Executive Team and Co-Founders
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Artistic Director
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (she/her) is a choreographer, director, and dance artist. She is the former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet (2022-25), and Artistic Director of NYC based dance company BODYSONNET (2019-present). She is a graduate of The Juilliard School with the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. She recently choreographed Magma, an evening length immersive dance theater show at SF’s premiere nightclub, The Midway.
In July 2025 she was asked to serve as Interim Rehearsal Director of AXIS Dance Company, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse performers, whom she has collaborated with since 2023 as a teacher and performing artist.
Moscelyne has received support from Anthony Quinn Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Adobe, and MassCultural Council, and commissions from The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Metropolis Ensemble, Merde Project, LINES Training Program, and Post:ballet. She has taught at ODC, The Juilliard School, Joffrey NYC, Gibney, LINES, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Yale University. Moscelyne’s dance films have been featured at The San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West, and ADF’s Movies By Movers.
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Associate Artistic Director
Mio Ishikawa (she/her), Japanese performer, choreographer and creative collaborator based in New York City. Her work reaches across various genres of art. Ishikawa trained at the Juilliard School (BFA 2019). She has performed in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More NYC as a closing cast until 2025 including the role Lady Macbeth. She joined Life and Trust in 2025 to continue cultivating her performance in immersive theater. As a freelance performer, she has been with Sidra Bell Dance New York for over 4 seasons since 2022. Additionally, She worked with choreographers, Kelly Bartnik, Kyle Abraham, Ivan Perez, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, Michelle Dorrance, Andrew Celia Rowlson-Hall,Stefanie Batten Bland, Amy J Gardner and among many others.
As a choreographer, Ishikawa is a recent recipient of 2023-2025 Center for Ballet Art NYU Juilliard Fellowship in support of her creative endeavors. Her works have been presented at High Line Nine Gallery in Chelsea, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, New World Symphony in Miami in the past.
As a leader, Ishikawa is Associate Artistic Director of BODYSONNET (2019-). She has been a part of residencies in US and Germany and have produced dance performances and films.
Ishikawa is also a co-founder (2025) of Fabulosa!, a digital platform that introduces site-sympathetic choreography and direction through dance.From 2022-2024,she has led workshops at NYU and Harvard University as a teaching artist of SBDNY.
Additionally, Ishikawa is a Ilan Lev practitioner based in NY.
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Creative Consultant
Sean Lammer (he/him) is an American dancer, choreographer and teacher. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School (‘19) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (‘15). He has worked with an array of companies and artists including GALLIM, Richard Siegal | Ballet of Difference, MADBOOTS, Helen Simoneau Danse, and more. Beyond this he has studied and performed the repertoire of Merce Cunningham, Emanuel Gat, Twyla Tharp and Ohad Naharin. In 2019, Sean co-founded his own collective BODYSONNET in pursuit of bringing together a small group of inspired artists to create highly collaborative work, in unconventional spaces. Sean has taught internationally across the United States, Japan, Germany and Botswana.
Advisory Committee
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Founder and Artistic Director, Berkshire Pulse
Bettina holds a BFA in Dance, Cum Laude, from Temple University.
In Philadelphia, she performed professionally with Philadelphia’s Sybil Dance Company, Artistic Director Eva Gholson, and Dance Conduit, Artistic Director Ann Vachon, for the reconstruction of Doris Humphrey’s “Dawn in New York.”
In the Berkshires, Bettina performed with choreographer Dawn Lane, Artistic Director Community Access to the Arts, as an independent choreographer and as a member of choreographer/film maker Laurie McLeod’s Victory Girl Productions with whom she performed extensively throughout the Berkshires, New York, and abroad.
Bettina’s dance training began with her mother Christa Montano, a student of renowned dancers Mary Wigman, Herald Kreuzberg, Martha Graham, José Limón and Louis Horst. Her early training continued under the direction of Truda Kashman, Martha Graham technique with Debra Zall, with various teaching artists at the Murray Louis and Alwin Nicolais Dance Lab and later with Educators/Choreographers Eva Gholson, Ann Vachon, Hellmut Gottschild and Marilyn Middleton Sylla. Bettina’s passionate belief in accessible dance education led her to teaching and inspired the creation of The Flowering Child Performing Arts Program in 1995 — which ultimately evolved into Berkshire Pulse in 2005. Bettina has been teaching classes in modern dance for students of all ages and levels throughout her 30-year directorship of the organization.
