People

National Hub Staff

Laney Stevens

National Hub director

Laney Stevens grew up in Santa Cruz, CA before moving to Southern California and spending most of her adolescence in various SoCal areas. Playing basketball and volleyball her whole life, Laney still found passion in music and dancing, even if just on a random dance floor or concert. Changing her majors, Laney transferred from Pasadena City College to UC Berkeley during the pandemic and graduated in December 2022 with degrees in Dance & Performance Studies, and Film & Media Studies. Her NACHMO 2020 dance film sparked her interest in exploring dance beyond the stage if the stage ever became unavailable. Laney has participated in NACHMO Los Angeles for 3 years and is excited to continue growing the hub in the Bay Area for the third year post-reboot. Coming in as the National Hub Director, Laney is most excited to expand and foster a deeper connected dance community that shares a passion for movement and people. 

Libby Bullinger

Social media manager

Libby is a dance educator and choreographer from Boston, MA. She received her formative training at José Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge, MA, in addition to summers studying at ballet programs around the country. In 2022, Libby graduated from Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA with a Bachelor of Fine arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Education. 

Following graduation, Libby moved back to Boston and is delighted to be residing, teaching, and choreographing in her home city. Libby is a ballet faculty member and rehearsal director at José Mateo Ballet Theatre, a community teaching artist at Boston Ballet, and teaches master classes and workshops around the Boston area. In 2022 Libby established Dance LAB, an artistic collective that aims to produce dance projects based on creative collaboration, vulnerable exploration, and the generation of innovative art. 

One of Libby’s main focuses is her own continuing pursuit of learning and study of dance scholarship. She is currently continuing her dance education through courses at the National Dance Education Organization to ensure she can continue providing high-quality, informed, and research-based instruction to dance students of all ages and experience levels. 

Libby is thrilled to engage with NACHMO on both a local and national level and continue to learn from the creative humans around her!

Alex Christie

Strategy and Operations Director

Alex Christie grew up a "competition kid" and began her Ballet and Modern training in high school under the tutelage of Jan Woodward at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC. She received her degree in Dance at The New School in New York City, where she performed in the works of Ben Munisteri, Karla Wolfangle, Joao Carvalho, Keely Garfield, Rebecca Stenn, Takehiro Ueyama, and Eric Jackson Bradley. She has performed her own works around New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. A nonprofit fundraiser by day, Alex is thrilled to be combining her worlds and serving the NACHMO community!

Tina Fores-Hitt

Member

Tina Forés-Hitt is a dancer, performer, choreographer, yoga instructor and lover of nature.

Tina grew up in Spain where she studied dance at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Valencia. She continued her dance studies at ArtEZ in Holland and SEAD in Austria. Was part of the BODHI Project dance company which toured worldwide and has performed in the Haus für Mozart during their annual Salzburger Festspiele.

Currently, Tina is excited to be performing in the musical Nunsense II at the Dorset Playhouse. She’s thrilled to have been selected as a performer at the Traces festival and JunctionDanceFestival in Vermont. Tina is eager to be joining the Burr and Burton Academy gymnastics team as assistant coach. And has many more upcoming projects and performance opportunities which she looks forward to just as much. One of which involves a collaboration with biologists from MadreAguaEco in Colombia to study the movement of diverse animals and learn more about Nature’s ways of dancing.

Anne H. Goldberg-Baldwin

January Challenge Program Director

Anne H. Goldberg- Baldwin blurs the definitions of music and dance as a composer, choreographer, performer, and educator, a vanguard of interdisciplinary performance art.  She is co-founder and Artistic Director the Tempus Continuum Ensemble, a new music ensemble premiering and performing emerging and living composers.  Anne’s music has been premiered and performed by ensemble mise-en, the Boston New Music Institute, the Novatrio, NeoLit Ensemble, and at festivals such as the International Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory. Her artistry has been featured in New York venues such as Symphony Space, the Kitchen, the Flea Theater, and many others nationally and internationally. In addition to Tempus, Anne is the Founder and Artistic Director of the dance and multimedia company, the Synthesis Aesthetics Project. Through the project, Anne has produced, composed, choreographed, and directed a variety of evening-length productions through partnerships such as the Emerging-Artist-in-Residency at The Field

Anne’s educational background, although based upon the study of science, mathematics and languages, never strayed far from her passion for the arts. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College with extensive course work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her M.M. of Classical Composition at the Manhattan School of Music under Dr. Marjorie Merryman, and influences of Nils Vigeland, Reiko Füting, and Mark Stambaugh. She received her D.M.A. under Dr. Reiko Füting, and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, having previously taught at the Manhattan School of Music and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Most recently, she received her M.F.A. in Dance from the University of the Arts, continuing her semiological research connecting her work as an interdisciplinary artist.

