Dancers of Sea Change Within Us

Ellie van Bever (she/her) holds a B.S. in Political Science from American University. She has performed with Christopher K. Morgan & Artists, Jillian Peña, The Equus Projects, AnA, Amirov Dance Theater, and Katie Scherman + Artists, among others, with appearances at the Kennedy Center, BodyVox Dance Center, and the Velocity Dance Festival. Her work explores nontraditional performer–audience relationships through site-specific, immersive, and improvisational performance. In Seattle, she has produced Fuck it! We’ll Do it LIVE, DRAGONSLAYER, and has danced with Karin Stevens Dance since 2023. She recently joined the cast of Impossible Maps by C. Asa Call.

Sara Caplan (she/her) is a Seattle-based performer, choreographer and teacher originally from Dedham, MA. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography from the College at Brockport, State University of New York. She has performed in works choreographed by Laura Peterson, Maura Keefe, Kendra Portier, Mariah Maloney, Beth Gill, Shenandoah Harris, and Betsy Miller, C. Asa Call, among others. She has presented concert works and site-specific works at various theatres and urban venues in Pennsylvania, New York, and Seattle. She has danced with Karin Stevens Dance since 2022, and Good Grl Co. under the direction of Madeleine Gregor since 2025. She currently makes work collaboratively with fellow KSD company member, Anja Kellner-Rogers.

Anja Kellner-Rogers (she/her) is a Seattle based dance artist and yoga teacher whose work is rooted in collaboration and improvisation. Since moving from the East Coast in 2013, she has performed with KT Niehoff, Alyza Delpan-Monley, Shannon Stewart, Alice Gosti, Thunderpussy, Noelle Chun, Kimberly Holloway and Adriana Hernandez, among others. Anja has danced with Karin Stevens Dance since 2015. She is currently co-creating a new work with fellow KSD company member, Sara Capfree. 

Madeleine Gregor (she/her) is a Seattle-based movement artist whose work centers in dance theater. Originally from Fargo, ND, she trained at Camria Ballet Academy before attending the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, where she earned her BA in Dance. As a performer, Gregor has worked with many Seattle artists and companies, including Christin Call, Natascha Greenwalt, Rainbow Fletcher of Hypernova Dance, Karin Stevens of Karin Stevens Dance, Beth Terwilliger of The Gray, Tabitha Steger, Bridget Kirk, Nicole Flores, Megan Margaret Moore, Shane Donohue, Liz Houlton, and Alyssa Casey.

From 2021–2024, Gregor served as Artistic Director of Coriolis Dance. Under her leadership, Coriolis performed at community festivals including SpringShot at 18th and Union, Launch at ExitSpace, and Howl Nights at The Shed, and was awarded residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend and The Being Mode at The Shed in Seattle.

Since the dissolution of Coriolis Dance in 2024, Gregor has founded her own company, Good GRL Co., and become a managing partner at Open Flight Studio in Seattle’s University District. She is excited about her opportunity to work with Karin Stevens Dance and remount Sea Change Within Us at Gonzaga University and PACCAR Pavillion as part of the Olympic Sculpture Garden. 

Annabel Kaplan (she/her) is a Portland, Oregon-based dance artist and educator. She grew up in Portland, and began her dance training at Classical Ballet Academy under the direction of Sarah Rigles. In 2023, she graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia earning her BFA in Dance. After returning to Portland, Kaplan spent two seasons as a company artist with Shaun Keylock Company/Conduit Dance. She has also had the opportunity to work with Laura Cannon and ProLab Dance on a site specific project entitled Break to Build, and Pathways Dance Company on a regional tour of their 2019 work, Reverie, choreographed by Amelia Unsicker Logan and Kelly Koltiska. She is excited to be making her Washington debut with Karin Stevens Dance in Sea Change Within Us.

Ben Swenson-Klatt (they/them) is a Seattle based actor, dancer, singer, burlesque performer, and choreographer originally from Minneapolis, MN. They graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in Theater and Dance and a Concentration in Women and Gender Studies and have recently worked with Heap Troupe, Washington Ensemble Theatre, AnA Collaborations, Seattle Rep’s Public Works program, Dacha Theatre, Tacoma Arts Live, LanDforms, Robbi Moore, Beth Terwilleger, ARENA Dances, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theatre, and Leyya Tawil. They have presented original work at CO-SHOW10, Seattle Open Arts Space, 12 Minutes Max, Chlo & Co. Dance’s DROVE IX, the Center for Performing Arts, St. Olaf College, ACDA North-Central Conference, Future Interstates, and at Bearnstow in Mount Vernon, ME and received residencies through UW’s BST, Velocity’s Creative Residency, and the Center for Performing Arts in Mpls, MN. They are thrilled to be working with Karin Stevens Dance and performing in Sea Change Within Us again after being part of the original cast and production in 2019.

Janae Walla (she/her) is a dance artist and aerialist born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts where she had the privilege of dancing work by Michele Miller, Wade Madsen, Pat Hon, and Stephanie Zalatel (szalt). She believes art should be inspired by a life well-lived and during her years of full-time travel created dance films, choreographed music videos, produced a festival, organized trash clean-ups, facilitated LGBTQ+ community events, as well as performed for Suzanne Ryan-Strati, Storling Dance Theatre, Voler Thieves of Flight, Emerald City Trapeze, Kansas City Fringe Festival and was a founding dancer and aerialist for Wingbeat Movement Arts in San Diego, CA. Since moving back to Seattle in 2024 she has had the privilege of performing at Seattle Pride, Full Tilt, Coalesce Fest, and has performed her own choreography in two iterations of Saltshake Productions 3…2…1! Her early training in musical theatre has fueled her passion for storytelling and has propelled her to create story-based movement work that asks questions with humor and drama. Janae currently dances with 11:11 dance collective and is very excited to be working with Karin Stevens Dance on Sea Change Within Us.

Michael Walton (he/him) is a Seattle based performer and movement educator. He began his performance career at the age of six performing in musicals with Christian Arts and Theater (CAT) of Corona. Originally from Southern California, much of his performance experience comes from being a member of touring ensembles focused on bringing the arts into public schools as well as areas of the community where art and dance were not accessible. Since moving to Seattle, he has obtained his BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts and has worked with Seattle staples such as Wade Madsen, Deb Wolf, and Donald Byrd, was a founding company member of BKirk Dance, and has performed as a guest artist for Evoke Productions, Men in Dance, and various festivals at Exit Space. Michael has studied with CounterTechnique founder, Anouk Van-Djik as well as Charles Slender-White and hopes to someday soon, be certified to teach the modality himself. He has dance with Karin Stevens Dance since 2023 and continues to be amazed by the attention to detail and emphasis on care and love that Karin, and company members bring to every rehearsal.