Featured Instructors

Andy Mor is a Performer, dancer, choreographer and actor here in the Twin Cities. His style, called "jazzfunk", derives from different dance forms of African, jazz, hip hop, and house in the form of choreography. He has performed for the Netlix Halftime show with Snoop Dogg at the MN Vikings game last year, December 2025 on Christmas day. He currently teaches jazzfunk at Hothouse Mpls every Tuesdays and Wednesdays and has been affiliated with the Timberwolves' 612 dance crew as the assistant choreographer and dancer. Has choreographed and performed with the Timbwerwolves' dancers for their halftime, 2021. He directed and choreographed his first short film, "Thrill-o-ween", inspired from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and has been awarded for best short and horror film for the Twin cities Black film festival, San Francisco Arthouse Festival and the Hawaii International film festival of 2024. He also was the headliner, Co-director and choreographer for "Andy Mor & Cabarave" at the Cowles Dance Center for performing arts in 2023.

Jake Nehrbass grew up in Minneapolis and has been passionate about dance since the age of three. He has trained and performed in a variety of styles, including tap, modern, jazz, hip hop, international, and ballroom. Jake earned a BA in Dance and Exercise Science, which deepened his understanding of the body, movement, and the physical foundations of dance.

He is currently a company member with Arena Dances, Black Label Movement, Ruby Josephine Dance Theatre, and Rhythmically Speaking. Jake has also collaborated with several Twin Cities artists and companies.

In addition to performing and choreographing, Jake teaches at Prairie School of Dance and Ballare Teatro Performing Arts Center. He strives to create supportive, inclusive classes that celebrate creativity, self-expression, and the joy of movement while helping students grow as dancers and artists.

Lily Conforti graduated from the University of Minnesota’s dance program in 2021. She has trained and performed with Black Label Movement, Amez dance, Threads Dance Project, and other local artists such as Jake Nehrbass, Berit Algren, Erika Martin, Kendall Kramer, and Joanna Lees. Lily founded a contemporary dance theater company called Corpus Dance Works in 2019. The company fuses daring movement with bold storytelling and just the right amount of satire and absurdity to keep things delightfully unhinged. Lily is passionate about blending contemporary dance with different artistic mediums and socially relevant topics to create accessible/digestible art that reaches a wide audience. Corpus also co-produces an annual emerging artist showcase every January called REJECTS cohort where 22 artists present short works that have all been rejected in some way or another. Check out the rest of our season on our website!

Nieya Amezquita is a Minnesota-based artist currently working as a company member with Arena Dances, Black Label Movement, and Corpus Dance Works. She has also performed with Threads Dance Project, Rhythmically Speaking, Elayna Waxse Movement Projects, Concerto Dance, Off-Leash Area, and Doma Dance Theater. In 2019, Nieya earned a Bachelor's in Dance and Psychology from the University of Georgia. During undergrad, she had the opportunity to perform nationally and internationally with the founding company CADE:NCE before studying in Portugal with the Addo Platform where her passion for choreography was ignited. She discovered the perfect merge of her two fields of interest: using dance as an artistic medium to explore, understand and discuss human psychological concepts. Now Nieya's work has been presented in the Blackness Is Arts festival produced by the Guthrie Theater, the CandyBox festival produced by Arena Dances, commissioned by Threads Dance Project, Rhythmically Speaking, Alternative Motion Project and Ballet Co'Laboratory. In 2023, Nieya furthered her professional development by founding and leading Amez Dance, a project-based dance company committed to cultivating reflective and reparative experiences through movement. Nieya strives to participate in works that not only create a space where authenticity is celebrated but deeply understood.

Colin Edwards is a Twin Cities–based multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and performer whose work blends hip hop, modern, and contemporary dance with a focus on collective imagery, identity, and emotional expression.

As founder of Meridians Dance Company, Edwards develops choreography and projects that connect movement, music, and visual storytelling. His work has been presented at venues including The Ordway Theater, Guthrie Theater, First Avenue, and the Walker Art Center.

In addition to his creative practice, Edwards has experience as an administrator and event coordinator, supporting a range of dance projects and community-based performances across the Twin Cities. He is a graduate of Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and continues to contribute to Minnesota’s dance community through performance, teaching, and collaboration.

Meridians is a movement collective using hip-hop as a vessel for emotional healing, collective release, and the redefinition of masculinity. Through performance, ritual, and storytelling, we embody love, vulnerability, and flow as pathways toward wholeness. Our work transforms the stage into sacred ground — where the body remembers, and the body releases.

Yukina Sato is a Japanese dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker whose work explores the dynamic interplay of movement and storytelling. Her artistic practice delves into the liminal space of cultural hybridity, capturing the unique experiences of living between two countries and navigating overlapping cultural landscapes. 

Yukina has collaborated with acclaimed performing artists and companies, including Abby Zbikowski (Abby Z + New Utilities), Carl Flink (Black Label Movement), Crystal Perkins (Dayton Contemporary Dance Company), Bebe Miller, and Diavolo – Architecture in Motion – among many others. As the co-founder of YY Dance+Media, she is passionate about creating multimedia performances that intersect live dance performance and technology. Her recent work, Motion of Seeing, premiered at the Detroit Dance City Festival and earned the National Exchange Award in 2023, leading to performances at the RAD Festival in 2024. 

Yukina holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Minnesota State University, Mankato. In this role, she shares her passion for movement, creativity, and choreography with students. More work can be found in https://yukinasato.com/

Corrie Eggimann is an arts administration professional, yoga teacher, avid reader, Pisces and lover of sunshine based in Mankato. 

Corrie holds a master's degree in communication studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato and a bachelor's degree in theatre and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

She teaches yoga at Sun Moon Yoga Mankato and the Mankato Family YMCA, where she strives to create a welcoming and cozy space to breath, move and connect. She completed her registered yoga teacher training through Sun Moon Yoga in the summer of 2020. 

MiKayla Scherping is a dancer and choreographer based in the Twin Cities. She earned her BFA in Dance from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2024 and is currently a company member of Concerto Dance. Her performance credits include work with the Walker Art Center, Black Label Movement, Collide Theatrical, Little Tanz Theatre, and Time Track Dance. She has also performed and choreographed with 8:20 Dance Company. Outside of dance, MiKayla has a passion for fitness and holds a comprehensive Pilates certification. She loves teaching Pilates to students of all ages around the Minneapolis area.