The Company
Claire Fisher
An Ohio native, Claire began her journey as a mover at the Gary Geis School of Dance in Springfield at the age of 3. She attended Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton in the Dance magnet under DeShona Pepper-Roberston. She received the highest honor for Stivers Dance, the Jeraldyne Blunden Award, as a Senior.
Claire attended SUNY-The College at Brockport. During her time there, she performed in various repertoire works by Doug Varone, Trisha Brown, and Tammy Carrasco / Wild Beast Dance in various festivals in New York. She also studied abroad in Italy at FlorenceSummerDance under Monica Baroni. Other accolades in college included being selected as a Green and Gold Ambassador, a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society, a 4x SUNYAC Pole Vault Champion, and graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in 2019.
Her own choreography has been selected for performance at multiple American College Dance Association Galas. Claire produced her first evening length work titled “Convergent Pathways” as her undergraduate thesis. Her work has been selected for the Wake Forest Dance Festival and she collaborated with T2 Dance Company for their Summer Virtual Choreo Festival in August 2020, and The Color Wheel Project in 2022. A current Denver resident, Claire is a company dancer for Hannah Kahn Dance Company and T2 Dance Company. She has also performed with Animus Movement and Stacey Temple Dance.
Killian von Holdt
Killian is originally from Golden, Colorado. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wyoming with her BFA in Dance Performance and BS in Business Management with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship. In 2016, she furthered her studies abroad in London at renowned institutions including The Place, Pineapple, DanceWorks, and Studio 68.
Killian has trained with The Limon Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ririe-Woodbury, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Kaleidoschope, Boston Ballet, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. In addition, she has worked with choreographers Darrell Grand Moultrie, Tai Jimenez, Charmaine Hunter, Mark Willis, Jarek Cemerek, Robert Sher-Machherndl, General McArthur Hambrick, Jacob Mora, Pablo Ruvalcaba, Thayne Jasperson, and others.
One of Killian’s favorite roles involved touring Wyoming and South Dakota with Jennifer Deckert’s “Dracula—The Legend in Motion” as Countess Dracula. She also had the unique opportunity to perform Margaret Wilson’s “Dancing Between Earth and Sky,” a vertical dance show set on the large rock formations of the Vedauwoo Recreation Area in 2018.
Killian has performed with Hannah Kahn Dance Company since July 2019 and is honored to continue working with the company. When she is not in HKDC rehearsals, she teaches at Joyful Soles Dance & Performing Arts and Redemptive Dance Ministries. Recently, she started performing with T2 Dance Company as well.
She hopes to use dance to improve the lives of those around her. She strives to inspire her audiences, instill confidence in her students, provide opportunities for expression, and keep dance relevant and accessible. She is grateful for the opportunity to work with Hannah Kahn Dance Company alongside so many talented artists.
Anhthi “Maria” Lindsey
is originally from the small township of Annville, PA. She began dancing at age fifteen through a scholarship with Movement Laboratory, a pre-professional ballet school based in neighboring Lebanon, PA. She then moved to Philadelphia, PA where she studied at Drexel University and became the first to receive their Bachelor of Science in Dance. During her time at Drexel, she participated in several youth out-reach programs such as the Drexel Touring Ensemble and the Youth Performance Exchange. She was also a recipient of the Drexel Dance Scholarship and in her senior year received an award for Outstanding Contribution to the Drexel Dance Ensemble. Maria also performed with resident dance artists such as Marienella Boan, Jumatatu Poe, Renee Banson, Meredith Rainey, and Kun-Yang Lin and physical theater artists Lane Savadove (EgoPo) and Whit MacLaughlin (New Paradise Laboratories). After graduating, she performed with companies such as Olive Prince Dance, Band of Artists, Underground DanceWorks (UDW), Group Motion, and Dancefusion. As a company member of Dancefusion, she studied classical modern dance techniques such as Mary Anthony and José Limón. Maria also began teaching at studios such as Elite Dance Academy and working with PhillyBOOST, a public school “out-of-school hours” program aimed to offer courses that pursue youth interests such as dance. She recently relocated to Denver and continues to teach dance at La Roche Academy of Dance in Castle Rock, CO and at other outreach programs with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. Maria is thankful and blessed to be dancing with Hannah Kahn Dance Company!
Emmy Spaar
Originally from Finksburg, MD, Emmy Spaar studied dance at Studio Dans with Dana Keane and graduated from DeSales University. She has been honored to perform works by Antony Tudor, Doug Varone, Trinette Singleton, Colby Damon, and Er Dong Hu. She was also seen in the 2016 and 2017 seasons of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, performing in their productions of West Side Story and Evita. In New York City, she has danced with the Chase Brock Experience, the Nathaniel Hunt Project, Neville Dance Theatre, and Dancing Atlas. Since moving to Denver in 2022, she dances with Animus Movement and Hannah Kahn Dance Company.
Julia Stwalley
As a Colorado native, Julia Stwalley began her dance training at the age of two and a half years old and over the course of 15 years, she dedicated herself to studying a diverse range of dance forms. After deciding to further her dance education, Julia began pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at Colorado State University. Throughout her time at CSU, Julia had the privilege of working with professors Grace Gallagher, Judy Bejarano. Chung-Fu Chang, and Madeline Harvey while also choreographing and performing in many dance concerts and films, including works by guest artist Vincent Thomas. Julia studied modern, ballet, pedagogy, and choreography and helped assist in teaching modern and ballet classes in the dance program. She also worked with Lisa Morgan for BRAINY (Bringing Arts Integration to Youth), a program that provides arts education to Title 1 elementary schools. After graduating, Julia began sharing her passion with young artists in Colorado, teaching at local dance studios with a focus in modern, contemporary, and ballet styles. Julia has been a company member with Davis Contemporary Dance Company since 2019 and Hannah Kahn Dance Company since 2024. Working with choreographers Hannah Kahn, Terrell Davis, Aubrey-Klinger Fearns, Rachael Harding, and Christopher-Page Sanders, Julia has honed her skills as a performer and collaborator.
Alex Tenreiro Theis
Originally from Colorado, Alex Tenreiro Theis earned her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. As a freelance performer in New York City for ten years, she had the pleasure of working on projects with Yoshito Sakuraba’s Abarukas, Jonah Bokaer, Pamela Pietro, Eryc Taylor Dance, Rohan Bhargava’s ROVACO, Asia Duo Dance Company, Angie Moon Dance Theatre, Netta Yerushalmy and Gregory Dolbashian to name several. Such projects lead her to perform internationally at MASH International Choreography Festival (Israel), Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Festival (Spain), Avant Garde International Dance Festival (Mexico), ASWARA University Building Bridges Workshop (Malaysia) and the FIDCDMX Festival (Mexico). Additionally, she has performed nationally at iconic venues and festivals such as The BAM Fisher (NYC), Jacob’s Pillow InsideOut Theater (MA), Kaatsbaan International Dance Center (NY), Palm Desert Choreography Festival at McCallum Theatre (CA), Rabbit Island Festival at Rozsa Center MTU (MI), Bryant Park Contemporary Festival (NYC), as well as others. Since returning to Colorado in 2023, she is currently working with Brandon Welch’s BW Creative, Animus Movement, and Hannah Khan Dance Company.
