Meet Our Dancers

Utam Moses

Company Coordinator, since 2025

Utam Moses is a dance theatre artist, teacher, and embodied theorist. She currently teaches at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance. She has performed with the Doors Project, BodyResearch of San Francisco, California and WindshipDance of Nashville, Tennessee, among others. She has presented collaborative performance works at festivals such as Going Dutch Festival and Tennessee Women’s Theater Project. Past projects include Underneath Us, a collaborative community-based activist program that integrated film screenings, live works, community workshops and performances at Sunrise Movement marches in California for environmental justice. Her current dance film, OVERANDOVER was a selected film for the Critical Mass: Contact Improvisation at 50 Festival and was shown at the Moving Body Festival 2022 in Varna, Bulgaria, the Moving States Arts Film Series in Providence, RI, and Dance Camera West in Los Angeles, CA. Past films include This Old Place Pt. 1 and 2, which was shown at MildClimate Gallery, Nashville, TN as part of a solo exhibition and performance of “What was When,” part of an ongoing collaboration, Penumbra, with dancer Mckay House. Utam received her B.A. in Kinesiology and Contemporary Dance with a focus in Anthropology of Dance from IU Bloomington. She received her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. Utam is excited to be teaching at Windfall.

Ava Benvenutti

Company dancer, September 2025

Ava (she/her) is from Fishers, IN where she started taking ballet and tap classes around three years old. Her dance journey morphed as she joined her high school’s show choir. Moving to IU, she took on the role of Dance Coordinator for Collins LLC. She soon began a Dance Minor at IUB, which completely transformed her college experience for the better! She is currently pursuing a degree in Anthropology with minors in Dance and Environmental Sustainability with plans to graduate in December 2025. She is interested in how dance uniquely facilitates communication within the body and the power dance has to build community and a relationship with the self. Outside of dance, she is involved with the High Flyers of Bloomington and Indiana Odyssey of the Mind. She is thrilled to continue moving with the Windfall Dance Company!

Kay Olges

Company dancer, 1997

Kay Olges has been a part of Windfall since 1994. She graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a concentration in ballet. She holds a bachelor and master’s degrees in speech-language pathology and works for The Stepping Stones Group as a traveling speech therapist. Kay is the founder and director of Windfall’s Reading Through Movement Literacy Project. She is grateful to her wonderful family, friends, and partner for all their support over the years. Dancing is Kay’s sanctuary.

Aaron Shinn

Company dancer, February 2023

Aaron Shinn is very excited to join Windfall this year! A lifelong student of dance, Aaron began his training at the Kansas City Ballet School and later the New Jersey School of Ballet. He is a PhD student in chemistry at IU and is delighted to be able to move and perform with the Company.

Leigha Stephney-Sullivan

Company dancer, May 2025

Leigha Stephney-Sullivan began dancing at a very young age. At the age of 7 she would sing and dance in school talent shows and the Monroe county fair talent shows. Alongside her sister, brother, and her best friend, they would choreograph dances and perform them. She also participated in Bloomington High School South’s mini poms with the dance team. 

When she was a sophomore in high school, she auditioned for the dance team, and thus began her formal dance training. They performed Pom, jazz, hip hop, and kick. They competed and performed at the half time shows. 

In college, while studying psychology and premed, she continued her dance studies as a dance minor. Here she took modern, tap, jazz, and ballet. 

Leigha is now a mother of two, and a CCMA with plans of applying to medical school and becoming a doctor. She is very excited to join the Windfall dance company, and continue to keep dance as a part of her life.