Amy LePage-Hansen studied dance in her younger years and throughout college while obtaining a studio arts and education degree. She took her first contact improvisation workshop just before moving  to San Francisco…and fell in love with it! She sought out the contact improvisation dance community while there and has continued to experiment with this form ever since. After a move back east and raising two children, she helped form the Montpelier Movement Collective and is thrilled to be dancing with Double Vision.  Amy’s a yoga teacher as well and her love of movement influences her adult and children’s classes. Amy is also working with Hannah Dennison on choreographic development for a site specific dance piece, “Dear Pina,” honoring the late Pina Bausch. Performances scheduled for June 2012.

Jennifer Mellor has trained, performed, and toured throughout the U.S and Europe. Focusing primarily on modern dance and contemporary ballet, she currently dances with DOUBLE VISION, Copious Dance Theater, and Courage Group.  Previously she has danced for High Release Dance Company, Diane Frank, Lisa Burnett, Tulsa Dance Theater, FootSong, A Call to Feet Tap Dance Ensemble, and Dance on Tulsa, where she was featured in works by Johnson/Long & Co, Dina McDermott, Mimi Chen, and Kathy Dunn Hamrick. Additionally, Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for STEPOLOGY, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting tap dance. http://www.jennifermellor.com/

Hanna Satterlee was born and raised in Vermont, and has spent the last 15 years traveling the world to study various dance and movement forms, along the East Coast (VT, ME, NYC) West Coast (CA), in Ghana and in Brazil. She attended Goucher College in Maryland, and left with a double BA in Dance and Psychology with a Dance Therapy concentration. She later attended Laughing Lotus Yoga School in San Francisco, and is now a teacher of their graceful style of Vinyassa Yoga at Geezum Crow in Montpelier. She is currently acting as Director of Professional Programming at The Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio, also in Montpelier, and in addition she is the Artistic Director of Teen Jazz, a teen touring dance company, there. Satterlee is a company member of Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute’s Double Vision and Tiffany Rhynard’s BIG APE, and also makes her own work with others. She is currently a choreographic partner for “Dear Pina,” a large scale dance project dedicated to the late Pina Bausch (performances in June 2012).

Avi Waring is a native Vermonter who studied classical ballet voraciously until she was 17. When it dawned on her that there must be dance outside of a dance studio, she moved to New Orleans and found her groove in jazz and funk clubs.  She then joined Zendik Arts in West Virginia, where she became a member of an improvisational dance and sketch comedy company. She moved back to VT in 2005 and has since performed with the Vermont Dance Collective, Moving Light Dance Company and the Montpelier Movement Collective. She is also co-director of Ballet Wolcott, a dance school dedicated to creativity and community through dance.

Lida Winfield began performing at age fifteen as a member of Hannah Dennison’s multi-generational, improvisational dance theater company, Working Ground, in Burlington, Vermont.  She continued to perform in the United States for several years, later studying improvisation abroad at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, Netherlands. After returning to the US she founded the Lida Winfield Performing Arts Studio in Massachusetts. Five years ago she moved back to Vermont and has become a community leader in promoting the use of expressive arts as a healing and transformational tool. Currently, Lida teaches at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and is a core-teaching artist in the Words Come Alive! program. For the last six years, Lida has focused on original solo work, merging storytelling, dance and visual art to create captivating and poignant performances. These shows have been featured in such venues as The West End Theater, Gloucester MA; Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT; Theatre Ste. Catherine, Montreal, Canada; The Flynn Space, Burlington, VT.   In 2009, Lida was a principal dancer in Heddy Maalem’s From the New World.  She was also commissioned to choreograph her own work as part of this same summer festival.   In 2010 Lida joined Tiffany Rhynard’s Big Action Performance Ensemble. www.lidawinfield.com

Willow Wonder grew up dancing and gymnasticing up and down the California Coast. She graduated from the High School of The Arts in San Francisco in 1994, and went on to receive a BFA in Modern Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase.  Before she graduated, she spent a semester at The London Contemporary School of Dance, where she had intensive training in Cunningham and Limon techniques, ballet, tai chi, choreography, and Alexander Technique. She has also had the honor of performing works by choreographers such as, Jose Limon, Doug Varone, David Dorfman, and Tere O’Connor.