ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CHOREOGRAPHER
BETHANY LOGAN
Bethany Logan is a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, adjudicator, 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Personal Trainer. She graduated from Ohio University (OU) with a BFA in Dance & Choreography and a Minor in Psychology in May 2015. While at OU, Logan received the Fine Arts Award fully-funded grant to study Ohad Naharin's Gaga technique in Italy, as well as having her choreography selected for the American College Dance Association Gala Concert. After graduating, Logan spent a year in Mumbai, India, where she trained with Navdhara India Dance Theatre under the direction of Ashley Lobo, Yehuda Ma’or, and Yuko Harada, and provided holistic dance classes for women and children living in the Red Light Area. Logan then moved to Brooklyn, NY where her past performances include stints as a company member, collaborator, and freelance dancer with Josh Pacheco Dance Theatre, Chris Ferris & Dancers, BABEL Movement, Olivia Dwyer Dance Projects, Marika Brussell, mad.plum movement, Kelley Donovan & Dancers, The Physical Plant, Sandra Kramerova & Artists, The Median Movement, and Doug Neilson. In 2019, Logan founded Wild She Dances, a contemporary dance company that values community and collaboration. As of September 2022, Logan is one of four to be selected as a Dance Source Houston Ambassador.
Logan is the former Studio & Company Director of The Brooklyn Dance Centers, where she trained students now attending The Julliard School, The Hartt School at University of Hartford, SUNY Purchase, University at Buffalo, as well as LaGuardia High School and Fort Hamilton High School's Joffrey Ballet Program. Additionally, Logan taught in public schools throughout New York City with Dancewave, where she was also Company Manager and a teaching artist. During the pandemic, Logan taught at multiple schools in Ohio, where she had the honor of serving as Associate Artistic Director for the Gary Geis Dance Company, her alma mater.
Logan relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Houston, TX to fill the role of School Manager at Vitacca Vocational School for Dance, Company Manager of Vitacca Ballet, and Assistant Director of Vitacca's Young Artist Performance Company. She dances with local artists and companies including Karen Stokes Dance, Isabella Vik, Lindsey Cortner, Frame Dance, and performed as a guest artist with Armitage Gone! Dance and Houston Contemporary Dance Company. Logan also serves as a Teaching Artist in local schools with Hope Stone Inc., a mindful arts education outreach program.
COLLABORATORS
MICHELLE REYES
Michelle Reyes is a Houston based dancer and choreographer who has been dancing for 15 years and graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance. Reyes’s training is focused in modern dance techniques, but she also has a passion for tap and ballet. She is currently a company member of 6 Degrees Dance and Karen Stokes Dance, and has danced for several independent choreographers in Houston.
AMANDA MONTEITH
Originally from upstate New York, Amanda Monteith is a dancer, choreographer, and artist based in Houston. Her dancing has been featured in several productions including Garage713’s Snowston 3005 concert, DanceSource Houston’s Mind The Gap series, and Kay Collymore’s collaborative creation entitled “Her Story.” Alongside concert dance work, Amanda has also worked as a master class assistant in Las Vegas for Aliya Janell as well as print and video work for Buff Bunny Collections. She has performed and trained internationally under the direction of Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company as well as Garage 713 studios. Amanda has trained and will continue to train in various styles, hoping to work in multiple avenues and genres of dance.
ISABELLA VIK
Isabella Vik is a Houston based freelance movement artist and performer. Isabella has been trained in multiple styles of dance such as ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, tap and character dance. As an adult, she has workshopped with Sidra Bell and Kevin Clark as well as traveling to Berlin for the B12 program. With strong roots in classical ballet, she has a deep appreciation for technique, lines and form. As she progressed as an artist, she was drawn more to contemporary styles of dance, improvisation methods, underground performance art and blending multiple disciplines. Her focus is to deconstruct movement from her own research and apply her knowledge of technique to create her vision. She considers her work to be movement experimentation because of how she uses her body as a test subject before applying it to another performer. Her work often involves intense atmospheres and possible physical discomfort. A few examples of this has been being pulled across a stage only by her hair, performing entirely blindfolded for 45 minutes and working with live body piercing. Her work is nuanced and often gives the audience visual clues as to the core significance behind what’s being performed. She continues to create and perform regularly and travels often to further expand her movement studies.
ALISA MITTIN
Alisa Mittin is an alum of the California Institute of the Arts and a native of Buffalo, NY. Alisa has been working nationally as a professional dancer and choreographer for the past 16 years and currently works for Frame Dance. Her choreographic work has been presented in Los Angeles, Buffalo, Chicago, New York City, Atlanta and Houston.
JOSHUA PONTON
Originally from Hercules, CA, Joshua Ponton began formal training in high school at Oakland School for the Arts in California under the instruction of Reginal Ray Savage and Alison Hurley. After high school, Joshua found numerous opportunities to experience and connect with many knowledgeable teachers and mentors throughout his time working and attending several dance summer programs including UNCSA and Alonzo King LINES.
After completing his BFA at UNCSA in 2022, Joshua chose to dedicate his energy, time, and spirit toward his goal of connecting with audiences through performance. Passionate and hungry to communicate expressively through movement, Joshua is excited to stretch his dance career far across multiple planes of creativity while also exploring his artistic horizon. He is eager and energized for the opportunities that lay ahead of him.
