Meet the Editors
Reanne Rodrigues
Editorial director
Reanne is the editor in chief of Dance Teacher and Dance Spirit. Having lived in Mumbai, Dubai, London, Toronto, and now New York, she has worked at several leading performing arts organizations including The Joyce Theater and New York City Center. During her tenure as an international editorial member of Dance Gazette magazine, Reanne helped shape the publication’s creative vision, feature content, and marketing and membership framework for over 13,000 dance teachers and students across 90 countries worldwide. She holds a Master of Arts in Education (Dance) from the University of Bath and the Royal Academy of Dance, UK, a Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Society from the University of Birmingham, UK, as well as Certified Registered Teaching Status in classical ballet from the Royal Academy of Dance, UK.
Madeline Schrock
Senior Managing Editor
A native of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Madeline is the senior managing editor of Dance Media, where she oversees the production of Dance Magazine and is the project manager of DanceTeacher+. She studied ballet at Southern Indiana School for the Arts and was later introduced to modern dance by Bill Evans. While completing her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College, she was cast in a historical reconstruction of Alwin Nikolais’ Noumenon celebrating his centennial. Prior to joining Dance Media in 2011, she worked on dance videography projects for Bates Dance Festival and served as marketing and education manager for Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.
catie robinson
managing Editor
Catie Robinson is a managing editor at Dance Media, where she works primarily on Pointe, Dance Teacher, and Dance Spirit. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 2020 with degrees in Dance and Journalism. She performed in southern California with Anaheim Ballet before completing a yearlong administrative fellowship with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, MA. She continues to dance in New York City.
Amy Brandt
Senior Consulting Editor
Amy has been the editor in chief of Pointe magazine since 2014, following a 19-year dance career. She danced professionally with the Milwaukee Ballet and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, among others, and performed in honor of Ms. Farrell at the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors. While pursuing her college degree part-time, she began writing extensively for several dance publications, including Pointe‘s “Ask Amy” advice column. Amy graduated summa cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in English and World Literatures, and she has served on the department’s advisory board.
Courtney Escoyne
Senior Editor
A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Courtney danced with Lafayette Ballet Theatre before matriculating to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in dance. She has performed in works by Karole Armitage, Netta Yerushalmy, Septime Webre, Vita Osojnik, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Giada Ferrone and Fairul Zahid, among others. She continues to take class, create and perform in the city. She is also a senior editor at Dance Magazine.
Hana Le
Social Media Editor
Hana grew up dancing ballet, jazz, and modern at her hometown studio in Southeastern Ohio. After studying creative writing at The Ohio State University, she brought her love of storytelling to social media where she grew a TikTok account to share her clay art. After a series of internships, she began to manage corporate social media accounts as well as her personal social media. She hopes to return to school for her master’s degree in fiction writing.
Advisory Board
2026-2028
Jennifer Archibald
Choreographer, movement director, educator; founder and director, Archcore40
Vanessa Botha
Managing director, Stagestep
Terese Capucilli
Dance faculty, Juilliard School; former principal dancer and artistic director, Martha Graham Dance Company; artistic associate and dancer, Buglisi Dance Theatre
Cornelius Carter
Professor emeritus and former Director of Dance at the University of Alabama and artistic director of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre; current professor in residence at Broadway Dance Center
Gerald Casel
Carole and Dan Burack Director of The School at Jacob’s Pillow; professor, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; artistic director GERALDCASELDANCE; founder, Dancing Around Race
Dormeshia
Artistic director, Dormeshia Tap Collective; founder and director, “Ladies in the Shoe” Tap Conference
Antonio Douthit-boyd
Artistic Director of Dance, Next Generation Ballet
joe lanteri
Executive director, Steps on Broadway; executive director and founder, New York City Dance Alliance
David Leventhal
Program director and a founding teacher of Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD® program
Kristin Martine
K–12 dance educator, Valley Stream Central High School District Performing Arts Program; arts administrator, advocate, author, choreographer
Christopher Charles Mcdaniel
Artist, educator, cultural programmer
adrian Blake Mitchell
Artistic director, Westside School of Ballet
Kyra Nichols
At the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University: Violette Verdy and Kathy Ziliak Anderson Chair in Ballet; professor of music (ballet)
Julia M. Ritter, PhD
Dean, Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, University of Southern California, where she is also a professor of dance
Taryn Vander Hoop
Chair, Loyola Marymount University; co-founder, Summation Dance; podcast host, On Dance: Critical Conversations
Andrea Zujko, PT, dpt, ocs, comt
Clinic manager, Westside Dance Physical Therapy; adjunct faculty, Dance Department, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; founder, Dance Medicine Education Initiative
DT Awards Committee
2026-2028
Jennifer Archibald
Choreographer, movement director, educator; founder and director, Archcore40
Terese Capucilli
Dance faculty, Juilliard School; former principal dancer and artistic director, Martha Graham Dance Company; artistic associate and dancer, Buglisi Dance Theatre
Cornelius Carter
Professor emeritus and former Director of Dance at the University of Alabama and artistic director of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre; current professor in residence at Broadway Dance Center
Gerald Casel
Carole and Dan Burack Director of The School at Jacob’s Pillow; professor, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; artistic director GERALDCASELDANCE; founder, Dancing Around Race
joe lanteri
Executive director, Steps on Broadway; executive director and founder, New York City Dance Alliance
