Aynsley Vandenbroucke (artistic director) divides her time between New York City and the Catskill Mountains where she and her husband (photographer Mathew Pokoik) co founded and direct Mt. Tremper Arts, an arts center with a focus on dance and photography. Her work has been performed in New York at Dixon Place, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lincoln Center Institute's Clark Studio Theater, the Brooklyn Museum and the Dancenow/NYC festival. The company will perform in Brazil at the Centro Coreografico do Rio this April and in San Francisco this May. A Certified Movement Analyst, Aynsley is on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies where she is a coordinator of the Yearlong Certificate Program. She studied on scholarship, graduating in 1999, at North Carolina School of the Arts where she was nominated for the Princess Grace Award. Aynsley spent summers on grants and scholarships at the Cunningham Studio, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and ImpulsTanz in Vienna. Her work is influenced by her current practices of Zen Buddhism and Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms. For a more detailed biography and for Aynsley's writings on dance, see reflectionsondance.com
 
Leanne Darling (violist/composer) has appeared with virtuoso oudist Simon Shaheen in Carnegie Hall, with poets Robert Bly and Clarissa Pinkola-Estes at the Omega Institute, and with the Cedar Lake Ensemble's premiere performance in Chelsea. Her work on Toy Box Theatre¹s "The Landlord" earned her the Best Original Music award from the New York Innovative Theater Awards in 2007. She has worked with choreographers Jodie Gates and Ann Robideaux. A classicaly trained violist, Darling now specializes in Arabic music, jazz, blues and composes her own repertoire for solo viola and loops. The CD release party for her debut album, "Spiral" will take place June 6 at the Brooklyn Conservatory.
 
Nelson R. Downend, Jr. (lighting designer)received his BFA in Lighting Design from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998. His design experience spans projects in theatre, dance, opera, architecture & installation art work both in the US and abroad. Nelson was an Associate Designer for architectural lighting design firm Domingo Gonzalez Associates from 2000 until 2006, where he has worked on such projects as the Washington Square Arch, Jamaica Station (Queens), and Stillwell Avenue Station (Coney Island). He has been the resident lighting designer with Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group since 2000.

Cheri Paige Fogleman (performer) holds a BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts. She was a founding dancer in Shen Wei Dance Arts, performing at the American Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center and Switzerland's STEPS Dance Festival. Cheri was the recipient of the Terry Sanford Scholarship at the American Dance Festival in 2000. In New York, Cheri has been seen dancing with VIA Dance Collaborative, Maryanne Chaney, Alethea Adsitt, Emily Tschiffely, and Aynsley Vandenbroucke. She is also persuing acting (having completed a two year Meisner technique program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio) and has just been cast as a lead in an indi feature film, Deus Ex, to begin filming in Philadelphia, May 2008.
 
Geoff Gersh (Guitarist/Composer) explores the sonic boundaries of the electric guitar with and without the aide of electronic devices and found objects. He performs with various bands in and around the NYC area that range in styles from singer/songwriters to ambient/improv/experimental groups. Geoff has composed music for installations by painter David Stoupakis that have been shown at galleries in Los Angeles. He has worked with choreographers Robert LaFosse, Cynthia Oliver, Karen Graham, Lawrence Goldhuber and Benoit-Swan Pouffer. In May of 2005 Geoff spent a month in Greece & Germany working with composer Jonathan Bepler on video artist Eve Sussman’s new piece, The Rape of the Sabine Women, which was premiered in NYC in February 2007. In 1999, Geoff had the opportunity to study the shamisen with Kiharu Nakamura for 2 ½ years and appeared on Japanese TV with her multiple times. Currently, Geoff is the full time zither player for the Off-Broadway production Blue Man Group in NYC and has performed for the Chicago and Las Vegas shows as well. Geoff has received grants from Meet the Composer, American Music Center, New York Foundation for the Arts and a Bessie Award for his collaborative score for Cynthia Oliver's SHEMAD.
 
Djamila Moore (performer) originally from Hawaii, began her early dance training in Hula and hip-hop. She received her BFA in contemporary dance from North Carolina School of the Arts. She has also studied and performed at the American Dance Festival and Impulstanz in Vienna, Austria. Djamila has been a company member of AMDaT and continues to work with LS Installations. She is also a floral designer and preschool teacher. This is her fourth season performing with AVMG.
 
Naoko Nagata (costume designer) has established herself as one of the industries most versatile and unique costume designers. She has collaborated with an impressive list of talent, including David Dorfman Dance, David Neumann, Doug Elkins Dance Company, Bebe Miller, Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers, Jeanette Stoner, Amos Pinhasi, Jeanine Durning, Sara Pearson and Patrick Widrig and Dancers, Cherlyn Lavagnino, Janis Brenner, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Nina Winthrope, Hetty King, Diversions in the United Kingdom, Mollie O'Brien, Nami Yamamoto, Curt Haworth and Karl Anderson among many, many others. Her background is biochemistry. What changed her life is a long story. Nowadays, her laboratory is a rehearsal studio.

Mathew Pokoik (company photographer) is a photographer, curator, educator, and arts administrator. He is the co-director, with Aynsley Vandenbroucke, of Mt. Tremper Arts. Since 1999 Mathew has been a Teaching Artist with Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education where he teaches Aesthetic Education. He is a member of LCI’s Collaborative where he conducts professional development for classroom teachers and has taught Aesthetics at numerous colleges including Queens College, SUNY New Paltz, Bank Street College, St. John’s University, and CCNY. He lectures at many museums around the NY area, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the International Center of Photography among others. In 2001, two portfolios of his photographs joined Lincoln Center Institute’s repertory in the visual arts, and since have been studied at schools and universities throughout the New York Metropolitan area. Mathew received a B.A. in photography from Bard College, where he studied with Stephen Shore. He also studied privately with Frederick Sommer.

Liz Sargent (costume designer) is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. She has worked as a costume and set designer, producer and dancer. Ms. Sargent’s performance installations have been produced by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines series (Returning), Dance Theatre Workshop’s 40th Anniversary (untitled installation), and at The Chocolate Factory. Her new work, Revealing, will premiere at Danspace Project on May 17-20th. For more information see lizsargent.com.

Kristen Warnick (performer) earned her BA in Dance and Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 2002. In the year following, she danced with Margo Van Ummersen Dance Company in Eugene, OR. In May 2005, she became a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. In 2008 she will begin training to become a Licensed Massage Therapist at the Swedish Institute.

John Wieczorek (percussionist) has been playing and studying various styles of contemporary, ethnic and electronic percussion for the last 30 years. He's fortunate to have performed w/ the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Bassists Gary Peacock & Mark Dresser, Bansuri Flutist Steve Gorn, Tablaji Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Layne Redmond's "Mob of Angels", Saxaphonists Joe McPhee & David Rothenberg and the Epiphany Project.