Cameron Cofrancesco began his dance training at the Rock School West for Dance Education, and continued his studies at The USC Kaufman School of Dance under the direction of Jodie Gates. Here, he developed his own BFA concentration in tandem with the Cinema School, studying how dance is translated between the stage and screen. During this time, he learned from a vast range of concert choreographers and commercial artists including William Forsythe, Aszure Barton, Tessandra Chavez, Justin Peck, Jermaine Spivey, Hope Boykin, and Bret Easterling.

Cameron joined his first professional company while in college becoming an inaugural company member with Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, led by Francisco Gella and Yusha Marie Sorzano. Upon graduating, he joined Ballet Memphis as a professional company member and teacher for their youth education program. While dancing at Ballet Memphis he got to work with Marcus Jarrell Willis, Steven McMahon, and Garrett Ammon who later invited Cameron to join his personal company, Wonderbound, in Denver, CO.

Cameron presently resides in Denver, CO dancing with Wonderbound, and continues to  guest teach and choreograph for the Ballet Memphis education program. He also has taught numerous times for Francisco Gella’s established intensive Ballet + and is excited to be joining his emerging education program ROOTS Dance Summit as a professional guide for the students.

In 2023, Cameron produced a short dance film, On the Moon, that was selected & shown at festivals internationally. He has also directed an advertisement for Bose Earbuds featuring Lennon Torres and assistant directed em.bod.y, a documentary by Jainil Mehta. In addition, he presently works for LA’s premier film festival, Dance Camera West, and has served as a board member and production assistant.

Janae Holster, a multi-hyphenate artist from Alexandria, Virginia, developed a deep passion for the arts at a young age. Early exposure to local festivals and parades with their mother, and print-making workshops with their grandmother instilled a deep appreciation for creativity. Janae’s dance training across the DMV area, including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and musical theater at Adagio Ballet, Joy of Motion, and Capital Movement, along with their time as a member of Mighty Shock and Future Shock D.C., fostered a strong appreciation for both social and classical dance forms.

Before high school, Janae relocated to Orange County, California, where they attended the California School of the Arts in the Commercial Dance Conservatory. While traveling nationally as an assistant for faculty at dance conventions, they gained valuable experience in teaching, production, and event management, deepening their passion for sharing dance with others.

At USC’s Kaufman School of Dance, Janae pursued a BFA while actively engaging with the community through the Kaufman Connections program, teaching elementary students. Immersed in cypher culture, they participated in events such as Cypher Summit and Visions and Voices, exploring the richness of hip-hop and choreographing works that extended beyond traditional stage performances.

Janae believes in the transformative power of art to heal and connect. Looking ahead, they aspire to combine their passions for dance and visual art through creative direction in film and stage, creating cross-generational experiences that unite people through the joy of artistic expression.

Joel is a writer that works like a researcher and filmmaker that works like a designer. He helps people telegraph complex ideas in precise and personal ways.

“I’ve helped Jay-Z, Discover, Adidas, Flo Milli, Denzel Curry, and others in this fashion. I’ve also helped my friends get through their breakups, but you can’t commission me for that.”

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Madison Falconer is a Michigan raised choreographer, dancer, and the Artistic Director and Founder of Falco.

Madison began her career in Chicago dancing with A&A Ballet and FLOCK, training with the Hubbard Street Lou Conte Scholarship Program. From a young age, she gained recognition for her choreographic works becoming one of the youngest recipients of Outstanding Choreographer at YAGP and winning multiple Critics Choice Awards across the Midwest.

In 2023, Madison graduated with her BFA from the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. At USC, Madison studied Composition under the mentorship of William Forsythe, Thomas McManus, Patrick Corbin, Dawn Stoppiello, d. Sabela grimes, and Jermaine Spivey. She focused her Occupational Science and Compositional research on methods for making dance more accessible to diverse audiences. During her time at USC Madison Co-Produced and Directed tens of interactive arts events to cultivate community and play in unconventional spaces.

