Performer Biographies

Lois Alexander, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, began dancing when she was ten, and attended a magnet middle and high schools for the performing arts. As a member of her nationally ranked dance team, Ms. Alexander won various awards and scholarships throughout high school.

Upon graduating in 2009 Ms. Alexander was awarded a highly-coveted fellowship from The Ailey School, which she attended for a year. She spent two summers at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan and performed works by Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Summer Lee Rhatigan, Alex Ketley, and Bobbi Smith.

Ms. Alexander has traveled and performed in Italy, where she was able to showcase work she created during her first year at Juilliard. Now in her second year at Juilliard, Ms. Alexander especially enjoys working with great choreographers, reviving old works, taking part in special programs and workshops, and voicing her artistic visions.

Corwin Barnette began dancing at the age of three, starting recreationally at the Campbell's Dance Studio until he was fifteen, when he began formal training at the Tempe Dance Academy in Tempe, Arizona. With the Tempe Dance Academy he has toured and performed in seven European countries. He also has had the opportunity to perform throughout China with the Young Olympians tour group.

In 2010 Mr. Barnette was named Senior Male Outstanding Dancer by the New York City Dance Alliance. He is in his second year at The Juilliard School, where he is working toward his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. At Juilliard he has had the opportunity to perform works of Jose Limon, Matthew Neenan, and Alex Ketley.

Nineteen-year-old Taylor Drury was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she graduated from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School of Canada in the class of 2010. She is an alumnus of the Jacob's Pillow Contemporary program and also took part in an exchange program with the New Zealand School of Dance, training there during the summer of 2010. Although she primarily has studied classical ballet, she also has studied contemporary dance.

Ms. Drury always has explored movement and has begun developing a style very much her own, working as a choreographer both in Winnipeg and New York. Ms. Drury is now a student at The Juilliard School, where she is continuing her technical training while broadening her academic studies.

Daphne Fernberger is a second-year dancer at The Juilliard School. Born and raised in Manhattan, she began her training at age five. Throughout high school she attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the pre-professional ballet training program at American Ballet Theatre.

More recently, Ms. Fernberger has performed in Juilliard Dances Repertory, New Dances: Edition 2011, and Choreographers and Composers with the Juilliard Dance Division at Lincoln Center. In the past she performed at the Guggenheim Museum in tribute to Frederic Franklin, and at the Metropolitan Opera House in ABT's Sleeping Beauty, Sylvia, and 2009 Spring Gala, where she received post-gala congratulations from Michele Obama and Caroline Kennedy.

Ms. Fernberger also has done extensive work beyond the stage. She acted in an MTV music video and an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In addition, she has modeled Armani in W Magazine, for Capezio Dancewear, and in Dance Spirit Magazine. She recently was interviewed by the German publication Der Spiegel.

Eve Jacobs, a native of the Chicago area, began her dance training at the Dance Center of Evanston. After passing six national exams in the Cecchetti Method and performing with Elements Contemporary Ballet, she continued her dance training and high school education at the North Carolina School of the Arts. While there, she danced in ballets by Jerome Robbins and Frederick Ashton, and she performed in Ethan Stiefel's original staging of The Nutcracker.

Ms. Jacobs has spent summers at Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Lines Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and the Juilliard Summer Dance Intensive, and is now in her second year in the college division. While at Juilliard, she has danced in premieres by Matthew Neenan and Alex Ketley. She participated in an outreach trip to New Orleans, and she enjoys teaching arts workshops at the Covenant House, a shelter for homeless youth in New York City.

Robbie Moore is a graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas. During his thirteen years of training in classical and contemporary genres, he has studied in various programs: Springboard Danse Montreal, the Movement Invention Project in New York, the EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, and the Juilliard Summer Dance Intensive.

During these years, the Children's Foundation for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts have awarded him scholarships that recognize his achievements in performance and choreography. He was named one of the twenty Presidential Scholars in the Arts for 2010.

Mr. Moore has performed works by such renowned choreographers as Kevin Wynn, Larry Keigwin, Joe Celej, Matthew Neenan, J. T. Horenstein, and Victor Quijada. Recently, Mr. Moore worked with Peter Chu, a member of Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM and founder of chuthis., during the choreographic process for his dance This Thought, winner of a 2010 Capezio A.C.E. Award. Mr. Moore is in his second year at The Juilliard School.

Kyle Scheurich began his dance training in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop at a small competition school just north of New York City. In 2006 he enrolled in Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts, primarily studying ballet and various modern techniques. While he was in high school, he also trained intensively in classical ballet on full scholarship at Manhattan Youth Ballet, under the direction of Francois Perron.

Mr. Scheurich is a second year dancer at The Juilliard School, working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Reed Tankersley has been dancing since he was five. He grew up in California, where he pursued dance at various studios. He is a graduate of Mountain View High School and is in his second year at The Juilliard School, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Mr. Reed is the recipient of a YoungArts Level 1 Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. He has had the opportunity to work with renowned teachers and choreographers and is excited to see what happens next in his life and career as a dancer.