Tom Evert
Dance/Movement
Tom Evert has been a creative force in creating and performing original choreographic works with a company of dancers, working intensively in arts-education programming and creating festival-like community events in Ohio for 38 years.
Tom currently serves as artistic director of DANCE EVERT, which he founded in 1986. He holds BFAs in both painting and dance from Ohio University and has enjoyed a world-class touring career with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York City. He has created a major body of work for which he has received eight Individual Excellence Awards in choreography.…
Kimberly Jarvis
Dance/Movement
Kimberly Crislip Jarvis is a choreographer, educator, teaching artist, and organizational development consultant whose work bridges the creative arts with education, wellness, and community engagement. She is the founder of Arts + More Services, where she provides customized communication workshops, strategic planning sessions, and staff development retreats for businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions. Her approach uses the arts as a catalyst for clarity, connection, and sustainable growth.
Kimberly holds degrees and certifications from the Scandinavian Institute for Physical Culture in Denmark, the American College of Sports Medicine, Malone University, and the University of Akron.…
Sara Lawrence-Sucato
Dance/Movement
Sara Lawrence-Sucato (BA Dance & MS Organizational Leadership from Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA) hails from Columbus, Ohio and lives and works in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Sara has worked in various capacities with The Dancing Wheels Company & School since 2006, including professional dancer, tour manager, and rehearsal director. In her capacity as The Dancing Wheels Company & School’s Director of Education, Sara works with a team of Master Teaching Artists to deliver the Dancing Wheels Teacher Certification program, trains new company dancers, oversees and teaches outreach and in-studio classes and programming, and teaches physically integrated dance technique in residencies, workshops, and master classes for The Dancing Wheels Company & School.…
Meghan Patijarevich
Dance/Movement: Ballet, Modern, & Jazz
Meghan Patijarevich is an imaginative and energetic dance educator. She is a native Ohioan and currently resides just outside of Columbus with her husband and daughter. Meghan enjoys bringing creativity, energy and a love of dance into each class she teaches. Her goal is to provide quality dance instruction while maintaining a positive and encouraging learning environment.
She is a graduate from The Ohio State University where she received a Masters of Arts in Education with an emphasis in Dance Education. She studied under Professor Melayne White-Dixon. Prior to that, she received her Bachelors of Arts and K-12 teaching license in Dance from the University of Akron.…
Brianna Rhodes
Dance/Movement, Visual Poetry, Modern, West African, Afrobeats, & Hip Hop
Brianna Rhodes was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and is a graduate of The Ohio State University Department of Dance. She just finished touring nationally with Dianne McIntyre performing In the Same Tongue. She also teaches Modern, Afrofusion, and Hip Hop at Dance Extension and Modern at BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. Her choreographic work has given her the privilege to create at Lima Arts School, Hathaway Brown (Cleveland), and many local Columbus schools. Alongside dance, she is an audio describer for Ohio Dance, an Ohio Dance board member, and a poet.…
Kerri Wilde
Dance/Movement
Kerri Wilde firmly believes that dance builds community and that each dancer brings energy and creativity to each class, allowing them to collaborate to create a dance that is uniquely theirs. Kerri views her role in the dance process as to encourage the development of ideas, to encourage dancers to tell their stories through movement, and to provide a safe environment where all ideas are welcomed and encouraged. She believes dance can help students express their understanding of themselves and the world around them.
In an education environment, Kerri’s goal is to collaborate with teachers and show them how concepts from history, language arts, science, math and other art forms can be expressed through dance.…
