MEET OUR FALL 2024 BOARD
Arlene Tetteh-Lartey, TD ’25 – Co-President
Arlene (she/her) is a senior in TD from Lowell, Massachusetts, majoring in Neuroscience. She loves how creative, supportive, and passionate everyone in DW is!
Breanna Brownson, MC ’25 – Co-President
Breanna Brownson (she/her) is a senior in Morse majoring in Cognitive Science on a pre-medical track. Breanna has been dancing with Danceworks since her first semester and choreographing since her second semester at Yale. Danceworks has been the highlight of her Yale experience, and she loves how welcoming and kind the Danceworks community is!
Nowyshin Mridula, MY ’27 – Co-Business Manager
Nowyshin Mridula (she/her) is a sophomore in Pauli Murray from Queens, New York, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with an ABET degree. She loves how Danceworks nurtures a welcoming and learning environment where anyone with any dance experience can explore various dance forms.
Jesse Swank, GH ’27 – Co-Business Manager
Jesse (he/him) is a sophomore in Hopper from Syracuse, New York, majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. He admires how Danceworks and the welcoming community are full of inclusivity, creativity, and love.
Alanna Rivera, BF ’26 – Co-Choreographer Liaison
Hello everyone my name is Alanna Rivera (she/her), and I’m a junior, majoring in Psychology and am pre-law. DanceWorks was the first family I found at Yale and will always be my favorite group of people. I love the energy and encouragement fostered within this group and have the most fun times during each rehearsal and show!
Alexis Cruz, TD ’27 – Co-Choreographer Liaison
Alexis Cruz (she/her) is a sophomore in TD from Orange County, California studying Political Science. She loves how supportive, encouraging, and uplifting the dancers are to each other during Danceworks rehearsals and shows!
Joanne Lee, SM ’26 – Co-Production Manager
Joanne Lee (she/her) is a junior in Silliman College from Irvine, California studying the Humanities. Outside of Danceworks, Joanne is involved with podcast journalism at Yale and she is also an employee at the Silliman buttery. Since becoming a member during her first semester at Yale, Joanne has grown to love Danceworks’ welcoming and vibrant community, and she can’t wait to continue working as a co-production manager!
Michael Willen, JE ’26 – Co-Production Manager
Michael Willen (he/him) is a junior from Philly studying Computer Science. He joined Danceworks having never danced before and found a welcoming and energetic community that he’s so happy to be part of!
Sophia Zhou, DC ’25 – Co-Production Manager
Sophia (she/her) is a junior from massachusetts studying computer science. She loves how creative DanceWorks dances can be and how hyped the audience gets during shows!
Gillian Mui, JE ’26 – Co-Production Manager
Gillian (she/her) is a junior in Jonathan Edwards studying architecture. Her favorite part of Danceworks is seeing everybody’s hard work come together at the end of the semester and every moment of tech week.
Ivana Ramirez, SM ’25 – Co-Publicity Chair
Ivana (she/her) is a junior in Silliman studying Global Affairs. She loves how inviting Danceworks in and how supportive everyone is of all dancers!!
Kai Zhang, DC ’26 – Co-Publicity Chair
Hey everyone! I’m so excited to be this year’s Danceworks’ publicity chair! My name is Kai (he/him), a rising junior majoring in Computing and the Arts! I love the incredible choreo put on display by DanceWorks performers, and hope to try my best to capture every second of it!
Andrew Lee, BF ’27 – Co-Social Chair
Hi, I’m Andrew, and I’m a sophomore in Franklin. I’m currently pursuing a double major in political science. I love the freedom to create whatever I desire in DanceWorks, finding community through various styles and forms of dance. ooga booga.
Victoria Zapata Quintero, TD ’26 – Co-Social Chair
Hi everyone! I’m Victoria (she/her/hers) and i’m a junior in TD majoring in U.S. History. I’m super excited to be on board this year because joining Danceworks has really provided me with a welcoming community and it’s such a fun creative outlet that got me out of my comfort zone!