rescue me
choreography BY christian denice
Dancers
noa Colvin, Maile Griffeth, Avery Mason, Emma Morris, Hoke Payne, Abby Schulze
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backwood
choreography BY Hoke Payne
Dancers
noa Colvin, Maile Griffeth, Avery Mason, Emma Morris
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anonymous
choreography BY noelle kayser
Dancers
noa Colvin, Maile Griffeth, Avery Mason, Emma Morris, Hoke Payne, Abby Schulze
About the dancers
Noa Colvin
NOA BEGAN HER DANCE TRAINING IN JAZZ AND HIP HOP, COMPETING AT THE STATE LEVEL AND WINNING MULTIPLE TITLES. SHE LATER TRAINED AT ATLANTA DANCE AND MUSIC ACADEMY IN BALLET, CONTEMPORARY, JAZZ, AND HORTON. AT SIXTEEN, SHE BEGAN TRAINING WITH AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE AND STUDIED AT BOTH THE JKO SCHOOL IN NEW YORK AND THE WILLIAM J. GILLESPIE SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA. AT EIGHTEEN, SHE JOINED PHILADELPHIA BALLET, FORMERLY PENNSYLVANIA BALLET, WHERE SHE DANCED UNTIL 2021 BEFORE RETURNING TO ATLANTA. In her second season with kit modus, noa has performed the work of christian denice, noelle kayser, jillian mitchell, hoke payne, and annalee traylor.
Maile Griffeth
MAILE GREW UP DANCING COMPETITIVELY AND LATER TRAINED WITH IMMERSEATL. SHE'S IN HER fifth SEASON AS A MEMBER OF KIT MODUS, WHERE SHE'S WORKED WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS CHRISTIAN DENICE, ALEXANDER ESPINOZA, MADDIE HANSON, noelle kayser, JILLIAN MITCHELL, MARCO PALOMINO, YOSHITO SAKURABA, and annalee traylor.
MAILE HAS WORKED IN DANCE ADMINISTRATION FOR IMMERSEATL AND KOMANSÉ DANCE THEATER AND waS A NEUROSCIENCE MAJOR AT GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY.
avery mason
Avery began her training at Roswell City Dance Center before joining Rhythm Dance Center where she spent fourteen years as a performing company member and doing commercial dance work in film and television. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a concentration in Ballet from Kennesaw State University, where presented her own work as her senior capstone, graduating in 2024.
avery is also a performing member of risk dance and on faculty at Rhythm Dance Center where she choreographs for multiple performing company groups across jazz and hip hop styles while continuing to develop her work as a teacher and choreographer in her post-grad career.
emma morris
EMMA GRADUATED MAGNA CUM LAUDE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, RECEIVING HER BA IN DANCE PERFORMANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY AND A BS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. SHE DANCED FOR FULL RADIUS AND ZOETIC DANCE ENSEMBLE AND HAS PERFORMED WORKS BY LEO BRIGGS, PATSY COLLINS, KATIE MESSINA, AND SAMANTHA SPRIGGS, AS WELL AS HER OWN WORK. SHE'S PRESENTED HER CHOREOGRAPHY ACROSS THE EAST COAST AND WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE ATLANTA MAYOR'S OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS PANDEMIC GRANT FOR HER FILM CLOSE TO DISTANCE. SHE WAS A SARASOTA CONTEMPORARY DANCE EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER. WITH KIT MODUS, EMMA HAS PERFORMED WORKS BY ALEXANDER ESPINOZA, CHRISTIAN DENICE, MADDIE HANSON, RUBEN JUILLIARD, MARK CASERTA, MARCO PALOMINO, AND DIRECTOR JILLIAN MITCHELL.
Hoke Payne
HOKE PAYNE, AN ATLANTA-BASED DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER, HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY FOR FOUR YEARS. AT KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, HE STUDIED WITH LISA K. LOCK AND IVAN PULINKALA, EARNING A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN DANCE IN 2020. HE PERFORMED WITH THE TALLAHASSEE BALLET UNTIL 2022 AND CONTINUES TO WORK ON AND CREATE HIS OWN INDEPENDENT PROJECTS. HE IS IN HIS third SEASON WITH KIT MODUS WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED THE WORK OF christian denice, noelle kayser, JILLIAN MITCHELL AND MARCO PALOMINO.
Abby Schulze
Abby Schulze is a dancer and choreographer passionate about expanding access to dance through arts administration and education. She is a proud alumna of N-Step Dance Academy, where she began her formal journey toward becoming a dance educator as an assistant instructor. Over the past decade, Abby has taught tap, jazz, ballet, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, and children’s dance at studios across the Atlanta and Athens areas. Her dance research and interviews are published in the Journal of Dance Education.
Abby earned her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of Georgia, where she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. During her time in the UGA Department of Dance, she performed works set by the Martha Graham Company, Amelia Reiser, and Jillian Mitchell. In 2024, she received the Emerging Choreographer Scholarship for her contributions to the department’s choreographic repertoire, which supported her travel and performance with staibdance in Sorrento and Sant’Agata, Italy.
