Stephanie Wilkins
Bonnie Boiter-Jolley
Joshua Alexander
Nicole Carrion
Samuel Huberty
Jennifer Becker Lee
Abby McDowell
Joshua Van Dyke
Nicholas White
Stephanie WilkinsStephanie Wilkins is the Artistic Director and Head Choreographer of the Columbia Summer Repertory Dance Company. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Dance Performance & Choreography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, where she lived for fifteen years. She has taught, choreographed, and performed extensively in New York, San Francisco, Brazil, Kenya, and South Carolina, including a 2-year stint as the Head of the Dance Department at Sheepshead Bay High School, a performing arts high school in Brooklyn, NY. She worked with many choreographers in NYC and at NYU, including Bill T. Jones (as an apprentice), Bebe Miller, David Parsons, Sean Curran, Nina Winthrop, Lisa Naugle, and Aleta Hayes, performing at such venues as Joyce Soho, Arts at University Settlement, Judson Church, St. Mark’s Church, as well as Jacob’s Pillow in MA. She also received her Pilates certification in New York and returned to her hometown of Columbia, SC to open KayLynn Pilates Studio with her mother, Vicki Beatty. Stephanie has been an adjunct Professor of Dance at the University of South Carolina, Columbia College and Coker University, as well as a guest instructor at Princeton University and College of Charleston. In January 2015, she premiered Woven, her first evening-length work, with jazz composer Mark Rapp, at the Harbison Theatre at Midlands Technical College as part of their Performance Incubator Series. Dan Cook, then editor of Free Times wrote: “Her work in Woven is exquisite, with a clear, coherent and robust vision for bringing Rapp's music to life through dance.” In March 2017, she was a Guest Teacher and Choreographer at the Dance Centre of Kenya, where she set a work on the students there, and taught children in the orphanages and slums outside of Nairobi. Stephanie choreographed The Great Gatsby at Trustus Theatre in April 2019. She has choreographed seven works on the Columbia City Ballet Company, including two for Beatles The Ballet in February 2019 (and again in 2021), and premiered her first dance film with William Starrett. She recently choreographed two works for the Columbia City Ballet’s Body and Movement Explored show, which was performed in March 2021. She became the Artistic Director and head choreographer for the Columbia Summer Repertory Dance Company in the summer of 2019.
Bonnie Boiter-JolleyBonnie Boiter-Jolley is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Columbia Summer Repertory Dance Company. Bonnie began her ballet training at the Columbia Conservatory of Dance before attending the North Carolina School of the Arts as a scholarship student. There she studied with Melissa Hayden, Kee Juan Han, and Warren Conover, among others. Bonnie competed at the Youth America Grande Prix at Regional and National levels and studied at the American Ballet Theatre in New York City, Kirov Academy of Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Bonnie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina with degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography and Political Science. While at USC, Bonnie had the privilege of performing as a principal dancer in numerous Balanchine ballets including Agon, Serenade, Allegro Brilliante, Who Cares?, and Apollo, as well as in works by Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, Lyla York, and Alan Hineline and travelled with the company to the American College Dance Festival. She has performed in Italy under the direction of Anna Marie Holmes and the Czech Republic and in the Summer Stage series in New York City. Bonnie spent a season dancing with Wideman Davis Dance company in South Carolina before moving to Seattle, Washington where she joined Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theatre. Bonnie has attended the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s teacher training and has over a decade of experience in dance education. She is the Director of Ballet at the Columbia City Jazz Conservatory where she has been on faculty since 2011. Bonnie has appeared in local theatre productions “Songs for a New World” at Workshop Theatre and “the Great Gatsby” at Trustus Theatre. Bonnie joined the Columbia City Ballet in 2011, was promoted to Soloist in 2013 and Principal Dancer in 2018. Some of her favorite roles while at CCB have been Myrtha in “Giselle,” The Dew Drop Fairy and the Sugar Plum Fairy in “The Nutcracker,” Jenny Horne in “Emmanuel,” and Soloist in While My Guitar Gently Weeps from “Beatles the Ballet.” The latter two roles having been created on the Dancer. In 2019 Bonnie co-founded the Columbia Summer Repertory Dance Company, an organization that strives to provide artistic community and employment for professional dancers and choreographers in the Columbia area during the summer months.
Joshua AlexanderJoshua Alexander has recently returned to South Carolina where he began his dance training with Dale Lam and Columbia City Jazz Conservatory. In addition to appearing on the television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2012, in recent years Josh has appeared in ABC’s Hairspray Live! and performed with The Weeknd at the Super Bowl LV Halftime Show in 2021.
