Kat Sullivan was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where her passion for dance began at a very young age. Starting out as a heavily competitive dancer and performer, Kat shifted her focus to more technical training by joining The Pennsylvania School of the Performing Arts as a full-time company member in 2008. Performing at the Philadelphia Fringe Fest and at ComeUnity in collaboration with Lustig Dance Theatre, she has studied dance under Kristin Scott Naylor, Richard Pierlon, Denise LaPoint, and others. Eventually Kat began Classical vocal training under the tutelage of soprano Maria Pappas, later to perform in a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Esmerelda. Kat now choreographs and teaches at her former performance school, guiding young dancers on their own performance journeys. 

Megan Carter was born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia in Furlong, Pennsylvania where she began her formal dance training at the age of 3. She grew up training in Bucks County at Ballet Arts of Bucks County under the direction of Kathleen Dwyer as well as at Dance Arts Collaborative under the direction of Reina Faith. She continued her training by moving, first, to Pittsburgh in 2020 to train at Point Park University as a BFA Dance Major with a modern concentration, performing works by Daniel Herman and Pearlann Porter. After a year, in 2021, Megan moved to New York City to train in the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program. During her time at The Ailey School and in the BFA program, Megan has had the privilege to have performed works by Rebecca Margolick, Hollie Wright, Maleek Washington, Adrienne Hurd, Roderick George, Earl Mosley, and Rena Butler. Outside of the BFA program, Megan has had the honor to perform works by Tracie Stanfield and Lauren Pagano as well as perform in the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade with the Sharpe Family Singers. She has also presented her own choreography in New York City at The Ailey School and JCE Jazz Dance Project at Peridance Capezio Dance Center. Megan is a 2024 graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and in Digital Technology and Emerging Media in May of 2024. Megan is currently a company member with Project Moshen Dance Company in Philadelphia, PA and represented by YOU Talent Agency in New York City.

Olivia Hagen Cianciulli started ballet at the age of 3. She trained at numerous schools before her graduation from Interlochen Arts Academy including: Turning Point, Central Wisconsin School of Ballet and Academie de la Danse. Mrs. Cianciulli had the opportunity to train internationally in Krakow, Poland at the Krakow Zaradova Skola Baletova and in London, England at the Royal Academy of Dancing. Mrs. Cianciulli has attended numerous summer intensives including ABT Detroit, MI, ABT Orange County,CA, ABT NYC,NY, Joffrey Chicago, IL and Joffrey NYC,NY. Olivia has worked with wonderful teachers along the way most notably Irina Kolplakova, Vladimir Seminov, Yumelia Garcia, Charthel Arther, Francis Corkle and so many others. Professionally, Olivia started her career with Ballet Theatre of Maryland and went on to dance with Charlottesville Ballet and the Louisville Ballet.

Lisa Botalico, Director/Principal/Dancer/Choreographer of Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre has performed in theatres and festivals throughout NJ; she toured the USA for the National Theater of the Performing Arts as Director/Principal Dancer of La Compañía Folklórica Latina and was featured dancer for Alborada in NJN’s Emmy award winning program, The History of the Spanish Guitar. Lisa is Founder/Director/Instructor of the Arts Council of Princeton’s Youth and Adult Flamenco Dance Program (1999-present) & their 2014 Artist in Residence. She has been a guest lecturer/instructor for Rider University and taught Flamenco at Princeton and Rutgers Universities as well as many dance residences throughout NJ. Lisa was nominated for Best Choreographer Perry Award from the New Jersey Association of Community Theaters for the NE USA Premier of the Gypsy King’s musical, Zorro (Kelsey Theater). Lisa was choreographer/dancer for Boheme Opera Company’s production of the opera Carmen
performed at Kendall Hall TCNJ; she performed her solo choreography, Soleá at NJPAC in the
JerseyMoves Dance Series; created and performed the role of the Gypsy Fortune teller as guest artist for Roxey Ballet’s Carmen Ballet; presented choreography at Morven Museum and
Grounds for Sculpture. Lisa conceived and directed the History Lecture/Demo: Remembering
Paul Robeson, Spain 1938 for the Paul Robeson Center of the Arts in Princeton. In 2024 the Arts
Council of Princeton honored Lisa for her 25 th Anniversary of founding their Flamenco Dance
Program by naming their dance studio for her: Lisa Botalico Dance Studio.
 

Olivia was three years old when she began dancing at Position One School of Dance in her hometown of Portsmouth, RI. In high school, she joined the Newport Academy of Ballet, home of Newport Contemporary Ballet, with whom she performed in the Nutcracker at Rosecliff Mansion. In 2017, Olivia graduated summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College with her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Spanish. At Muhlenberg, she performed works by Jeffrey Peterson, Teresa VanDenend Sorge, Megan Flynn, and Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Orion Duckstein.

After graduation, Olivia moved to Philadelphia, where she performed with esteemed companies and choreographers such as Anne-Marie Mulgrew, Grounded Aerial, Matter Movement Group, Asya Zlatina, and Anito Gavino. In 2022, Olivia joined Yu.S.Artistry as a company dancer and associate director, where she performed works by Artistic Director Yuki Ishiguro and guest choreographer Yoshito Sakuraba. Olivia has appeared as a guest artist with Aru dell’Arte in Washington D.C. and was one of Ballare Carmel’s inaugural Dance Fellows, where she was delighted to work with Alex Ketley, Nicole Hennington, and Lillian Barbeito. Olivia speaks fluent Spanish, holds a Level 1 Bungee Dance Certification from Grounded Aerial, and is a teaching artist for Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers’ CHI Dance Program.

Graciela was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and sgrince she was little has been surrounded by pencils and colors and music.  Seeing Graciela Perrone dance, sing, and paint , her flamenco is a truly evocative experience. Her voice is majestically authentic and her body is aggressively graceful when dancing, the physical embodiment of the music it represents. Her music is not her only love; in fact she draws off it for her first love, painting. Bold and compelling, her oil paintings capture the expressions and movement of flamenco with passion. She has found a way to take these dramatically different art forms and blend them together as if they were always meant to coexist. "When I paint, the oil and the flamenco dance eclipse together transforming passions into other passions", Graciela said, "When I dance I paint, when I paint I dance."

In 1997, Perrone emigrated to the United States where her continued quest to develop her art guided her to discover flamenco dancing. Flamenco dancing would become her most valuable source of inspiration. She eventually settled in Louisville, KY where she joined the Ballet Español. Ballet Español was a flamenco company directed by the acclaimed dancer, Mara Maldonado who single handedly brought flamenco to Louisville. Perrone taught and danced in the ballet for several years and has studied flamenco in Spain with Juan Parra, in Granada, Carmen de las Cuevas School, in Cadiz with Concha Baras.

Graciela has been performing  in several places Caffe Classico, Jazz factory, with the Louisville orchestra, Western university in Kentucky, University of Louisville,  performed with the San Diego Symphony as part of their Summer Pops Concert Series. On the same program, the celebrated Romero Family guitar performed.. Performed with Louisville and Cincinnati opera, Conrad hotel in Punta del Este , Uruguay, she was invited from the Consulate of Uruguay to represent her country With Paintings and Dance, at the Iberoamerican exhibit at the Robert Morris Gallery at the University in Chicago . She has been performing, with Tim Rise (saxophonist of the rolling Stones) and his Rolling Stones Project, in Louisville Ky and Chicago, New York, Michigan. She performed with Woodsongs old time radio hour. She has songs of her cd "Graciela" in two soundtracks of the movie, "Keep your distance", directed by Stu Pollard and "Higher Ground", a mountain Culture film.Graciela Also has been in several educational programs.