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ALMA DANCE
Company
About
Mission
Alma Dance Company shares stories, particularly those of women, through dance, discussion and workshops, connecting with communities globally to spark change and engage in building a more equitable world.
Portfolio
Artistic Director
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Heather Robles (she/her/ella) is a Queer Latinx cis woman of Indigenous Mexican descent who lives on the stolen land of the Lenape and Canarsie peoples in Brooklyn. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Alma Dance Company, a certified birth doula at Our Birth Doula, and the Director of Programming at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. A Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer, she has worked with many artists including Sidra Bell, Pavel Zûstiak, André M. Zachery, and Yvonne Rainer to name a few. Heather has been a dance educator, professor, teaching artist, and producer. She was also the Executive Director of The New York Dance & Performance Awards, The Bessies, from 2021-2024, where she worked for 15 years in total. She received her Executive MBA from Brown University and IE Business School in 2025, a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College in 2008, and was an Independent Study at The Ailey School before college. She regularly sits on grants panels and task forces with the goal of building a more equitable arts landscape in NYC and beyond.
The Company
Natalia Munoz is a Brooklyn based Interdisciplinary Artist Educator, Theater Practitioner, Mover, Dancer and Artivist. She has trained in Afro-Brazilian, Haitian, Capoeira and several Afro-Colombian rhythms. Natalia is passionate about using the power of the arts to transform oppression into a source of power and creative awareness. Her framework focuses on using the power of devised theater, improvisation, dance, storytelling and visual arts to unlock the potential of young people to develop their creative competencies. Natalia has participated in multiple projects using arts as a vehicle for social change, healing and self-expression. She has performed at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Drom, Terraza 7, Museum at Eldridge street, Barbes, Chelsea Market Studio and Lincoln Center.
Cecilia Mitchell Cecilia Mitchell is a multidisciplinary dance artist, educator, and choreographer from Montclair, NJ. She trained extensively at Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts and earned her BA in Dance Performance from Stockton University. Cecilia has performed with Putty Dance Project, ECAT NYC, Orphic and Alma Dance Company. Her work blends technical skill with authenticity, storytelling, and community connection. She currently teaches, choreographs, and freelances across the East Coast, sharing her passion for movement and creating spaces where people can feel seen, free, and inspired.
Roberta Samet, she/her, lives in Brooklyn, on Lenape land. She is a long time dancer, psychotherapist, practitioner of Maitri Breathwork and an anti-racist organizer. She originally studied dance with Alwin Nikolais/Murray Lewis and Charles Moore in New York City and performed with Tuffy Finley in San Francisco. A lover of water and sky, she built and paddles her own kayak. Sometimes she dances with horses.
Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens, a South Carolina Gullah Sea Islands descendant, is a dance historian, educator, linguist, and performing artist. She is proud to be the Artistic Director for Girl Be Heard, an all-female pre-professional multidiscipline arts ensemble for young social activists. With a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a focus on Francophone dance history from New York University, Gittens has a BA in French from Oberlin College and an MA in African Studies from Yale University. She has been recognized and has won awards for her cultural and historical research in the Senegambia, South Africa, France, and Mexico.
Mireicy Aquino began her training at Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts and is currently in her fourth year at The Ailey School in New York. She has performed works by Savion Glover, Nasha Thomas, Heather Robles, and Hope Boykin on stages including Lincoln Center, Broadway, NJPAC, and the Prudential Center. Mireicy also explores acting and spoken word, and is a 10th grade student in Montclair, NJ.
Rosa Allegra Wolff is a world builder, grasping the spectrum of realities humans face, to spark melancholic, electrifying truths. They are a current member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and 2024 New Choreographer Grant recipient through the Eryc Taylor Dance Company. Rosa graduated from George Mason School of Dance with choreography excellence honors. Their work has been presented at the American College Dance Festival Gala, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Supper Club Dance, and more. Rosa grew up attending Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts where Heather Robles was their first improvisation teacher.
Dalia Engelberg is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She is the former Managing Director of the Bessie Awards. She is a performer for RACHEL: dancers and a Pilates instructor. Dalia graduated from NYU Tisch in 2023 with a B.F.A in Dance and a Minor in History. During her studies, she had the privilege of working with choreographers Bill T. Jones, Sidra Bell, and Rafael Cañales. Originally from Montclair, New Jersey, she studied at Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts as well as the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Dalia lives in Brooklyn and is grateful to be a part of the NYC dance community!
Mikee Ellis, from Montclair, NJ, began their dance training at Sharon Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts. They graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, earning a BFA in Dance. At Tisch they performed in work by Laja Field and José Limón; spending summer semesters studying with companies Sidra Bell Dance NY; David Dorfman Dance; Evidence, A Dance Company; and Gibney Dance. In 2024, Mikee moved to Chicago to dance with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater II. In Chicago they have had the privilege of dancing with DanceWorks Chicago and joining Symbiosis Arts under the direction of Braeden Barnes.
Arthur Avilés is an internationally renowned gay New York-Rican dancer/choreographer, born in 1963, Jamaica Queens. Raised in Brentwood Long Island and Bronx Park East. He is the founder of his contemporary dance company, Arthur Avilés Typical Theatre (AATT) and co-founder with Charles Rice-González of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.
Hannah Howell (she/her) began dancing at Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts and went on to graduate from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program. She has also trained at Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, and Rambert Dance. Hannah has performed works by Chalvar Monteiro, Christopher Huggins, Mark Caserta, Ethan Colangelo, Martha Graham, and Jose Limon. In addition to her major in Dance, she minored in American Studies and plans to pursue both disciplines professionally.
Marin Day is a dancer and arts worker currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has studied various movement forms with artists from all over the world in the U.S., Mexico and Costa Rica. Marin has been fortunate to work and perform with Miguel Castillo, Brit Falcon, Lou Tides, Lena Engelstein, James Barrett and Maia Chao. She is half of the dance collective PEPTALK with Maddie Hopfield. From 2019-2023 Marin was the Associate Producer at the Bates Dance Festival. She currently is the Program and Development Associate at Danspace Project and the Associate Producer for sister sylvester. Marin holds a BA in Southwest Studies and Dance from Colorado College.
Floyd McLean, Jr., originally from East Orange NJ, is a graduate of Point Park University where he received his BFA in Dance. While enrolled, he was a recipient of the Don Craig scholarship and has danced for many choreographers and found his love for choreography! His dance training includes Sharron Millers Academy for the Performing Arts, The Dance Theater of Harlem, Ballet Hispanico, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre. After graduation, he began his first season with Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s DBDT: Encore! Under the direction of Nycole Ray. Throughout his career, he was been given many choreographic opportunity’s which has helped him continue to develop his voice as an artist. He is currently a company artist with PHILADANCO! The Philadelphia Dance Company. Performs with Alma Dance Company Courtesy of PHILADANCO!
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