Jonique Holcomb-Meade graduated with a B.A. in Dance Performance and Media/Communication Studies from UMBC in 2012. During and after college, she performed professionally as a cheerleader with the Baltimore Ravens, Washington Wizards, and the Baltimore Blast Cheerleaders, and appeared as a returning cast member in JAM the Revue. Beyond performing, Jonique served as Coach and Choreographer for the Baltimore Brigade Dance Team and the Baltimore Blast Cheerleaders, where she also managed music editing and mixing for games and special events. In 2019, her choreography was showcased at the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., performed alongside the legendary hip-hop group Arrested Development. Outside of her professional dance work, Jonique enjoys hot yoga, traveling, wooden hula hooping, and fitness training. She is thrilled to return to her hometown of Howard County to share her passion for dance and movement with the community.

Liz Quiñones (she/her) is a dedicated dance educator, movement artist, and scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a K-12 Education certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Hollins University. Liz began her career directing a public high school dance program before transitioning to the non-profit sector as School Manager for Kinetics Dance Theatre (KDT). She now serves as KDT’s Artistic Director, overseeing all programmatic operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s mission. Additionally, she directs Kinetics Dance Company and instructs Jazz and Contemporary technique classes within Kinetics School of Dance. Liz has shared her passion for dance through numerous community engagements, presenting at conferences hosted by the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) and the Maryland Dance Education Association (MDEA). She has led master classes for the Regional High School Dance Festival, the Maryland Public High School Dance Showcase, the Maryland Middle School Dance Showcase, and the Maryland Dance Alliance. She also teaches at public school dance festivals and facilitates professional development for K-12 dance educators. Furthermore, she served as an adjunct dance faculty member at Howard Community College. Liz currently performs with Kinetics Dance Company (Ellicott City, MD) and has previously performed with Full Circle Dance Company (Baltimore, MD). Her choreography has been showcased in events such as the Baltimore Dance Invitational, the Maryland Council for Dance Professional Artist’s Concert, the Howard Community College Dance Festival, and the 39th Annual Maryland Choreographer’s Showcase. In 2021, Liz was recognized as Dance Teacher of the Year – Private Sector by MDEA. She served on the MDEA Executive Board as Secretary from 2023-2025. Her current leadership efforts focus on creating safer dance spaces by studying diversity, equity, and inclusion research within the dance field.

Alex LeRoux-Watkins has distinguished herself as an artist and educator throughout Maryland for over a decade. Holding a BA in Dance from UMBC, she has worked for KDT for 18 years. She began working with Kinetics Dance Theatre in 2008 as a faculty member, over the years broadening into the roles of Student Company Director, Company Member and Choreographer. Alex is the Creative Director of the Kinetics Youth Ensemble, KDT’s non-competitive student dance company for students in grades 4-12 as well as the Kinetics School of Dance Director, overseeing weekly classes, faculty and other student-centered programs.

In addition to working with KDT, Alex has also worked as Senior Adjunct of Dance at Howard Community College, where she was the Assistant Artistic Director of HCC’s Dance Company for 5 years and taught classes for dance majors and non-majors for 8 years. With a broad performance resume including work with Baltimore Dance Project, LucidBeings Dance and Masala Soul Project, Alex has performed in and created works for notable showcases (Megopolis Music Festival, Baltimore’s Artscape, The MD Choreographer’s Showcase and more).

Alex was awarded Maryland Dance Education Association’s “Dance Educator of the Year – Teaching Artist” for 2022. Alex has served on the MDEA Board of Directors as a representative of Professional Dance & Teaching Artists since 2024 and her term ends in October 2026. It is Alex’s goal to instill confidence and creativity in her students and collaborators of all ages. She feels strongly that dance education is reciprocal, and that she learns from her students every day.

