Kendall Fischer has been the owner and director of Myriad Dance since 2017, during which time she has produced 10 full length projects, presenting work mostly in non-traditional performance spaces throughout the Salt Lake City area. With Myriad, Kendall strives to create dance experiences that are both enjoyable and interesting, for both the dancer and the audience.
Kendall occasionally performs with Myriad, but much more often she dances outside of the work that she directs. She has been a featured performer with Voodoo Productions, Odyssey Dance Theater, SBDance, Municipal Ballet Co, Flo Rida, Weird Al Yankovic, and more. Kendall is currently pursuing her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at the University of Utah.
Fiona Gitlin is a resident choreographer and Assistant Director for Myriad Dance Company. Over the last five years she has choreographed for and contributed to eleven full length premieres with Myriad. In 2011 she graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Modern Dance Program at Utah Valley University with a Dean’s Merit Scholarship and was nominated as Student of the Year for the Department of Dance. Fiona has been featured in Utah Regional Ballet's Choreography Design Project, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and the Rocky Mountain Choreography festival. Fiona is a new mother to baby Riordan, a proud step-mom to Marshall and a dog-mom to Vesper. Fiona would like to thank her husband David for supporting her artistic pursuits.
Madazon Can-Can, M.Ed. is a Salt Lake City based performance artist. A Jack and Jill of many trades, they pride themselves in being versatile. Madazon is a constant feature at Salt Lake City underground and corporate events as well as a working educator and world traveling performer. Dubbed a chameleon by their professional associates, they strive to achieve a vision that satisfies both the client and themselves as an artist. A hardcore theatre kid, puppeteer, clown, burlesquer and variety entertainer, if anyone can... Madazon Can-Can.
Madazon Can-Can, M.Ed. just graduated with their Masters in Education with an emphasis in curriculum design and instruction in Performance Art for Social Change from Weber State University. Now their work is turning to the sexually starved atmosphere of Salt Lake City and the city ain't even READY. An Activist in body, movement and mind, an Art Addict, Producer/Performer, Gallery Curator, Radical Education Enthusiast, Burlesque Badass and community organizer, if anyone can, Madazon Can-Can. Follow them on their social media to keep up with local events, social shenanigans, the newest political push for performers in pasties, clown content and of course an awareness of performance art for social change in the City of Salt.
Dr. Emily Haygeman is a Psychologist and owner of Empower Who You Are, working as a Licensed Psychologist in Oregon and Utah. Emily approaches therapy from a client-centered, mindfulness-based perspective. Her background includes professional training in a range of therapeutic modalities (including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Attachment, Regulation and Competency, and Trauma-Focused CBT) alongside somatic vocabulary developed over her lifetime as a trained dancer, choreographer, and yoga instructor.
Temria Airmet holds her MFA in Dance from California State University Long Beach (2019) and her BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah (2009). She was the Co-Creator and Artistic Director of Myriad Dance Company from 2015-2017. Airmet has performed professionally with Tipsy Point Projects, Brine Arts, Arts of Chaos, Transfusion Hype, and Voodoo Productions. She has taught with California State University Long Beach, MINDing MOTION, Ballet West, Millennium Dance Complex, the University of Utah’s Tanner Dance, and other studios and companies throughout Utah and California. Airmet's work celebrates diversity through politically-charged contemporary dance. As an American woman in today’s media-driven environment she is overtly aware of the United States’ quest for equality in all forms. She sees a country divided by social injustices and is curious as to where the common ground lives. It is within this space that Airmet takes on these complex ideas and turns them into artistic expression. With all her work, she intends to bring clarity to a complicated world and beauty to a disturbing climate. Airmet knows art as a means to better understand the human experience and she does everything she can to support her fellow artists and grow the voice of the dance community in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and the world at large.
Tawna Waters earned a BS in Dance Ed from Weber State University, and later her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, with a specialization in Expressive Art Therapy, from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has worked as a mental health therapist for folks in substance abuse recovery, teens in foster care, and kids in the Oncology and Neurotrauma units at Primary Children’s hospital. She currently works at Center for Change, specializing in eating disorder recovery.
A registered Dance/Movement therapist and Yoga teacher, Tawna works from a somatic lens while integrating traditional talk-therapy approaches to connect people back to their breath, sensations, and movement. Movement - whether playing in the mountains, in a therapy session, or in a dance studio - gives us space to re-inhabit our bodies and recover a sense of joy, vitality, and playfulness.
Tawna was recognized with the Utah Dance Education Organization teacher of the year in 2018, after teaching dance in secondary Ed for eight years. In 2019, she started Ogden Movemeant Collective, a project-based contemporary dance company that has enjoyed residency with Weber State University’s dance program, and was recognized with the Mayor’s Award for the Arts in 2021. She is thrilled to choreograph for Myriad Dance.