Faculty & Staff

Jamey Archer

(Design/Construction)

photo & bio coming soon............. 

Jennifer Archer

(Founder, Navigator, Outreach Coordinator, Costume Designer, Choreographer, Educator, Program Facilitator)

(click here for Jen's biography)

Tobi Johnson Compton

  (Executive Director, Educator)

(click here for Tobi's biography)

Carrie Coston

 (Stage Manager)

Carrie is a Colorado native and the proud mother to Tiahja Coston, who currently a student at Ascential Dance. Carrie has a broad range of event planning and backstage experience working behind the scenes at fashion shows and dance productions. Carrie is extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with the exceptional talents of Jennifer Fagan Archer, along with the many talented dancers associated with Ascential Dance.

Bernadette DiTirro Feiten 

(Costume Construction, Narrator)

Brittany Rose Feiten

(Stage Manager, Outreach Educator)

Brittany has been frolicking about since day one, but she began studying dance at age six. This Colorado native received her primary training in jazz, modern, and ballet from Christina Meyers, Christina Noel-Adcock, and others at the Arvada Center in Colorado. She recently graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from the University of Missouri Kansas City. It was at U.M.K.C. that Brittany acquired an avid appreciation for the work that happens backstage, and she has worked as stage manager or stagehand on several student productions as well as concerts by Battleworks and Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre. Brittany enjoys performing on the stage as well, and has been blessed to dance in works by Twyla Tharp, Keith Saunders, Tobi Compton, Jennifer Archer, Sabrina Madison Cannon, Jennifer Medina, and Rodni Williams. She is also an experienced barista, providing latte-therapy to those in need. This is Brittany’s second summer with Ascential Dance Theatre Colorado, and she is so grateful to be with wonderful dancers and have a mountain view.

Frank Haas

(Technical Design/Director)

photo & bio coming soon............. 

Mary Wohl Haan

(Educator, Choreographer)

Mary Wohl Haan, a modern dancer and choreographer, is artistic director of Boulder’s HAAN Dances, which serves as a vehicle for her creative work as a soloist and as a pick-up company for group pieces and projects.  Since moving to Boulder in 1990, her creative work and productions have garnered both local and regional recognition including Boulder Arts Commission grants, an AHAB/Neodata Fellowship, a CO Council on the Arts Recognition Award, and a “Best of Boulder” for Best New Choreography.  Commissions and invitations to perform and choreograph have included work with Chicago’s Links Hall ‘Strange Bedfellows Series’, DanceLoop Chicago’s ‘New Dances,’ and Bob Eisen/ Dance; in Denver with Deborah Reshotko/Speaking of Dance, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, Jan Justis, and Paul Fiorino /Ballet Arts Theatre; in Ft. Collins with Dance Connection Performance Network, Impact Dance, Canyon Concert Ballet, and CO State University; Salt Lake City’s Brolly Arts, Kinetic Café and Utah Choreographers Lab; and Boulder’s Lyra Mayfield, Turning the Wheel Productions, Interweave Dance Theatre, Open Door Dance Theatre, Rebekah West, and most recently, with Nancy Cranbourne’s 40 Women Over 40 Dance Company.

Before moving to Colorado, Mary spent nine years teaching at Chicago’s Columbia College Dance Center and performing as principal dancer and assistant artistic director of Mordine & Company Dance Theatre.  Performing throughout the Midwest, in New York City, and at the World Expo in Brisbane, Australia, she won Chicago’s 1989 Ruth Page Award for “Outstanding Dancer of the Year.”  Mary also has an MFA degree in choreography from the University of Utah, and has taught in colleges and universities in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Connecticut, Utah, and Colorado.


As one in a family of twelve children, her choreographic work stems from a belief that one-among-the-many can speak of our human condition and commonality, and still develop a uniquely individual voice.  Bold, dramatic dances that incorporate both humor and pathos using movement images immersed in sensation, a full physicality, various character developments, and an attention to the theatrical strengths of live theater, are her hallmark.  She has been an active member of the Colorado dance community serving on a variety of arts service organizations including the board of the Arts & Humanities Assembly of Boulder (now Boulder County Arts Alliance), the CO Dance Alliance as an Advisory Board member, board president, PR & Marketing coordinator for the Boulder Dance Alliance/Space for Dance and advisory board for the Dairy Center for the Arts.  She has served on grant panels and adjudications for awards in Colorado, Oregon, and New York, and is currently Coordinator of the Boulder Arts Commissions’ Dance Bridge, a resource project for dance and the Boulder community.

Jacob James Mora (Educator)