Alex Ketley is a choreographer, filmmaker, and the director of The Foundry. Formerly a classical dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, Ketley left the company in 1998 to explore his interests in alternative methods of devising performance. In addition to his work with The Foundry, he has been commissioned extensively and has received acknowledgment from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, the Choo-San Goh Award, the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, four MANCC Residencies, the Eben Demarest Award, the National Choreographic Initiative Residency, a Kenneth Rainin Foundation New and Experimental Works Grant, and the Artistry Award from the Superfest Disability Film Festival. His pieces have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards for outstanding achievement in the categories of Choreography, Company, and Ensemble.

In 2020, he became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of the most prestigious honors in the United States, recognizing individuals "who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts.” In 2025, he was awarded a National Dance Project Grant for An Approximation of Resilience.

He is an Advanced Lecturer at Stanford University's Theater and Performance Studies Department as well as a Board Member of Death Penalty Focus, an organization striving to abolish the Death Penalty.

Charlotte Moraga began dancing at a very young age in Miami, Florida. It wasn’t until she began her serendipitous study of Kathak with Pandit Chitresh Das at SFSU in 1992 that she found her calling. She joined the Chitresh Das Dance Company (CDDC) in 1996 and has been a featured principal dancer in his critically acclaimed works: Pancha Jati, East as Center, Darbar, Subali Sugriwa, Sampurnam, India Jazz Suites, Sita Haran, Yatra and Shiva.

Doree Susanne Clark, partnered with her brother Jonathan, became a ballroom champion at age 16 when the couple won the prestigious Harvest Moon Ball. This led to a guest appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, and quickly after that, Doree had her own television dance series entitled "Watch Your Step."

Doree and her brother toured the Northeast, opening for blues great Billy Daniel, and starring in Philly's Fever, a salute to Pete Rose. At the same time, Doree developed her choreographic and dance skills, training with teachers such as Luigi, Chuck Kelly, Phil Black and Anahid Sofian.

In 1987, Doree moved to the west coast. She began by offering a few classes in jazz and ballroom, attracted some wildly dedicated students whose talent ranged from strictly beginner to the professional dancer, and from this motley crew fashioned a dance company, The Don't Quit Your Day Job Dancers. 

Now entering its 30th season, The Don't Quit Your Day Job Dancers are a Bay Area phenomenon. The characteristics of a Doree Clark show are high energy, fun, sexy, provocative, emotional, beautiful, and entertaining. Doree's ability to choreograph for dancers at every level while simultaneously entertaining and stimulating her audience is a unique and wonderful gift. 

Doree is continually evolving as a choreographer, and her most recent shows have introduced theatricality into dance. Each act tells a story through a number of different dances, and some acts include speaking parts as well. Musical dance theatre may well be evolving and revitalizing itself through Doree's enormous creative vision. 

Fernanda Cedeno earned a BA in International Business from UTE University, Ecuador, and performed there with the Falcons Dance Academy. Over the last decade, in the USA she has studied with Bay Area dance teachers in both private and group classes, including Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Dance Mission, and Roco Dance. She has enjoyed training & performing with well-known dance companies such as Salsamania, Jas Dance, ODC, Dance Mission, Yamulee Ladies, The Latin Symbolics and Island Touch, among others.  She graduated from Santa Rosa Junior College with an AA in Arts and Dance in 2018.​

Fernanda co-founded San Rafael dance and fitness studio, Fit2Day, in 2014, and in 2017 founded Cedeno Dance Company with a goal to offer different choices to the Marin dance community. Cedeno Dance has performed at local and national events, including the Reno International Dance Festival, the San Francisco Salsa Festival, the San Francisco SBK Congress, the Las Vegas Salsa Super Congress, the B.I.G Salsa Congress in Texas and The Miami Salsa Congress, among many others. 

In 2018, she founded Fernanda Dance & Fitness Studio – A supportive community that fosters creativity.

Festival Founder & Choreographer

Casey Lee Thorne (she/her) is a dance artist, educator,and scholar based in the San Rafael. Thorne received her early training at American Repertory Ballet’s Princeton Ballet School, and graduated from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet/Dominican University of CA BFA Program in 2010 as part of the inaugural class. In 2018, she received her MFA in Dance Studies from Mills College in Oakland, CA and founded Inside Out Contemporary Ballet in 2012. Thorne was awarded a 2014-2015 Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, and served as Assistant Professor of Dance at Southern Utah University (2019-2020) and Associate Professor of Dance at Cabrillo College (2021-2023). Expanding her career into arts administration, Thorne was appointed Development Director at Stapleton School of the Performing Arts in San Anselmo from 2022-2023 and Individual Giving Manager at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond 2023-2024. Currently, Thorne is Adjunct Professor of Dance at College of Marin and Dominican University of CA/Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program. She serves on the Alumni Board of Directors for Dominican University of CA, runs her own after school dance program in San Rafael, and continues to produce work for IOCB.

Carem is a Mexican-Assyrian belly dancer and certified yoga instructor. After earning her BA in Dance from UDLAP (Universidad de las Américas Puebla), she participated in an exchange program in Marin County, where she fell in love with the mountains, the community, and a very special person.

She chose to begin a new chapter of her life in San Rafael and is currently dedicating herself to sharing her passion for dance and movement with kids and women of all ages by teaching in various dance studios in the County.

With gratitude and commitment to her students she created the Jelu Bellydance Troupe where she leads her students to shine on the stage with her. Performing alongside Carem at the Marin Dance Festival are JBT members: Marissa Gregory and Annie Zeng.

Jasmine Kaiulani is a dancer/choreographer, artist and performer from O’ahu. Raised in the Bay Area, Jasmine trained in Ballet, Tap, Hula and Tahitian with the Westlake School for the Performing Arts and Spark of Creation Studios; she went on performing in productions, placing in competitions and self-taught herself Hip-Hop by the age of nine. Jasmine furthered her dance resume with Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban in her teens, preceding her graduation from Sonoma State University (SSU) with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Dance.

Jasmine has taught, created, choreographed and directed several works for the community during her young adulthood, with titles including Top 10 in the national Hip-Hop competition, KĀOS Takeover: solo division (2020); Special Recognition for Nhan Ho Project’s Images of Dance (2021); and representing SSU at the American College Dance Association Screen Dance Film Festival. She has since trained with Groove Against the Machine (Oakland) and co-founded adult Hip-Hop crew, The J² (“J-Squared”) Project with her partner; a new dance collective dedicated to unity and advocacy, in which they were recently awarded “Best Up-and-Coming Crew” at Homegrown Dance Competition. With a thriving passion for the art, Jasmine currently teaches dance in Marin County as she continues to hold focus in Hip-Hop and Modern dance and her purpose to share knowledge and inspire.

Marisa Gregory is a multi-talented performer who owns PoisnIvy Circus and Aerial Dance Marin. Combining silly, sultry aerial acrobatics and fire dance, her multi-media circus performances are a joy to witness.