Candice Agahan
Candice Agahan started her dance training at age three in San Diego, California. She grew up attending private dance studios, The Element Dance Center and San Diego Dance Center, training and performing competitively in jazz, ballet, contemporary, lyrical and tap for 13 years before moving to Portland to attend college.
Andre Baker
Andre Baker has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for the past 20 years, and has been performing for many years in and outside the Portland area. Andre is a former Trail Blazer Hip-Hop Dancer, and in 2006, he participated in the T.V. show "So You Think You Can Dance".
Amber Bates
Amber Bates is a freelance dancer and yoga teacher originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She received a majority of her dance training at Atlanta Ballet's Center for Dance Education under John McFall and Sharon Story. Other training was conducted with Nashville Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Boston Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre.
Allison Brando
Allison Brando is an intuitive artist who brings broad vision, bold enthusiasm, and electric energy to her work, both habitually and intentionally. She is trained in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, and Hip Hop, as well as being a classically certified Pilates Instructor.
James Canfield
Nevada Ballet Theatre - Artistic Director
James Canfield was born in Corning, New York and received his early dance training at the acclaimed Washington School of Ballet under the direction of Mary Day.
Kim Choeychan
Kim is originally from Eugene, Oregon where she fell in love with dancing at a young age. Kim earned her Bachelor of Arts in dance from the University or Oregon in 2014.
William Couture
William Couture was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota, where he attended the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts, and from there went to San Francisco to study at Dominican University of California with LINES ballet. While…
Jason began his dance training with Mary-Beth Cabana at Ballet Arts in Tucson and at the age of fifteen, he joined the Universal Ballet Academy (Kirov Academy) under the direction of Oleg Vinogradov. In 1992, Jason joined the San Francisco Ballet School and after one year, joined the company, dancing for eleven seasons…
Michelle Davis
A native of Dallas, Texas, Michelle trained and performed with the Dallas Ballet from 1983 to 1989. She joined the San Francisco Ballet School in 1989 and the San Francisco Ballet in 1991. She danced with the San Francisco Ballet for nine years with one year abroad dancing in Copenhagen with the Royal Danish Ballet.
Mariecella Devine
One of Portland's most popular Hip Hop dance teachers, Mariecella Devine, teaches an enticing combination of dance moves with her own signature style. She has taught Hip Hop in the Portland Metro area for over twenty years.
Maeve Dougal
Education + Outreach Coordinator
Maeve Dougal is the Education + Outreach Coordinator at NW Dance Project
Tracey Durbin
Tracey started dancing professionally at the age of four. After studying years of piano, theater and ballet at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, Tracey moved to Los Angeles where she studied ballet with Stanley Holden, jazz with Luigi (the innovator of the world's first jazz technique).
Charlene Hannibal
Born and raised in Portland, Charlene trained at The School of Oregon Ballet Theatre for over a decade until joining the company in 1999. In 2002, her career brought her to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was a principal dancer with Company C Contemporary Ballet.
Izzy Holmes
Isabel Holmes started her dance career at the age of 3 in Southern California where she grew up. Izzy trained at the pre-professional studio The Performing Arts Center, completing advanced levels of ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip hop with the PAC staff as well as professional guest choreographers including Marguerite Derricks, Nathan Provost and Jane Lanier.
Kody Jauron
Kody Jauron hails from Phoenix, Arizona where he began his formal dance instruction at age 15 with Andrew Needhammer. Shortly after, Kody furthered his pre-professional studies with the Miami City Ballet School and Ballet Austin's…
Shaun Keylock
Shaun Keylock is an award-winning choreographer, director, teacher, and dancer based in Portland, Oregon. He founded Shaun Keylock Company in 2018 as a framework for his ongoing interests in fields both beyond and in dialogue with dance.