Dance

Caroline Fermin is a New York based performer, educator, and choreographer. She attended The Juilliard School (BFA in Dance) and Wilson College (MFA in Choreography). She is a founding member of Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance where she toured and performed nationally and internationally, at theaters such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce, New York City Center, and The Palais de Chaillot in Paris. Caroline later became rehearsal director and Education Chair for Gallim, teaching classes and running residencies at universities across the nation. She has also danced with James Sewell Ballet, Sidra Bell, Damien Woetzel, The Resonance Collective, Chamber Dance Ensemble, Rain Ross, and Jeanette Stoner. Her choreography has been presented across the United States and internationally, most often in collaboration with other artists. 

Caroline has been a teaching artist for New York City Center and Juilliard, and is an advocate for arts in communities. She served as Director of Culture for Dancewave in Brooklyn and works with civic engagement programs such as Arts Ignite (formerly ASTEP), to create programming for artists and activists of all ages. Her community projects have taken her to her hometown of New Orleans to bring aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A multi-pronged effort, The New Orleans Project included teaching, manual labor, community concerts, and cultural exchange with locals. It remained a funded project at The Juilliard School for a decade. Caroline currently teaches classical modern and somatic-based improvisation at Barnard College/Columbia University and at Marymount Manhattan College.

Director, entrepreneur, dancer, choreographer, model, and educator Barbadian-American artist, Jamal Callender is a Princess Grace award winner in dance and graduate of the Juilliard School. He has danced in several companies including Atlanta Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Hispanico, National Theater Mannheim and Ballet Bern and Riva & Repele company. In 2014, Jamal founded the Barbados Dance Project with the mission of bringing awareness to the importance of dance by educating, collaborating, and engaging with the Barbadian community through movement offering tuition-free service. Jamal has taught for companies worldwide including Ballet Hispanico, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Bern, Riva & Repele company, Ailey II and IT danza. He has also taught at dance programs including MOVE (NYC), PAR en Dansa (Spain) and New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA). Jamal’s choreography has been shown in the US, Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, Germany, Spain, and Seoul South Korea.

Jamal has also been seen in many commercial campaigns including DIOR, BMW, Mercedes, Pandora and many more.

Ryan P. Casey is a “whimsically inventive” (The Boston Globe) performer, choreographer, teaching artist, and writer in the greater Boston area specializing in joyful, rhythm-driven movement. His dancing has been featured on So You Think You Can Dance, in an episode of the Audible podcast Authorized: Firsts, in a museum exhibit about shoes, in a music video for a Spanish pop star, and numerous other platforms.

Apart from his solo work, Ryan was a founding member of Dorrance Dance and has also danced for Aaron Tolson, Billy Siegenfeld, Adrienne Hawkins, and Lorraine Chapman. As an educator, he has worked with studios, universities, festivals, intensives, arts programs, and youth companies across the country. In support of his choreography for his company, Off Beat, he has received multiple grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 

Ryan is a frequent contributor to Dance Magazine (who previously named him one of their "25 to Watch") and has also been published in Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, and the Journal of Dance Education. He currently teaches at Endicott College and is a proud alumnus of The Dance Inn, The School at Jacob's Pillow, YoungArts, New York University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.