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Artistic Director Berkeley Ballet (present), Founding Artistic Director Post:ballet (2010-2025)
Robin Dekkers (they/them) is the Artistic Director of Berkeley Ballet, where they infuse their passion for collaboration into training and performance opportunities for dancers of all ages and levels of experience. Robin was also the founding Artistic Director of Post:ballet, a professional contemporary dance company based in the Bay Area from 2010-2025. With Berkeley Ballet and Post:ballet, Robin facilitated co-productions with organizations including Kronos Quartet, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Berkeley Symphony, Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), and Berkeley Public Library. Robin has also created original works for Atlanta Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Smuin Ballet, and Diablo Ballet, as well as the dance departments at Stanford University, Southern Methodist University, University of Richmond, and San Jose State University. Named “25 To Watch” by DANCE Magazine, Robin has created dozens of works for the stage and screen, and their choreography has been featured at venues including Jacob’s Pillow, SF International Arts Festival, SF Dance Film Festival, 92nd Street Y (NYC), Stanford Live, Dance on Camera (NYC), Yale Schwarzman Center, Film at Lincoln Center, and SF Frameline Film Festival. Robin danced professionally with Ballet Arizona, ODC/Dance, Company C Contemporary Ballet, and Diablo Ballet, where they were nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award for “Outstanding Performance- Individual.” In 2021, Robin choreographed the season finale dance sequence for Starz Network's Blindspotting series in collaboration with Lil Buck, Jon Boogz, and the Post:ballet dancers. Robin is also Director of Choreography for Art Haus, a Playa performance group whose past productions include a reimagined Rite of Spring and Firebird as well as original works including Noble Beast, In C, and We, Human.
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Freelance Dancer, Director
Evelyn Chen (she/her) is a freelance performer and director based in NYC. She graduated cum laude with a BFA from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance and minor in Arts Management and has been a practitioner of the Ilan Lev method since 2022.
In 2015 she joined the cast of PunchDrunk’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway immersive show, Sleep No More, performing through 2024. She has performed works by H.T. Chen & Dancers, Cardinal Movement Company, Bill T Jones, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, RubberbandDanse, Kevin Wynn and more. She has been a collaborator on the Opera Cowgirls’ Carmen (Opera Cowgirls), Pig Iron Theater Company’s SUPERTERRANEAN, Psittacus Productions' Romeo and Juliet, LeeSaar’s Close Up and more. In 2021 she originated the role of Silas, in Hotel Wonderland, an immersive show in Amsterdam, NL. In 2025, she was a performer and Movement Captain for Metamorphoses, by Mary Zimmerman, directed by Isadora Wolfe-Poulson (Berkshire Theatre Group).
In 2018, she became a Rehearsal Director at Sleep No More, and in 2023, Resident Director. She has directed The Lost Garden, a McKittrick Hotel Halloween Ball, and produced Father Derek’s Decent Into Hell, directed by Sean Wiberg. From 2024-2025 she joined Emursive’s large scale immersive show, Life and Trust, as Resident Director.
Additional training includes Springboard Danse Montreal, Dance Education Lab Essentials with Ann Biddle and Jody Arnhold, Western Australian Academy of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Fiorello H. Laguardia High School, Center for Modern Dance Education and Arts Gate Center.
CORE TEAM ALUMNI
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Projects: ARENA, Volta, An Evening at Chesterwood Garden, Our Treaty, Blue Vice, The Mount.
Roles: Graphic Designer, Choreographer, Dancer, Development Team, Producer.
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Projects: Our Treaty, Blue Vice, High Line Nine, please come alone: a canto
Roles: Community Liaison, Grant Writing, Scheduling Choreographer, Dancer, Producer.
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Projects: please come alone, a canto, Blue Hour
Roles: Producer, Graphic Designer, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: neverover
Roles: Producer, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: neverover
Roles: Producer, Stage Manager, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: I woke up on Skyline Drive
Roles: Producer, Grant Writer, Choreographer, Dancer.
View an archive of the collaborators we’ve worked with across our projects: Collaborators Master Sheet.