FACULTY

BRODIE RACHELLE

Brodie Rachelle is an admired teacher, choreographer and performer from Ontario, Canada. She has studied many genres of dance and is a certified dance instructor under the Dance Masters of America syllabus, as of 2003. Brodie is the creator of the unique dance experience BREAK FREE – a workshop for dancers that incorporates a special focus on meditation, energy, and the Mind/Body connection and encourages dancers to find their own individual artistry. In recent years, her most significant recognition both nationally and internationally, is for her creative and expressive artistic choreography.As a dancer, Brodie has won numerous scholarships, awards, and also was a featured dancer in two Toronto based dance companies; OIP and The Dance Company. She was a featured soloist on the Carnival Cruise Line Ship, “Ecstasy”. She was accepted to the Young American’s Dance Excellence Company in California at the age of 16. As well, she performed at the Canada Games and was also in musical productions such as “The King and I”, “Aladdin”, and “Anne of Green Gables”. In addition to her training, Brodie is an experienced teacher and choreographer in many styles of dance, and is skilled at helping dancers reach their true potential. Her love of dance and teaching radiates in each lesson.

DARLYN PEREZ

Born and raised in Miami Florida, she studied as a dancer at the prestigious New World School of the Arts for high school, then attended Alonzo King Lines Training Program in San Francisco. She has been on numerous tv shows such as America’s Got Talent and Season 1 of World of Dance (Miami Allstars). In February 2018, she was chosen out of 800+ dancers to join the first ever Rambert2 Dance Company in London, UK. Touring for a year all around the UK, She has worked with worldwide choreographers such Benoit Swan Pouffer, Sharon Eyal, Ohad Naharin, Rafael Bonachela and many more. She spent the whole month of September 2019 in Saudi Arabia dancing for Cirque du Soleil. Her gifts in teaching and choreography have taken her all around the world and Darlyn can’t wait to continue to share with more students.

AMARA BARNER

Amara Barner is a BIPOC, multidisciplinary artist from Minnesota, who currently resides in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) Quebec. As a teenager she traveled as an assistant to the choreographers of The Pulse On Tour, Intrigue Dance Convention, as well as Emma Portner. Among opportunities for professional development, Amara was granted opportunities to perform and teach at workshops in Australia, Mexico, England, and Italy. After moving to New York City at 16, Amara worked commercially for television including dancing backup for Sia on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, and music videos like Cardinal's Pride: Masterpiece. At 18 years old, Barner was the youngest dancer ever hired for Montreal dance company, RUBBERBAND, and worked with the group from 2016-2021. She toured internationally with the company's show Vic’s Mix, and also in the company's premiers and following international tours of Ever So Slightly/Vraiment Doucement, including the KOTV TeleQuebec adaptation of the show for television. Amara went on to perform the work of artists such as Anne Plamondon in Counter Cantor, Dana Gingras' Creation Destruction, and multiple works by Elon Höglund of Tentacle Tribe. Amara performed in Tentacle Tribe's short films Metamorph, Touch, and Terra. As well as the live performance of DiRT for Festival Quartiers Danse. Barner also performed in the Quebec show The Masked Singer in seasons one and two. Amara has danced in music videos such as La Force’s All That I Am, Aisha Bahdru’s Lazy River, Dominique Fils-Aimé’s Mind at Ease, and Make Believe by sickxsense. Amara was featured in Dance Magazine’s July 2020 issue as an artist “On The Rise “, and has also been interviewed for the podcast Artistic Roots, and the digital magazine Black Lights. Barner joined 'Hit The Floor' in 2021 and 2022 to adjudicate at their competitions in Quebec. She presented her first multidisciplinary solo entitled “mongrel” in 2021 and later adapted it for gallery exhibition in 2022. Her second exhibition, "the interconnected network of everything and anything" was on display at the FOFA Gallery for a month in early 2023. Amara Barner is currently a student at Concordia University in Montreal, majoring in Fibres and Materials.