Sean McLeod is an Executive Producer, Award Winning Businessman, and American Choreographer whose work spans more than 30 years and 3 continents including New York City, across the US, and internationally to the West Indies, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Sean is founder of Reaching for Higher Ground Consulting – a Communication, Performance, and Development Company,…
Gregory has an M.A. in Contemporary Dance Education from the Frankfurt University of Music & Performing Arts (HfMDK) and a B.F.A. from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. He has a 4-year classical vocal music education, and also holds a Shiatsu Practitioner Diploma from the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has performed for Punchdrunk…
Thomas Warfield is the founder/artistic director of PeaceArt International (a local/global outreach organization using the arts to foster world peace), director of dance at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, associate director of Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre and vocal soloist at Unity Church in Rochester, NY and the Chilmark…
Lorienne Beals is an accomplished international performer and educator. Having trained at Purchase Conservatory of Dance, Studio Harmonique in Paris, and the New York Institute of Dance & Education, Lorienne has performed and taught internationally for more than fifteen years. She has been the VP of Operations for the New York Institute of Dance and Education, core faculty…
Jerami Kipp, is Director of Services of the New York Institute of Dance & Education and the New York Dance Festival, holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase, and is a founding choreographer for the Sean McLeod Dance Experience debut in Basingstoke, England. After years of direct…
Devon McLeod is a business minded, Marketing & Consulting executive who holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from New York University Stern School of Business. She is a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar from NYU, President’s Service Award Winner, and John Stevenson Leadership and Community Building Award recipient. Her expertise lies in master organizational…
Kierstyn Zaykoski is a New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellow at the School of American Ballet. Kierstyn is a Principal Soloist of Classical Ballet and Modern Dance, and a choreographer with the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre. In a tour through Europe, she premiered a new choreographic work Oublié: Le Don de la Pandémie, for Pointe, exploring…
Hana Ginsburg Tirosh is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and has a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Teaching from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She is the New York City Director for the New York Institute of Dance & Education (NYIDE), as well as…
Karen Brown spent 22 years as a principal ballerina, master teacher, and lecturer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) under the direction of the iconic founder, Arthur Mitchell. . Ms. Brown has been certified as an ABT® Teacher in Pre-Primary through Level 7; 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the Vaganova Syllabus, and Level 1, 2…
Lauren Farrugia is the Australian Liaison for the New York Institute of Dance & Education, First Company for Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre McLeod Technique and Reinforced Motor Function ® Certified Teacher. As an international performer, she has performed in many famous arenas in Australia and the United States including Sydney Opera House, The Sydney State Theatre,…