Léna Alvino

Léna Alvino is originally from Switzerland. She started ballet at 5 and modern and contemporary dance at 14. Léna had the chance to dance in a variety of performances such as Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, What a Small World, The Carnival of the Animals, Collection, Romeo and Juliette, Cinderella, Chatouille and Alice in Wonderland. After graduating from an artistic high school, she joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. In August 2017, she danced in Santa Barbara in State Street Ballet’s Professional Track Program. She is very excited to have joined eMotion Arts Dance Co. in March 2018.

Susannah Faulkner

Susannah Faulkner is an Erie, Pennsylvania native who started her training in ballet, modern, jazz, and hip-hop at Erie Bayfront Dance (now Erie Dance Theater) and Lake Erie Ballet. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, as a ballet major, and attended various regional intensives and festivals. After performing, teaching, and choreographing for schools and companies in New York, Colorado, and England for a decade, she is now dancing with eMotion Arts Dance Co. in San Francisco and teaching master classes locally and nationally. Her passion for dance blends with her studies and work in public policy, politics, and activism holding a BA in Politics from Ithaca College and an MPA in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Mariko Ishikawa

Mariko Ishikawa, a San Francisco native, received her classical ballet training under the tutelage of Ayako Takahashi. In 2012, Mariko competed for and won the prestigious Beach Blanket Babylon Scholarship for the Arts by the Steve Silver Foundation. She has been dancing professionally with companies such as Albany Berkshire Ballet, Mandance Company San Francisco, and Menlowe Ballet, Imaginatio Arts, and eMotion Arts, and has been invited to perform as a guest artist with Peninsula Youth Ballet, Diablo Ballet and DManagement’s “Performing in Chicago”. In 2017, Mariko graduated from Saint Mary's College with a BA in Performing Arts through the LEAP program, and is currently a freelance artist, and a dance and fitness instructor in the Bay Area.

John Ligda (visual arts)

John Ligda is a California native who supports himself with information technology and data science. His drawings win local juried awards, are currently shown in several European galleries, and can be found in private collections across the globe. His only formal art training came in Taiwan from an intimate collaboration with Chinese painting master Liang Dan Fong. He also studied Mandarin and Chinese art history at the National Palace museum. Recently, John has performed socially conscious live mark-making in London and California. He successfully funded, performed and exhibited the conceptual art work, A Mark for Peace in Palestine, Israel, Egypt, London and Poland. This is John’s first year collaborating with Emotion Arts.

Anna Liu

Anna Liu was born in Shenzhen, China, and spent the majority of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics. During school, she performed with the Harvard Ballet Company, Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company, Asian American Dance Troupe, and Expressions Hip Hop Group. She started her training in ballet and Chinese folk dance at Silicon Valley Dance Academy and has performed throughout the Bay Area, including twice at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Anna joined eMotion Arts in Fall of 2018.

Sophia Rumasuglia

Sophia Rumasuglia is a Bay Area native who began her training at Ballet San Jose and Los Gatos Ballet. She has performed professionally with Joffrey Ballet in New York, Ballet Austin, Ballet Bernasconi, Bay Pointe Ballet, and Metamorphosis Ballet. In addition to dancing, she is a certified yoga teacher and holds a Bachelor in Performing Arts from St. Mary’s College. This is her first year dancing with Emotion Arts.

Angelica Velez

Angelica is a current Performing Arts/Social Justice and Mathematics student at the University of San Francisco. She has over ten years of performance experience and has recently performed works by Hien Huynh/Courtney Hope, Nicole Klaymoon, Jennifer Polyocan, Dexandro Montalvo, Byb Chanel Bibene, Kao Vey Sebastian Saephanh, Eli Nelson, and Curtis Speck. She started her dance training in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has performed there with Albuquerque Academy, Keshet Dance Company, and the Filipino-American Foundation of New Mexico. She is a versatile mover with experience in ballet, contemporary styles, jazz, hip-hop styles, and Philippine cultural dance. Her passion for somatic exploration and desire to learn about the human experience through movement shapes her choreographic work, colors her identity as an artist, and influences her as a world citizen.

Haley Friend Wilson

Haley Friend Wilson is a San Francisco Bay Area multidisciplinary performance artist. As a Choreographer, Haley has produced six original pieces of choreography with Dance Mission, Little Boxes Theater, Beloved Festival, Pranam, Portland RawArtist Event, and Dance for a Change. She has performed at the San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, SF How Weird, and SafeHouse Arts. In 2017 Haley was selected as an Emerging choreographer at Dance Mission’s Emerging Choreographers Showcase. Also in 2017, Haley Co-Directed, produced and performed in Dive, a Dance Film selected for the 2017 SF Dance film festival. Haley received a BA in Dance from the University of Oregon. This is her first year dancing with Emotion Arts.

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