Femmel De La Rosa/Senior Teaching artist

Femmel de la Rosa has been a teaching artist for Dance to Unite for over a decade! Since 2015 when she started as an Assistant Teacher Intern, progressed to Lead Teacher and has been part of our Teaching Artists staff since 2017. She specializes in social Latin dance such as: Salsa, Bachata, and Merengue. She has a minor in dance with a concentration in choreography and improvisation from Lehman College. Also, she organizes and choreographs dance routines for talent shows in her Hispanic community and the school where she teaches English as a New Language during the day. 

Kate Engelhart/Senior Teaching artist

Kate Engelhart has been a Dance to Unite teaching artist for the last eight years! Kate was born and raised in Hunterdon County, New Jersey where she developed a love of dance from a young age. While training in classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Mill Ballet School in Lambertville, NJ, she had opportunities to dance with professional dancers from around the world. She always loved seeing diversity come to life in the dance studio and on stage.

Kate moved to New York City to pursue a degree in Nursing and is forever grateful to have found Dance to Unite in the spring of 2018. She joined Dance to Unite through the internship program and progressed from an assistant teacher to co-lead teacher to teaching artist and trainer in the Dance to Unite Teaching Method. Kate has been the organization’s coordinator and administrator since 2019.

Kate continues her work with Dance to Unite while working full time as a Registered Nurse in Manhattan. She achieved her Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse certification and a Master’s Degree in Nursing Education. Kate hopes to combine her passions for community, education, culture, and health for the betterment and investment of youth.

brandon goldstein

Brandon Goldstein graduated from New York University in May 2025 with a B.A. in Economics and Psychology. He was born and raised in San Jose, California, where he took Russian folk dance classes at Firebird Dance Studio outside of school for 11 years. Starting at 6 years old, Brandon has been performing at Russian centers, festivals, and homes for the elderly. He even won an international dance competition in Spain with Firebird's Armenian all-boys group dance in July 2019. After moving to New York, Brandon joined Dance to Unite in 2022 and is now starting his fifth year with us! Through Dance to Unite, Brandon hopes to share his ideas about how dance can bring people together and create everlasting positive relationships with people from all over the world.

eryn woo

Eryn Woo is an actor, singer, dancer, and fitness proffesional based in NYC. Originally from SC, Eryn Woo grew up training and doing community theatre all around her hometown. She has been performing and dancing since she was 7 and has training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and musical theatre. Eryn has served as a Teaching Artist for the South Carolina Children’s Theatre and Spartanburg Little Theatre during their summer programs. She is a graduate from Pace University (BFA FTVC) and Broadway Dance Center’s Independent Training Program. You can catch Eryn all around the city teaching at barre and pilates at studios across Brooklyn and Manhattan.

juliann craft

Juliann Craft is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based here in New York. She has been teaching dance for four years and earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May. Juliann has taught students from ages three to seventeen and values creating warm, encouraging classroom environments for these students to thrive in. While most of this instructing experience comes from an independent dance studio setting, Dance to Unite is her first time instructing in an after school program. She strongly believes in Dance to Unite's vision and uses inspiration and strategies from her experience with Brain Compatible Dance Education to create lessons around the thirteen values. Juliann is passionate about movement, knows that a moving body leads to a healthy mind, and truly believes in Dance to Unite’s ability to promote critical thinking, community, and the joy of movement. She feels very grateful to have this opportunity to guide your children through this school year and see them grow into beautiful dancers and beautiful people.

SREYA SATHISH KUMAR

Sreya is a senior studying neuroscience at Columbia College, and this is her second year as a Dance to Unite teaching artist at P.S 64. Sreya Sathish Kumar began ballet in Seattle, Washington, at four. She later continued her journey to the Ellison Ballet Professional Program, where she danced for two years before getting accepted into Columbia University. Sreya continues to dance in college and hopes that by being a part of Dance to Unite, she can create a fulfilling environment that brings happiness to young kids and makes dance accessible to people from all backgrounds.

