For many years, DancEast has offered young dancers the opportunity to learn from professional choreographers, sharpening their technique and performance skills in a setting beyond their usual classes. In line with our mission, we open this experience to dancers from across Nashville, inviting them into the creative process alongside exceptional guest choreographers. It's a chance to be challenged, inspired, and stretched in new ways. Choreographers for this season will be announced shortly.

Takia Leondria Miller is a multidisciplinary dance artist from Nashville, Tennessee — she turns the world around her into inspiration and movement. Pulling from books, theatrical performances, pop culture, and natural expression into movement. She enjoys the artistry of creating movement and being allowed to freely express through dance each and every day. She holds aspirations to connect the performing arts world closer together, and bring outside communities into a deeper connection with the arts. Beyond performance, Takia is passionate about guiding others through movement—sharing dance as a means of expression, storytelling, and self-discovery. Beginning her formal training at the age of 12, Takia has gone on to graduate with a BFA in Dance from Alabama State University and is currently performing with Found Movement Group this upcoming fall. With training and

Lyle Oberman is dedicated to "dancing with her next door neighbor," which is why she leads dance programs for ages two through one hundred and two. Her originally created courses have taken place at elementary schools including the Arkansas Arts Academy and Escuela Plus Elementary LA, and senior programs including FiftyForward Nashville and The East Valley Adult Center of Los Angeles. Oberman grew up studying ballet while climbing trees and jumping on furniture; the tension between trained technique and wild-child instinct has shaped her artistic voice ever since. She creates work rooted in body function, rugged terrain, and close social observation; pieces that find truth in movement before choreography ever shapes it. Recent works include bike ride to nowhere, a stationary bike performance examining persistence and futility, and what do you move through, a

Andrea Roberts is a Nashville native who has earned her BFA in Performing Arts with an emphasis in dance from Western Kentucky University. Andrea has worked with multiple regional theatre companies. She worked under the direction of Terrance Mann for two years in the Tony Award-winning production of "The Lost Colony," the oldest and longest-running show in American history, with 89 years of history.  Andrea was a featured lead dancer as well as instructor/ choreographer for the dance company of The Lost Colony.  She also ran all of the professional theatre workshops at North Carolina's School of the Arts Summer stages.  She has been a facilitator of dance through productions of dance festivals such as "JazzArts" International dance festival, "Around the Coyote" dance festival, Atlas Dance Festival, Chicago Dance Festival, Fieldtrips Dance Festival, Chicago Ballet, Joel Hall, Deeply Rooted, and Tennessee Association of Dance. While in

Alexandria Wright is originally from Bel Air, Maryland, and began her dance training at age five at County Ballet Dance Studio before attending the Baltimore School for the Arts as a dance major. She continued her training through summer intensives with American Ballet Theatre, Los Angeles Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Cincinnati Ballet, and earned her BFA in Dance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Alexandria also holds master’s degrees in Arts Administration and Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.

Alexandria has more than eight years of teaching experience across multiple dance disciplines and has a strong passion for both teaching and choreography. She especially enjoys creating work for young dancers, helping them develop not only technically and artistically,