Babatunji is a dance artist, choreographer, and creative innovator based out of San Francisco. Over the past 8 years, Babatunji has developed a unique movement language, blending his background in ballet, contemporary, breaking, and hip hop. For over a decade he has worked with one of the greatest American choreographers, Alonzo King. As a freelance dancer, Babatunji has worked with Post:ballet, Ishida Dance Company, SFDanceworks, tinypistol and Ballare Carmel. Additionally, his work for film includes features in Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting on Starz, as well as Misty Copeland’s short art film Flower.
Babatunji Johnson- Choreographer in Residence & Guest Artist
Mr. Fox began his training at the age of nine in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Moscelyne Larkin and Roman Jasinski who danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He studied on full scholarships at American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and The School of American Ballet (SAB) where he was personally asked by George Balanchine to join The New York City Ballet. While dancing at NYCB, Tim worked under the direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins. He also danced as a Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. Tim is grateful to have had teachers like Stanley Williams, Andre Kramarevsky and Suki Schorer. Tim performed principal roles in Divertimento #15, Symphony in C, Four Temperaments, Midsummer Night's Dream, Serenade (George Balanchine), Fancy Free, Four Seasons (original cast), and Interplay (Jerome Robbins), Romeo and Juliet (Michael Smuin), Val Caniporoli as well as Forgotten Land by Jiri Kylian and Sunset by Paul Taylor.
Tim Fox- Summer 2024 Guest Artist
Tatum Quiñónez grew up in Phoenix, Arizona where she began her training at Master Ballet Academy. In 2016, she continued with her training at Ballet West Academy and the BWA trainee program. She spent her summers at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet West, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Quiñónez then joined Oregon Ballet Theatre’s second company, OBT2, in 2019. She has performed works by Alonzo King, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Willam Christensen, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell, James Canfield, and LeeWei Chao. Quiñónez joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 2021, where she is currently a company artist.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Tatum Quiñónez- Summer 2024 Guest Artist
Nic Moore (he/him) is a director, stage combat coordinator and actor who has worked across the Bay Area. He has directed and taught at: Novato Theater Company, Marin School of the Arts, YES Theater, Marin Shakespeare Company, Stapleton School of the Performing Arts and Lorenzo High School. As an actor he has performed with Curtain Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Alter Theater, New Conservatory Theater Center and will be performing at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival this Summer. Nic has trained at Shakespeare & Company, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and The Meisner Technique Studio.
Nic Moore- Summer 2024 Guest Artist
Leilana Majri is a dance artist and choreographer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has extensive training in ballet, Graham, Cunningham, Horton, jazz, and contemporary techniques. Leilana graduated summa cum laude from Dominican University of California's Alonzo King LINES Ballet program. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a double minor in Performing Arts for Social Change and Arts Management. Leilana grew up and trained in Los Angeles with the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet and the Colburn School. She also spends time working and training in New York at the Martha Graham School. Her training has also taken her to intensive programs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Co., LINES Ballet, and Post Ballet.
Leilana Majri- Summer 2024 Choreographer in Residence
Thorey Mountain danced professionally in London for many years, appearing in the original West End productions of Applause, Pippin, and A Chorus Line. She was a member of the Sadler's Wells Opera Movement Group and Matt Mattox's JAZZART company. Her television and film credits include The Slipper and the Rose, starring Richard Chamberlain. She has worked with many renowned choreographers, notably Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse, Marc Breaux, and Ron Field.
Thorey Mountain - Guest Artist
Alex Ketley is an independent choreographer, filmmaker, and the director of The Foundry. Formerly a classical dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and LINES Ballet, he left dancing professionally to create The Foundry as a platform to explore his interests in alternative methods of devising performance. For his independent work as a choreographer he has been commissioned extensively throughout the United States, as well as projects in Germany and Italy, and has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, the International Choreographic Competition of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Saveaur, the Choo-San Goh Award, the Princess Grace Award for Choreography and much more. As an educator he has taught extensively throughout the country and currently holds the position of Advanced Lecturer at Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies Department. He was the founding Resident Choreographer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance for fourteen years until its closure in 2018.
Alex Ketley - Guest Artist & Choreographer in Residence
Aline Wachsmuth is a performer, movement educator, and Certified Rolfer™. She has danced for The Foundry and assisted Alex Ketley on numerous choreographic commissions since 2010, and has been awarded an Isadora Duncan Award for these projects. She was also a company artist with San Francisco's LEVYdance and taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She is a graduate of Florida State University's nationally recognized Dance B.F.A. program, where she got to work with visiting artists through the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography.
Aline Wachsmuth- Guest Artist
Julia has been dancing since she was a child training in Jazz, Tap, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop and Heels. She started teaching studio classes regularly in 2015 teaching Recreational and Competition Teams of all ages. Now she has shared her passions at multiple studios across the Bay Area. Currently she hosts Heels and Jazz Funk classes at In The Groove Studios, City Dance Studios and Twirly Studio’s. Julia also created and directs The Bay’s first ever heels dance team called Hell On Heels!
Julia Pereira- Guest Artist
Sarah Butler “likes making things”. Working with movement, embroidery, poetry, wearable structure, and vocal harmonies, she is interested in exploring how the weaving of seemingly separate mediums can result in something surprising and honest. Sarah graduated from Cornish College of the arts in Seattle,WA with a BFA in Dance. She was a founding member of Ate9 Dance Company from 2012-2020. Since 2021 Sarah has worked closely with Tom Weinberger, assisting on the creation of dance-theatre works around Europe. She has guest taught, staged work, or assisted on creations with GoteborgsOperans, DansKompani, Iceland Dance Company, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Dock11, Nagelhus Schia Productions, Cornish College of the Arts, and Ryan Heffington’s The Sweat Spot. Sarah designs and builds large scale, wearable pieces on commission and for her own performance based productions.Along with her visual work, Sarah builds multilayered vocal harmonies for her own acapella compositions. Sarah’s first evening length solo performance EILEEN, weaving together her movement, wearable sculpture and vocal work,premiered in May 2024 at Jergon Gallery two sold shows. She is based in Berlin, Germany.
Sarah Butler- Guest Artist
Jenny Boynton (She/Her) has been acting, directing, and choreographing in the community since 2003. She has her BA in Music as well as her AA in Dance, Drama and…accounting (keep your day job actors). Jenny started her theatre training with YES Foundation (previously known as RVCS) in the late 1900s and now runs her own professionally oriented theatre company called Marin Musical Theatre Company. Her goal in theatre education is to give the next generation of theater kids a solid training to seamlessly be able to move into professional theater. She believes that theater training done right creates empathetic, creative, and responsible adults even if they do not develop the theater habit after they graduate from high school.
Jenny Boynton- Guest Artist
I began taking voice lessons at eight, took part in all of the school musicals and choirs, attended Kenyon College for undergrad, and then received a Master in Music with a vocal performance concentration from the University of Northern Colorado in 2006. During my second year in graduate school, I took a job as a music teacher in a private elementary school. I did it to make some extra money, having no idea how much I was going to fall in love with teaching. But at twenty-four, I realized that teaching music was just as enjoyable to me as making music. Thus began my career. I taught for six years in the school system in conjunction with private teaching, and then went fully independent with my studio in order to give it the time that it needed. In addition to private teaching, I perform and musically direct shows.