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Beau Hancock earned his M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University, where he was a University Fellow and Rose Vernick Choreographic Achievement Award recipient. He also has a B.A. in Dance and American Studies from the University of Kansas. 

In 2009, he won the Cleveland Art Prize/Kathryn Karipides Scholarship, a national prize for summer dance study.  In 2012-2013, he was a nEW Festival Artist-in-Residence, a Dance USA/Philadelphia Polish Exchange Artist, a PEW Fellowship Nominee, and a “Rocky” Award Recipient.  Most recently, he was a recipient of the Ellen Forman Memorial Award from Drexel University and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Project Stream Gran

As a performer, Beau has had the pleasure to work with Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Merian Soto/Performance Practice, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, Bronwen MacArthur Dance Project, Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers, Subcircle, Miro Dance Theatre, and Megan Bridge. 

Currently, Beau is an Assistant Professor of Dance at ������Ƶ and has previously taught at Temple University, Rowan University, Muhlenberg College, and Franklin and Marshall College.

Caitlin Quinn Pittenger completed her M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia and her B.A. in Dance with a concentration in performance and choreography from Goucher College, Baltimore, M.D. She served as dance faculty at Georgian Court University in Lakewood,  N.J. as well as ������Ƶ. 

Caitlin has gone on tour with ClancyWorks Dance Company, under the direction of Adrienne Clancy.  She has worked with artists such as Ann Hutchinson Guest, founder of the Language of Dance Centre in London,  Mino Nicolas, director of the Doris Humphrey Repertory Dance Company, Ed Tyler, Tiffany Mills, Beverly Brown, Eva Gholson, Merián Soto and Nicole Canuso.  Additional artists include Amanda Thom Woodson, Juliet Forrest, and Glenna Blessing.  Along with her faculty positions, she has been a guest artist and instructed master classes at numerous schools, and colleges on the east coast. Pittenger continues to perform professionally in addition to presenting her own work in Philadelphia and New Jersey.

Rain Ross believes that dance should be an intellectual as well as a physical pursuit – a belief that informs her teaching, her choreography, and her performance.  Her approach engages the whole self to create dance that is articulate and expressive – that is fully embodied artistry.

Ross trained at the Cornish College of the Arts, Preparatory Division.  She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.  She has worked with a diverse range of choreographers including Toni Pimble, David Dorfman, Wade Madsen, Catherine Cabeen, and Hannah Wiley, and has performed with The Playhouse Dance Company in South Africa, and Arc Dance in Seattle. 

Through her company, Rain Ross Dance, Ross has presented her work at the A.W.A.R.D. Show, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, SB-ADaPT Festival, DUMBO Dance, and others.  In 2011, she participated in the first annual International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon, for which she is now the International Guest Artist Coordinator. Ross has also presented papers at Congress on Research in Dance and The Association of American Geographers.  Currently, Ross serves as Associate Professor of Dance at ������Ƶ in New Jersey and has previously taught at Oakland University, the University of Iowa, Mount Holyoke College, and Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Lauren Putty White has an M.F.A. in dance from Montclair State University and a B.F.A. in Modern Dance Performance from University of the Arts. Having performed internationally with Parsons dance company and PHILADANCO, White has also choreographed for Ballet X , Grace Dance Theatre, Bryn Mawr College and Drexel University. She has taught at University of the Arts, ������Ƶ, Temple University and for the School District of Philadelphia. White co-founded Putty Dance Project, with her jazz musician husband, producing socially conscious critically acclaimed works. They have presented at the Kimmel Center, Baltimore Dance Invitational, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and San Francisco’s Virtual Pathways. Most recently, White was the featured dancer with the Sun Ra Arkestra at Carnegie Hall and a guest teacher at Cornell University. She currently teaches workshops in her methodology Physical Listening for Free Form Body Motifs, specializing in movement improvisation to Free Jazz music. An emerging dance writer, she also writes for Philadelphia’s thINKingDANCE . White is very excited to be on faculty at ������Ƶ!