Whitney Derman

Whitney was raised in New Jersey where she focused on learning many styles of dance through her home studios as well as high school and college dance teams. Her strongest dance style is jazz and musical theatre, but she has training in many other disciplines including ballet, contemporary, Bollywood, HipHop, acrobatics, and more. She first started teaching dance classes in 2015, gaining a passion, not just for dance and performing, but for choreographing and teaching. Her experience includes both dance classes for children, as well as adults.

evie peterson

Evie Peterson grew up in Aurora, Nebraska and quickly fell in love with dance and theater from a very early age. She danced competitively for 16 years and is trained in all styles. She also has a massive love and appreciation for theater and has been a part of many musicals, her favorite being Legally Blonde, where she had the honor of playing Elle Woods. In 2025, she was nominated as a national representative for Nebraska High School Theater for her outstanding theater performance. Evie enjoys sharing her deep love of performing with everyone.

Evie is currently a junior at Pace University, where she dances with The Collective on campus. She also recently made her professional dance debut in New York City! She joined Dance to Unite as a guest artist, and fell in love with the culture of the organization. She is excited to showcase all of the amazing things about Dance To Unite on social media, as well as being a teaching artist with the organization. You can find Evie at school, taking a dance class, or singing her heart out to show tunes! 

Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin

Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin is a New York City based freelance dance artist and educator. Originally from Western Massachusetts, he began studying ballet at age 5 at Amherst Ballet, then trained on scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and at summer programs around the country. After graduating from the UNCSA high school program, he spent 2 years as an apprentice at Oregon Ballet Theatre and 8 years as a Company Artist at Ballet Idaho. He has also been appearing regularly with ARC Dance Company in Seattle since 2015, with Project Flux Dance in Boise since 2018, and with Artistic Ventures in Dance around Colorado and the Northeast since 2024, and he has appeared in the New York area with Eglevsky Ballet, Dances Patrelle, CityDanceNY, Gleich Dances, Jersey City Ballet, MorDance, Staten Island Ballet, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Long Island Ballet Theatre, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Chevalier Ballet, Neville Dance Theatre, and Catskill Ballet Theatre. He was a semi-final Silver and Bronze medalist and a two-time finalist at Youth America Grand Prix, and has been invited to perform and present his choreography at the Men In Dance Festival and Treefort Music Festival. Ethan is known for performances in the roles of Peter Pan and the Nutcracker Prince, and in works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Alejandro Cerrudo, Penny Saunders, Edwaard Liang, Marika Brussel and Daniel Ojeda. He has choreographed for dancers from Boston Ballet School, Houston Ballet II, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Northwest Dance Theatre, and Ballet Idaho. Ethan has previously been a Teaching Artist for the Misty Copeland Foundation BE BOLD Program, Ballet Idaho’s Learning Through Dance outreach program and the Project Flux Dance community class program, has also been a guest instructor at Ballet Idaho Academy, Boise State University TRIO Upward Bound, Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Northwest Dance Theatre, Long Island Ballet Theatre, Long Island Youth Ballet, SLK Ballet and Amherst Ballet, and is very excited to join the Dance To Unite team!

Chianne rice

Chianne D. Rice is a Houston, Texas native who began her dance training with Charity Carter at Edison Arts Foundation. She continued her training at Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), where she graduated as a recipient of the Mary Martha Lappe Dance Scholarship. She also performed with Houston Contemporary 2 under the leadership of Marlana Doyle and Genene Wallis-McGrath.

Chianne earned her BFA in Dance through the Ailey/Fordham BFA Dance Program, where she performed works by choreographers including Tamisha Guy, Brice Mousset, and Ronald K. Brown. Her professional performance credits include Alvin Ailey’s Memoria with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater during the company’s 2024 and 2025 New York City Center seasons. She has also performed at Carnegie Hall in Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, working with choreographer Harrison Guy, and with SHADES Dance Theater in Atlanta.

In 2025, Chianne began working with renowned artist and choreographer Hope Boykin as a dancer with HopeBoykinDance (HBD). She has performed with HBD at The Schomburg Center, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, and Jacob’s Pillow. Alongside her performance career, Chianne is deeply committed to dance education and nurturing the next generation, striving to create inclusive learning environments that foster artistic expression, confidence, and personal growth.

HANNAH GRIGG

Hannah Grigg is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She began competitive dance training at age 8 and has since trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and commercial styles across North America, with a focus on contemporary. She danced competitively on her college's dance team, continues to dance and perform throughout New York, and choreographs for both youth and adults.

Hannah has taught ballet, contemporary, lyrical, and jazz across Canada and the US, including community programs built to make dance accessible, competitive youth, adults, and seniors.