From 2021 to 2023, she served as Marketing Coordinator and company member with the Atlanta Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Lauren Overstreet. In July 2025, she worked as Assistant Program Director and performer with staibdance, returning to perform in Sorrento and Sant’Agata, Italy. She is currently in her second season with Kit modus
About the choreographers
christian denice
Christian Denice is a dancer and choreographer originally from Los Angeles, California. His professional dance experience includes Odyssey Dance Theatre, River North Dance Chicago, and BJM Danse (Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal). Christian was named one of the top ten male dancers of 2010 by Time Out Chicago and recognized as a notable Chicago dancer of 2010 by the Chicago Tribune.
As a choreographer, Christian has created new works for such companies and organizations as Cincinnati Ballet, Moving Arts with dancers of Kansas City Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet, Chamber Dance Project, University of Missouri Kansas City, Ballet22, Marigny Opera Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Odyssey Dance Theatre, DanceWorks Chicago, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Western Michigan University, Modern America Dance Company, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Wright State University, Kit Modus, Dance Lab New York, Santa Barbara City College, Manhattanville College, and Dreyfoos School for the Arts. His work spans across classical ballet and contemporary dance companies as well as universities and professional dance programs. As a dance educator, Christian brings his movement language both nationally and internationally, and has been on faculty with Modas Dance, Open Doors Dance Festival, EPIC Dance Utah, Eisenhower Dance Detroit NEWdanceFEST, Kansas City Jazz Dance Fest, DanceWorks Chicago Dance360, AXIS Connect Los Angeles, Peridance Center in New York City, and SALT Dance Link Festival. Christian recently was one of the choreographers selected for the Kennesaw State University 2023 Summer Residency as well as a recipient of the 2023 Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts Makers Space Experience residency. He is the 2015 winner of the University of South Florida's Echo Choreographic Competition and was selected as one of the three choreographers for the Joffrey Academy's Winning Works Choreographic competition in 2016.
Christian works for Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis, restaging his work for companies throughout the United States and Europe, as well as dancing in his Greece based productions of “Salema Revisited” and “LENTO”. Christian worked with New York City based filmmaker Alexander Sargent on a dance film of his work “Dwellings” created on Chamber Dance Project which premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in October 2022.. Christian made his Broadway debut in “The Little Prince '' which opened in New York in 2021 and served as répétiteur and rehearsal director for Texas based contemporary company ISHIDA Dance in 2023.
Hoke Payne
HOKE PAYNE, AN ATLANTA-BASED DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER, HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY FOR FOUR YEARS. AT KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, HE STUDIED WITH LISA K. LOCK AND IVAN PULINKALA, EARNING A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN DANCE IN 2020. HE PERFORMED WITH THE TALLAHASSEE BALLET UNTIL 2022 AND CONTINUES TO WORK ON AND CREATE HIS OWN INDEPENDENT PROJECTS. HE IS IN HIS third SEASON WITH KIT MODUS WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED THE WORK OF christian denice, noelle kayser, JILLIAN MITCHELL AND MARCO PALOMINO.
noelle kayser
Noelle Kayser is an award-winning choreographer, director, and multi-disciplinary performer based in Chicago. She is the inaugural resident choreographer for Open Space, a Whim W’him Choreographic Shindig winner, the 2025 BalletX Choreographic Fellow, and a 2026 Ballet Collective Commission for Developing Choreographers recipient. Noelle has created work for companies including Dance Aspen, DanceWorks Chicago, MADCO, Visceral Dance Chicago, and SALT II among many others. She served as a guest Ballet Mistress at the Lyric Opera, was the founding rehearsal director and administrator for PARA.MAR Dance Theatre (2022 Dance Magazine Top 25 to Watch), and named one of NewCity Magazines, “The 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago”. Noelle’s short dance film “dust”—produced by Open Space—was awarded Best Dance Film at both the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival and the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, and is an Official Selection at the Swedish International Film Festival and ARTSinTANK Dance Festival in Korea.
In addition to her choreographic work, Noelle has performed works by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Ihsan Rustem, Wen Wei Wang, Danielle Agami, Robyn Mineko Williams, Kevin O’Day, and Alice Klock, among others. She has had the privilege of dancing with companies such as NW Dance Project, LED Boise, Open Space, and Visceral Dance Chicago among others. She has taught for organizations such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Goodman Theatre, and Visceral Dance Chicago. As an actor, Noelle has narrated 16 audiobooks for Audible, appeared in advertising campaigns, and performed in stage productions at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and The Alliance Theatre among others. Most recently, she won the 2024 Jeff Award for Best Ensemble for her performance as Selene in The Penelopiad at The Goodman Theatre, and starred in Anna Long’s short film Death in the Desert (Best Actress in a Short at the Idyllwild Film Festival & Best Short Drama at the Breckenridge Film Festival).
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