Christine Betsill Restrepo is a native to the Carolinas. She received a bachelors in vocal performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Christine has danced throughout the Midwest for Linda Lehovec and Dancers, Glass House Dances, Wally Cordona, Barking Dog Dance Co, and RTG Dance. She is a founding member/choreographer for Anna Sapozhnikov‘s Moyamo Dance and the co-founder/artistic director for Thread Meddle Outfit. Mrs. Betsill Restrepo was on faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College from 2004-2007. Christine is currently pursuing her MFA in choreography at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Johannah Wininsky is from Sharon, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was the honored recipient of the Vannie L. Shiery Award for excellence in choreography and performance. She has worked with the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre as Artistic Director and choreographer and has danced for James Hansen‘s Dance Assemblage, NYC, Dance Alloy, Pittsburgh and RTG Dance, Linda Lehovec and Dancers, and Glass House Dance, Chicago. She is the co-founder/artistic director of Thread Meddle Outfit and a founding member/choreographer for Moyamo Dance. She currently teaches dance at New Trier High School in Winnetka IL.

Photo: Ross Gordon