As a Fort Collins native, Conner Horak-Flood receive his initial dance training in and around Colorado. He graduated from Butler University cum laude wih a BFA in Dance Performance with departmental honours. As a professional movement artist, Conner has danced with Wonderbound (where he performed with the Flobots at the Vail Dance Festival), with David Taylor’s Zikr Dance Ensemble, Boulder Ballet, Reformations Contemporary Ballet, Amy Anderson’s Engage Movement Arts, Front Range Contemporary Ballet, Starry Night Productions, Syracuse Ballet, and James Sewell Ballet, where he worked with James Sewell, Darius Strong, and Gabrielle Lamb.

Conner is currently a company member of Judy Bejarano’s IMPACT Dance Company as well as a principal dancer with Ballet Northern Colorado under the Artistic Directorship of Michael Pappalardo. He has choreographed for Starry Night Productions, Ballet Northern Colorado, and as Co-Director of The Soda Shop Movement Company.

Jenna Smith is originally from Maple Grove, Minnesota where she began training in ballet at the age of four. She received her BA in Performing Arts from Colorado State University where she had the opportunity to perform many featured roles in faculty and guest artist works. After graduation, she worked with Cleo Parker Robinson’s 2nd company before joining IMPACT Dance Company in the fall of 2012. She remained both a company member, and publicity/marketing director until moving to Tennessee in 2015. In Nashville, she had the pleasure of studying with Banning Bouldin of New Dialect and FALL aerial ballet company. Jenna joined Canyon Concert Ballet in 2019, and remained a full time artistic associate until Spring 2024. She has been a guest performer with Aspen Dance Connection, Industrial Dance Alliance, and performed all over the United States and Puerto Rico. Currently, she is an active member and Assistant Director of IMPACT Dance Company, and is very excited to be Co-Directing here at The Soda Shop Movement Company!

Her choreographic work has been featured in IMPACT Dance Company’s shows, “Words, (Wo)men and Song” in 2018, “C’est La Vie” in 2021, “From the Circus.. To The Sea” in 2022, and “Nourish” in 2024. She has produced and directed multiple award-winning shows at the Fort Collins Fringe Festival. “Women Working: Movement Stories by 3 Colorado Choreographers” which received the Salt Magazine “Movers and Shakers” award, and “5 X 5” which received “Best of Fringe”, “Audience Choice”, and “Artist Choice” awards. Her choreography has been commissioned in multiple shows by Canyon Concert Ballet; “Ballet and Beer: Latin Nights”, “Ballet, Jazz, and Beer”, “Ballet, Broadway, and Beer”, “The Little Mermaid”, and for the 2023 Fort Collins Movement Festival.

A Colorado native, Binyamin began his dance training while attending Colorado State University. He went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance and a BS in Zoology in May 2022. While attending university, Binyamin had the opportunity to perform in numerous faculty and student-choreographed works, as well as residency pieces by internationally acclaimed choreographers such as Dwight Roden, Andre Mergerdichian, and Vincent Thomas. Binyamin also developed a strong choreographic voice at CSU, with some of his undergraduate works being selected for presentation at the American College Dance Association Conference and as a finalist in the New Century Dance Project Choreographic Competition in 2022. Upon graduation, Binyamin joined Canyon Concert Ballet as an artistic associate and faculty member, and he is now a principal dancer wit the company. He also engages the Colorado dance community at large, performing with IMPACT Dance Company and other organizations througout the state.

Emmeline Bywater, originally from Colorado, discovered her love of dance while living in the UK. She first trained in the creative arts of ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and drama at the Jill Stew School of Dance in England. At age ten, Emmeline had the privilege of training at the Royal Ballet School in London, in their Associates Programme, where she trained for six years. To further her training she danced in the Royal Ballet School Spring Intensive and with the National Youth Ballet.

In 2020, Emmeline began vocational training toward a BA in Modern Ballet at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow. During this time she collaborated with notable choreographers including John McFall, Julian Moss, and Andrew McNicol.

Following graduation, Emmeline joined Canyon Concert Ballet as CCB2, performing in Dracula, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. This year she will dance in their 2024-25 season as a trainee and is excited to be an inaugural company member of The Soda Shop Movement Company!

Liam is currently a fourth year Dance/Business administration double major at Colorado State University. He received the majority of his 9 year of dance training at Colorado School of Dance in Parker, CO, and received additional Summer training with institutions like Colorado Ballet and King LINES Ballet. He as performed as a guest artist in the role of Cavalier in The Nutcracker 2021-2023, in American Lullaby: Still Singing with IMPACT Dance Company and is currently working both as a performer with The Soda Shop Movement Company and as a teacher with Canyon Concert Ballet.

Annalise Wood is from Windsor, CO, and is currently double majoring in Ballet and Psychology at the University of Utah on a full-tuition College of Fine Arts scholarship. She began her pre-professional training with Deneice Dyer and Ixchel Levendosky at age ten and furthered her training by dancing Summers with the Houston Ballet. She joined Ballet West as a trainee in 2022 following her freshman year and will be dancing her second year with Ballet West this upcoming season. While in Salt Lake City, she has had the privilege of performing classical, neoclassical, and new works, including Balanchine’s Serenade (Waltz Girl), Fokine’s Les Sylphides, (Waltz Girl), and Christensen’s The Nutcracker. She has found a passion for improvisation, choreographing, teaching, and exploring the intersections between ballet, contemporary, and modern dance.

An international soloist with a decade of performance experience, Henry is excited to be working with The Soda Shop Movement Company for their first season. Hailing from Essex (England), Henry’s formal training was at Ballet West Scotland, where he graduated with a BA(Hons) in Ballet and Fdn in Dance. Here he studied under ballet greats such as Daniel Job (NYC Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Cleveland Ballet), and Sonia Fajardo (Ballet de Havana, Elmhurst Ballet), with support from others including Michael Raynaud, Andrew McNicol and Norton Fantinel.

Credits include contemporary works by leading choreographers (including Indra Reinhold), and national tours of Scotland, including Giselle (Peasant Dance, Squire), Swan Lake (Spanish, Czardas), and The Nutcracker (Russian), and more recently with CCBallet, Dracula (Arthur Holmwood), The Picture of Dorian Grey (James Vane), Sleeping Beauty (Wolf, Suitor), and The Nutcracker (Cavalier Prince).

Henry also has an enjoyment for art and design, and has created our Soda Shop Movement Company website. To see his artwork online, click here.

Naomi Langill began her dance training at the age of ten with the Capitol Ballet Company in Sacramento, CA. In 2017, she joined Ballet Frontier of Texas as a professional dancer while also guest performing with Capitol Ballet Company. Naomi moved to Connecticut in 2021 to join Ballet Theatre Company, where she performed numerous soloist roles over two seasons.

Throughout her career, Naomi has had the privilege of working with esteemed choreographers and directors such as Paul Mejia, LeeWei Chao, Ben Stevenson, Maria Terezia Balogh, Megan Fairchild, Ashley Bouder, Michael Pappalardo, Charmaine Hunter, Chung-Lin Tseng, Enrica Tseng, Lainey Logan, and Derek Brockington. Her repertoire includes a diverse range of classical and contemporary ballets, along with original works.

In her seven years as a professional dancer, some of Naomi’s most cherished roles have been Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Myrtha in Giselle, and the title role in Sylvia.

Naomi is thrilled to join this new dance company and looks forward to contributing her passion and experience to their exciting future projects.