The Company
Founded in 2004 by Brittany Brown Ceres, dance ceres, is an ensemble of dancers who devour the performance arena with weighted fluidity, extensions that reach through time, and a dynamically expressive commitment. Described by critics as, "swift and irresistible" (Allan Ulrich, Voiceofdance.com, 7/06) and "lucid and voluptuous" (Rita Felciano, SFBG, 12/07), the core inspiration of the work examines crisis and resilience through intricate and energetic dance. Ceres has produced in the San Francisco Bay Area at West Wave Dance & numerous Bay Area Theater venues and educational facilities, as well as Portland, San Diego, New York, New Zealand & at the American College Dance Festival.
It is the mission of dance ceres is to realize subtlety through action, individuality through community, immediacy through timelessness, and equality through art.
 Yukie Fujimoto
is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Irvine. She was a senior member of ODC/San Francisco and retired in 2005 to become the mother of two boys. She is currently on faculty at Mills College.
Pictured, L-R: Yukie Fujimoto and Roel Seeber
Roel Seeber
started dancing in New York City, at age 10, break dancing with the 560 Breakers. After years as a downhill skier at UofUtah, he graduated cum Laude from Purchase College with a BFA in dance. In 2001, he joined the Limon Dance Company where he danced until joining Project Bandaloop in March of 2008.
Pictured, L-R: Yukie Fujimoto and Roel Seeber
  Miranda Mallard grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and received her BA in Dance and BM in Voice in '09. Mallard teaches dance at ROCO studios, teaches private voice and piano lessons and is also an assistant band teacher with the San Rafael public elementary schools. When not dancing, singing, or learning a new instrument, she likes to read Sanskrit, practice yoga, and give the Oneness Blessing (or deeksha).
  Becca Rozell was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska and her teaching and choreographic career spans both coasts. In New York she taught at Peridance and worked with Andrew Janetti, Vanessa Paige, among others. She currently dances with Weber Dance, teaches at Roco Dance in Marin and is an artist with Performing Arts Workshop. Rozell's choreography has been presented in NYC, Saratoga Springs, D.C., Boston and the Bay Area.
 Maxwell Cauthorn studied and performed with the ODC Dance Jam for 6 years prior to entering the San Francisco School of the Arts. He has studied with many Bay Area dance legends including KT Nelson, Elivia Marta and Gregory Dawson. Currently in his forth year of study on the advanced track at the San Francisco Ballet training program, Max is high school junior with plans to dance professionally.
  Cari Ann Bellinghausen (littlecari.com) is a Chicagoland native who has been dancing for the better part of her lifetime. She majored in dance at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and graduated with honors. She has performed in El Salvador, Costa Rica, San Diego, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. In 2009 her company ×cari's tiny circus× debuted it's first full evening show. When she isn't performing, Cari operates the dog walking/pet care service: Four Legged Fitness.
 
Anna Greenberg began her dance training at the Pasadena Dance Theater and attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she was introduced to modern dance. With a BA in Dance, Choreography, and Children's Book Illustration from Hampshire College, she studied and performed with many inspirational and life changing teachers including Summer Lee Rhatigan, Cristian Burns, Cathy Nicoli, Cynthia Young, Francisco Martinez, Rudy Perez, and Ruth Botchan.
  Hailed by dance critic Allan Ulrich as a choreographer with 'genuine craft & individual sensibility,' Brittany Brown Ceres is the founder of Dance Ceres and was associate director of the WestWave Dance Festival from 2003- 2007. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and received her first professional choreographic gig at the age of fifteen. She attended UC, San Diego and secured a BA in Theater, with a double minor in Dance and Biology (’95) in three years, under the mentorship of Jean Isaacs, Nina Martin, Kathryn Irey & Margaret Marshall. In San Diego, she studied extensively with Lower Left Dance, Isaacs/McCaleb & Dancers and performed and choreographed her own work for Synaptic Alternative Dance Project. In 1997 she moved to New Zealand to choreograph and perform with Christchurch's Dance Core, under the direction of Sheryl Robinson and Fleur DeTheir. While in NZ she choreographed for St. Margaret's College and taught modern dance at Hadley College.
Ceres was drawn to the Bay Area after working with Joe Goode in 1998 and over the last decade has produced her own work all over the West Coast. In addition to Goode, Ceres has trained with Janice Garrett, Robert Moses, Mary Carbonara, Diane Frank and Kim Epifano. Ceres was one of the first graduate students to complete an MFA in Choreography from SUNY, Purchase College (2000). She went on to finish her studies with an MA in Dance Education at Stanford (2001). A multi-year winner of the Mary Edith Clifford Award for Alumni Choreography, Ceres is regularly commissioned by the Dance Division for new work, in conjunction with Stanford Lively Arts. She has previously danced with Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Black Label Dance, Dance Elixir, Davalos Dance Company, and managed ODC Theater from ‘03-‘06.
Additionally, she teaches choreography at SF School of the Arts & hatha yoga at City College of SF. Ceres is currently the office manager and controller for the San Francisco based start-up: Widgetbox, Inc.
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