Alex Tecza and Katja Lindholm are former competitive ballroom dancers. Their achievements include titles of Professional national and world finalists, Dancers Cup Tour professional couple of the year awards and several wins in professional smooth, standard and showdance divisions. Since retiring from ballroom competitions Alex and Katja have continued to teach, perform, and learn many different dance styles ranging from ballroom to modern dance to contact improvisation. As part of their continued growth as artists, Alex and Katja are always striving to expand their dance and performance vocabulary into other forms and techniques. To reach these goals, they have recently begun collaborating with a wide range of other dancers, musicians, visual artists and film makers to create new performance art that melds all types of dancing, music and media together.
Katherine Bokenkamp is a senior Vocal Performance major at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign studying under Prof. Ricardo Herrera. This summer she participated in the Daniel Ferro Vocal Program in Greve in Chianti, Italy and Scuola Italia’s Program for Young Opera Singers in Sant’ Angelo in Vado, Italy. She is also a recent member of the Illini Dancesport Team.
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