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.
Celina Jaffe
Company Dancer, May 2024
Celina Jaffe (she/her) hails from Bloomington, IN and recently moved back after living for two years in DC and 5 years abroad. She worked as a freelance dance artist in Europe from 2016 – 2021 and received her MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2017. Over the past decade she has choreographed, performed, and led workshops for groups of all ages and abilities. In her mid-20s she was a Windfall Dance Company member and directed the youth company – she is delighted to be back in the fold! Celina has attended dance intensives and worked as an artist in residence in Ireland for contemporary dance and has trained in physical theatre circles with artists such as Nancy Stark Smith, Catherine Young, and Terry O’Donovan. Her artistic interests and studies involve contact improv and vocal improvisation, site-specific performance, cross-cultural body language, and movement in nature as a catalyst for somatic connection.
Sydni Jiang
Company Dancer, September 2026
Sydni (江红) is a dance artist, choreographer, and teacher, originally based in the Greater Boston Area. Specializing in Chinese ethnic, folk, and classical dance, her movement and process prioritize breath work, full-body expression, and storytelling. She also has a soft spot for all things related to the jazz diaspora, including the stylistic branches of classical jazz and theatre dance. Sydni has won awards in both China and the U.S. for her performance, choreography, and cultural preservation through teaching. In addition to her participation in performance projects such as Dance the Dream at 50 and BEACH, Sydni is also dedicated to making all forms of movement and dance accessible to all through community-based events and workshops. She is excited to move and groove with Windfall Dance Company!
Kate Lyons
Company Dancer, September 2026
Kate Vermillion Lyons is a movement artist, choreographer, and dance educator from Bloomington, Indiana. Her work explores the intersections of natural environments and modern humanity. Kate was recently awarded a slot for the 2025 Vashon Artist Residency where she developed her newest evening length work “BEACH” which premiered August 2026 at Constellation Playhouse. She is a recipient of the 2026 Arts Project Grant, 2025 Artist Advancement Grant, and the 2023 Emerging Artist Grant from the Bloomington Arts Commission. Other recent projects include her evening length solo, ASH: a multidisciplinary collaboration with sculptor Bert Gilbert and composer Craig Michael Davis, performances with Elizabeth Shea Dance with whom she has performed for over a decade, her 2019 collaborative work “Wintertraumen” with composer Chi Wang, and teaching community movement classes for adults and children. In 2026, she founded her project-based dance company, Vermillion Dance Theatre.
Prior to her most current work, Kate was active in the dance community of Boulder, Colorado. There she was a company member and instructor for 3rd Law Dance/Theatre, company member and rehearsal director for Nosilla Dance Project, and guest artist for Industrial Dance Alliance.
Kate is currently Adjunct Faculty at Indiana University where she teaches for the Contemporary Dance and Musical Theatre B.F.A. programs and is the Rehearsal Director for their guest artists including Camille A. Brown, Stefani Nelson/Maya Orchin, DaEun Jung, Erik Abbott-Main, Chista Smutek, and Caroline Dahm. In addition to these rolls, she is also the recruitment liaison for the department.
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.
