Ashley Anderson (she/her, founding artistic director, director of Arts Integration Club) is an artist and educator based in Salt Lake City and recipient of the 2014 Mayor’s Artist Award in the Performing Arts. Her choreography has been presented locally by the Rio Gallery, the BYU Museum of Art, Finch Lane Gallery, the City Library, and the Utah Heritage Foundation as well as national venues including DraftWork at Danspace Project, BodyBlend at Dixon Place, Performance Mix at Joyce SOHO (NY); Crane Arts Gallery, the Arts Bank (PA); and the Taubman Museum of Art (VA), among others. Her work was also presented by the HU/ADF MFA program at the American Dance Festival (NC) and the Kitchen (NY).
She is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Utah, Utah Valley University and Salt Lake Community College, having taught previously for the American Dance Festival Six & Four Week Schools, Dickinson College Dance Theater Group, University of the Arts Continuing Studies, Westminster College, and many K-12 schools and community centers.
Halie Bahr (she/her, associate executive director and editor) is an experimental artist, writer, and educator who is interested in intersecting the field of dance with Humanities. She is the Associate Director + Editor of loveDANCEmore, and recently published scholarship with Dance Studies Association (2025, vol. 43) and The Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison.
Halie has presented work and performed nationally in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York, NY), Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI), Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Salt Lake City, UT), Midwest RAD Dance Festival (Kalamazoo, MI), Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival (Chicago, IL), The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), and Links Hall (Chicago, IL). She was awarded the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Performing Arts Fellowship in Dance (2024) for her distinguished professional career advancement within the State of Utah.
Halie is a Professor of Dance at Hamline University’s Department of Performance, Production, and Community. She has held professorships within a variety of academic institutions, including Davidson College, University of Kentucky, Southern Utah University, and the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which provides higher education to students currently incarcerated in the Utah State Prison.
Halie holds her MFA from the University of Utah, BFA from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysts (CLMA). For more information, visit www.haliebahr.org
Stephanie García (she/her, resident artist) is a multi-awarded Mexican artist, producer, arts administrator, and independent curator working in the USA and Mexico. Dance, video, choreography, film, and performance art are the mediums in which García intervenes in the audiences’ realities that witness her work. She is co-founder and co-director of Punto de Inflexión Dance Company and PROArtes México. She has worked with important Mexican and international choreographers, performed in relevant dance festivals and venues in Mexico and 11 countries in America, Europe, and Africa, and created more than 30 original interdisciplinary pieces presented in the USA, Mexico, Cyprus, Ireland, Peru, Panama, Spain, and Cuba. Her work has received grants and funds from Mexican, USA, Ibero-American, Dutch, and Canadian institutions. In April 2025, Stephanie was appointed part of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.
Since 2008, Stephanie has been working as an arts advocate, work she continues co-directing PROArtes México, whose mission is to support the creation/promotion of exemplary contemporary Mexican art and foster the bilateral international exchange. Since then, she has facilitated local and international art collaborations between Mexican artists and countries like Uruguay, Cuba, Panama, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Austria, Peru, Colombia, Tunisia, and the US. Furthermore, since 2016, she has founded, curated, and participated in various video dance festivals, platforms, and events in Mexico and abroad, being the most relevant being the recent foundation of Corriente Alterna, a live arts platform inaugurated last April 2025.
García holds an MFA in Modern Dance and a Screendance Certificate from the University of Utah, a BFA and an AA in Contemporary Dance from the National Fine Arts Institute in Mexico, and studies in Cultural and Arts Administration from Guadalajara University, American States Organization, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and the National Arts Center. She is a RED U40 México, Latinx Hispanic Dancers United, The Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (CIEG/Yale) Member, and recently joined the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM).
Samuel Hanson (he/him, executive director) is a writer, curator, and dancer who has performed in the work of Hilary Carrier, Isabel Lewis, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mina Nishimura, Yve Laris Cohen, Yvonne Meier, Simone Forti, Michael Watkiss and Alexandra Pirici. Research interests include experimentation in presenting and curation, and the intersection of dance and special education. His work tends toward the intimate, made for specific performers and smaller spaces. Before living in New York from 2015-19, he worked closely with loveDANCEmore founder Ashley Anderson as a performer and co-curator. Also a K-12 educator, advocate and former school board member, he has taught dance and special education in elementary, middle and high schools in Utah, Illinois, and New York City. He has taught and guest lectured on dance, K-12 pedagogy, and education policy at the University of Illinois, Davidson College, Weber State University, the University of Utah, UVU, and the University of the Américas Puebla.
Madelaine Lamah (she/her, teaching artist) is a Utah-based performer originally from Guinea. Madelaine began her career in theater playing roles like Maima in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed with The University of Utah Theater department for which she won an Irene Ryan Award. She was then chosen to compete in her regional theatre festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As part of the Actor’s Training Program at the University of Utah, Maddie has played roles from Shakespeare to contemporary plays performed at the community level. She is fluent in French, English and Haitian Creole.
Rae Luebbert (she/they, resident artist) is an arts administrator, a community organizer, a movement artist, a filmmaker, and a dance educator. Rae is the director and co-curator of the annual Noori Screendance Festival, the facilitator of Monday Movement Lab (a creative incubator space for new dance work) and a 2022-2025 loveDANCEmore Artist in Residence. Rae has participated in Queer Spectra Arts Festival as an artist and volunteer since 2019. Rae joined the Queer Spectra Organizing Team in 2023 and loves working with queer artists in multi-disciplinary spaces.
loveDANCEmore is a DBA of Ashley Anderson Dances Inc., a registered 503(c)3. Ashley Anderson Dances is governed by a five-member board of directors: Ashley Anderson, Aaron C. Garrett, Samuel Hanson, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and John Veranath. To contact the board, email sam@lovedancemore.org.