Victoria Brown, a native of California, has over 15 years of training in contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, and ballet. Victoria holds a BA in Dance with a Minor in Business from San Jose State University. Victoria graduated from the Broadway Dance Center Fall 2006 Internship program and The Historic Jacobs Pillow Summer Dance Intensive 2005. Throughout college Victoria was a member of San Jose Spectrum Dance Team, as well as a company member of University Dance Theater under the direction of Gary Masters. She has won several awards including the Showmanship Award 2003 and the 2005 Carol Ann Haws Award for Excellence in Performance. Victoria has taught and choreographed for various high schools and dance schools in California. Professional choreography includes: Oh La La music video "Sherryce",Hell and Lula "Quidam" music video, DAMSF Showcase, POSERS, 15 Minutes of FAME Movie Premier, Moving Through Keys TV Pilot, NBAD Anaheim Arsenal A-list dance Team, Velvet Martini Dancers, Dancescape 2008, DanceClass101.com, Le Femme Defoncer, Full Time Villain Musical Artist, Company One Musical Theater, By:Co-astal multimedia interactive show Los Angeles & New York, Doritos Spec commercial and Mix Match Dance Festival 2009. She has also performed in numerous shows such as: Dance Rehab, Ron Allen’s Theater Production of Eye Mouth Graffiti Body Shop, Las Vegas Annual International Concert, Le Speakeasies, background dancer in Full Time Villain , Dol Rea Musical tour, Stop Revolt music video, Bow Wow as feat. in Omarion “Girlfriend” music video, Nelly feat. Fergie in “Party People” music video, By:Co-astal Tour, Kirstin Sarfde Premier Dance Company, Kairos Dance Company, NBAD Anaheim Arsenal A-list Dance team, All Wheel Extreme Sports Entertainment group, and a dancer in the Pre-Production of "The Movement". She is currently a Dance Teacher and Competition Choreographer for the Academy of Music & Dance in Pasadena, CA, and a Dance Coach for Mira Costa High School.

Victoria developed a love for choreography while studying dance in college. Music has always been a huge part of her life and she finds her inspiration through music. She has always believed that music evokes the spirit to move. As she continues to evolve in her choreographic exploration, music allows her to explore different types of movement qualities, develop mood, and overall concept. Free styling then helps her set specific movements in chronological order. "Freestyle is the organic substance of every dancer. It is when the dancer is fully exposed in that split second of not worrying about exact movement; Thus creating something raw…now that’s dance."

Victoria’s movement vocabulary is a mixture of jazz, contemporary, modern, hip-hop and ballet. She welcomes the challenge of transforming and involving classical technique to create a newer contemporary perception. This blend makes her dances numbers dynamic, riveting, and poignant. Victoria is committed to bringing out the internal passion and spirit of dance to the stage.

Sarah was born in Annapolis, Maryland, but grew up mostly in Rochester, New York with her parents and four brothers! She began dancing at the age of 4 training at Fitzsimmons Dance
Factory, Rochester City Ballet and Dance Explosion. After attending Towson University in Maryland for two years, where she studied dance performance and education, she decided to begin the pursuit of her dance career in Los Angeles. Sarah can be seen in music videos for artists Jessica Simpson, Kylie Minogue, All American Rejects, and The Plain White T’s. She has also danced in commercials for Bugaboo Strollers and American Apparel, and was a ballet dancer in the feature film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons". Sarah has had the pleasure of working with Ryan Heffington on a Benefit Cosmetics Project and has trained with the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company during their annual summer intensive program. She has studied under other top choreographers at the Edge Performing Arts Center, Millennium Dance Complex, and Debbie Reynolds Studio in Los Angeles. Deciding to spend a year in New York in 2008, Sarah trained at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. She performed nightly at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square and was a featured dancer in a commercial for Russian phone company MTS. Sarah also danced on the CW morning show and performed at Webster hall for New Years Eve ‘09 with Lady Gaga. With her second passion being travel, Sarah has also had the privilege of studying at Pineapple Dance Studio in London and The Ballet Centre in Florence, Italy. She and Victoria Brown formed MashUp in 2009 wanting to share multi media pieces that represent Los Angeles and its talented dancers. With two very successful seasons under their belt Sarah is looking forward to the future of MashUp and thanks everyone for your support thus far!

Noël Arreola is originally from San Jose, California. She has been dancing her entire life and is currently a senior at the University of Southern California where she is studying Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity. Noël's formal training is based in ballet, tap, and jazz, while her last few years of training have incorporated hip hop and contemporary. She competed with her home studio in Northern California for 13 years as well as her high school dance team for 3 years. She has performed with the pre-professional PACK Dance Company based out of her home studio, Nor Cal Dance Arts, and more recently with USC's performing hip hop team, Break Through.

Noël is incredibly excited to begin her third season with MashUp. Through the company she has gotten the opportunity to perform throughout Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Northern California. She has been able to tour with MashUp in New York and San Francisco, as well as perform with recording artist CC Sheffield. Noël has grown so much as a dancer through MashUp and cannot wait for the new season!

