Meet our Teachers

Sophia Fatouros

School Director, Teacher

Adult Ballet, Pointe, Ch Ballet 1, 2, & 3

Sophia Fatouros (she/her) grew up in Bloomington and returned in 2010 to care-give her mother. She was a professional ballet dancer in companies in Europe, Canada, and the United States. She taught ballet to children and adults for twenty years in New York City and was a program director at The Ailey School, Harlem School of the Arts, and most recently at the Pre-College Ballet program at the Ballet department of Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

Sophia values a warm and fun learning environment that emphasizes the precision of physical control yet also brings out the inner creativity and artistry of each individual. She is grateful to be joining with Windfall to offer quality training to all those who love dance.

Laura Carter

Teacher

Adult Beginning Ballet, Contemporary/Jazz for Teens

Laura Carter trained with The Governor’s School for the Arts and Todd Rosenlieb Dance in Norfolk, VA, studying ballet and modern dance. She reignited her passion for dance as a Windfall student in 2018, and has since enjoyed the many facets of Windfall as a teacher, company member, and company coordinator. Laura’s intention as a teacher is to encourage longevity, inclusivity, and mindfulness. She can also be found teaching yoga and making your favorite beverage at Hopscotch Coffee. 

Olivia Rosario Hoover

Teacher

Adult Hip Hop

Originally from Valparaiso, IN, Olivia Rosario Hoover (she/her) has been dancing since she was five years old. What started with a single beginner tap class evolved into a love of movement and creative self-expression, expanding into ballet, jazz, jazz funk, hip hop, modern, and musical theatre. During her undergrad at Indiana University, Olivia was a member and eventually director of the Indiana branch of Hip Hop ConnXion, a professional hip hop dance company headquartered in Chicago, IL. Although the pandemic put a big pause in her dancing, Olivia is thrilled to be reconnecting with the joy of dance and hopes to cultivate that same joy in others.

Molly Johnson

Teacher

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Molly Johnson began studying dance under Tammie Lee at the Studio 4 School of Dance in Angels Camp, California. She performed with the Studio 4 Dance Theater in their annual productions of The Nutcracker and Spring Student Showcase. With a life-long love of performing arts, nurtured by her community, she became an instructor and student choreographer for Studio 4 in 2016 and joined Calaveras Sings! Theater Arts Repertory for Kids as a choreographer from 2017-2019. 

Molly moved to Bloomington in 2022 after graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Anthropology.

Utam Moses

Teacher

Adult Intermediate Contemporary and Creative Movement for Adults

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.

Anabel Watson

Teacher

Adult Tap

Anabel Watson is a tap dancer originally from Seattle where she was a founding member of the Alchemy Tap Project (dir. Josh Scribner) and performer for Teatro ZinZanni. She spent two seasons (2017-19) with the Chicago Tap Theatre (dir. Mark Yonally), touring nationally and performing at venues such as the Athenaeum, City Winery, and Stage 773. In Chicago, Anabel’s personal collaborative works included tap dance to live opera and co-curation of a sonic meditation for the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s performance Listed (2019). She collaborated on both a digital soundtrack, including sampled tap sounds, and avant-garde performance art set for New Music at the Green Mill (2019). After performing in the 2021 IndyFringe Festival, Anabel moved to Indiana, performing as a guest artist with the Circle City Tap Company before moving to Bloomington. Her work has been selected for solo performances at international tap dance festivals in NYC, Chicago, Vancouver, BC, and Portland. Anabel works as the Connections Coordinator at UU Bloomington and is grateful for this opportunity to engage with the Windfall community.