Meet the Team!

Christina Hicks

Executive Artistic Director, Teaching Artist, Principal Dancer

Falin Williams

Director of Operations, Studio Manager, Photographer, Content Creator

Christina is an Alabama native and graduated from Troy University BS in Communication Studies and Dance. She was a founding member of the Troy Dance Repertory Ensemble (TDRE). While with TDRE, she traveled to China on a dance concert tour in 2010. In 2011, she was awarded the Chicago Arts fellowship and worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on their development team. She danced with The Lost Colony in Manteo, NC and is a Guest Artist with DraMAStic Dance Works in Onancock, VA. She has worked and performed with Patti Rutland Jazz since 2013 and proudly took on the role of Director in 2018.

Falin has been with ADW now for ten years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Auburn University in 2015. Her many roles include managing the ADW Studio, working for the ADW professional company with photography and videography, and also providing the marketing and graphic design for ADW as a whole. She also enjoys the creative outlet that is producing an ADW show. Outside of work, Falin enjoys participating in community theatre with SEACT and also loves performing with the ADW company every now and then!

Kerry O'Brien Herring

Teaching Artist, Company Director, Principal Dancer

Kerry O’Brien Herring received a B.F.A. in dance from Marymount Manhattan College (now Northeastern University – New York City). As the result of a choreography and performance focused dance degree, Kerry’s own choreographic works have been presented in collaboration with the Alabama Dance Festival, Troy University, Pikes Peak Community College, The Confucius Institute, the Southeast Alabama Dance, Ormao Dance Company, Shachah Touring Company, and the Dance Theater Workshop. Kerry's more recent endeavors include teaching dance for the Young Actors Theatre, the South Georgia Ballet, Lucretia's School of Dance, and Alabama Dance Works as well as dancing with the ADW Professional Company. Currently, Kerry serves as faculty at The Southern Dance Collective as well as the ADW Studio and is honored to be performing for a 8th season with ADW Professional Company.

Madison McGriff

Teaching Artist, BEYONDance Teacher, Principal Dancer

Before joining the professional company in 2019, Madison danced as a student and competed with the ADW Performance Team at the dance center. She has been working as an ADW Company Dancer for four years now and also teaches for the ADW Dance Center and the BEYONDance outreach program. She recently choreographed a piece for our advanced performance team and won the Excellence in Choreography Award at the Dance Educators of America competition in Atlanta, GA. Other choreographic acknowledgments include being selected to perform at the Alabama Dance Festival. In addition to these recognitions, Madison is certified in Acrobatic Arts and utilizes this in her dancing and choreography. McGriff looks forward to more opportunities with the ADW company.

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Michaela Pearse

Teaching Artist, BEYONDance Teacher, Principal Dancer, Content Creator

Michaela Pearse is a graduate of Troy University where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. In her time at Troy, she had the opportunity to choregraph and produce original work, as well as perform featured roles in many Troy Theatre and Dance productions including work from Marcus Allen Cobb. Michaela was one of ten dancers from the University to be chosen to study dance abroad in Pietrasanta, Italy. While in Italy, she took was chosen to perform original work by Alice Klock and Florian Lochner of Flockworks and received a summer scholarship to train with MNDance Company in Slovenia. Michaela has had the opportunity to teach, judge, and set work at various studios around Alabama the past several years. She is now apart of Alabama Dance Works in Dothan, AL, serving as a principal dancer in their professional company, teaching artist for their dance center, and is a dance educator in Dothan City Schools with ADW’s BEYONDance outreach program.

Ethan Tyler

Principal Dancer, BEYONDance Teacher, Teaching Artist, Administrative Assistant

Ethan Tyler started his dance training at the age of 17. He was trained at Panama City Dance Academy in Florida under the guidance of Lance Washington, Michelle Williams, and Troy alumni Kaitlyn Morgan. He was on Panama City Dance Academy's competition team and placed at many competitions, including Inferno, Masquerade, Platinum, and Applause. He has a Bachelors in Dance from Troy University from years of studying under James Boyd, Adrienne Hicks, and Dominique Angel. Currently, he has danced with multiple non profit dance organizations and choreographed a multiple of stylized works. Details and artistic narrative are major importance for his teaching and performing styles.

Jordyn McGriff

Principal Dancer, Teaching Assistant

Bio coming soon!

Elizabeth McGriff

Teaching Artist, Performance Team Director, Principal Dancer

Elizabeth is a 11th year instructor at ADW. From her first dance class at 4 years old until today, dance has been a part of her every day. During her teenage years she dedicated herself to competitive dance and enjoyed it immensely. She is certified in Acrobatic Arts module 1 and Alixa Flexibility modules 1, 2 and 3. In addition to teaching multiple styles of dance, she has spent the last 10 years dancing professionally with Alabama dance works including performances at Jazz on Tap, The Alabama Dance Festival, Catharsis Series, The Impact Project and guest performances with Troy University.

Lauren Hart

Development Coordinator, Teaching Artist, Administrative Assistant

Lauren is in her 11th year with the ADW. Lauren began her training in Owensboro, Kentucky with Owensboro Dance Theatre where she studied ballet, jazz, and tap. She received her professional training at Western Kentucky University where she was a dance major with a stage electrics minor. Lauren has worked as a counselor for Jazz on Tap on tour, with various color guards throughout Kentucky and Tennessee, and has performed throughout the country as well as in Costa Rica at Jazz Dance World Congress. She worked for a variety of touring Broadway shows including “Beauty and the Beast” and “Drowsy Chaperone”. Since moving to Dothan in 2011, Lauren has worked with several studios in the area teaching a variety of styles of dance. In 2014 Lauren choreographed a musical for the local community theatre. Lauren is very grateful to be with a company who has become her home.

Crystal Dubose

Teaching Artist, Principal Dancer, BEYONDance Outreach Teacher, Content Creator

Crystal DuBose is from Panama City Beach and grew up dancing locally. She attended Troy University, where she received her BFA in Dance and was featured in various productions as a dancer and soloist. Her original works have been showcased at the IMPACT project and Alabama Dance Festival. She is currently a principal dancer and teacher at Alabama Dance Works.

Julia Huskey

Principal Dancer, BEYONDance Teacher, Teaching Artist

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Julia Huskey is a professional dancer and choreographer who received her BFA in Dance, Summa Cum Laude, from Troy University in Alabama under the instruction of James Boyd, Dominique Angel, and Adrienne Hicks. She has worked with and

performed works by Take Ueyama, Eric Handman, Lindsey Maethis, Lloyd Culbreath, James Kinney, Kelsie Metz, Katie Breland, Dominique Angel and Brynt Beitman. Julia has been commissioned to travel to a number of schools and organizations to work as an educator and choreographer. She has had the honor to train and perform in multiple festivals including the DAP Festival in Pietrasanta, Italy, the Alabama Dance Festival in Birmingham, AL, the LINK Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Ballet Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Julia is currently based in Dothan, Alabama and is a principal dancer with Alabama Dance Works.