Philanthropy Fellow
Catie Robinson (she/her) is a dancer, arts administrator and writer who is passionate about increasing the accessibility of dance for all communities. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 2020 with degrees in Dance and Journalism. Her writing has been published in Dance Spirit and Dance Magazine, and she has completed internships with Dance Media and Arts Ignite in New York City, and the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC.
Company Management Fellow
Spring Healy (she/her) is an arts administrator from Toledo, Ohio with a background in dance and an interest in the various ways the arts–especially dance–can engage with communities and activate public spaces. She holds a BA in English with a minor in Arts Management from Bowling Green State University and is completing an MA in Arts Administration from The University of Akron where she was a Graduate Assistant with the School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration. She also spent a semester of her undergraduate program at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Her interest in arts administration was sparked when she interned at the Toledo Arts Commission and was able to see firsthand the behind-the-scenes of an arts organization. Spring’s professional experience includes work with the American Dance Festival, National Center for Choreography in Akron (NCCAkron), Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, and most recently with Verb Ballets as the Company Manager. She has also spent the past 10 years working as a barista at local coffee shops when she can fit it into her schedule. She is thrilled to be joining the Pillow as the Company Management Fellow.
Community Engagement Fellow
Shannon Nulf is a movement artist and arts administrator whose work reflects her commitment to human connection and community building. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Dance and minors in Movement Science and Performing Arts Management. At U-M, she worked with artists Urban Bush Women, Rosie Herrera, Joel Valentin-Martinez, U-M Faculty Missy Beck and Charli Brissey, and MFA candidates Fabiola Torralba, Sydney Schiff, Kelly Hirina, Jen Peters, and Melissa Brading. Some of her favorite memories have been when she interned with LA-based choreographer Milka Djordjevich and when she worked production for Clare Croft’s EXPLODE! Queer Dance festival. After graduating in 2021, Shannon worked as a Community Engagement Intern for the 2021 Summer Festival at Jacob’s Pillow and is now serving as Community Engagement Fellow until September 2022. She teaches a community ballet class at Berkshire Pulse, having studied dance education and pedagogy at U-M, and is currently performing and creating work locally in the Berkshires.
Director’s Fellow
Grace Myers is a 2022 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied Anthropology and Dance as an Arnold J. Lien Scholar and John B. Ervin Scholar. She is originally from Rochester, New York, where she trained at Garth Fagan Dance and worked for the organization administratively in development, education, community partnership, and archives. She formerly held administrative roles at CommUNITY Arts STL, served as the president of CityDance at Washington University for three years, facilitating over a dozen weekly, free-access, student-led community dance classes at elementary schools and community centers in St. Louis, and taught classes and pedagogy workshops for Our Chance to Dance in St. Louis, MO. Her arts administration and community organizing work stem from a choreographic practice that unites artistry, ethnography, and interdisciplinary theory. She has conducted three funded independent choreographic research projects, including The Surrender of Coal: Creativity in Conditions of Constraint, which debuted at Studio Alta in Prague, Czechia, in May 2022, and Grace was the youngest choreographer featured in the 2022 MADCO Emerging Choreographers Showcase. She was recently awarded the Ian D.W. Cramer Prize for excellence in dance from the Washington University Performing Arts Department. Her work as an ethnographer, choreographer, pedagogue, arts administrator, and community organizer lies at the nexus of anthropology and dance, examining dance practices in relation to their evolutionary social functions and subsequent utility for psychological healing, promoting coregulation, and fostering community.
Business Administration Fellow
Hannah Lieberman (she/her) is a dance artist, writer, and arts administrator. She received her early dance training from Boston Ballet School and graduated in 2022 with a BFA in Dance and a minor in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass and in the Five College Dance Department, Hannah performed in 14 student works, three iterations of Aston K. McCullough’s project witch box, a repertory project with Barbie Diewald, and New Second Line by Camille A. Brown. Studying Limón technique with Paul Dennis at UMass was formative to her artistic and technical development, as it provided her with a clear pathway from her ballet training to her current pursuits in contemporary, modern, and post-modern dance and improvisation. In 2019, Hannah received the Friends of Dance Award for Dance Advocacy from the UMass Department of Music and Dance for her efforts advocating for the value and importance of dance studies in academia, and in 2020, she received the Chancellor’s Talent Award in Dance. Hannah was the Public Relations intern at Jacob’s Pillow for Festival 2021, which allowed her to explore the relationship between her dance and writing practices. She is currently the Business Administration Fellow for Festival 2022.
Company Management Fellow
Isabella Curci is a dancer and arts administrator from Hudson, Florida. She has been dancing for the last 20 years and is passionate about the arts. Isabella received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a minor in Psychology from Dean College in Franklin, MA, in 2020. Throughout her time at Dean, she choreographed, performed, and helped direct shows. On top of dancing in college, Isabella was also a Student Ambassador, where she toured prospective students around campus, ran auditions, and was a part of numerous panels. During her junior year, she spent a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While in South America, she studied the Spanish language, culture and even learned tango. Isabella was hired as a Patron Services intern at Jacob’s Pillow for the summer of 2021. After completing this internship in September of 2021, she moved on to be the Company Management Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow.
School Programs Fellow
Sophie Blue (she/her) is a dancer and arts administrator whose work encompasses her passion for building community and expanding access to the arts. She graduated from Princeton University in 2021 as an Anthropology major with certificates in Dance, Cognitive Science and Gender Studies and is now pursuing her MA in Performing Arts Administration at NYU. As a lifelong dancer, she has trained with and performed works by Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Alexandra Damiani, Omri Drumlevich, Jon Bond, Robert Battle, Peter Chu, and Kyle Abraham. During college, she discovered her passion for arts administration, holding leadership roles in numerous student-arts organizations. In 2019, as the inaugural Fellow, she founded Trenton Youth Dancers to introduce high school dancers in an underserved community to a range of dance genres and experiences. Before her Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow, she interned for the Dance Division at the 92nd Street Y, Sidra Bell Dance New York, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, and American Ballet Theatre.