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Joce Satterberg

Founder & Artistic Director

Joce Satterberg is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and wellness professional whose work bridges athleticism, artistry, and intentional living. With over a decade of professional performance experience, she has collaborated with companies including UDT, KANEISEE Collective, AyanaDanceArts, eMotion Arts Dance Company, KTCHN SYNC, and Garrett Moulton Productions — cultivating a dynamic and versatile voice within the contemporary dance landscape.

In 2018, Joce founded FLIGHT Dance Collective with a clear vision: to expand opportunity beyond traditional spaces and create work that responds to the world through movement. Under her direction, FLIGHT has grown into a collaborative, community-centered collective rooted in curiosity, inclusion, and expressive integrity.

Joce’s artistic approach is deeply informed by her multidisciplinary background. With a B.A. in Dance and extensive training in sports medicine, personal training, nutrition, yoga (RYT 200), and wellness coaching, she champions sustainable artistry — prioritizing longevity, resilience, and mental clarity alongside creative excellence.

Her choreography blends contemporary, ballet, and acrobatics with emotional depth and physical strength. As a director, she leads with intention — fostering environments where dancers feel both challenged and supported, disciplined and free.

At the heart of her work is a belief that movement is a powerful language — one that connects body and mind, individual and community, discipline and creativity.

Through FLIGHT and beyond, Joce continues to build spaces where artists can grow, question, and create with purpose.

Clara Michaud

Clara Michaud is a French-Swedish dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025 with dual degrees in Dance and Environmental Science. Born in France and raised in the Bay Area from the age of five, balancing different cultures has always been a central part of her life and has influenced her art in many ways. Clara grew up dancing in the Bay Area, where she trained extensively in jazz, contemporary, ballet, and lyrical, and danced competitively for over 10 years. She joined Flight Dance Collective in 2019 and has since assisted in choreographing numerous works for the company. As a choreographer, she values intentional movement, nuanced musicality, and storytelling. Throughout her career, Clara hopes to share her love for dance with others and help her students feel empowered, confident, and find their voices through movement.

Ania Kranz

Ania Kranz has been dancing since she was 6 years old; she has trained in contemporary, modern, ballet, tap, acrobatics, jazz, and various hip-hop dance styles. Currently an instructor at Studio 10 Dance, she has extensive experience doing both competitive dance and performance-focused productions. While attending Tufts University for her degree in Architecture and Studio Art, she was a part of two dance teams and continued her education in dance technique and performance. After moving back to the Bay Area in 2022, she returned to teaching and coaching studio and competition dance. When not dancing, she works in marketing and design, and lives in San Jose with her partner and all their animals. Ania has a focus on movement quality, dynamics, and subtlety, backed by a solid technical foundation, in both her dancing and teaching philosophy.

Nikki Hall

Nichaela Hall is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Sacramento County. Originally from San Jose, California, she began dancing at the age of three and spent much of her childhood immersed in the studio, cultivating a deep love and lasting passion for movement. Her early training laid the foundation for a versatile and well-rounded career, with extensive experience in jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, pom, floor work, and acro. Through this diverse training, Nichaela developed a strong technical base, performance quality, and adaptability across styles.

Nichaela earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. During her time at CSULB, she expanded her artistry as both a performer and choreographer, premiering original work in faculty-adjudicated concerts and collaborating with peers and guest artists. Her collegiate training further refined her contemporary movement voice, strengthened her improvisational practice, and deepened her understanding of choreographic process and performance intention.

Since 2019, Nichaela has been an active member of Flight Dance Collective, where she has performed and assisted in the choreographic development of multiple works. Through her work with the collective, she has contributed to collaborative creative processes, company productions, and festival performances, gaining experience in both stage performance and rehearsal direction.

In addition to performing, Nichaela is passionate about dance education. As a teacher, she strives to create supportive, disciplined, and inspiring classroom environments that encourage both technical growth and artistic exploration. She values fostering confidence in young dancers while helping them build strong foundational skills and performance presence.

Nichaela continues to grow as a multifaceted artist, dedicated to performance, choreography, and mentorship within her community.

Nathalie Perez

Lea Shemy

Nathalie Perez is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in San Jose, California. She began her dance training at age 12 and has since explored a wide range of styles, including jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, musical theater, and more recently, ballet and modern.

