Alex & Victoria Arizpe
Uptown Productions

Patricia Astorga
Sabor Mexico

Robin Rettig Carlson
Dance Force Productions

Gary Connor
Wyld Styl

Kenneth Epting
Exclamation Dance Company

Harrison Guy
Urban Souls Dance Company

Monica Hand
Ocular Expressions

Reetu Jain
Samudra Fusion Dance Company

Barbara King
Barbara King’s Dance Company

Andrea Maskos
Dance Houston

Shakira Massood-Ali (Debbie Scheel)
Solange

Amber Thornton
Bay Area Ballet & Theatre

Tesia Truitt
Planet Funk

Sophia Torres
Psophonia Dance Company

Adrian Walter
Tartanic

Shawn Welling
Planet Funk

Janie Yao
Dance of Asian America

Janie Yao
Dance of Asian America

Janie Yao trained with Mitsi Dancing School and the Houston Ballet in Chinese Classical and Folk Dance and Ballet. Ms. Yao is also a certified teacher of the Beijing Dance Academy Chinese Dance Syllabus. She earned a BFA in Dance Performance from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Ballet, Modern and Jazz. During her studies at SMU, Ms. Yao worked with numerous world renowned dancers and master choreographers and choreographed many works for the Meadow’s Brown Bag Series and other events. Her choreography has been invited to many prestigious events such as the Dallas Morning News: Dance for the Planet, grand opening of Cirque de Soleil: Dralion in Houston, the grand opening of the Meadows Museum of Dallas with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain, and etc. She is the founder and current executive and artistic director of Dance of Asian America, a non-profit dance company established in 2001.