Fall 2024 Performance
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Jane Mok Photography
Choreographers
Michael Foley
Michael has enjoyed a diverse career as a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist for over 30 years. He received his undergraduate degree from Bates College and his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington where he performed in works by Mark Morris, Alwin Nikolais, Stephen Petronio and Hanya Holm, among others. He has taught at over 100 universities, academic institutions, dance festivals and private studios globally. Foley received a Fulbright scholarship from the US Department of State for his research and teaching in Mexico with Delfos Danza Contemporànea, a Kennedy Center/American Theater Festival Award for Best Direction of a Play (Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses), and was a Ruth Page Visiting Artist at Harvard University. Foley is currently a Professor of Dance at the University of South Florida, and the director of the USF Dance in Paris Programs, which has brought over 375 dance majors from 25 American colleges and universities to Paris since 2007.
Anna Hughlett
Anna began dance training in her hometown at Kansas City Ballet School before receiving additional training at Kansas School of Classical Ballet and attending summer programs at The Royal Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and others. In 2019, she joined Boston Ballet School as a Trainee under Margaret Tracey and entered the Graduate Program a season later, training with Kathleen Mitchell and Peter Stark. During this time, she performed in the Company’s productions of Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Chaconne, and danced featured roles in Boston Ballet II performances, including works by Balanchine, Petipa, Jorma Elo, and Mikko Nissinen. Anna then danced with Grand Rapids Ballet for the 2022-2023 season and in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker in 2023. She has choreographed works for Boston Ballet II, Boston Ballet School’s Graduate Program, Grand Rapids Ballet, and as an independent artist in Kansas City.
Emily Kikta
Emily is a soloist with New York City Ballet, having joined in 2010. She was a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow for women leaders in dance at NYU. As a dancer with NYCB, she has performed featured roles in many works, including George Balanchine’s Apollo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rubies, Divertimento No. 15, Symphony in C, Kammermusik No. 2, and Episodes. She has also originated featured roles in Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom, Jamar Robert’s Emanon, Kyle Abraham’s Love Letter on Shuffle, Pam Tanowitz’s Bartok Ballet, Sidra Bell’s Suspended Animation, and Peter Walker’s ten in seven. In 2019, she co-founded her own dance video production company, KW Creative with Peter Walker where she serves as a producer, director, choreographer, editor, and performer. Emily graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2017 with a Bachelors in Communications and completed her Masters in Business Administration from PACE University in 2022.
Pemberley Ann Olson
Pemberley is a professional dancer with San Francisco Ballet. As a student, she performed featured child roles and later, adult Corps roles in the company’s productions of Helgi Tomasson’s The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake, Balanchine's Serenade, Stars and Stripes, and A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, and Wheeldon’s Cinderella. She was awarded the SFB Choreographic Fellowship twice, at ages 15 and 17. Olson was offered an apprenticeship with San Francisco Ballet in 2020 and joined the Corps de Ballet in 2022. Since then, she has performed in works by William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Aszure Barton, Alexei Ratmansky, Dwight Rhoden, Anna Lopez Ochoa, Jamar Roberts, Cathy Marston, Arielle Smith, Claudia Schreier, and more. In 2023, Olson was the first recipient of the Creation House Choreographic Initiative (ChoreoLab), allowing her to choreograph for a year on SFBallet students.