YOUTH CLASS TEACHING ARTISTS
WINTER/SPRING 2026

Miranda Busansky
Youth Technique

Miranda Busansky's work is sewn in the fields of Wood-Fired Ceramics, wild paper sculpture, Contact Improvisation, and Butoh. Miranda is  interested in the facilitation of therapeutic care, arts education, and capitalist intervention through practices of dance, ceramics, and improvisation. Miranda works as an artist, teacher, and residential care worker for adolescents navigating trauma. They have studied dance with Ukio Watanabe, Neeta Little, Adrianna Franco, Keith Hennessey, amongst others who taught them to experience dance as relational intelligence, enabling us to empathize with the social, political, and material ecosystems that constantly make us as we make them. 
They have performed and taught dance around Western Mass and New York for the past year at the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA), Lightforms Art Center (NY), WildHeart Performance Center, amongst other spaces. Most recently, they completed a residency with Free Columbia (NY), where they built and fired a wood-kiln, taught dance classes, and investigated the relationship between dance and clay, concluding with an interactive performance-art exhibition at Lightforms Gallery in Hudson. Miranda understands both dance ceramics to be relational practices that invite collaboration between bodies, earth, gravity, impulse, and more than human. To sense into this entanglement is what Miranda wishes to cultivate as they continue to tread lightly on this earth.

Gabby Carmichael
Dancemaking and Technique 

​Gabby Carmichael is a choreographer and educator based between Western Massachusetts and Brooklyn, NY. She approaches dance as a site for transformation and collaboration, with her research being driven by a curiosity with how the body stores, reshapes, and recalls information across time. Gabby holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and a BA in Anthropology and Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an ongoing collaborator with Barbie Diewald, and additionally has performed with Annie Health and Niki Farahani. Her work has been presented at Smith College, Gibney Dance, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, BAAD Bronx, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion Arts, and the School of Contemporary Dance & Thought, and she has been in residence at The Field Center, The Floor on Atlantic, MOTive Brooklyn, Leimay, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Aurelius Millspaugh-Robbins
​Creative Movement
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Aurelius Millspaugh-Robbins is a college student and emerging dance educator and artist. They are studying to obtain their BFA or BA through the Five Colleges Dance program. Aurelius is a Hatchery alum and has danced pre-professionally for School For Contemporary Dance and Thought, The Center Dance in Amherst MA, and Dance Italia’s Young Artist Program. Aurelius has showcased original choreography through these programs and at First Night Northampton. They currently teach contemporary and ballet, to dancers ranging 3 and up, at The Center Dance and SCDT. Aurelius’ practice is focused in dynamics, play, discovery, cooperation, and storytelling through movement. ​