Leann Underwood
Leann Underwood … started dancing at the age of 7. She became an apprentice at Oregon Ballet Theatre in 2003 and joined the company in 2004. She was offered a contract with the ABT Studio Company in August 2005 at just 16 yrs, then joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in November 2006 and the corps de ballet in August 2007 where she performed with ABT for ten years,
Her repertoire with the Company includes a Lead D’Jampe and a Shade in La Bayadère, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, La Lionne in Gaîté Parisienne, Bathilde and Zulma in Giselle, An Episode in His Past in Jardin aux Lilas, the Spanish Dance and one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Older Sister in Pillar of Fire, the Ranch Owner’s Daughter in Rodeo, Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet, a big swan, the Spanish Princess and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Diana and Ceres in Sylvia and roles in Airs, Ballo della Regina, Birthday Offering, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Duets, From Here On Out, Overgrown Path, Private Light and Thirteen Diversions. She created the Countess in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty and a role in Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once. She has performed principal roles in classical and contemporary works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, Yuri Possokhov, Christopher Stowell, Mark Morris, James Canfield, Brian Reeder, Marius Petipa and Stephen Mills.
Underwood is fully certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum, Primary through Level 7, and is currently on the teaching faculty of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the Young Dancer Summer Workshop. She is also one of the current Ballet Mistresses for Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, and travels the US as part of the audition team for ABT’s Summer Intensives.
Julia Skillington
Bryaunna Kostelnik
Bryaunna received her dance training at All That Jazz Dance Studio where she was a member of the acclaimed Advanced Production company during her four years of high school. As a part of Advanced Production she performed, competed in and was booked in concert tours across the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, Florida and Austria, Europe with the prestigious TANZSOMMER dance festival. She was recognized with numerous scholarship and excellence in achievement awards for both solo and choreography work at many national dance conventions and competitions.
Bryaunna stretched her teacher/choreographer wings, during the years pursuing her Degree at Oregon State University, by teaching and choreographing award- winning pieces for many studios and groups. In 2021, Bryaunna was invited to Germany to perform under Victor Quijada, founder and director of the RUBBERBANDance, based in Montreal where she and the ensemble showcased his creation, Enterweaving, at the Dock 11, a black box theater in the center of Berlin.
Bryaunna currently lives and teaches in northern Oregon and her innovative, stunning choreography continues to captivate audiences and adjudication panels across the Pacific Northwest.
Alexis Woffinden-Jackson
Trained in various studios in the Northwest area including MVP Dance Elite and the Westview Dance Team. While teaching and choreographing across the state, Alexis completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree at George Fox University.
Alexis in known for her incredible Hip Hop and contemporary style… she performed on the set of Portlandia for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, Durante Lambert’s “OZ” production, with Twitch (from SYTYCD) at Excel Dance Convention. Appeared in Con Bro Chill music video “What I Like” in 2015. Has received multiple choreography awards, most noteworthy being, “RAW: Mother Mary” at Monsters A-List Convention. Directed RAW dance crew, alongside Charlie Chheath and Jason Wickett, to their World of Dance Seattle win in 2016, as well as two full length-shows, “Lucid Dreams” and “The Glass Sneaker” in 2017.
Charlie Chheath
Charlie trained in Contemporary, Musical Theater, Jazz and Hiphop under various teachers including Lorena Aranda, Julio Fuentes, Don Flores and Beau Sem .
He Choreographed and competed with the esteemed Portland area Hip Hop studio, Groove Nation between 2009 – 2012, and began teaching at MVP Dance Elite in 2013, and coaching/directing their pre-professional company RAW in 2014 to present. Charlie is a master of Hip Hop fundamentals and creates fun, upbeat hip hop choreography for dance ensembles across the Pacific Northwest.
Kristen DeBellis
Kristen..has a background in dance, voice and theater. She has been seen on stage in various venues with credits including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, and others. After training at All That Jazz from the age of 12, Kristen became an Advanced Production member, choreographing her first nationally award winning piece for the group, “Sleep Now”, when she was only 18 years old.
That same year, she was named top senior dancer and earned an EDGE scholarship from Urban Jamm National Dance Conventions. Her piece, “Marrakesh” captured the highest national award for excellence in choreographic achievement, and the Performers of the Year title for All That Jazz at the LADF finals in 2002.
Her choreography has also been seen at the Craterian Theater in numerous “It’s About Dance” concerts, and on other stages across Oregon, Washington, California, Florida and Europe. Kristen is known for her creative, “out-of-the-box” choreography, and cutting edge style which has the predictable quality of drawing her audiences into the stories she tells through movement. In 2022 Kristen became the Director and resident choreographer for southern Oregon’s premiere professional contemporary dance company, Southern Oregon Dance Collective where she has continued her creative and performance journey f