Dance Project’s Education Coordinator.

Ingrid Ferdinand

Ingrid Ferdinand

Ingrid Ferdinand, a Chicago native, began dancing at the age of three at the Academy of Movement and Music. She later trained at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and Marymount Manhattan College, before joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s “HSPro” in 2018.

Madeline Gambino

Madeline Gambino

From Madison, Wisconsin, Madeline Gambino began training at the School of Madison Ballet under artistic director W. Earle Smith, later joining the pre-professional company for two seasons. After three years of studying dance and arts administration at Butler University’s nationally recognized dance program on an academic scholarship, she studied at University of Oregon and joined Ballet Fantastique in Eugene as a company artist for two seasons.

Makino Hayashi

Makino Hayashi

Makino Hayashi is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker based in Portland, OR. She was born in Kumamoto, Japan where she began ballet at Kumamoto Ballet Studio at the age of nine. She moved to the U.S. when she was nineteen years old and danced professionally...

Nicole Hennington

Nicole Hennington

Nicole Hennington studied with Chuthis, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New Dialect, and Ate9. She graduated from The University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Finance before joining GroundWorks DanceTheater in Cleveland.