Gretta Zinski is a contemporary dance artist who graduated from UMBC with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Filmore in Silver Spring, two American College Dance Conferences, and annually in UMBC Dance Department showcases during her undergraduate career. She now dances with the Kinetics Dance Theatre Professional Company and creates her own staged and filmed contemporary dance works. Gretta explores the use of props, site-specific performance and film in her work. Currently, Gretta works with Kinetics as a dance teacher and independently as a Personal Trainer to help young dancers, and anyone else, reach their performance or fitness goals to live a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life!

Teresa Whittemore graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BA in Dance and Pre-Physical Therapy from University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2020. She attended her undergraduate program under full scholarship as a member of the Linehan Artist Scholars Program. Knowing early that she wanted to pursue a career in education, Teresa completed the Teaching Academy of Maryland in 2016, through which she studied child development, curriculum, pedagogy and theories of education. Teresa instructs students in Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Pilates, and dance conditioning. She is Pilates certified, Progressing Ballet Technique certified and has completed the Lisa Howell Teacher Training, all of which have contributed to her holistic approach to teaching that centers anatomy, physiology, injury-prevention, psychosomatics, and above all else, healthy dance training.

In addition to her focus in education, Teresa has received the honor of presenting her choreographic works When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple and Giving Skin at the American College Dance Association’s Regional Conference. Both works were adjudicated and selected for the ACDA Gala Concert. Her work, Spoon Theory, was also selected for presentation through New York based Arts By the People. Teresa has been a part of the Kinetics community in nearly every capacity over the years. She started out as a student right here at Kinetics and fell in love with our warm, familial community. She began volunteering administratively and assistant-teaching under Jodi Guzewich in 2012. Teresa interned under Kinetics’ former School Director from 2014-2016, and she began teaching in 2014. Throughout college, Teresa continued instructing at Kinetics and served as both the Interim School Administrator, and the Assistant School Manager through Kinetics’ transitions of direction.

In Spring 2021, Teresa completed her first year as a Kinetics Youth Ensemble director, working with Pre-Repertory, and has been a KYE director ever since. In addition to teaching at Kinetics, Teresa has been on the teaching faculty at JMD Studios, C-Unit, EMC Performing Arts Studio, Expressions Performing Arts, Design in Motion Dance, and several Pilates studios. She was the former director of York County Youth Ballet, where she choreographed classical ballet productions and coached students for Youth American Grand Prix, and now co-directs Ballet Company at Design in Motion Dance, setting their annual Nutcracker production. Regardless of how far and wide she reaches, Teresa always finds herself back at her first love and home studio, Kinetics.

After local recreational programs, Melissa began her formal dance training at Kinetics Dance Theatre. She graduated magna cum laude from UMBC with a BA in Dance. Melissa has taught dance for over 15 years, in a wide variety of styles, for all ages, with the start of her teaching career in 2008 at Kinetics.

In the past, she served as the School Director of Kinetics Dance Theatre’s School of Dance, a Director for the KDT Student Company (now Kinetics Youth Ensemble) as well as a KDT Board Member. Melissa also served as Studio Manager and Student Company Director of Design In Motion Dance Studio for six years. Kinetics has always been a large part of her life and she is thrilled to serve the KDT community as a weekly instructor.

Pamela Smith Humeston has been teaching, choreographing, and performing dance for over 50 years. She has a background in Dance, Dance/Movement Therapy, Nursing, and Nursing Education. Pamela has studied Modern, Contemporary, Improvisation, and Ballet. She has studied and performed with the Conservatory Ballet, the Dance Dimension, Improvisations Unlimited, Kei Takei’s Moving Earth, Koshin, University of Maryland Improvisational Dance Company, Blizzard Dance, Robert Small, Phyllis Lamhut, Carmen Beuchat, and multiple independent choreographers. In 1984, Pamela performed internationally with the Dance Dimension Company as a United States Delegate at the International Cultural and Performing Arts Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Pamela attended the University of Maryland, College Park on a full Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship in Dance (CAPA), and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance. During her college career she was awarded an Undergraduate Apprenticeship for Research from the University of MD in 1989 for Art and Dance, and produced a full performance based on her artwork and choreography. She was recognized as the Martha Graham Summer Dance Intern Alternate to the Martha Graham Dance Studio for her performance at the National College Dance Competition in North Carolina in 1988. After graduating Pamela continued to study dance and perform in New York City with Kei Takei’s Moving Earth and several independent choreographers. She continued dancing and studying with the Louis and Nikolais Company, as well as Graham, Limon, and Hawkins techniques.

