Breton Tyner-Bryan

Breton Tyner-Bryan is a graduate of the University of Utah with a BFA in Ballet Performance. She has performed with Hartford Ballet, Utah Ballet, Kunst-Stoff, Project Agora, Labayen Dance, DO NOT DANCE UK, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater.  Additionally she has performed works by Marius Petipa, Kirk Peterson, Alonzo King, Robert Moses, Charles Moulton, Donald Byrd, and Cathleen McCarthy.  She has had the great pleasure of working with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.  In January 2010 she was invited to Norsborg, Sweden Cullberg Ballet.  Breton received her training at the School of the Hartford Ballet and Ballet West Academy.  She has taught/ choreographed for Brigham Young University, The Place(London), DO NOT DANCE UK, Dance Base Scotland, Students of Telford College(Edinburgh), Dance Mission Youth Program, ODC Youth Program, Shawl -Anderson Dance Center and Youth Ensemble, School of the Arts SF, LINES Ballet/Alonzo King Dance Center, LINES Ballet School, Professional Ballet School, and College Preparatory School of Berkeley, CA.

Robert Henry Johnson

Robert is a dancer and playwright who mix movement style and literary influences with equal fluidity. The son of jazz singer Lady Mem'fis and guitarist Robert Gonzales, he was one of the first students to graduate from San Francisco's School of the Performing Arts. He attended the San Francisco Ballet School on full scholarship. His performances are an arresting mix of muscular virtuosity, manic energy and naked emotion. In addition to founding the Robert Henry Johnson Dance Company in 1993, Johnson has created works for Oakland Ballet, Bavarian State Opera Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater and others.

Kyle Limin

San Francisco native, Kyle Limin, is a contemporary hip hop dancer and choreographer in his fifth year of contributing to the dance community. He has taught and worked with some of the Bay Area's most established hip hop companies: Funk Beyond Control, Mind Over Matter, Funkanometry SF. In 2010, he received a BA in Dance from SF State and gained residency at City Dance, as well as Shoebox Studios, teaching contemporary hip hop. He has performed and led workshops throughout California, Colorado, and New Jersey and has recently started his own company, Call It Art. This is his first season working with Raissa Simpson.

Jetta Martin

A Bay Area performer and choreographer, Jetta began her dance training with Grace Doty at Berkeley City Ballet. She has also studied with Oakland Ballet, Lines Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Limon, Jacob’s Pillow, American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet and the Dance Theater of Harlem schools. After graduating from Harvard, Jetta began to pursue her career as an artist and teacher with Oakland Ballet. She has been on faculty at Henry Berg’s The Ballet Studio and at Shawl Anderson Modern Dance Center. In addition to her continued work with Push Dance Company, Jetta is also a member of Mark Foehringer Dance Project and Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble, as well as a freelance contemporary dance choreographer. Most recently Jetta has performed at the Zeum Theater in SF, ODC Theater in SF, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Beckett, MA, the Joyce Soho in New York and the Cairo Opera House in Egypt. Her choreography has been performed at Dance Mission Theater (SF), Berkeley’s Earth Day (Berkeley), Mark Foehringer's Dancing in the Park (SF), Harvard University (MA), Counterpulse (SF), The Ballet Studio (SF) and Shawl Anderson (Berkeley). Jetta's work has been commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora and by the Black Choreographer’s Festival.

Travis Santell Rowland holds BA degrees in both Drama (Popular Theatre) and Dance (Performance & Choreography) from San Francisco State University, where he served as Student Artistic Director for the University Dance Theater in 2005/6, and was honored by the School of Music & Dance with the award of Outstanding Student in Performance. His solo performance and choreography of Residual Sugar (2006) was featured in the American College Dance Festival Association's Southwest Regional Conference Gala Awards Concert in January 2007. He began training in hip hop dance, and went on to study modern and contemporary forms. He creates his own work under TrAvIsMoVeS, and co-directs for requisitedance.  He has performed with Paco Gomes & Dancers, Sideshow Physical Theatre, Emily Keeler, Printz Dance Project, TalisMANIC Physical Theatre, Aura Fischbeck Dance, Natalie Greene, and Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble. He currently enjoys creating and performing with Cathleen McCarthy & Dancers, Erika Chong Shuch, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Push Dance Company, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater.

Matthew Wickett, born and raised in Oakland, CA has been dancing for six years under the direction of Carla Sevice, Artistic Director of Dance-A-Vision Entertainment. With Hip Hop as his foundation of dance, he has ventured into more creative movements such as Jazz and Modern. Through his dance experience he has performed in numerous shows and yearly venues such as; Oakland's Art & Soul Festival, Miss Oakland's Beauty Pageant, The Wiz (Belasco Theatre Company), and San Francisco's "Jewels on a Square". He has recently performed with Zaccho Dance Theatre under the Artistic Director Joanna Haigood. Matthew absorbs the dance life fully and continues to reach even higher goals through dance.