Ricardo Alvarez is a graduate of Indiana University with a BFA in Graphic Design and a BA in Creative Studies in Dance and Technology, with honors. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Battenhouse Award for Outstanding Performance in Contemporary Dance by the National Society of Arts and Letters, Bloomington Chapter. He also attended the American Dance Festival on scholarship in 2006. Alvarez also received a fellowship through the Hispanic Scholarship Fund/McNamara Family Grant for his work in dance and technology. In 2005, he had the pleasure of presenting his studies in video dance collaborations at the National Dance Education Conference in Buffalo, NY. His dance for camera work has been featured nationally in numerous galleries and film festivals.

Christin Authur was born into a military family at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and was raised on the Presidio of San Francisco, California and Fort Douglas, Utah. She began her ballet training at the age of five in Salt Lake City, Utah and embarked upon her path toward a professional dance career with the Ballet West Academy at the University of Utah at age 10. Under the tutelage of Sharee Lane she danced principal roles in Ballet West Academy programs and corps de ballet roles with Ballet West that included The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. Christin also participated in summer programs at the New Zealand School of Dance, the Hong Kong International Ballet School, Jacob’s Pillow and the Berlin State Ballet School. Christin continued her studies at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.. Upon graduation from the Kirov Academy in 2002 she joined the Universal Ballet Company in Seoul, South Korea. She danced roles in Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Shim Chung and soloist roles in Colors and Paganini Rhapsody; both original works by Brian Yoo. Early in 2008, she performed a guest principal role in an original contemporary piece created by Rick McCullough of Florida State University, and staged by the Columbia Classical Ballet, under Radenko Pavlovich. Most recently Christin has performed in Montreal, Quebec with Les Grands Ballet De Canadien in their 2008-2011 production of the Nutcracker, as well as the South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company. Throughout her training and career she has studied Pilates, Yoga, and GYROTONIC® She is now a certified GYROTONIC® and Pilates instructor.

Ben Sanders (Apprentice) is a Theatre and Dance major at The George Washington University where he is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Sanders trained with Dawn Glass in Pennsylvania and has danced as a featured dancer with the Acts of Kindness Theatre Company in shows such as Cats, Peter Pan, and Hairspray