Winter Workshop - Jan 19, 2025

Emily Atkinson is a New Hampshire native who began dancing at age 4 training at Melissa

Hoffman Dance Center, and has loved dance ever since. After graduating high school in 2020, Emily went on to continue pursuing her dance career at Pace University as a Commercial Dance

Major and just recently earned her BFA in May of 2024.Throughout her time at Pace, Emily had the pleasure of learning from the industry’s best including Jillian Meyers, Mandy Moore, Tiler

Peck, Joe Brown, Shannon Lewis, Bobby Amamizu, Dom Chaiduang, Scott Hislop, Britt

Stewart, and many more. Emily is currently signed with Bloc Talent Agency in NYC and LA,

and booked her first job in August of 2023 being featured in a Coke Zero Commercial.

Julia Dickey is a Commericial Dance senior at Pace University in New York City. Originally from Windham, New Hampshire, she grew up dancing at Melissa Hoffman Dance

Center where she trained in all styles of dance for 15 years. As part of her training Julia was also part of Dance Masters of America as Junior Miss Dance of America 2015 and Teen Miss Dance of New England 2018. She is forever thankful for her training and deeply appreciates all

her teachers who have helped get her to where she is today. In addition to MHDC and Dance Masters, Julia was also part of Kanyok Arts Initiative, a pre professional training program in New

York directed by Laurie Kanyok. Post graduation in 2025, she plans to stay in New York City dancing with dreams of one day being a Radio City Rockette.

Riley Rienert is a freelance artist, choreographer, and teacher born and

raised in New Hampshire. She began dancing at the age of three at her

mother’s studio, New Hampshire School of Ballet, training in all genres of dance. In 2023, Riley earned her BFA in Dance Performance and

Choreography from Montclair State University, graduating summa cum laude and now resides in New York City! She has had the privilege of

performing works by Ohad Naharin, Doug Varone, Stefanie Batten Bland, Paul Taylor, Roderick George, Brice Mousset, and many others. She toured

as a company artist with Gaspard & Dancers contemporary company, most

recently touring in Romania and Armenia. She also just recently joined Kizuna Dance company, under artistic director Cameron Mckinney, and

performed in Japan this August! Riley has been teaching and

choreographing for 8 years, she’s also co-curated her own summer dance

intensive with her sister for the past 6 years in NH! Growing up in the DMNE organization, Riley is thrilled to come back and share her love of

dance with everyone!

Skylar Rienert began her dance education at New Hampshire School of Ballet. She pursued her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance for 2 years at SUNY Purchase, and finished her degree at Montclair State University. At Montclair, she has

had the privilege to dance in works by Ohad Naharin, Stefanie Batten Bland, Gregory

Dolbashian, Maxine Steinman, and Christian von Howard. Skylar professionally performed at the

Mckittrick Hotel in 2023, and has been teaching and choreographing for the past 7 years. She has

choreographed numerous works for NH, MA, NJ, CT, and NY studios, as well as Montclair State

University receiving the Choreographic Excellence Award. She is co-owner of Inception Dance

Intensive, founded in 2019. Miss Rienert also has worked with Boston Dance Theatre Company trainees professional program. Skylar has won

numerous choreography and performance awards,

including American Dance Awards prestigious

Young Choreographer of the Year in 2021. She

continues to work as a growing artist throughout New England, New Jersey, and New York.