Facilitator bios

Community Study Halls | Summer 2025

Audrey Johnson

photo by Robbie Sweeny

Audrey Johnson is a dance artist based in Oakland, CA|Ohlone land, and grew up around Detroit, MI|Anishinaabe land. Audrey experiments with improvisation and embodied time travel in her performance, choreographic, and teaching work in refusal of colonized time and space. 

Her work has been presented throughout the Bay Area and Detroit by CounterPulse, ODC, Gravity, FRESH Festival, Queering Dance Festival, 2727 California Street, the Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Sidewalk Arts Festival Detroit, and Daring Dances.

Audrey has performed in the companies and projects of artists Gerald Casel, Jennifer Harge, Biba Bell, Detour Productions, Stephanie Hewett, among others. She holds a BFA in Dance from Wayne State University, and was a co-founder of Collective Sweat Detroit. 

Erin Yen

photo by Kat Lin

Erin Yen is a mixed-race professional dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer.  Erin is the founder of contemporary dance company Dragons Dance, 501c3.  Erin’s choreography, an expression of her lived experiences and diverse movement history, has been featured at the FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival, ODC’s State of Play, ODC Pilot Program 73, RAWdance’s Concept Series, SAFEhouse, and Levy Salon.  Most recently, Erin has begun to teach Contemporary, Contemporary Floorwork and other movement workshops for adult dancers in the Bay Area. 

Identities that live a little outside of the paragraph above: Erin is a pet parent to two fluffy black cats, an avid meal prepper, an amateur golfer, a Skyrim player, a lighting designer/technician, and an audience member (mostly for dance shows!) Erin holds a BFA with distinction in Dance from the Ohio State University. She is fluent in Laban Movement Analysis.

Jenna Marie

Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Jenna Marie (she/they) began their dance training at Olga Kresin’s Ballet School and continued at The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She was a scholarship student at The Ailey School, where she went on to join Ailey II.

Jenna has performed with renowned companies including Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, MOMIX, The Metropolitan Opera, and Ballet Hispánico. They have appeared in Amy Seiwert’s Imagery SKETCH Series (11 and 12) and have been a guest artist with The Black Iris Project, Mark Foehringer Dance Project SF, and San Jose Dance Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty production.

Her commercial work includes performances with Beyoncé, Romeo Santos, Nile Rodgers, and Betsey Johnson. Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2019, Jenna has worked with Post:ballet, Robert Moses’ Kin, Marika Brussel, Christy Funsch, and Garrett + Moulton Productions. They currently dance with ODC/Dance, which they joined in 2022.

Jocelyn Reyes

photo by Guillermo Webster

Jocelyn Reyes (she/her) is a Latin American contemporary choreographer based in San Francisco. A first generation LA native, Reyes holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a B.A. in Dance from UCLA, and is the artistic director of REYES Dance. Reyes’ works mine her past experiences with poverty, domestic abuse, religion and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture, aiming to discover new tools for moving forward, building healthier relationships, and cultivating hope. Her choreography blends everyday gestures, athleticism, humor, Latin social dance, and storytelling into a contemporary movement base.

Since founding REYES Dance in 2017, Reyes has produced and presented full evening length works at ODC Theater, Joe Goode Annex and SAFE House Arts, and since 2021 has curated Dance Thrill Fest, an annual dance film festival featuring new thrilling films by bay area artists. Reyes’ work has been supported by Dancers’ Group CASH Grant Award, California Arts Council, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission and the FACT/SF Co-production grant, among others. Reyes was a 2021 - 2023 RAWdance Radiate fellow, a 2024 ODC RDI awardee, and an artist in residence with Berkeley Ballet Theater (2023), ODC’s Queer & BIPOC Space Initiative (2023), Zaccho Dance Theater (2024), and Paul Dresher Ensemble (2024). Most recently, Reyes was commissioned to present new work for this summer’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Choreofest and for MERDE Project 2025.

Megan Kurashige +

Shannon Kurashige

photo by Natalia Roberts

Megan and Shannon Kurashige are sisters and the co-directors of Sharp & Fine, a San Francisco-based dance theater company creating devised storytelling that provokes deep feeling and instigates transformation. We believe that telling and receiving a story is a potent act of shared empathy. Sharp & Fine's work combines exuberant choreography, physical rigor, spoken text, live music, and surreal elements that invite you to discover your own meaning.

Megan and Shannon have been commissioned by Kunoichi Productions, Robert Moses' KIN, Oakland Ballet, the US/Japan Cultural Trade Network, and Soundwave, and their work has been presented by FACT/SF, the RAWdance CONCEPT series, and the Merde Project. As dancers, they worked with Liss Fain Dance, Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Christian Burns, Alex Ketley, Ballet Pacifica, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.

gizeh muñiz

photo by Marian Himburg

gizeh muñiz is a movement, teaching, and performing artist currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. Through their work, they create spaces that allow them to play and divest from concepts of linearity in a creative process, with the intention of practicing freedom. gizeh’s choreographic and teaching work has been shared in the United States, Mexico and Europe in festivals such as P.O.R.C.H in Germany,  Improspeckje in Croatia, GUSH in San Francisco and 4x4 in Tijuana, to mention some. gizeh is curator and producer of Gatherings class series in the Bay Area.