Erica Feriozzi

graduated from Brenau University with a BFA in dance performance, where she performed with the Brenau Dance Ensemble and the Gainesville Ballet. She was recently a dance teacher in North Carolina public high schools. Erica moved to Baltimore to join the faculty of the Morton Street Dance Center and to dance with Full Circle Dance Company. She has since performed in The Nutcracker , in Snow Queen and Sleeping Beauty Excerpts, and in Hansel and Gretel with the Howard County Ballet.

Donna Jacobs,

an honors graduate of the New York School for the Performing Arts and Wesleyan University, is the director of the Full Circle Dance Company. As a young dancer, Ms. Jacobs studied with Michael Peters (choreographer to Michael Jackson), Chuck Davis (renowned African dance teacher), and Frank Hatchett (now with the Broadway Dance Center)Gertrude Sher of the original Graham company and with master teacher Penny Frank. She also trained with Jennifer Mueller, Mary Anthony, and Maria Morales (of the original West Side Story cast). While attending Wesleyan University, Ms. Jacobs was asked to join the dance faculty and she taught advanced modern, ballet, jazz, and African on campus and as a freelance artist. Since coming to Baltimore, she has performed with several local companies. Ms. Jacobs has been director of the Morton Street Dance Center for 15 years and she has over 25 years of teaching, choreography, and production experience. Her choreography has been featured in New York in the Broadway Dance Center’s “Best of *” choreographers’ showcase. She has been inducted in the "Circle of Excellence" for her professional accomplishments and youth mentoring, having been named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women three times by The Daily Record.

Hope Byers

studied as a young dancer at L’Eee Shee School of Dance & Gurstha’s School of Dance in Bastrop, Louisiana. She also trained under renowned Jazz artist Joe Tremaine. She has received professional training from instructors at Southern University and from Bebe Miller, Lula Washington, Milton Myers, and Ron K. Brown. Hope has performed locally with Tyrone Murray’s Rafiki Dance Theatre and independently with Reggie Glass and Helanius Wilkins. She is also a member of FloydProject Dance Co. in Washington, DC, a substitute dance instructor, and a choreographer.

Margaret Sikes

began her dance training at Tennessee Ballet and Memphis Classical Ballet. She attended Lexington Ballet’s summer program and won a full scholarship to the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. She graduated from Chattanooga High School for the Performing Arts and danced with the Chattanooga Ballet for six years. She was a member of the Tennessee Association for Dance for six years and served as the residential counselor at the Association’s first summer intensive program in 1999. Margaret holds a BFA in dance pedagogy from Brenau University. She attended the American Dance Festival 2001 and studied dance education for special needs. She currently teaches throughout the Baltimore community.

Morgan L. Wallace

has won scholarships from the Maryland Council for Dance in ballet, modern, and jazz to study in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Chicago. She recently completed intensive study on scholarship at Point Park College and at the Gus Giordano Dance Center in Evanston, Illinois. She was a featured guest artist at Wesleyan University’s Celebration of 35 years of dance in 2002. She has performed with the Howard County Ballet’s in The Nutcracker and in Hansel and Gretel. In 2006 she placed third in the state at the Maryland Council for Dance and won a scholarship to continue intensive study at Point Park College in 2007.

Liz Pelton

early training was at North River Arts Ballet and Boston Ballet in Massachusetts. She performed in Boston, Chicago, Washington, and New Haven before coming to Baltimore. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she was student director of the Georgetown Dance Company.

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April Turner

originally from Fort Washington, Maryland, is currently a dance major at Towson University, where she has had the opportunity to work with Jayne Bernasconi, Stephanie Powell, Dana Martin, Linda Denise Fisher-Harrell, Vincent Thomas, Jaye Knutson, Catherine Horta-Hayden, Susan Mann, and Dennis Price.

Madi D. Jackson

holds a BFA in Dance from Kent State University. She has performed with Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre, Quagmire Dance Inc., and Malashock Dance and Co. She is currently a full-time dance teacher at several area studios.

Algernon J. Campbell

is a 1994 graduate of Morehouse College with a B.A. in Theater and Drama. While matriculating at Morehouse, he began training at the Ballethnic Academy of Dance where he was also an apprentice. He is a 1996 graduate of the Ailey School Certificate Program. Upon graduating from the Ailey School, he worked at the Metropolitan Opera, danced in Osaka, Japan, danced with the Seraphim Dance Company, and worked with Bill T. Jones. In 1999, he became a member of the Dallas Black Dance Theater where he danced the works of Yuriko, Donald Byrd, Donald McKayle, David Parsons, and other renowned choreographers. Moving to Oakland, California, he danced at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Having moved to the DC Metro area, he began to working with Kathy Smith and then auditioned for Full Circle Dance Company. He is a teacher and choreographer at the Morton Street Dance Center.

Misty L. Borst

was born and raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She studied at Carolina Dance Academy and Myrtle Beach School of Performing Arts. At age 16, she was accepted to South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts for dance (ballet and modern). While an undergraduate at University of South Carolina, she performed with USC Dance Company,
USC West African Dance Company, and Djoliba Don Company. For her senior thesis, she choreographed and performed two works—one modern and one hip hop, and wrote a corresponding dissertation on each. During medical school she continued to teach and dance. She is now a medical resident and proud new member of Full Circle Dance Company.

Allison McGuire

received her BFA in contemporary dance from Radford University in 2006. While at Radford, she performed and presented work at the American College Dance Festival and at Radford University performances and studied dance in Hawaii. Allison is currently working with the Estelle Dennis Scholarship program at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and teaching at the Patty Neivert School of Dance. She also performs with
d a n a h b e l l a Danceworks in Virginia. This is her first season with Full Circle Dance Company.

Theresa DeAngelo

received her B.A. in dance and a B.S. in Biology from University of Maryland Baltimore County. She started her dance training with the Towson University
Children's Dance Division and continued there until age 18. She has studied with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York and with several choreographers in Baltimore. Theresa has performed with Towson University Dance Company and UMBC Dance Company and has taught dance throughout Maryland. Theresa is a Criminalist for the Baltimore City Police Crime Lab.
She currently dances with Howard County Ballet as well as Full Circle Dance Company.

Barclay Pease

began her dance training in Baltimore. She studied at the Towson University Children's Dance Division, the Peabody Preparatory, and the Baltimore School for the Arts. She then moved to Pennsylvania to dance at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. After graduating from high school, Barclay danced with Ballet British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and Charleston Ballet Theater in South Carolina. She currently teaches and choreographs for dance schools around Baltimore and in Pennsylvania, and she will be attending Towson University in fall 2007 as a dance major.