Karenne H. Koo, Co-Founder and President, is a dance artist committed to developing and practicing multi-disciplinary approaches to encourage and stimulate the art of inclusive dance as an instrument for building community. She was Co-Founder of Evolve Dance Inc., a NY-based nonprofit dance organization, and served as Executive Director from 2006 to 2017. While in New York, she managed the Y Dance Program at the Family YMCA at Tarrytown with Evolve Dance and was Co-Producer and performer in the YDance Festivals and Evolve Dance Festivals. In 2013 she relocated to Tucson, AZ and became immediately active within the local dance communities. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mettler Studios, Inc., a member of the International Association for Creative Dance and part of a Tucson-based Butoh Dance group. Karenne has conducted creative dance residencies in New York, San Francisco, Vietnam, Indonesia and Peru. In Tucson, she completed a 3-year dance residency at Arts for All, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization that provides art education for adults and children with diverse abilities and co-directed the Arts for All Adult Dance Ensemble, a performing group of dancers with diverse abilities that regularly presented original works at multiple venues. She facilitates workshops/residencies with Arizona TASH, Mettler Studios Inc., Pio Decimo Center, Satori School, Sister Jose Women’s Center, The Greogory School, ZUZ! Dance Company and various memory care/assisted living retirement communities. Karenne continues to work towards expanding the potential of creative dance as an inclusive, communal experience through collaborative partnerships with multiple community organizations, both national and international. Karenne is the Recipient of the Inaugural 2022 J. Mare Founder’s Award from Ben’s Bells Project in Tucson, AZ. She is a Certified Mettler-based Dance Educator upon completion of Mettler Studio’s Mettler-based Dance Education Certification program that included 500 hours of Mettler-based dance teacher training, workshops and mentored teaching. https://karennekoo.net/
Sabrina Geoffrion, Co-Founder, Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Repertory Company Director, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with a minor in dance, and her Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has worked in various areas over the years, including teaching at the preschool and college levels, and academic research with the Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona (UA) with Dr. Andrew Weil, the Psychology Department at the UA, and the Psychiatry Department in the College of Medicine (also at UA). Since 2006, Sabrina has taught a variety of online Psychology classes for several universities. She currently holds an adjunct faculty position and teaches online for Grand Canyon University. Sabrina also works periodically as a childbirth educator and doula (helping moms during labor and delivery). Sabrina danced as a child and in college, and has studied ballet, jazz, contemporary, and African dance. She is currently part of Mettler Studio’s Teacher Training Apprentice Program. Sabrina is also a Butoh dancer and continues to look for ways to combine her passion for dance and movement expression with her love of teaching and helping others.
Sandra O’Donnell, Secretary, has devoted her career to eliminating structural racism and advancing social justice in social service and community development policy and practice. Toward that end, she has held positions in state government, private philanthropy, community based organizations, and universities, focusing particularly on diverting youth of color from incarceration, increasing learning and earning opportunities for low income families of color, and increasing the numbers of talented people of color in community leadership and public service. Over the past 20 years, she has provided grantseeking and evaluation consultation to community based nonprofits. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Sandy and her husband John live in Tucson and in Chicago. She is delighted to have the opportunity to help launch Dancesequences!
Keita Tsutsumi, Curriculum Director and 504 Co-Coordinator, is a Portland-born, Carolina-raised, Tucson-based Japanese-American multi-medium artist. After receiving his B.A. in Visual Arts (with a concentration in Ceramics) from Guilford College, he moved to Tucson in 2014 to fill an AmeriCorps position at Art for All, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization providing services for children and adults with disabilities. Through this opportunity Keita was introduced to creative dance after being invited to attend a creative dance class given by Mettler Studios, Inc. at the Tucson Creative Dance Center. Though he has never been in a dance class before, movement has always been an important mode of expression for Keita, be it on a potter’s wheel, a strut down the street or a stretch to the sun. Keita feels inspiration from a distant admiration of what he imagines movement and dance would feel like mixed with the sense of organic functions of nature. In his art practice, the creative dance approach brings Keita closer to the mind-body relationship and their relation to the environments he inhabits. Since 2020, Keita has been an instructor at the Tucson CLay Co-op. He has an Etsy site under his company name of KeiTsuFire and displays his work at various local fairs. He teaches dance at multiple elder residences in Tucson, is a Butoh dancer and serves as the Curriculum Director. Through his practice, he is committed to working, learning and connecting with others through art and movement.
Michelle Woodward, Director-at-Large, has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Northern Arizona University and a Master in Educational Psychology from the University of Arizona. She currently works for the Mathematics Department at the University as a course Director for Math 100. She is also a yoga instructor, a massage therapist and an amateur painter that works mainly in acrylics. She came upon dance late in her life through a class with Karenne at Zuzi! Dance a few years ago. She has experienced the transformative impact dance can have first hand and is excited to be a part of the Dancesequences family.
Michelle Buscemi, Director-at-Large, Repertory Company Dancer, is a Tucson-based artist working within multiple mediums and disciplines, including painting, ceramic sculpture, poetry and dance. Utilizing Laser Art Technique (“L.A.T.”), a modality devised for artists with limited mobility, Michelle’s visual works encompass both abstract and realistic paintings. Michelle’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Tucson. Michelle served on the Board of Directors for Arts for All, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization that provides art education for adults and children with disabilities. She was a choreographer and dancer with the Arts for All Adult Dance Company, a performing group of dancers with disabilities that presented original work at multiple venues in Tucson. Michelle also co-facilitated the Youth Strand at AZ TASH’s conference. Michelle served on Dancesequences’ Advisory Committee from 2018 – 2014. She completed the Dancesequences Teaching Artist Training in 2023 and began her mentored teaching in 2024.
Ann Reinhart, Director-at-Large, is a Midwestern transplant to the beautiful Southwest, post college in 1996. She holds a BS degree in Education and an Associate Degree in Nursing. She currently works for the community as a Public Health Nurse Educator for women and families in Pregnancy, Birth and beyond with a special interest in Literacy for children. Ann has explored dance as a child, from her strict Ballet classes, to Jazz and Community dance, then finally falling in love with Modern Dance while taking classes at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She enjoys dabbling in all forms of dance and just plain “movement” as a poetic expression of self. She enjoys life with her partner and as a Mother of two amazing and fun young adults. She loves being a support for them in their exploration of the Inclusive Arts and Dance at Integrative Touch Therapies and the Children’s Clinic here in Tucson. Ann most of all enjoys dancing with friends at local venues in Tucson and loves to support all art forms in the community of Tucson, her current home.
Carol Reinhart, Director-at-Large, has over 5 decades of dance experience, beginning with Modern Dance at Ohio State, University in 1971; Classical Ballet at the Dolores Mitrovich Academy of Dance Arts in Tucson, AZ from 1978 – 1983; Creative Movement with Cora Miller at Mettler Studios from 1985 to 1994; Skinner Releasing at Zuzi Move It from 1993- 1998; Tango and Salsa at various local Tucson studios from 2000 – 2007; Flamenco with Pablo Rodarte from 2005 – 2010; and Hawaiian Hula with Deanna Murray from 2020 to the present. Carol was a Labor and Delivery Nurse and has a private practice for Therapeutic Massage and Craniosacral (“CST”) Therapy and works as a part-time CST therapist at Integrative Touch in Tucson. Since 2022, Carol has been co-facilitating Joyful Movement with Dancesequences at Sister Jose Women’s Center for women who are unhoused and at the Memory Care and Assisted Living neighborhoods at Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging.
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