Katie Baines is a twenty-year-old contemporary dancer from Canada who moved to Los Angeles one year ago to pursue her dance career. Like most, Katie grew up at a local studio where she was trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, jazz funk, modern and of course contemporary. She attended Central Memorial Performing and Visual Arts High School, which allowed her expertise to grow and her maturity as a dancer to develop. From this prestigious school in Calgary, Alberta she moved on to be the youngest member of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Professional Training Program. Katie was a featured dancer on So You Think You Can Dance Canada, reaching the final 18 girls in the competition. She is a Touring Assistant with the Triple Threat Dance Convention. This convention travels annually to Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Orange County and North Hollywood. Katie is signed by one of the largest dance agencies in Los Angeles. She continues to appear in several performances around the city, including: Carnival, Posers, The IDA Social, Get Up On The Get Down, and assists various choreographers in their weekly classes. Katie looks forward to everything MashUp Dance Company has to offer. She feels so privileged, honored and grateful to be a part of such a progressive contemporary dance company!

Emily Brown is a Colorado native. She started her dance career around the age of 11. Studying multiple forms of dance, Emily formed a love for dance that has only grown stronger as the years have passed. Now, in her third season with MashUp Contemporary Dance Company, as well as going into her third year of residency in Los Angeles, Emily has accomplished many of her goals and is still striving to make her career as a professional dancer a success.

Emily has won both regional and national awards, and has performed in many theatre and concert performances. She has been featured in many live stage shows including, Disney's ElecTRONica, and with up-coming artists, CC Sheffield and Brytin Mykhail. Thankful to be a part of an innovative company, Emily is excited to perform with MashUp again this year, and hopefully for years to come.

Sara Carter began her training at the age of seven under the direction of Yoko Young, of Yoko’s Dance and Performing Arts Academy in Fremont, California. In Fremont she trained in all types of dance including, ballet, jazz, contemporary, pointe, tap, and musical theater. In 2005, she was selected as one of twenty dancers to travel to Japan as an ambassador representing the City of Fremont. That same year, Sara was invited to perform on stage with Sheryl Crow, as she performed “Good is Good” at the Dallas Cowboys Salvation Army Red Kettle Kickoff Event on Thanksgiving.

Currently residing in Los Angeles, Sara is pursuing professional careers in both dance and graphic design. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a BFA in Design and Intermedia Arts. Sara has performed in many shows and events in Los Angeles including, Art4Life, Dancescape, and Carnival. She is also a professional dancer for the newly established Mather Dance Company, directed by Shannon Mather. Sara is excited to continue her journey with MashUp Contemporary Dance Company for the third year!

Juliette Irons is originally from Canada. She is now living in Los Angeles and is quickly becoming a well-known dancer/choreographer all over North America. Juliette has been touring the country teaching and choreographing as a faculty member for many conventions and workshops such as, Move, Evolve, 3D, Storytellers, Impact, and much more. Her choreography has been showcased in many LA events like, Art4Life, the Choreo Show, Carnival Choreographer's Ball, Dancescape, and MashEDUp. Juliette was recently featured in Dee Caspary's show "the Nvitational", and just finished training with the Netherlands Dance Theatre this summer in Holland!! Juliette also subs regularly at the world renowned Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles. This is Juliette's second season with MashUP !

Kristen Kelker is originally from Chicago, Illinois and has been dancing since the age of three. She has competed, performed, and trained intensively in contemporary, lyrical and jazz. She trained for eight years with the Perseverance Dance Company. While training with PDC Kristen was also a student at the Faubourg School of Ballet between the ages of ten and fourteen. During her sophomore year of high school she became a company member of LA Dance Magic. Kristen moved to Los Angeles two years ago in hopes of pursuing a long career in dance, acting, and modeling. Kristen is also currently attending college to become an Environmental Biologist. She is looking forward to performing and touring with MashUp Contemporary Dance Company for the second year in a row!

Lindley Mayer moved to California from South Carolina at age 18 to pursue her dancing and acting career. She has been dancing for 18 years, has been signed with DDO Artists Agency since the age of 15, and attends the University of South Carolina online. More than anything, her passion is to entertain and perform. She most recently can be seen on the premiere episode of GLEE and has also danced for TV shows such as; America's Got Talent, Lopez Tonight and Victorious. She can be seen in videos such as; the Miley Cyrus Camp Rock 2 Promo, Green Day, Brian Anthony, and Jo De La Rosa. She has appeared in commercials for Wii, NASCAR, ESPN, and Wachovia. Lindley can also be seen in 'Out of Carolina,’ directed by Anjelica Houston. She performs in Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel for New Years Eve and charity events. She is experienced in Contemporary, Tap, Hip-hop, Jazz, Ballet, Modern, and Lyrical. She has been blessed to be a part of MashUp Contemporary Dance Company since the very beginning and looks forward to continuing her professional career and succeeding in doing what she loves the most.

