About the Dancers

Tomomi Imai

Tomomi came to New York 2001.She performed as a soloist with several companies in Japan, where performances are sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. Her choreography has been presented at several theaters in Tokyo and won second prize at the Kita-Kiyushu and the Asia National Modern Dance Competition, Akita Modern Dance Competition and grand prize at the Matsudo Art society Competition. She dances with the Pi Dance Theater, Regina Larkin, The Dance Imprints, Maxine Steinman, HoffTanzt, and performed in Agora. She has taught at Adelphi University, Peridance, Montclair Academy of Dance and Laboratory of Music. She also teaches Pilates in the New York City area.

Chriselle Tidrick

Chriselle has a varied performance life which includes work in modern dance, acrobatics, stilt dancing and aerial dance. Her modern dance training includes such diverse styles as Humphrey-Limonn, Duncan, Horton and release techniques and is supplemented by a background in ballet. Chriselle has performed with Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, Alice Farley Dance Theater, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Catherine Gallant/DANCE, Dances by Isadora, among others. She also appears on stilts in the Disney motion picture, Enchanted. Chriselle is grateful to have danced with Pi Dance Theatre since 2003 and for the guidance and generosity Toni has offered in the founding of her company, Above and Beyond Dance.

Dana Doggett

Dana is originally from Ohio and graduated with a degree in Art History from Skidmore College, where Toni Smith and Deborah Hay inspired her to become a performer. Since moving to New York, Dana has become a massage therapist, and has enjoyed performing throughout the New York area, most recently with Murray Spaulding Movement Arts, Chris Ferris and Dancers and Tina Croll and Company.