In addition to her musical and choreographic pursuits, Anne is a professional figure skater, holding gold freestyle, artistry and ice dancing titles in the United States and Canada as well as International ice dancing titles.

Annalisa Ledson

Regional Director Coordinator

Annalisa is the New York City NACHMO & NACHMOx Producer. She has been participating in NACHMO since 2012 and is currently serving on the Board of Directors and Artist Committee. She is a choreographer, performer and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY and the co-artistic director of Current Harbor. She has created and performed in new works in NYC at BAM Fischer Hall, HERE, Frieze, Dixon Place, The 14th Street Y, The WorkShop Theatre, Joe’s Pub, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Chain Theatre, The Tank, Under St. Marks, the Mark Morris Dance Center, The Actors Fund Arts Center and Triskelion. She has also performed and choreographed at regional venues in Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey.  As a teaching artist, Annalisa works for a number of institutions bringing dance and theater into NYC public schools. She is currently pursuing her M.Ed in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Vermont. | www.currentharbor.com

Jessica Pescatore

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program Director

Jessica is a dancer, choreographer and instructor currently living in Feasterville, PA. She holds her BA in Dance from DeSales University and her MA in Creative Arts in Therapy - Dance/Movement Therapy from Drexel University. Jessica has performed as a dancer at Six Flags Great Adventure as well as with the East Coast variety show band “Joey Arminio & the Family”. After completing her Masters, Jessica has had the opportunity to work as a dance/movement therapist for adults and children with a variety of special needs and/or mental health diagnoses in both school settings and non-profit organizations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 2018, Jessica established Commuovere Dance, a performing arts company based in Bucks County, PA committed to providing dance education, performance opportunities and arts exposure, especially to underserved populations, including, but not limited to, individuals with special needs, those facing social/financial hardships and the elderly. Commuovere currently runs several community based collaboration programs and presents choreography throughout the Philadelphia/Bucks County/South Jersey area. She also serves as a dance instructor at Spring Mill Dance Academy in Ivyland, PA. Jessica is excited to be a part of the NACHMO Board and have the opportunity to utilize her skill set for the organization!

Amelia Reuss

January Challenge Program Director

Angelique Stringer

social media manager

Angelique Stringer is a dancer and choreographer native to Detroit, MI. She is a graduate of Wayne State University earning her Bachelor’s of Science in Dance. While at Wayne State, Angelique focused on dance film, which allowed her to blend her interest in technology, film and storytelling with dance. 

With this newfound interest, she was inspired to expand her skills, and take additional film and media courses. Also during her time at WSU, Angelique performed with Dance Company One and African dance company To Sangana. 

Angelique has  worked with Jessica Rajko in a repertoire blending dance and technology, and she has served as an intern under BMBO Creations, furthering her knowledge of dance in the film and media space. Assisting with dance films, and various projects focusing on social media and digital marketing for dance.

Currently, Angelique works for Screen Dance International, a dance film festival as Director of Marketing and Media,overseeing social media and screenings.

Addison Traina

Interim National Hub Director

Addison Traina lives in Nashville and is passionate about corporate philanthropy and nonprofit engagement. She currently works as a Foundation Program Manager at IAC, an American holding company that owns brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet. Previously, she was a non-profit consultant and worked in strategic initiatives at United Way of New York City. She received a Master of Arts concentrating in ethics at Yale University. At Yale, she danced with Yaledancers, choreographing multiple pieces for their fall and spring shows. Prior to her graduate work, she double majored in economics and religious studies at Furman University, where she was captain of the Furman Dance Company.

Elaine Tripoulas

Marketing and Social Media Director

Elaine began dancing at age 8 in her hometown outside of Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Cornell University in 2015 with a B.S. in Interior Design and a concentration in Performing and Media Arts. While at Cornell, she choreographed for two dance groups as well as theatrical productions of Sartre's "No Exit" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Since moving to NYC, Elaine has choreographed for DanceWorks NYC, Fertile Ground, Jazz Choreography Enterprises, and 30-30-30. She's also performed at the Young Choreographer's Festival, WAX Works, Conkrete Jungle, and Uptown Rising. When not dancing, Elaine works as a designer for an experiential brand agency.

Elaine has participated in NACHMO for the last few years. She is excited to combine her loves of dance, design, and community building for NACHMO!

Board of Directors

Former Leaders

Sharyn Korey, Co-founder and founding Co-Director
Anna Brown Massey Co-founder and founding Co-Director
Karesia Batan, Anjuli Bhattacharyya, Emily Craver, Erica Frankel, Jaedra DiGiammarino, Janet Forward, Brighid Greene, Charles Gushue, Micheline Heal, Chelsea Koenig, Tia Huston, Jun Lee, Jenny Pommiss, Monica Hogan Thysell.