Dancers   Christina Cooley grew up in Auburn and trained with Wade Wathall at Evergreen City Ballet. She also studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Summer Dance Labs, The Rock School of Pennsylvania, and Joffrey New York. She continued her training at Joffrey New York before joining Spectrum Dance Theater and then DASSdance. Christina serves as the Community Integrations Director and is in her third season with DASSdance.   Bojohn Diciple is a native to Portland Oregon and received his early training at the Jefferson Performing Arts High School in Portland, the Oregon Ballet Theater School, and Northwest African America Ballet Theatre. He received a BFA in dance in 2006 from one of the Northwest’s top performance arts schools, Cornish College of the Arts, as a Kreielsheimer artistic merit scholarship recipient. He has performed with Spectrum Dance Theater, Fusion Dance Theatre, Seattle Opera, 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, and the Intiman Theatre, and has performed set pieces by Andrea Woods, Luis Garay, Nicholas Leichter, and Bill T. Jones. BoJohn is in his second season with DASSdance.   Jennifer Elder is a native to the Pacific Northwest and started her dance training at the Southwest Washington Dance Center. In 2007, she graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. While attending the university, Jennifer danced with the department’s company, the Performing Dance Company, where she was in original works by Abby Fiat, Eric Handman, and Brent Schneider. She had the privilege to perform Eric Handman’s work for the American Dance Guild’s 50th Anniversary Gala in New York. Jennifer has also danced several seasons with the Southwest Washington Ballet Ensemble and the Blacken Tan Dance Company under the artistic direction of Danielle Brosco. Most recently, Jennifer performed with the California Guitar Trio as a featured dancer. Jennifer is in her first season with DASSdance.   Dade Glaser started tap dancing at British Dancing Academy when he was four and started ballet when he was in 7th grade. In high school he trained at the Evergreen City Ballet in ballet, modern, and hip-hop. In his three-year tenure he preformed in many roles such as Russian, Arabian, and Caviler in The Nutcracker and Benno in Swan Lake. He also performed in Cinderella, and Giselle as well as other works created by Wade Walthall, and Kevin Kaiser. In the summer of 2006 he attended a summer intensive at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. He is currently a student at the University of Washington. Dade is in his first season with DASSdance.   TeaJae Johnson started dancing in Phoenix Arizona studying jazz, tap, and hip-hop. TeaJae has danced with such groups as Phoenix Mercury hip-hop Squad, Desert Dance Theater, and Ballet Arizona. He had the honor of dancing in Super Bowl 30 and for Alice Cooper. TeaJae choreographed for the Phoenix Suns cheerleaders after which he moved to Miami to dance for Royal Caribbean Cruise line and many Latin TV shows as well as Miami City Ballet. TeaJae is in his second season with DASSdance.   Jill Schaffner was born and raised in Eugene, OR, where she trained as a competitive gymnast. After high school, she moved to New York City where she studied dance at Hunter College on scholarship, choreographing and performing. Since moving to Seattle two years ago, she has danced/choreographed for Walrus Dance Company and performed with The Asterisk Project, Full Tilt 2008, and the E.P.I.C. festival. In her free time, she practices aerial arts and can be found hanging from trees or rafters around town. She is in her first season DASSdance.   Ahnaleza Vandermay a Seattle native, received her training at Tanz Academy Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland). At Tanz she had the pleasure of training under directors Oliver Matz and Steffi Scherzer and graduated from the school in 2006 with the Diplom Buhnentanz der Schweizerischen Ballettberufsschule. Ahnaleza has also studied with Atlanta Ballet, Houston Dance Academy, Boston Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Tanya Pierson (Sydney, Aus), Joel Hall Dance Center, and Complexions. Professionally, Ahnaleza has performed with Ballet der Grazer Oper (Austria), the musical Johnas and Madeline (Switzerland), Ballet Bellevue, and as a semi-finalist in the Genee International Ballet Competition (Greece). Ahnaleza is in her first season as an apprentice with DASSdance.   Danielle Wilkins is from Kentucky where she trained for ten years at the Louisville Ballet. She received her BFA degree from the University of Hartford Hartt School of Music, during which she performed at the Kennedy Center as a soloist in Jean Grand Maitre's Uroborus. Danielle has worked professionally with Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Mary Seidman and Dancers, Mimi Garrard Dance Company, Steven Koplowitz, Marco Carrabba, Thought Forms Dance Company, and Spectrum Dance Theater, most recently appearing in the 5th Avenue Theater's production of West Side Story and the Seattle Opera's Pearl Fishers. Danielle serves as the Company Manager and Rehearsal Director and is in her tenth season with DASSdance.