Dancers
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Kaylee Mahan
Kaylee graduated from Roger Williams University with a major in dance. She has experience teaching adults as well as children ages 2-teens in creative movement, ballet, tap, acro, jazz, and modern genres. She holds the Acrobatic Arts Module 1 Certification as well as a NYU Performing Arts Industry Essentials Certification. During college she studied abroad in London and trained under Stephen Pelton, Tory Trotter, and Renaud Wiser. She is the founder of Collective Moments Dance Company. Kaylee has most recently choreographed for NACHMOBoston 2023, DanceWorks in Progress Metamorphosis Dance Company, Dance For World Community Festival, and aMaSSiT choreography lab. She has performed in numerous productions including works by Shura Baryshnikov, Sean Currran, Danielle Davidson, Ori Flomin, Christina Robson, and Renaud Wiser.

Kelsey Gibbons
Kelsey has trained in dance for 14 years under various instructors, including Brittany Lombardi, Katie Praetsch, Jessica Furtado and Ashley O’Malley. A competition dancer since age 6, she has extensive experience in tap, jazz, contemporary, musical theatre, ballet and hip hop. Though she enjoys all styles of movement, she is particularly inspired by and drawn to tap dance. Kelsey currently attends Springfield College as a dance performance major, where she trains under the direction of Sarah Zahender.
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Laporsha Dees
Laporsha discovered her passion for dance at age 6. Growing up, she explored dance in various forms, including liturgical dance through her local church, Latin dance, step and hip hop. She graduated from Tufts University with a minor in dance, where she trained in jazz, contemporary, modern, tap and Caribbean dance. She also served as captain of ROTI & RUM, the university’s sole Caribbean dance team for three out of her four years there. Her involvement with this team solidified her desire to pursue a professional dance career and explore her creative potential. Post college, she continues to perform with Collective Moments Dance Company. Laporsha has most recently choreographed for Nachmo 2024, Tess Saoirse Dance Company, and aMaSSiT Choreography Lab. Known for her unique fusion style, she seamlessly blends moves from multiple dance forms, creating unique and captivating pieces. Laporsha believes that dance is meant to be shared and respected, and she strives to learn from different professionals and the rich histories of the dances she incorporates into her work.

Samantha Witham
Samantha began her dance training at the age of three in North Carolina. Her training and experience in competition dance has influenced her technical style of movement and her hometown studio teachers inspired her to continue to pursue her passion for dance. She loves embracing any and all styles of dance and is especially inspired by contemporary and modern style movement in the body. Through her love of teaching, Samantha hopes to inspire future generations to love dance as much as she does. She has been teaching in New England since 2017 in various styles including modern, ballet, hip hop, contemporary, commercial jazz and improvisation movement to persons of all ages. She graduated from Keene State College with a B.A. in Dance and a Specialization in choreography and performance, while also minoring in Business Management. Samantha has been teaching and choreographing since 2017 and her choreography has garnered numerous high scores and awards at Dance Competitions throughout New England.

Grace Lonergan
Grace began dancing at age 12 at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School. She continued her dance training at Keene State College, where she earned B.A.’s in both dance and modern languages as well as a minor in political science. Currently, Grace is is pursuing her law degree at the George Washington University School of Law.



