Hello Community! A little background - I earned an MFA from Smith College, a BA from Keene State College, and a diploma in dance studies from London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire. After graduate school, I left New England for New York City, navigated the modern dance scene, fronted a few bands, met my partner and had a baby! After years of swirling around NYC, our little family moved to Ardmore, a suburb of Philadelphia. While pushing the stroller in my new neighborhood, I discovered an idyllic, one-acre park and "park dancing" was born! I began facilitating community dance events inspired by Fluxus art that continued for over three years and gained a following. Alas, we desired a more rural setting for our son's upbringing. My husband, son, shih-tzu and I decided on making Montpelier our home, and we're officially four years in. I look forward to crossing paths with you. Feel free to connect with me via email!

MC is the current Executive Director of the Vermont Dance Alliance.

Mary Chris DeBelina’s focus since 2008 has been primarily teaching children creative dance and raising her growing family.  MC studied Biology and Dance at Dartmouth College (B.A. 2005) and combined her two passions at Sarah Lawrence College receiving an MFA in Dance (2008).  Her thesis work focused on the links between science and art.

Mary Chris founded the Hopkins Center’s Children’s Creative Dance Program at Dartmouth in 2005 and taught every class until 2012 when her family relocated to Philadelphia.  As a faculty member at Dartmouth she was fortunate to perform with, and choreograph for, the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble and she was a frequent guest teacher in the advanced modern dance classes.

Willow started on her dance path at a very young age on the West Coast. After graduating high school from the San Francisco School of the Arts, she went on to complete a BFA degree in Modern Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase and the London Contemporary School of Dance. After dancing briefly in a Belly Dance Company based in NYC, she moved to VT in 2000 and began teaching, choreographing and performing. She taught at Moving Light Dance for 10 years and was an integral part of the creation of The Green Mountain Nutcracker. She now teaches at Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio in Montpelier. She also teaches Pilates classes and privates at Essential PT and Pilates and continues to work with an array of VT based Dance artists such as Hannah Dennison, Polly Motley and Paul Besaw. Her passion for Improvisation is strong and all began in a class taught by Neil Greenberg called Advanced Improvisation at SUNY Purchase in 1997. Thanks Neil!