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.

Ava Benvenutti

Teacher

Creative Movement for Children

Ava Benvenutti (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.

Mary Sue Hosey

Teacher

Children and Teen Tap and Jazz

Mary Sue Hosey has taught dance to all ages for over 50 years. She has brought joy and inspiration to her students and continues with a small cohort of very lucky dancers.

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.

Ryan Navarette

Teacher

Adult Hip Hop

Callie Rekas

Teacher

Adult Beginning Ballet

Callie Rekas is a dance and drama educator, artist, and scholar. She earned her M.A. in Dance Education with an emphasis in Ballet Pedagogy at NYU and is currently pursuing her PhD in Arts Education at IU. Callie is a member of SAG-AFTRA, a committee member and frequent presenter for the National Dance Education Organization, and chairs the City of Bloomington’s Commission on the Status of Children and Youth. Callie is fully certified to teach the American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum (Pre-Primary-Level 7) and has taught at Interlochen Arts Academy, American Youth Dance Theatre, the JKO School, and more. In January 2025, Callie co-founded BloomingArts Theatre Company, a pre-professional training ground for musical theatre students; for more information, please see www.bloomingartstheatre.com.

Anabel Watson

Teacher

Adult Tap

Anabel Watson is a tap dancer originally from Seattle where they were a founding member of the Alchemy Tap Project (dir. Josh Scribner) and performer for Teatro ZinZanni. Anabel 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). They 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. Their 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 to have been Windfall’s tap instructor since the summer of 2024.

Maddie Wells

Teacher

Teen Contemporary

Madelynn Wells is a sophomore at Indiana University studying contemporary dance. Madelynn has been dancing for 15 years and teaching dance for 3 years. She has experience teaching ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, and lyrical to ages 18 months to adult. Madelynn is thrilled to join Windfall Dancers Inc as a ballet and creative movement teacher.