Marika Brussels

Falls Like Rain

Marika Brussel is a contemporary ballet choreographer. Informed by her background as a fiction writer, she utilizes storytelling in her dance-making. She tells contemporary narratives through ballet, showing our inter-connectedness and equity as humans. Her ballets have been commissioned by ARC Dance, Bay Pointe Ballet, Emote Dance Theater, Berkeley Ballet Theater, and Ballet Theater of New Mexico. She has shown work at festivals around the country, including Dancing in the Park, Oakland Dances, West Wave, Brooklyn Ballet’s First Look, PushFest, Spectordance and SJChoreoFest. Marika has held residencies at the Dresher Ensemble Residency, Moving Arts SF and SAFEhouse Arts. She has twice been part of ODC's Pilot Project, and was a choreographer in Doug Varone's Devices 5. Her other awards include a Fleishhacker Opportunity Grant and a grant from The Classical Girl. Marika is a 2019 recipient of the University of North Carolina Schools of the Arts Fellowship for Contemporary Ballet.

Kevin Jenkins

Light in the Mist, Farewell My Lovely

Dance Magazine has praised Kevin’s work as “riveting” and he travels throughout the country choreographing for State Street Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, the School of Ballet Arizona, SUNY Purchase, CPYB, Island Moving Company, Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, and Big Muddy Dance among others. He has served on faculty at Boston Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet School, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the University of San Diego, and Master Ballet Academy. His choreography has been performed on the Inside/Out Series at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and he has been awarded residencies with Djerassi and the National Choreographers Initiative.

Duncan Lyle

Aberrance

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Lyle began his training at Camberwell District Ballet with Janina Ciunovas, Susan Thomson, Toivo Taves and Barbara Nimmo. Lyle joined the corps de ballet of Boston Ballet in 2010 and the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in 2012. His repertoire with the Company includes one of the Three Ivans in Aurora’s Wedding, a Step-Sister in Cinderella, Village Notary in La Fille mal gardée, Kaschei in Firebird, Wilfred in Giselle, Standard Bearer in The Green Table, St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre, Drosslemeyer, the Mouse King, the Russian Dance and Mother Ginger in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Fortune and the Indian Prince in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Lead Czardas and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Sebastian in The Tempest and roles in After You, Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Dream within a Dream (deferred), In the Upper Room and Raymonda Divertissements. He created Leandre in Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, Ladislav Slivovitz in Whipped Cream, a leading role in AFTERITE and a featured role in Songs of Bukovina.