In 2021, Madison founded her company, Falco, and the Woodworks Residency, with the mission to empower a space for collaboration, creative opportunity and immersive performance events. In 2023, she was the Resident Choreographer at Company Dance Traverse and the Vista Del Mar Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center. She was a 2023 Carmel Dance Festival Choreographic Fellow and has choreographed original works for Trinity Laban in London, Ballet Arkansas, Traverse City Dance Project, Save as Draft, Laguna Dance Festival, A&A Ballet, Jackson Dance Company, Imprint Dance Company, among others. Madison worked as Associate Choreographer with Artists, Veegee, for Cartier’s 2024 Trinity Centennial Celebration, and Jackson Wang with Hennessy’s 2024 Chinese New Year in Shanghai, in addition to Choreography for music videos of Leaha Maria, Shorty-G, Daniel Mangiaracino, and Movement Direction on SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE).

Madison is interested in multi-sensory surrealism, the blending and bending of different mediums to emphasize natural space and pace of everyday life.

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Michael is a Colorado-born artist on a mission to redefine and revolutionize the way music and dance are perceived together. Always somewhere between definable structures, his multi-medium approach to curation and facilitation carves out spaces that are accessible and empowering. His philosophy stems from the belief that all practices—whether creative or not—are deeply interconnected, and these connections can be further deepened through holistic embrace.

He graduated in 2023 from the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as a BFA dance major with a concentration in Choreography for Stage and Screen. There he received training in styles such as hip-hop, house, contemporary, ballet, jazz, and gaga; he studied under Sabela d. Grimes, Tiffany Bong, William Forsythe, Fiona Lummis, Jermaine Spivey, Dawn Stoppiello, Jennifer Lott, Bret Easterling, Dante Rose, and more.

Along the way, he discovered a love and passion for music composition, production and performance. Utilizing his unique perspective as a dancer and movement maker to inform his musical process, Michael has done commissioned work for choreographers, scored evening-length works, performed live for dance events and shows utilizing Ableton Live and MIDI instruments. He is currently developing a framework that gives dancers the tools and language to connect more deeply with music and themselves.

“Why hello there! Nice to meet you – I’m Mya, a creative director and visual storyteller crafting narratives audiences can see, and inspiring what audiences can be.

I draw. I animate. I make music. I collaborate.
I observe. I reveal. I care.

Ever since I was a kid studying Calvin & Hobbes and Hannah Barbara cartoons, throughlines in my life and work have included appreciating the obscure, embracing the bizarre, and actively maintaining childlike wonder. I’ve had some tremendous opportunities to work with nonprofit orgs, small brands, and large companies alike in taking wild ideas and bringing them to life (Top Dawg Entertainment, Adidas, Monkeypaw Productions, etc.); I approach each and every project with the same design thinking overview leading with empathy then following through with proper research, ideation, selection, implementation, and reflection.”

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“I am obsessed with the power of emotion, clarity, and beauty to make an experience of technology novel.

I trained on the professional track for ballet—movement, quality, and story are core to who I am. My ballet career was promising. But it was cut short when the intensity of my training became a risk to my health. I turned to wearable technologies—initially as a user seeking information about my body, then as the researcher, designer, and founder of Pulse, an award-winning R&D startup developing a wearable to help optimize exercise within cardiac restrictions. Pulse led me to the USC Iovine & Young Academy where I studied Product & Experience Design alongside the fundamentals of Software & Hardware Development, Venture Management & Strategy, Multimedia Production, and Philosophy & Psychology.

I have contributed Product Design, Strategy, and Research to teams including Apple, Adidas, Samsung, Mattel, Harvard Business Publishing, and USC Convergent Science Institute in Cancer. These experiences have been ultra-energizing. I have simultaneously navigated the complexities of profound personal losses, which ground me in acute intentionality and a deep appreciation for health.

I play in a world of technology and I question our world beyond technology.

Currently exploring: wearable technology, health & human performance, wellness, exercise physiology, AI & human consciousness, mindfulness & wisdom cultures, creative expression, movement.”

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