Anne Green Gilbert (she/her), MAT, is Founding Director of the Creative Dance Center (CDC), Kaleidoscope Dance Company, and Summer Dance Institute for Teachers in Seattle. Anne is a master teacher, choreographer, and author. She presented hundreds of workshops for children and adults across the USA and abroad, conducted professional development courses through Lesley University, University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University, and taught classes for all ages at CDC for over thirty years. She is the author of 5 dance textbooks, 2 instructional DVDs, and numerous published articles. Anne was first Chair of dance and the Child USA and Dance Educators Association of Washington. Her awards include the 2005 National Dance Association Scholar/Artist Award, 2011 National Dance Education Organization Lifetime Achievement Award, Lawrence Tenney Stevens American Dance Award in 2014 for her work with boys and men in dance, and American Dance Festival Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2016.

Terry Goetz (she/her) is Director of the Creative Dance Center. She began training intensively with Anne Green Gilbert in 1997 and joined the CDC faculty in 2000. A former member of Pacific Northwest Ballet (1988-1995) and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (1986-1988), she performed works by Balanchine, Taylor, Limón, Lubovitch, Dendy, Cunningham, Naharin, Petipa, and Bournonville, as well as full-length classical works. Along with teaching dance across ages and genres at CDC, Terry presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally in BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Since 2016, she and colleague Anna Mansbridge co-direct the Refresher Course of the CDC Summer Dance Institute for Teachers. Terry was named Washington State Dance Educator of the Year in 2015.

Dionne Kamara (she/her), a former member of Urban Bush Women performance company, is currently a resident teaching artist in New York City. Dionne teaches creative dance integrating academic curriculum to children in public schools, enabling them to express their thoughts and ideas through the art of dance. She has taught creative and traditional West African dance in schools, community centers and cultural institutions in the New York metropolitan area for many years and also teaches creative dance to infants through adults in several NYC studios. Dionne has been an SDIT faculty member since 2003.

Anna Mansbridge (she/her) is Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Dance Company and Mosaic Dance Company and a frequent choreographer for both companies. She has been on faculty at CDC since 1999, teaching dance to all ages. She holds a First Class Honors Degree in Dance and Education from Bedford College, UK, and an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Mills College, CA. Anna co-directs the one-week Summer Dance Institute for Teachers with Terry Goetz, and she gives workshops in Brain-Compatible Dance Education both locally and internationally. She is Founder and Artistic Director of Seattle Early Dance and has directed/choreographed a number of early operas and concerts. Anna is the former Chair of dance and the Child international (daCi) USA.