Meet Your RISE Guides
Zoe Levine
Founder of the RISE Collective
Zoe has been a dancer most of her life and movement educator for nearly 2 decades. She has been greatly influenced by a lifetime of dancing and play with many movement and dance forms including many Modern and Contemporary styles, 5 Rhythms, Gaga, improv, Qoya, breathwork, Authentic Movement, and Somatic Experiencing ideas. Her practice is informed by her work as a professional dancer, mama, Advanced MELT Method instructor, and Restorative Exercise Specialist through Katy Bowman and Nutritious Movement(TM). She has been leading daily dance sessions for the growing RISE community since January of 2020 and is the creator of several guided online programs including an Alignment & Movement Makeover and Strong As A Mother.
RISE rose out of the ashes when her own experience of dancing everyday helped heal mind, body, and spirit, after a Stage 4 Cancer diagnosis and a year of intense cancer treatment.
You can find more about her work at www.thethrivingbody.com
Hilary Brown-Istrefi
HILARY BROWN-ISTREFI is a Canadian-American choreographer, performer, instructor, curator, and arts administrator, based in Rockaway Beach, NYC. She is the (Co-)Founder and Creative Director of the award-winning performance collective, Same As Sister (S.A.S.) with Briana Brown-Tipley, as well as the choreographic platform, HB² PROJECTS. Both collaboratives employ interdisciplinary storytelling to challenge, deconstruct, and reimagine representations of identity towards understanding. Hilary is passionate about building community and support for the arts, not only through her performance projects, but also through her work in nonprofit development. She is the Development Manager for Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, and a Development Consultant and Curator for Pioneers Go East Collective, empowering the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist Artists for social change.
Claudia-Lynn Rightmire
CLAUDIA-LYNN RIGHTMIRE, a Florida native, holds an Honors summa cum laude BA degree from Roger Williams University. She has taught, created, and collaborated professionally in Florida, London, Australia, and NYC. Currently, Claudia-Lynn is a dancer and company manager with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, and a performer with INSPIRIT Dance Company, New York City Children’s Theater, and Third Rail Projects. She is also a personal and group fitness trainer through National Academy of Sports Medicine, and a teaching artist for The Sarasota Ballet’s Margaret Barbieri Conservatory.
Claudia-Lynn spends her days writing stories, drawing faces, and creating dances. She is ecstatic to be joining the RISE community, and to wake up each morning and choose to groove.
Angela Marquez
ANGELA, in life, is a mother, a friend, and some would describe her as a love bubble. Professionally she is a dance instructor and show director. After becoming a mother, she began to find the beauty in leading people how to use dance therapeutically. She created Move Your Mood, movement for mental clarity. This has been taking place virtually for the past 2 years and has recently been bringing it into live spaces and communities. She is a big fan of helping women of all ages establish healthy, yet simplified rituals to boost mood and build confidence. Classes are filled with movement, mudras, magic, & more!
Move Your Mood
Movement for mental clarity.
Engaging prompts, good company, and a bomb playlist is all it takes sometimes to elevate your mood into a place of bliss, understanding, and release.
Dance is more than a show or a choreographed routine, it is a human tool that we all possess to express emotion and release happy chemicals in our bodies such as serotonin and dopamine.
During Move Your Mood, we use movement as a tool to express emotions (good, bad, or indifferent), become aware of our physical space (mind, body, and heart), and connect with others. This will be a safe place for play, growth, and self-expression.
Let’s move on in a good way!
IG: @moveyourmoodmama
Email: [email protected]
Shanna Tabatcher
Shanna is a Certified Mind Body Practitioner, Embodied Movement teacher and Yoga Nidra teacher. After over a decade of practicing yoga asana, Shanna was guided back to dance movement after a cancer diagnosis and wanted a way to connect with and trust her body again. She became a certified Qoya movement teacher and Yoga Nidra teacher in 2018. Over the years and after a second cancer diagnosis, Shanna began developing and teaching her own style of embodiment practice. Shanna's mission is to use embodied movement, the felt sense, yoga nidra and somatic practices to provide a safe container for individuals to reconnect to their wholeness.
