SONJA KOSTICH (Co-Director) was born in Korea and raised in Minnesota where she received her early dance training at Minnesota Dance Theatre under the direction of Loyce Houlton and performed in productions at The Children’s Theatre and the Guthrie in Minneapolis. She continued her studies at New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s ABT/School of Classical Ballet. Professionally she has danced with American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Zurich Ballet, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. As a freelance artist she has most notably worked with Peter Sellars and Mark Morris, as a principal dancer in John Adams’ Nixon in China (English National Opera), Mozart's Idomeneo (Glyndebourne) and in Sellars' Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms for Esa Pekka Solonen's final concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Disney Hall). Her choreography credits include Sung Rno's play Masks for the Miryang Performing Arts Festival in Korea. Sonja is a certified ballet teacher by American Ballet Theatre and currently teaches at ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in the Children’s Division. She has also taught at Harvard, American Ballet Theatre's Young Dancer Summer Program, Mark Morris Dance Center, Dance New Amsterdam and Peridance in New York and is a certified yoga teacher. She has contributed writing to Dance Magazine and Dance Spirit magazine and worked as assistant to the dance editor at Time Out New York magazine for two years. Sonja dedicates this company to her mother and father.