Arts In Motion Office Staff

Director: Hope Zettwoch

Registrar: Mary Suter

Arts In Motion Board of Directors

Marcia Heath, President; Marna Chaplin, Vice President; William E. Anderson, Jr., Treasurer; Kathy Woods, Secretary; Sandy Donahue; Sarah  Harrington; Carol Hewey; Roy Lane; Veronika Myers; Doreen Philpotts; Alana Pilcher

Arts In Motion Teachers

M. Lynn Castelli,   holds a teaching degree in dance from the School of the Hartford Ballet and an Early Childhood Education degree from ECSU. She trained in and is certified to teach Russian Classical Ballet in the Kirov method. In 1997 she started a pre-professional Ballet program at AIM, and has since been the choreographer and Artistic Director of Sleeping Beauty in 1999, and the Windham Nutcracker in 2000 and 2002.   Graduates of her pre-professional ballet training program have won competitive placements in the Nutmeg Ballet and Boston Ballet Summer Intensives.

Ian Matthew Harrington is Executive Director of the Willimantic based theatre company 2 Penny Theatre . He has his BA in Spanish from ECSU and has been instructing and engaging students with acting, mask-construction, painting, puppetry, sculpture, storytelling, and voice work for over three years across every corner of Connecticut.

Brian Heath is a retired PhD. psychologist and a certified teacher of Kripalu Yoga. He has taught yoga for over 10 years.

Luci Latina Fernandes holds a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Connecticut and has been involved with dance for most of her life.   She studied at the School of the Hartford Ballet and she frequently performs with her Belly Dance Company, The Red Skye Dancers and in Latin Dance with Oswaldo Tirano.

Alana Mahdalik Pilcher holds a B.S. in both Dance and Economics from James Madison University and trained at the Hartford Conservatory, Trinity College, and GMCA. She has been teaching various styles and levels of dance to all ages since 1989.   She is the Artistic Director, instructor and choreographer for AIM's Youth Ensemble founded in January 2002. Her modern dance training specializes in the Limon and Horton methods. Alana has also choreographed the past eleven Stafford High School musical productions and choreographed this summer's Kids' Company production, Once on This Island. Alana holds a full-time national management position with United Natural Foods, Inc. as Director of Marketing for National Vendor Programs.

Ann Mazzocca Ann Mazzocca grew up in Willimantic and graduated from Windham High School. After studying and working in the USA, Quito, Ecuador and Italy, she went on to get a MA in dance from the University of California. She currently performs with a Haitian Folkloric Dance Company in NYC.   She has studied and taught Haitian Dance, West African Dance, Modern Dance, Ballet, and many other dance forms.

Melissa Price has studied Scottish Highland dance for 16 years and continues to compete in the Northeast. She has won prizes in the US, Canada, and Scotland and represented the Eastern US Region in 6 consecutive US Championships. She holds a Members degree from the British Association of Teachers of Dance and has been teaching for 8 years in the Eastern CT area.

Rachel Roccoberton has a BA in Dance and Theatre from Muhlenberg College.   She has been studying dance since 1988 at Lebanon School of Dance, Center for Creative Youth, and Muhlenberg College. She has studied ballet, modern, jazz, and tap.

Samantha Spano is a graduate of AIM's pre-professional program, and she currently studies 6 days a week in the advanced class of the University of Hartford's Hartt School Community Division. She has spent her last two summers at Nutmeg Ballet's International Summer Intensive program..

Oswaldo Tirano is a native of Colombia, where he learned Latin dance and puppetry at the National School of Dramatic Arts.   Currently, he is the Director of Grasshopper Puppet Theatre. Oswaldo frequently teaches workshops in puppetry and dance at area schools.

Hope Zettwoch is the Director of Arts in Motion.   She has a BA in Theatre Studies from Wellesley College and a MA in Education Administration from UConn.   She directed The Hale Solution this summer at the Nathan Hale Homestead and will be directing Love Letters for the Windham Theatre Guild in February.