The School at Jacob's Pillow
2023 Artist Faculty
Get connected to a revered roster of artists who serve as your faculty. They are as acclaimed for their work in the field as they are for their teaching and mentoring.
Contemporary Ballet Faculty
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Program Director
Contemporary Ballet
The Colombian-Belgian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa completed her dance education at the Royal Ballet School of Flanders in Belgium. She started choreographing at the early age of 11, and decided in 2003 to end her dance career to focus her energies solely on choreography.
Maurice Causey
Artist Faculty
Contemporary Ballet
Maurice Causey is an American born, European based dance artist. For the last eight years, he has been a patron for the Austinmer Dance Theater in Australia directed by Michelle Forte. He is currently based in Amsterdam.
Julia Erickson
Artist Faculty
Contemporary Ballet
Julia Erickson, a Seattle native, is a former Principal Dancer with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and is now a freelance teaching artist, dancer, and choreographer.
Stephen Mills
Artist Faculty
Contemporary Ballet
Since 1999, under the artistic leadership of Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin has emerged as one of the nations’ premiere dance organizations. The Washington Post recognized Ballet Austin as “one of the nations’ best-kept secrets” in 2004. In his inaugural season as artistic director he attracted attention from around the United States with his world-premiere production of Hamlet, hailed in Dance Magazine as “…sleek and sophisticated.”
Andrew McNicol
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary Ballet
Andrew McNicol is a freelance British choreographer noted as a “rising star” (BBC News) and “talented beyond his years.” Born in Hull, his choreographic work began whilst studying at The Royal Ballet School, where he won the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic competition. He later completed his formal training with an MA at Central’s Professional Choreographic Programme.
Contemporary Faculty
Milton Myers
Program Director
Contemporary
Milton Myers is resident choreographer and instructor for PHILADANCO! and on the faculties of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program, Peridance, STEPS on Broadway, and The Juilliard School, where he is the first Horton instructor.
Francisco Martinez
Associate Program Director
Contemporary
Francisco Martinez has been a dancer with Compania Nacional de Danza (Spain), and Ballet Royal de Wallonie (Belgium). His performance experience is diverse, including works of Petipa, Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, Vicente Nebrada, Alberto Alonso and Ana Sokolow, among others.
Jennifer Archibald
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary
Jennifer Archibald is the founder and Artistic Director of the Arch Dance Company and Program Director of ArchCore40 Dance Intensives. Archibald has choreographed for the Ailey II, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West, Grand Rapids Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, and worked commercially for NIKE, MAC Cosmetics, and Tommy Hilfiger, as well as chart-listed artists.
Cayetano Soto
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary
Cayetano Soto, a Barcelona based dancemaker and has been the Resident Choreographer at Ballet BC since 2015. Since working as a freelance choreographer in 2005, he has received commissions from over 15 dance companies.
John Levis
Music Director
Contemporary
John Levis is a composer, pianist, and synthesist who has been involved with the Philadelphia dance community since 1971. A graduate of the University of the Arts, he has worked with Philadelphia schools and companies including Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center, PHILADANCO!, Temple University, The Rock School of Dance Education, and The University of the Arts, where he is Accompanist Coordinator for the School of Dance.
Ronald K. Brown
Artist Faculty
Contemporary Program
Ronald K. Brown, Founder and Artistic Director of EVIDENCE, is an award-winning and internationally renowned dance artist and choreographer.
Arcell Cabuag
Artist Faculty
Contemporary Program
Arcell Cabuag is the Associate Artistic Director of EVIDENCE, A Dance Company, currently teaches EVIDENCE repertory at Princeton University and is thrilled to be the newly appointed Youth Arts Academy Director of Education.
The Dunham Legacy Faculty
Reginald Yates
Program Director
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Reginald Yates, The Dunham Legacy Program Director, is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist, dancer, choreographer, community liaison, writer, curator, cultural historian, arts & education advocate, world mentor, and activist for indigenous and disenfranchised communities. His life work emphasizes the spiritual and life affirming attributes of art; and its propensity to heal, edify, and exalt our collective humanity as an agent and catalyst for progressive change and transformation.
April Berry
Artist Faculty
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
April Berry is a dance director, master teacher, dance educator, and former internationally acclaimed principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Rennie Harris
Legacy Artist in Residence
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Rennie Harris is known for bringing social dances to the concert stage and coining the term Street Dance Theater.
Halifu Osumare
Artist Faculty
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Halifu Osumare has been a dancer, choreographer, arts administrator, and scholar of black popular culture for over forty years.
Keith Tyrone Williams
Legacy Artist in Residence
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Keith Tyrone Williams is a proud native of East St. Louis, Illinois, and has performed, directed and choreographed throughout the United States and extensively in Europe.
Don Laurin
Artist Faculty
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Don Laurin is a percussionist and melodic storyteller whose heart is firmly rooted in traditions of the African Diaspora.
Briana Reed
Artist Faculty
The Dunham Legacy Revisited
Briana Reed began her dance training at The Academy of Ballet Arts under the direction of Suzanne Pomerantzeff, studying Ballet, Jazz and Russian Character.
Tap Dance Faculty
Dormeshia
Program Director
Tap Dance
Dormeshia is a two-time Bessie Award winner (as performer and choreographer), a Princess Grace Award winner, and an Astaire Award winner for Best Female Performer in Broadway’s After Midnight. Additional Broadway credits include Black and Blue and Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk.
Michelle Dorrance
Program Director
Tap Dance
Michelle Dorrance is a New York City-based performer, choreographer, teacher, and the Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance. Mentored by Gene Medler (North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble), she was lucky to study under many of the last master hoofers.
Derick K. Grant
Program Director
Tap Dance
Derick K. Grant is a native of Boston, MA where he began his training at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. He also studied the “hoofin” style from master tap dancer, Dianne Walker. Derick was an original Broadway company member and Dance Captain of Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk.
Dominique Kelley
Artist Faculty
Tap Dance
Dominique Kelley, originally from Bridgeport, CT, is proving himself to be a powerhouse choreographer in the world of musical theater, television, live performance and beyond.
Sam Weber
Artist Faculty
Tap Dance
Sam Weber is an award winning artist whose reputation in the world of tap dance spans the globe.
Choreography Fellows Faculty
Dianne McIntyre
Program Director
Choreography Fellows
Dianne McIntyre is a dancer, choreographer, curator, cultural investigator who creates work in dance, theatre, film, and opera. Known for collaborations with live music, she founded and directed Sounds in Motion Company and School in Harlem for many years.
Risa Steinberg
Program Director
Choreography Fellows
Risa Steinberg is an active member of the dance community as a performer, teacher, re-constructor of the works of José Limón, and mentor to young, emerging, and established choreographers.