MoeJoe is a New Iberia, Louisiana native and New Orleans resident who labels herself and dance style as Creole-Afro, specializing in the areas of folk and street dance. Her movements and class experiences celebrate southern dance culture and empowers the individual, while fusing world diasporic movements to connect and educate about world-wide Creole culture. She...
From Springboro, Ohio, Michael Crotty is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Michael received his BFA in Dance from the Ohio State University, Diploma from CODARTS Conservatory in the Netherlands, and an MFA in Dance from The University of Utah. His theater-dances have been commissioned and produced for The Los...
Carey Hamburg was born in Houston, Texas, but considers himself a Lafayette, Louisiana native since he moved there at the age of 4 years old. He attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now UL Lafayette) and began the study of Architecture. There he was introduced to structural design thinking, model building techniques, and a wide...
Mary Francis “Cissy” Whipp has been working as a performer, choreographer, and dance educator for over 40 years. She received her B.F.A. in Choreographic Design from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her M.A. in Performing Arts: Dance from the American University in Washington, D.C. She co-founded Louisiana’s first professional modern dance company, Moving South Dance, Inc., toured...
After teaching architecture design and freehand drawing for ten years on the universitylevel, Miguel Lasala began working with mural artist Robert Dafford in 2018. He hasworked on a wide range of projects from restoring the Clarinet mural in New Orleans tomost recently painting a 200’ long Rail Lines Map mural in Paducah KY. Aside from...
Peter Klubek is a Louisiana based artist currently serving as an art research librarianat the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Early in his career he completed an artistresidency at the Hospitalfield House Arts Center and Historic house in ArbroathScotland. Peter was also a featured artist in the Southern Illinois Open Competition andExhibition, and at the...
Riley McCallum is a queer, interdisciplinary performance artist originally from rural Texas. He has a broad background of movement experiences, ranging from martial arts, musical theatre, and color guard to concert and street dance forms. In the final year of earning his BFA in Performing Arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he was...
Since the age of four, dance has provided Sarah with the skills to connect and communicate with others through movement while also building her own confidence. Sarah loves to explore new forms of movement, but her favorite styles are hip hop and tap. She is grateful to have shared the love and experience of dance with her sister, and excited to continue dancing with the Lafayette community.
Join Sarah at Basin Arts!
Tuesday / Cardio Dance / 5:30-6:15pm
Alyson Hetzel is a filmmaker, photographer, and dancer originally from Crowley, La. They obtained a BFA in Digital Filmmaking at Loyola University in New Orleans, where they also danced with Ellevate Dance Company, The Radical Buffoons, and in several local artists’ music videos. While at Loyola, they directed several short narratives and documentaries, specifically Mudbugs,...
Mary Francis “Cissy” Whipp has been working as a performer, choreographer, and dance educator for over 40 years. She recently retired as the Dance Specialist at the J. Wallace James Elementary School for Arts & Technology, where she worked for 19 years. Cissy is thrilled to be a part of the Basin Arts team and share her love of dance with the children in the Modern Dance classes.