Nicole McMaster started dancing at the age of thirteen in Orange County. She danced throughout high school and trained at Jimmie Defore Dance Center, where she earned a scholarship in the Summer of 2009. While there, she trained extensively with Leann Alduenda, Mike Esperanza, Christine Baltes, Rika Piper, and the rest of the faculty at Defore's. Last year Nicole moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dancing career. In Los Angeles she trains with Leo Morimune, Nick Lanzisera, Justin Giles, Sonya Tayeh, and other great choreographers. Nicole has had the opportunity to perform in shows such as, Chess the Musical, LA Unbound, Carnival Choreographer's Ball for Juliette Irons, and Pulse 2010 & 2011 for Leann Alduenda. Most recently, she participated in Justin Giles Soul Escape 2011 Intensive where she performed in "Beyond the Canvas" directed by Justin Giles himself. This is Nicole's first year being a part of MashUp Contemporary Dance Company and is beyond grateful and excited to work with such talented dancers!

Katie Reese is originally from the Detroit area. Katie has been dancing almost her whole life. She recently graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in dance and minor in communications from Western Michigan University. Katie has worked with Arturo Fernandez from Line’s Contemporary Ballet and Jason McDole from David Parson’s company in “Great Works” pieces at Western Michigan University. She has danced for Mariah Carey during an NFL Lion’s Thanksgiving Half-time Show and performed as the female dance swing for Matt Davenport Productions. Most recently Katie worked on the film "A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas," and Colette Carr and Frankmusik’s “No I.D.” music video. She has been a guest dancer for the female group “Flirt” and she also made a special appearance on MTV's, "The Seven" as a look-a-like Ashley Greene model for sportswear. Katie has trained outside of her studio by attending many workshops and intensives including “Blue Lake Fine Arts Summer Program” where she was accepted into their International Ballet Ensemble and Dance Master’s Student Honor’s Program. She has trained at the best studios in NYC, Chicago, Atlanta and LA such as, Broadway Dance Center in NYC, the EDGE Performing Arts Center, LA, and Gotta Dance Atlanta in Atlanta. At these studios she has trained in all areas of dance. Katie also enjoys acting and modeling and is pursuing those two fields as well, hoping to grow in each area to be well rounded. Katie’s choreography can be seen on students at West Michigan Dance Center in Kalamazoo, MI, where she was a teacher and guest choreographs. Katie is excited to start her new journey and follow her dreams in Los Angeles, California. She recently signed with Trio Talent Agency and cannot wait to get a jump start on her career. Katie finds she is most passionate about the expressive energy and fusion of contemporary and jazz dance. She hopes she can bring something new, exciting and vibrant to the LA dance community.

Ashley Rogers grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and started dancing when she was 3 years old. At the age of 5, she started competing at numerous conventions, as well as regional and national competitions. Ashley competed for 13 years in different styles of dance such as, lyrical, hip-hop, tap, jazz, and ballet. She also attended the University Of North Carolina School of the Arts for 8 years where she majored in ballet and modern. She has now been living in Los Angeles for the past 2 years, auditioning and working in the dance community. She has danced on the television show Brothers and Sisters and also in music videos for artists such as, Laza Morgan, Reason, Yukmouth, and Justin Michaels. She has also been performing with other companies in the Los Angeles area such as, Flirt Dancers and Karmagraphy, where she has performed numerous gigs like the IIFA award show after party in Toronto, the JCK diamond Gala in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao's after-fight party in Las Vegas, Carnival, the Choreographers Show, artist DW, corporate events, and the Halloween Haunt show at Knott's Berry Farm. Ashley continues to take class, audition, and hopefully have a long and successful career in dance.

Angel Tyson started her training in ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip-hop, and gymnastics at the early age of three. At age 11, she started training every summer at Edge Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles; she has studied from many of today’s hottest choreographers and teachers such as, Billy Larson, Nick Watkins, Emily Shock, Tokyo, Sonya Tayeh, Sayat Asatryan, Olga Pavolova, and Henry Danton. She has also traveled the country assisting Tokyo and Nick Watkins.

Angel was the competition director and choreographer for Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts for 3 years, and her award winning choreography has been recognized throughout the south for her unique style. Currently residing in Los Angeles, she is a working company member at LA Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Kate Hutter. This will be Angel’s first year with MashUp Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Victoria Brown and Sarah Rodenhouse. Angel?s most recent performances include: the LA Convention Center for the “Reality Rocks Expo”, The Standard Hotel for “The Series”, and the

Diavolo Theater for “The Nature of Things”. She is currently teaching extensively throughout California and will be featured in an upcoming LACDC performance fusing electronic music and contemporary dance in Denver, Colorado.

Pam Wellington has been dancing for 16 years. She has trained in many styles of dance including, jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, ballroom, hip hop, and aerial work. Pam has just recently moved to California from Canada to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. She has worked with many professional choreographers, some include Alex Little, Matthew Tseng, and Charles Wiggins. Pam hopes to continue growing, learning, and meeting talented and dedicated choreographers and dancers.