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
Jody Gottfried Arnhold
Founder, Dance Education Laboratory; Executive Producer, PS DANCE! Dance Education in Public Schools, PS DANCE! The Next Generation
Kim Black
Owner, Miss Kim’s Children’s Dance & Arts and 2020 Dance Teacher Award recipient
Al Blackstone
Emmy-nominated director, choreographer, and educator
Cat Cogliandro (they/Them)
MFA, BFA; Founder and Director, catastrophe!; Director, The Dance Safe; faculty at Joffrey Ballet School (Jazz & Contemporary), Broadway Dance Center, and Steps on Broadway
Deborah Damast
MA, BFA; Director, Dance Education Graduate Program at NYU Steinhardt; faculty at Dance Education Laboratory; past President, NYSDEA
Randy Duncan
Chair, Dance Department at The Chicago Academy for the Arts
rima faber
PhD, MA, BA; Founder, Primary Movers; Co-Founder NDEO; Chair, Core Standards for Dance Education; Executive Editor, NDEO Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index
Dionne figgins (she/her)
Artistic Director, Ballet Tech; Co-Founder and Creative Director, Broadway Serves
joan finkelstein
EdD, MFA, BFA; Executive Director, Harkness Foundation for Dance; past Director of Dance, NYC Department of Education
kay gayner (she/her)
Artistic Director, National Dance Institute
francisco gella (he/him)
BA in Dance, University of Washington; owner and Chief Creative Officer, Francisco Gella Dance Works; Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
gina gibney
Founder, Artistic Director, and CEO, Gibney (New York City)
alicia graf mack
Dean and Director of Dance, The Juilliard School; host and Co-Producer of Moving Moments podcast
shana habel
K–12 Arts Coordinator for the Los Angeles Unified School District
chasta hamilton
Founder and CEO, Stage Door Dance Productions; author (Trash the Trophies, Handle the Horrible, and The Trophy Trap), speaker (TEDx: “You Weren’t Built to Break”), thought leader
francesca harper (she/her)
Artistic Director, Ailey II
elizabeth K. Hutter, psyd (she/her)
President, American Psychological Association, Division 47, Section II: Performance Psychology
Chair, Informational Papers Committee, Dance/USA Task Force on Dancer Health
Wellness Director and School Principal, New Ballet, San Jose, CA
ranee ramaswamy
Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Ragamala Dance Company; member, National Arts Council (2011–24)
Fernando ramos
Dance Chair, New Mexico School for the Arts; Founder and Director, CONTEMPORA
kristin sudeikis
Artistic director, choreographer, master teacher, dancer, and activist; creator of FORWARD__Space
Nicole Touzien (she/her)
MFA, BFA; Executive Director, Dancewave
DT Awards Committee
Deborah Damast
MA, BFA; Director, Dance Education Graduate Program at NYU Steinhardt; faculty at Dance Education Laboratory; past President, NYSDEA
Dionne figgins (she/her)
Artistic Director, Ballet Tech; Co-Founder and Creative Director, Broadway Serves
francisco gella (he/him)
BA in Dance, University of Washington; owner and Chief Creative Officer, Francisco Gella Dance Works; Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
alicia graf mack
Dean and Director of Dance, The Juilliard School; host and Co-Producer of Moving Moments podcast
francesca harper (she/her)
Artistic Director, Ailey II