Sean Tomerlin

Sean Tomerlin began his dance training at the Severance Fresno Ballet School under the instruction of Christopher and Francoise Doyle and Carla Stallings. He has performed with Fresno Ballet, Ballet Met, Columbus Dance Theater, and Dance Kaleidoscope. In 2009 he received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. This is his second season with ARC.

Elizabeth Malone

Elizabeth Malone, began her dance training in Bellingham, Washington. She continued her studies with Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Joffrey Ballet. She has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. This is her second season with ARC Dance.

Hamilton Nieh

Hamilton Nieh, was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Hong Kong. He received his dance training from Victor Ullate in Madrid, Spain and at the San Francisco Ballet School. He has danced with Victor Ullate Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Alberta Ballet, and Luna Negra Dance Theater. He has created roles in the works of Eduardo Vilaro, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Francisco Aviņa and Stephanie Martinez, Kirk Peterson, Peter Quanz, Jean Grand Maître, Helen Pickett and Emily Molnar. This is his third season with ARC Dance.

Kristine Girardi

Kristine Girardi, trained at San Francisco Ballet, Contra Costa Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Later, she moved to Italy and danced with Associazione di Balletto Classico under the direction of Marinel Stefanescu and Liliana Cosi. Krissy has been teaching dance in Seattle since 1997. She is on the faculty of Arc School of Ballet. This is her fifth season with ARC.

Kate Chamberlin

Kate Chamberlin was born and raised in Seattle, WA, where she studied dance at Cornish College's Preparatory Dance Department. This spring she graduated from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program where she performed works by Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Bill T. Jones, Larry Keigwin and others. This is her first season with ARC.

Geoffrey Kropp

Geoffrey Kropp began his training in his hometown of Bakersfield, CA. He went on to study at the Rock School for Dance Education and Pacific Northwest Ballet. He has performed with Kansas City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and ARC Dance. He has performed lead roles in works by George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Yuri Possokhov, Todd Bolender, Bruce Marks, and Antony Tudor, among others. This is his first season with ARC Dance.

Melissa Bourkas

Melissa Bourkas began her dance training at the National Ballet School of Canada and graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance from California institute of the Arts under the direction of Stephan Koplowitz. In 2008, she worked with choreographer David Gordon performing Trying Times Remembered at Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) and Redcat (LA). Melissa moved to Chicago in 2009 as a scholarship recipient at the Lou Conte Dance Studio in Chicago and later joined Luna Negra Dance Theater. This is her first season with ARC.

Meredith Dulaney

Meredith Dulaney is originally from Southern California and began her dance training with Orange County High School of the Arts. She continued her training with San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She has performed with Nevada Ballet Theater and Ballet Tucson under the direction of Mary Beth Cabana. She has worked closely with Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner receiving personal coaching in roles such as Myrta in Giselle, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, among numerous others. This is Meredith's first season with ARC Dance.

Mariko Nagashima

Mariko Nagashima received her early dance training in Spokane, WA through the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus. She continued her training with Ballet Idaho, Summer Dance Lab, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She recently earned a BFA in Ballet and a BS in Biology from the University of Utah. This is her first season with ARC Dance.