Angie is inspired by play, poetry, queerness, engaging the senses, and her nonbinary, biracial life experience. They are a dedicated teaching artist to movers of all ages and experiences; from toddlers, to families, to professionals, to seniors. This 2025 Next Steps for Boston Dance grantee graduated from Salem State with a B.A in Modern/Contemporary Dance and has returned there as a guest artist in residence. She is a company member of Human Movement Project, vital team member at High Street Studios in Ipswich, and a co-founding member of a contemporary dance collective, The Click, and recently, a teacher for TransDans. Stay in touch with their work or find ways to get involved @shemovesandmakes on Instagram.

Caitlin Canty (she/her) is a dancer, dancemaker, and educator from Somerville, MA who is thrilled to dance with Human Movement Project. Outside of Human Movement Project projects, Caitlin has had the privilege of performing for Ruckus Dance, Jenna Pollack Projects, ATTN:Dance, ZoeDance, and others. She is currently an MFA candidate at Smith College in Northampton, MA, but you can still find her on occasion teaching at The West Concord Dance Academy and MIDDAY Movement Series, and making dances for the stage and screen under the moniker Eventual Dance Company. 

Jessica Chang (she/her) is a third culture kid born in Taipei (Taiwan), raised in Arcadia, CA and returned to Taipei at the age of 10. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2011 with a BA in Dance. Throughout her dance career Jess has worked with inspiring artists such as Angie Moon Dance Theatre, Continuum Dance Project, Cynthia McLaughlin, Luminarium Dance, Ruckus Dance and VLA Dance. Some of her random job moments include selling boba tea, running a standardized testing center, and picking up sweat towels. These days she works in higher ed as a business analyst. Jess is indoorsy and enjoys puzzles, crime thrillers, and making lattes.

Katrina Conte (she/her) is a dance artist and choreographer. She was raised in Mt Pocono PA, but has been creating and dancing in Boston for 3 years. Katrina graduated with her BFA in Dance with a minor in Technical Theater from Ball State University. Since moving to Boston, she has performed with Kairos Dance Theater, Liquid Spine, Alive Dance Collective, and Eliza Malecki. She currently is working with Human Movement Project, and The Click, she couldn’t be more excited to dance and create with these inspiring artists. 

Melenie Diarbekirian (she/her) holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory. She started her professional career with Urbanity Dance and Luminarium, and currently dances with Pantos Project Dance, and Turning Key Dance. She has performed works by prominent choreographers including José Limón, Alwin Nikolais, Thang Dao, Larry Keigwin, and in Reagle Music Theatre’s production of Oklahoma!.  She has performed in venues such as the ICA, Jacob’s Pillow, the APAP Conference (NYC), TEDxCambridge at the Boston Opera House, and many more. When not performing, Diarbekirian serves on faculty at the Acton School of Ballet and has been recently appointed as the Artistic Director for Commonwealth Ballet Company.

Eliza Malecki (she/her) is a Boston based dancer, choreographer, and producer with a BA in Dance from Goucher College. Her choreographic projects have been funded by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, multiple local cultural councils, and The New England Foundation for the Arts. She has been an artist in residence at Bearnstow (ME), the Iron Factory (PA), the City of Lawrence (MA), and the studios at Mass MoCA (MA). Eliza has performed for Eventual Dance Company, Audrey Maclean Dance Projects, NunweilerTanz, Luminarium Dance, Molly Hess, and Zoe Dance Company. In addition to creating joyful dances, she also loves the outdoors, thrifting, collaging, and turning items into earrings. 

Amy Mastrangelo has been dancing with Luminarium since 2011. She studied dance at Boston University, and was an avid performer and choreographer of BU’s Dance Theatre Group. She later performed with the Adagio Big Band as a member of the Mill City Dancers. Mastrangelo works as a musical theatre choreographer and has staged productions with Salem State University, Marblehead Public Schools, Colonial Chorus Players, and Rehearsal For Life. She co-directed and choreographed for Calamity Co., a source for goofy modern dance and casual pop art variety shows. Mastrangelo is a 200-hour power yoga instructor and full-time occupational therapist at Boston Public Schools. She is the proud mother of Kevin (canine), Kitri (human), and Maceo (human).

Katie McGrail has been collaborating and performing as a dancer and movement artist around greater Boston, New England, and occasionally New York for more than a decade. She is a board-certified dance movement therapist, a licensed mental health counselor and a 200-certified yoga instructor. Katie has experience teaching ballet, modern dance, improvisation, creative movement and yoga to movers and shakers from age three to 90+ including those with memory loss and humans with disabilities. Katie counts her early training at Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre and the lineage of the Connecticut College dance faculty (Shani Collins-Achille, David Dorfman, Heidi Henderson, Adele Myers, Lisa Race, Derrick Yanford) along with authentic movement, among her greatest movement influences. Katie is a graduate of Connecticut College (BA) and Lesley University (MA). She currently works in a dance therapy-based program supporting children and families experiencing a serious illness or death in their lives and spends the rest of her time with her daughter, Sage, with whom she dances every day.

Ariana Haddad (she/they) is a dancer, educator, and choreographer based in Boston, MA. She graduated in 2021 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a BFA in Dance and a BS in Kinesiology. While there, she had the pleasure to perform in works choreographed by David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Barbie Diewald, and Aston McCullough, and was a recipient of the Five College Dance Department (FCDD) Virginia K. Wagner Scholarship, marking valuable contributions to the FCDD's programs and productions. As a freelance performer, Ariana has worked with Catherine Siller, Joe Burgio, Mosaic Dance Inc, Alive Dance Collective, and Human Movement Project. Ariana currently teaches dance in several settings in the greater Boston area, and loves a good large iced vanilla latte. 

Claire Lane (She/her) is a MA-raised dance artist, choreographer, and educator. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College with a B.A. in Dance and French Studies with the distinction of highest honors. She is co-Artistic Director/Founder of detritus dance, a Boston-based performance collective focused on feminist story-telling through contemporary dance, collage, and text. Claire has danced professionally with Abilities Dance Boston, Kairos Dance Theater, and Vimoksha Dance, as well as freelance artists including Alex Nunweiler, Kristin Wagner, Haley Andrews, and Eliza Malecki. In 2024 she travelled to Tbilisi, Georgia as a U.S. Artist Ambassador through the “Exchanging Notes” program with the Somerville Arts Council and the Davis Center at Harvard University. She was awarded a certificate of artistic excellence from the Mayor of Somerville for her cross-cultural collaboration. She is a teacher with MIDDAY Movement Series and an adjunct professor of dance in the BU College of Fine Arts.