Nicole CarrionA native of Columbia, SC, Nicole started her dance training at the age of four at Columbia Conservatory of Dance under the instruction of William Starrett. She has spent summers dancing at Boston Ballet, Washington Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet on a Youth American Grand Prix Scholarship, Houston Ballet and Tulsa Ballet. She continued her training at Columbia Classical Ballet for a short time before attending the year-round school at Houston Ballet at the highest level. During her training at Houston Ballet, she performed in many ballets such as Le Conservatoire, Tales of Texas, Serenade, Concerto, and Graduation Ball. She then spent two seasons as a member of Tulsa Ballet ll. During her time in Tulsa, she performed in Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias, Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow and Edward Liang’s Romeo and Juliet, and George Balanchine’s Four Temperaments. A Demi-Soloist at City Ballet, she has performed in “Dance of the Cygnets” from Swan Lake, Dracula: Ballet with a Bite, Beatles The Ballet, “Dew Drop Fairy” and “Chinese Tea” from Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Beauty and the Beast. She has also performed as “Bluebird” in The Sleeping Beauty as well as works from choreographers such as Joseph Phillips, Erin Jaffe, Stephine Wilkins, Miranda Bailey, and Susan Anderson.
Samuel HubertySamuel Huberty started training in his hometown of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. At age sixteen, he moved to Indiana to train for two years at the AUER Academy of Fort Wayne Ballet. Following his graduation from the program, Samuel spent two years working with the Fort Wayne Ballet as a trainee and then as an apprentice. While with Fort Wayne Ballet, he enjoyed performing a lead role in Lacrymosa, and as Franz in Coppélia. Samuel then spent a year working with the BrayBallet as a company member, working under the guidance of Eddy Bray followed by training under the tutelage of Martin Schonberg.
Jennifer Becker LeeJennifer Becker Lee is a graduate of Columbia College with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She had performed as a contemporary and aerial dancer. Recently, she graduated from Chiropractic School as a Doctor of Chiropractics and will practice in Columbia, SC.
Abby McDowellAbby McDowell began her formal training at the School of the North Carolina Dance Theatre. At age seventeen, Abby became an Apprentice with the North Carolina Dance Theatre, now Charlotte Ballet. In her years with the NCDT, Abby was given the opportunity to perform George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Divertimento No. 15 and Salvatore Aiello’s Nutcracker. After attending the Pacific Northwest Ballet School Summer Program on a Southeast Regional Ballet Association Scholarship, Abby was awarded full scholarship to study in the Professional Division of Pacific Northwest Ballet School. There, she performed in productions of The Sleeping Beauty and Kent Stowell’s Nutcracker. She then went on to dance for Atlanta Ballet as a Fellowship Dancer and later received a company position at The Georgia Ballet where she performed many Soloist and Principal roles, including “Dew Drop” and “Sugar Plum Fairy” in the Nutcracker and “Rhythm Girl” in George Balanchine’s Who Cares. While with The Georgia Ballet, Abby developed a passion for teaching and had the pleasure of training students at The Georgia Ballet School, Ballet Institute of Atlanta, and Academy of Ballet in Norcross, GA. Abby currently teaches at Columbia City Jazz Conservatory. When she’s not dancing, and teaching Abby enjoys working as a costume designer and seamstress.
Joshua Van DykeJoshua Van Dyke began his dance training at the Sarasota Ballet when he was fourteen, studying alongside members of its trainee program. After two years of dedicated training, he attended The Harid Conservatory for his third year of dancing. At seventeen, he joined the Joffrey Ballet Academy in Chicago, and trained with them for two years. He has performed the role of Lead Arabian both for the Diane Partington School of Classical Ballet, as well as The Harid Conservatory. He has also performed in the Indiana Ballet Theatre's Nutcracker as the Snow King, as well as reprising those same roles with Columbia City Ballet.
Nicholas WhiteCamden native, Nicolas White, began his dance training at age 14 with Ann Brodie’s Carolina Ballet under the artistic director, Mimi Worrell. He went on to study with Ballet Austin under William Piner and The Joffrey Ballet School under Davis Robertson. After graduating, he took a break from dance to attend college. He returned to dance in 2013 with the Charlotte Ballet under Jean Pierre-Bonnefoux, Patricia MacBride, and Mark Diamond. He started his freelance career after returning to Columbia in 2015 and went on to become a General Manager at Chipotle. He now is on staff with Ann Brodie’s Carolina Ballet Center for Dance Education, a head bartender at COA in the Vista, and is pursuing a degree in Digital Marketing and Advertising.
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