Summer Beasley has an MFA in Theater, with an emphasis in movement, from Lindenwood University and a BFA in Dance from Webster University. She has been a senior company member and production manager of the Modern American Dance Company (MADCO). Summer has also performed professionally with Intensely Fun Dance Theater (Seattle, WA), Reach…a movement collective (Kansas City, MO), That Uppity Theater Company (St. Louis), Dawn Karlovsky and Dancers (St. Louis) and aTrek Dance Collective (St. Louis).

Summer’s choreography has been set on Gramo Danse in Panama City, Panama; REACH…a movement collective in Kansas City; Dance Antonini in Washington, D.C.; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Dance Ensemble and in St. Louis on: aTrek Dance Collective; Lindenwood University Dance Ensemble. While working with MADCO, Summer helped to coordinate the first annual Choreographer’s Showcase in St. Louis, MO. In 2004, Summer Beasley, In Concert was the first project supported by ANNONYArts. She continued working through ANNONYArts to produce and direct Panorama, and then collaborated with other ANNONYArts artists to produce Gramo Danse in St. Louis and FOUR: A Dance Collaboration. Summer currently serves as the vice president of the Missouri Dance Organization, Chair of Dance for the Missouri Association of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, and is the dance coordinator at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. She has also been the director of My Gym Children's Fitness Center in Burke, VA and St. Louis, MO. Summer has received the Wilma & Roswell Messing Jr. (1934) Summer Sabbatical Award, Walter J. McCreery Country Day School Class of 1959 Chair of Distinguished Teaching Award (in Memory of George P. Braun 1959), and the Dorothy Wray Roberts (1917) Merit Award.

Margaret Beaver Hassenstab has a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Margaret danced professionally in New York City for 11 years, including 6 years in Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular and 3 years at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. In addition to being a principal dancer with the Santa Fe Opera, Margaret has performed in musicals at professional theaters throughout the United States, including West Side Story at The MUNY, Evita at Tennessee Rep, and Beauty and the Beast at Ogunquit Playhouse. Internationally, she toured with Grease in Berlin, Germany, danced on the Royal Viking Sun World Cruise, and was a featured singer and dancer at Ocean Dome Resort in Japan. Margaret has performed for live industrials for Sony, Time Warner, Coca-Cola, Network Appliances and Udo Walz. She has trained extensively at Mark Morris Dance Group, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. An award-winning choreographer, Margaret has taught for studios and at dance intensives in Missouri, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Montana, and Ohio. She began working with aTrek in 2010.

Hannahbeth Fischer graduated cum laude from Saint Mary’s College, IN (SMC) with a double major in Humanistic Studies and a Student Designed major in Digital Media, Dance and Women’s Studies. Hannahbeth has danced and toured with South African based performing arts group 13thFloor and worked with David Dorfman’s Underground. While at SMC Hannahbeth founded the student group TransPose [dance collective] which innovated peer-taught classes and produced a student dance concert each semester. As a sophomore, she was the recipient of the Catherine Dooley Grant for Peace and Justice. In addition to her investment on campus, Hannahbeth engaged with the arts culture of South Bend, investing in [river park arts community] and the development of community artspace, LangLab South Bend. With her interest in digital media, Hannahbeth produces dance + technology pieces. She produced a video-art installation for the Bold Beauty Conference 2010. And headed up the event planning committee and the digital project support team for the Bold Beauty Conference 2011. Before leaving school, Hannahbeth created and produced a full-length film/dance concert, Caught, presenting at both SMC and LangLab South Bend. In the summer of 2010, she created a piece with aTrek’s Developing Artist Project and has returned to invest in the development of aTrek’s new LeverEdge, artist incubator. Hannahbeth is also GreenDot trained, has worked with the BAVO (Belles Against Violence Office) and has been a scholarship recipient of the Now + Next Dance Mentorship program.

Blaize D'Angio is a newcomer to the St. Louis area. She hails from North Carolina, via Beloit, WI, where she completed her BA in Dance and Women’s & Gender Studies. She has performed around the Midwest with the Beloit College Chelonia Dance Company, worked as choreographer, dancer and teaching artist in Beloit area public schools with the student-run Repertory Dance Company, and was a founding member and co-director of Noisedance, a dance and music collective creating guerillish performance. Prior to college, Blaize was a featured performer and choreographer with belly dance company Illyom ou Boukra, of Asheville, NC. She also danced in Baraka Mundi's 2005 production of Secret of Ashes: The Phoenix Reborn, and two productions with Asheville's Surreal Sirkus. She is currently a program instructor with Club KidFit and a newly dubbed dancer and teacher with aTrek Dance Collective.

Angela Culbertson (founder) has had extensive training in improvisation and modern dance. Currently, Ms. Culbertson performs solo dance programs, conducts educational residencies and improvisation workshops. Her career began in 1987, receiving a Creative Artist Project Grant from the Missouri Arts Council. Two years later, Ms. Culbertson founded Atrek Contemporary Dance Theatre and has since developed over 30 dances for Atrek. She has also been guest choreographer for Dimensions Dance Company, COCA Dance, Saint Louis Academy of Dance, Ballet Conservatory of Saint Louis and the Saint Louis Ballet. Most recently, Ms. Culbertson conceived, produced and directed In The Beginning There Was Dance, a collaborative effort that resulted in three world choreographic premieres. Most notable in this evening length work, Of the Fruit Thereof, incorporated dance, film, and live vocal music into a suite of dances about the role of Eve in the Garden of Eden and its correlation to the role of women in contemporary society. Ms. Culbertson’s work has received grant support from the Missouri Arts Council, the Regional Arts Commission of Saint Louis, the Arts and Education Council of Greater Saint Louis, and the Whitaker and Gateway Foundations.

Paula Young David's is a guest teaching artist with aTrek. Her performing credits include Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Lynda Martha Dance Company and the Lake Shore Dance Theatre.  While performing with HSDC, under the artistic direction of Lou Conte, she worked with choreographers Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Margo Sappington, David Parsons, Richard Levi, John McFall, Rick Hilsabeck, Lou Conte and Claire Bataille. In 1988, Paula began full time teaching and choreographing. During the next 20 years, she taught at several Chicago area studios including the Lou Conte Dance Studio, Dance Centre North, Northbrook Dance Centre, Sedala School of Dance, School of Dance West Ballet, and Bonnie Ardelean School of Dance.  In 1997 she co-founded the Dance Academy of Libertyville, where she taught ballet and jazz, and directed the Terpsichore Dance Ensemble.  Paula successfully choreographed 10 original contemporary pieces for the company as well as co-produced the ballets, Coppelia and Giselle.   She has also set works on the Boca Ballet Theatre and Dance West Ballet.   In 2002, Paula was asked to revive “Rodin Impressions”, an original piece performed by Hubbard Street and choreographed by Lou Conte, on dancers, Iasabele Melo Elefson (former soloist with Sao Paulo Ballet of Brazil) and Michael Anderson (former soloist with the Joffrey Ballet) for the Boca Ballet Theatre.  Since leaving Chicago and moving to the St Louis area, she has been busy guest teaching and choreographing, and returns each year to her former studio to work with the students.