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.
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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.
John Alex McBride is originally from Lafayette, Louisiana. He received his BFA from The University of Arizona in Tucson and is currently an MFA candidate at Hollins University. Alex has danced and trained with San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, River North Dance Chicago, 10 Hairy Legs (NYC), The Limón Dance Company (NYC), and Basin Dance...
Sam Wróbel specializes in the Polish papercutting folk art of wycinanki. Born and raised near Chicago, Illinois, Sam learned to make wycinanki as a child from folk artist Doris Sikorsky. As an adult, Sam worked as an in-store sign artist for Trader Joes, and eventually left Chicago to travel. Sam encountered Lafayette and fell in...
Madison Graves is a performance artist and educator based in Lafayette, LA. She has studied many styles of dance, primarily ballet and modern, and received her BFA in Dance from UL. Madison looks forward to opportunities for choreography, performance, and collaboration in the future.
Gina began her studies with Hebert Dancentre and Lafayette Ballet Theatre, studying with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. She has 16 years of experience teaching ballet in both MS and LA and is the ballet master of Basin Arts's resident dance company, Basin Arts Dance Collective.
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Thursday / Adv. Pro Ballet (Alternating with Jasmine Bertrand) / 9:45-11:15am
Jasmine Bertrand-Vale is a ballet and dance teacher in Lafayette, Louisiana and the Director of Bluebirds Ballet Academy. As a second-generation dance teacher, she has been teaching dance for over twenty years.Recognizing that her true passion has always been dance, she is overjoyed to continue the family tradition of sharing her passion and enthusiasm for this beautiful art form to the next generation of dancers.
Join Jasmine at Basin Arts!
Thursday / Adv. Pro Ballet (Alternating with Gina Aswell) / 9:45-11:15am