Nathalie currently dances professionally with FLIGHT Dance Collective, where she continues to challenge herself as a performer and collaborator. Her performance experience fuels her choreography, which includes both solo and group works that have been performed throughout the Bay Area. Her choreographic style is rooted in storytelling, musicality, and emotional connection.

As an instructor, Nathalie is dedicated to creating a positive, empowering, and supportive environment for dancers of all ages and levels. She is currently on faculty at Studio10Dance, where she teaches a variety of styles and is committed to helping her students grow technically, artistically, and personally.

Nathalie also coaches the Saratoga High School Dance Team, where she mentors student-athletes with an emphasis on teamwork, discipline, confidence, and performance excellence.

In addition to her work in dance, Nathalie is a certified gymnastics instructor at California Sports Center, where she works with children and helps them develop their confidence, coordination, and love for movement in a fun and safe environment.

Nathalie is currently pursuing degrees in Dance and Psychology at San Jose City College. Through her work as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and coach, she hopes to continue combining her passions for dance, education, and mentorship while inspiring the next generation of artists and movers.

Lea Shemy is a dancer and emerging choreographer from Sunnyvale, California. She began her training at Studio 10 Dance at the age of eight and later joined Company 10 as a competitive dancer, developing a strong foundation across a variety of styles and a particular passion for contemporary and concert dance.

Lea expanded her training through the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company Summer Intensive in 2022 and 2024, where she studied contemporary, ballet, modern dance, and company repertoire. She has also gained experience as an assistant instructor at Studio 10 Dance and was selected to participate in Hollywood Connection's Teen Company in 2026.

In addition to performing, Lea has begun exploring choreography, creating original works for herself and other dancers through her studio and high school dance programs. She enjoys experimenting with musicality, dynamics, and storytelling through movement.

Lea joined FLIGHT Dance Collective as a trainee during her senior year of high school and is excited to continue developing as a performer and choreographer within the Bay Area concert dance community.

Eden Morse is a dancer from San Jose, California and a second-year B.F.A. student in Dance Performance at the University of California, Irvine. She began dancing at the age of seven and has trained in ballet, contemporary, hip hop, heels, jazz, lyrical, modern, pointe, and tap. Eden has performed in UCI dance concerts, including New Slate, Dance Visions, Dance Escape, and Physical Graffiti, and has worked with undergraduate, graduate, and faculty choreographers. In the summer of 2025, she had the opportunity to perform in a dance film titled ¿Te Tiento?, directed and choreographed by Kendal Villa. This project was funded by the Medici Circle Scholarship Board and Sponsor and has been submitted to various film festivals. Eden enjoys exploring diverse movement styles, expressing emotion through choreography, and connecting with others through performance. She is passionate about growth as both an artist and a student and is excited to continue developing her voice.

Shellie Jew

Shellie Jew is a freelance dancer based in San Francisco. She received her early training from Marin Ballet. Upon graduating from UCLA, she attended the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program where she performed works by Gregory Dawson, David Harvey, and Maurya Kerr. As a dance artist, she has performed with dawsondancesf, Garrett + Moulton Productions, Oceánica Ballet, Peninsula Ballet Theatre, and ZiRu Dance among others.

Eden Morse

Allana Evans

Allana is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started dancing at the age of 3 and competing at the age of 7. She has trained in a variety of styles, including ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and tap, at several respected Bay Area dance institutions. In addition, she has over 10 years of experience teaching and assisting dance classes, currently teaching and coaching at Studio 10 Dance.

Allana earned her Bachelors in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where she continued dancing by performing in showcases, choreographing routines, and teaching classes for the Dancers’ Symposium and Infra Dance Company organizations. Also, as her sorority’s Choreography Chair, she choreographed, directed, and performed in musicals for the annual Greek Sing charity competition.

Since college, Allana has returned to the Bay Area as a software engineer by day, but she continues to seek every opportunity to dance and teach in her spare time. As a teacher, she enjoys developing creative strategies to help young students build strong dance foundations and find confidence and joy in their dancing. As a dancer, she is excited to continue improving and challenging her creativity and quality of movement.

Our Team