Meghan Frederick is a dance artist and scholar based in Philadelphia, PA. Meghan’s work explores choreographies of devotion and has been presented throughout the Northeast under the umbrella Meghan Frederick/Practice Project. Meghan also frequently collaborates on duet dances with Kate Seethaler. Meghan was a member of the Brian Brooks Moving Company from 2008-2014 and has performed with Vanessa Anspaugh, Liz Lerman, Megan Bridge, and many others. Meghan teaches at Temple, Rowan, ������Ƶ, and Drexel Universities and completed her MFA at Temple University as a University Fellow and the recipient of the Katherine Dunham Award for Excellence in Creative Research. Meghan’s scholarship has been shared at conferences internationally.

Taylor Hurle is an alumna of ������Ƶ. In 2022 she earned a Master of Business Administration following a BS in Business with a concentration in Management and a BA in Dance with a concentration in Performance in 2020. During her time as a student, Taylor had opportunities to perform in works created by Beau Hancock and Shannon Murphy and served as rehearsal assistant to Kat Richter. 

In addition to teaching at ������Ƶ, Taylor is the assistant coach of the nationally ranked ������Ƶ Dance Team. She also instructs and choreographs for various dance studios around New Jersey and is a co-founder of The Coastal Collective. 

Kat Richter holds an M.A. in Dance Anthropology and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s premiere all-female tap company, . She began her apprenticeship with the New Jersey Tap Ensemble at the age of nine, trained under Karen Callaway Williams, Paris Mann and the Ensemble’s Artistic Director, Deborah Mitchell, and was promoted to Principal Dancer while still in high school. In 2005, she received a scholarship for a year of study at Oxford University, where she choreographed several productions, and returned to the UK in 2009 to complete her post-graduate work at Roehampton University. She also holds a B.A. in Dance and History from Goucher College.

A regular performer at the London Tap Jam, Kat wrote her M.A. dissertation on the performance of tap’s “national anthem,” the Shim Sham Shimmy. She has presented her research at the annual meetings of the Congress on Research in Dance, the Society of Dance History Scholars, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. Kat also writes a regular higher education column for Dance Magazine and serves as a dance critic for the Philadelphia Dance Journal.

She has set works for numerous companies including Chorégraphie Antique, Bryn Mawr School for Girls, ������Ƶ Dance Company and The Lady Hoofers. In 2011, she co-produced Too Darn Hot, an all-female, all-tap revue for the Philly Fringe Festival, and has since gone on to present choreography at the Kimmel Center, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, City Hall, the Wilma and the Painted Bride. In addition to directing The Lady Hoofers, Kat is a professor of Cultural Anthropology and Dance. She teaches throughout the greater Philadelphia region.

Katie Vickers is an American artist, a graduate of P.A.R.T.S and The Ohio State University. She has danced for Daniel Linehan (USA), Martin Nachbar (GE), Benjamin Vandewalle (BE), Vera Tussing (GE), Rósa Omarsdóttir (IS), Thierry de May (BE), Albert Quesada (SP), David Gordon (US), and as a guest artist for the Cullberg Ballet’s ‘Figure a Sea’, by Deborah Hay. Her own work questions the use of the body to find the unfamiliar in the familiar. In 2014, Katie created ‘Slogan for Modern Times' with Inga Huld Hakonardottir, following that, she created ‘5 Seasons’ (2016) with Benjamin Pohlig. She premiered ‘We Will Have Had Darker Futures’ (2017) with Inga Huld Hakondottir and Rebecka Stillman. These pieces were performed and premiered in the festival Bouge B in deSingel and supported by institutions such as Dommelhof TAKT, Vooruit, School Van Gaasbeek, STUK, wpZimmer, Uferstudios, and Schloss Bröllin.She finished ‘The home of Dance’, a research project on rethinking the theatre home (supported by the Flanders government). Katie received her M.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a collective member of Future Space Philly.