Anika Devore dedicated her early years to dance, and explored the professional world of ballet at Joffrey Ballet Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet, and City Ballet of San Diego. After a 6 year break from performing to focus on her current work of teaching yoga, anatomy, and practicing bodywork, she recently performed in Theresa Hanson’s ‘Enraptured.’ She is excited to share her dancing again in A Presentation.

Anna Ruth Ellis excels at portraying bold, athletic and theatrical roles. At age seven she began dancing at Maranatha School of Dance in Fort Myers, Florida. After graduating from high school, she performed and toured with multiple companies including Ingredients Dance Company, Ballet Magnificat, Filter Dance Conservatory and Artesan Dance Company from 2011-2017. 

A few of those years were spent traveling around the country, creating dance films and performing in the music video SOS by Joseph. 

During that time she was also an instructor/ choreographer at Pacific Ballet Conservatory and Riverpointe Dance Academy, where she served as co-director for several years. After moving to Portland in 2021 she was a Bodyvox dance company artist for two years where she enjoyed the roles in Toy Boat, Little Miss Tuffet and Cafe Blanco. Now she focuses her training in the aerial arts with silks and lyra.

Grace Armstrong is from Shoreline, Washington where she began formal ballet training with Olympic Ballet School under the direction of Mara Vinson and Oleg Gorboulev. After high school, she continued her training at Indiana University working closely with world renowned professional dancers including Carla Korbes, Kyra Nichols, Michael Vernon, and Sarah Wroth. While at IU Grace performed a wide variety of notable roles in ballets including Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels, George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht, Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs and Antony Tudor’s Dark Elegies. She was a recipient of the Premier Young Artist Award through the Jacobs School of Music. Grace participated in many intensives throughout her training, and in 2019 she was chosen to attend a William Forsythe intensive located in Madrid. In Spring 2020, she graduated from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with a Bachelor of Science in Ballet with an Outside Field in Arts Management. After graduation, she joined Oregon Ballet Theatre II where she performed company roles in ballets including Ben Stevenson’s Dracula and George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Last summer, she enjoyed performing in the world premiere of a new fairytale ballet, Raffaella, choreographed by Claire Kretzschmar. Grace is currently based in Portland, OR working as a freelance artist.