While living in New York she obtained a Master of Science degree in Dance/Movement Therapy in 1995. Pamela returned to Maryland in 1997 where she developed the Dance/Movement Therapy Program and worked with the Creative Therapies team as a Dance Therapist at the Kennedy Krieger School with a focus on children with autism, developmental disorders, and behavioral disorders. She returned to school to receive her Associate of Arts degree in Nursing in 2007, and continued her education to receive a Master of Science degree in Nursing Education in 2017. Pamela has worked in Howard County as a Labor and Delivery Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse, Nurse Case Manager, Community Health Nurse, School Cluster Nurse, and Nurse for Howard County Infants and Toddlers Program. During this time she also continued teaching dance and choreographing for Beneath His Wings Dance, Blizzard Dance Studio, Howard County Recreation and Parks, and Ballet Petite, as well as performing and choreographing throughout Maryland with the University of Maryland Improvisational Dance Company, and with Blizzard Dance Studio. Pamela has been teaching at Kinetics Dance Theatre since 2019. Pamela enjoys spending time with her family and pets.

Jodi Guzewich has 28 years of dance teaching experience along with 22 years of Pilates teaching.  Her early education is from Dance Dynamix later named Mid-Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts as well as the Gniazdowski Studio of Ballet.  Jodi attended summer programs at North Carolina School of the Arts, Joffrey Ballet School, and Point Park University. In 2002, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Point Park University with a concentration in ballet. After college, Jodi danced and trained in New York City and became certified to teach the Pilates Method under master teacher Deborah Lessen.  While in New York, Jodi choreographed for and trained dance students in Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland. In 2004 Jodi moved to St. Louis, MO with her husband and worked at The Pilates and Yoga Center of St. Louis as well as Ballet Midwest. Jodi moved to Wuerzburg, Germany in 2005 and created a dance program for the children on a military installation. Fort Hood, Texas, was her next location, where she created and maintained another successful dance program on the military base. While in Texas, Jodi had the privilege to dance and work with the late Renee Gillenwater at the Newcomb School of Ballet. In 2009, she and her family settled back in Maryland and has taught at the Misako Ballet School and Kinetics Dance Theatre. Jodi recently furthered her education in tap dancing and tap history under master teacher, Karida Griffith.

Levi Coy (They/he) is a queer artist, originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. They are a choreographer, director, performer, filmmaker, and educator. In 2019, they graduated from Ball State University with a BFA in Dance. They are currently serving as Adjunct faculty for the Howard Community College Dance Program.

Seeking new horizons, Levi relocated to Baltimore where they have made a notable impact in the local dance scene. Their talent has been showcased through captivating performances with companies such as Kinetics Dance Company, GRIDLOCK Dance, Extreme Lengths Productions, and Orange Grove Dance. Levi’s acclaimed works and commissions have been produced and presented on concert stages, film festivals, black box theatres, public parks, and Zoom. Levi is a co-founding Director of ThimS Dance Company, a queer modern dance company rooted in DC and Baltimore creating intimate, contact driven work that explores memory, identity, and the future.

They are contributing their knowledge as a teacher and choreographer for Kinetics Dance Theatre and are the Repertory 1 & Repertory 3 director of their Youth Ensemble. Levi’s dedication and passion for dance continue to propel them towards new heights in their artistic pursuits.