Ms. Paige Amicon is a Los Angeles-based dance artist. Performance credits include shows with: Ate9 Dance Company, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, Yuval Sharon/Cleveland Orchestra, Danielle Agami/Long Beach Opera and the Merce Cunningham Trust. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under Susan Jaffe with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in contemporary dance.

Ms. Arletta Anderson is a Los Angeles-based dance artist, performance maker, and educator. As a performer, she has worked closely with various choreographers and companies including Gerald Casel, The Rock Collection, Lauren Simpson & Jenny Stulberg, Aura Fishbeck, Detour Dance, and others. She has guest taught at University of San Francisco, City College of San Francisco, UCLA, Scripps College, Bowling Green University, and Renaissance Arts Academy. Under the moniker Andersmith, Ms. Anderson makes work in collaboration with theatre artist and writer Adam Smith. Andersmith lives at the intersection of movement, theater, and live sound and has been presented nationally. Ms. Anderson is a part of the Ground Grooves teaching staff, a certified yoga instructor, and has a degree in dance from Loyola Marymount University.

Ms. Satomi Kanazawa is a sought after piano accompanist throughout Southern California. She is on staff for the dance department at Chapman University, California State University, American Ballet Theatre Gillespie School, and the Lauridsen Ballet Center. Her previous work experience includes the American Ballet Theatre Young Dancer’s Program, American Ballet Theatre: Orange County, the Joffrey Ballet: Chicago, Regional Dance of America (RDA), and as a rehearsal pianist for the American Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty.

Ms. Almaliis Lauridsen began her training with Diane Lauridsen and studied Diane Lauridsen's unique approach to healthy dancing. Ms. Lauridsen danced with South Bay Ballet and went on to become a certified pilates teacher, studying with Marie Jose Blom at Long Beach Dance Conditioning; she also studied pilates with Mette Hansen, Erin Haffner, Carin Lenox, and Alicia Head. She attends the Pilates Method Alliance conference annually and recently completed a secondary pilates training with Brent Anderson at Polestar Pilates. Ms. Lauridsen studies yoga, gyrotonic, and gyrokinesis. She also holds certifications in Yogafit, Zhealth, and TRX.

Ms. Emma Lawes is a dance artist based between Seattle and Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance performance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia under Donna Faye Burchfield. Most recently, she has collaborated with Babette DeLafayette, Liz Houlton, Markeith Wiley, Kate Wallich's YC2, Mary Grace McNally + Artists, and Undercurrent. Currently, Ms. Lawes is focusing on producing a performance series with Maya Tacon in Seattle and expanding her teaching practice.

Ms. Rachel Oberg grew up in Kansas City, Missouri where she studied ballet under the direction of Melissa Morris at Blue Springs Ballet. During her time with Blue Spring Ballet, Ms. Oberg was a principal dancer in the Youth Ballet Company, where she danced the title role of Cinderella in Cinderella, a Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, and Marie Taglioni in Pas de Quatre, among others. As a young student, she attended many summer dance programs to enhance her ballet training, including Boston Ballet Summer Dance Program, Dmitri Roudnev’s Ballet Intensive from Moscow, and Stephen’s College Summer Dance Program. Upon graduation from high school, Ms. Oberg went on to study ballet at the University of Utah, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ballet education, as well as her teaching certificate. There, she had the opportunity to study with Conrad Ludlow, Attila Ficzere, Sharee Lane, and Bene Arnold. Ms. Oberg has danced professionally with the Ballet Theatre of Maryland and Contemporary Ballet Dallas, dancing in roles such as soloist in American Ballads Blue Trio, Juliet’s friend in Romeo and Juliet, and Belle’s friend in Boogie Woogie Christmas Carol. Most recently, Ms. Oberg has performed as a guest artist in several different productions of The Nutcracker as the Snow Queen, a Dew Drop Fairy, and Sugar Plum Fairy.  Alongside teaching at OCSA, Ms. Oberg is currently teaching at San Pedro Ballet School and working with their youth ballet company, San Pedro City Ballet. She has also been a guest instructor at several summer ballet workshops and intensives around the country. Ms. Oberg loves sharing her passion for ballet with others and is thrilled to be on staff as a teacher for BCD.