Summer Programs Faculty
Workshop/Mini Intensive Faculty
Annalise Wood
Annalise is from Windsor, Colorado. During her ballet training, her parents, Deneice Dyer, and Ixchel Levendosky served as impactful mentors and paved the way for her dream of dancing professionally. In high school, Annalise danced with Front Range Classical Ballet Academy, Canyon Concert Ballet, and International Ballet School, and attended summers at Houston Ballet Academy. She was lucky enough to be granted a scholarship to attend the University of Utah after high school, where she completed degree tracks in Ballet (BFA) and in Psychology (BS). While completing her degrees, she had the pleasure of joining Ballet West, SLC’s premiere professional ballet company, as a trainee. Here, she danced repertoire like Jekyll and Hyde, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Symphony in C, Second Before the Ground, and The Nutcracker. She was promoted to Ballet West II in 2025 and to Apprentice in 2026. Alongside ballet, Annalise loves reading, tea, biking, bouldering, sketching, and appreciating all types of art!
Intermediate/Advanced
Grace Cooper
Grace Cooper is an NYC based interdisciplinary performer and creator. She is a company member with The Equus Projects and Alpine Artist Collective. She has also performed with HOLDTIGHT, IMPACT Dance Company, and Control Group Productions.
She has presented work in dance festivals in NYC and Colorado including PhysFest, Fertile Ground, Body/Speak, and Convergence. In 2026, her evening length work, “I Can Almost Reach You” will be produced by Spoke the Hub (NYC) and Fort Collins Fringe Festival (Colorado). Her work is deeply engaged with her identity as a queer woman, and the position of the self within the human and more-than-human world. She is a teaching assistant to Ellen Robbins and performs alongside her alumni. She holds a BA in Dance and English from Colorado State University.
Contemporary WorkshopSummer Intensive Faculty
Robert Sher-Machherndl
Contemporary/ChoreographyInternationally renowned choreographer, and an Austrian native, Robert has been a Principal Dancer, Choreographer, Master-Teacher and Artistic Director. As Principal Dancer with Dutch National Ballet & Bavarian State Ballet he danced leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and more. He has collaborated with such notable names as Rudolf Nureyev, Jiri Kylian, and Hans van Manen.
Robert is a founder of critically-acclaimed Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet and has created over 25 evening-length works danced by renowned artists including Misty Copeland. He has created choreography for Finnish National Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Santa Fe Dance Festival, Ballet Next, American College Dance Festival, and more.
Alla Latchininsky
Music EducationBIO coming soon!
Character DanceAnneke DeJong
BIO coming soon!
Amy Buxton
Anatomy and StrengthBIO coming soon!
Kathleen Vreeland
Ballet TechniqueKathy Vreeland is Founder and Director of the contemporary ballet company, Reformation Dance Company, since 2017, which initially formed in Cheyenne, Wyoming and has since relocated to Denver, Colorado. For ten years prior, Kathy proudly served as inaugural Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer to the only professional ballet company in the state of Wyoming, Ballet Wyoming, which was originally formed as Ballet 7220 in Laramie, Wyoming. She owned and founded Laramie Dance Center in2005-2013 in Laramie, Wyoming. She is the 2019 Wyoming Arts Council Choreography Fellowship recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Grants Panelist and currently teaches ballet/pointe at Kinesis Dance in Boulder.