Bring it Home

Charlotte Griffin, raised in Durham, NC, is a contemporary choreographer in Southern California and the founder of milkleaf, a dance company generating original works for live performance, experimental film, and multidisciplinary installation. Looking closely at the enduring and transitory nature of the human experience, Griffin celebrates collaboration across a broad aesthetic and technological field. She has choreographed for the Cambrians, the American Dance Festival, BJM Danse, ArcDanz, Springboard Danse Montreal, The Yard, and more. A dedicated educator, she devises nourishing artistic praxis in modern technique, composition, and screendance for the next generation of dancers at UC Irvine. Charlotte holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and MFA from UT Austin.

Hallie Hunt is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and movement researcher who has lived and worked on Maui for the past twelve years. She is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Adaptations Dance Theater, where she also serves as a resident choreographer and dance artist. Trained at Western Ballet, Ballet San Jose, Lines Ballet, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Hallie has performed with Ballet San Jose, Lines Ballet, The Foundry, and Artship Dance Theater, among others. She has completed residencies across the U.S. and internationally, including at the Merwin Conservancy and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and has taught extensively throughout Maui, sharing her belief in the power of dance to transform lives.

Emily McKeon was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii and graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with her B.F.A in Dance Choreography and B.S. in Education Sciences. She has danced for Salt 2 performing works by Alice Klock, Elijah Labay, Garret Smith, and others. This past year, Emily was promoted to full company member with SALT, premiering in works by Rena Butler, Ching Ching Wong, and Brandon & Racheal Alley. Emily has been part of ADT's Bring it Home concert since its inception, appearing as a dancer and now, as Pivot's lead choreographer. 

Joey Anderson (he/they) is a dance artist and educator based in New York City. In their career, Joey has performed with Adaptations Dance Theater, Verbal Animal, Selah Dance Collective, Trainor Dance, Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre, and more. They also apprenticed with SALT Contemporary Dance and was a founding member and collaborator of FLEET Co-Op. In addition to these companies, Joey has also presented and performed their own work on stages in Utah and New York. Joey’s choreography has been presented at Spark Theatre Festival, Verbal Animal’s “Queer Noise” Festival, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Brigham Young University, Burnswood Studio, and more. As an educator, Joey’s approach is largely informed by the mentors they’ve had while earning their BA in Dance at Brigham Young University and from workshops attended through b12, Impulstanz, FLOCK, and NVA & Guests. In an effort to pay it forward, they have taught at Adaptations Dance Theater’s pre-professional workshop, PIVOT (HI), the Millennium Dance Complex franchise (UT), 6 Degrees Dance (NY), Forza Dance’s 5 for $5 class series (NY), as well as numerous studios and schools in Utah. Joey is currently an understudy with Pony Box Dance Theatre and is in process with ChrisMastersDance for their newest work. Joey is also a founding member and co-director of the movement collective, ABBONDANZA, which was founded in 2025.

Gabriella Craft is a contemporary dance artist dedicated to movement exploration and community engagement through dance. She began her formal training at Kentucky Ballet Theater and continued her education after moving to Maui with her family at Alexander Academy, where she now teaches ballet and contemporary to the youth of Maui. Gabriella also attended a summer intensive at LINES Ballet School, where she continued to expand her technical and artistic foundation.

After participating in Adaptations Dance Theater's Pivot Program and subsequent apprenticeship, Gabriella was promoted to company member in the fall of 2024. In addition to her work with ADT, she is pursuing certification as a Stott Pilates instructor and looks forward to integrating this somatic knowledge into both her personal practice and teaching. This is her second Bring it Home!

Claire Louise Goldes is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, Pilates instructor, and co-founder and director of ABBONDANZA Movement Collective. This summer marks her third season performing in Bring it Home, and she’s thrilled to return to this inspiring community of artists, having first fallen in love with ADT through PIVOT in 2023. As a freelance performer, Claire has worked with Trainor Dance in Fact or Fiction, Waeli Wang, CROSS THE LINE, Chelsea Thedinga, LanDance, and more. Her choreographic work has been presented across New York City at venues including Arts on Site, PAGEANT, Triskelion Arts, Creature Space, JACK, Spark Theatre Festival, and Dance Fest by Dance Parade. Through ABBONDANZA, she offers affordable classes that center joy, abundance, and community-building through movement. Claire holds BFAs in Dance Performance and Choreography and a BA in Psychological Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Karli Jo List was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where she participated in figure skating, springboard diving, soccer, track and field, musical theatre, visual arts, and music. She began dancing at 14, falling in love with dance’s perfect blend of arts and athletics. Karli Jo completed her BFA in Dance with a minor in Anthropology from Chapman University in 2020. During college she worked with choreographers and teachers such as Sean Greene, Jenny Backhaus, Ido Tadmoor, Dwight Rhoden, Anthony Thomas, and Jacques Heim. Karli Jo graduated from Maui Academy of Healing Arts in 2022 and has since developed her private massage and reiki practice Integrate Bodyworks LLC. She hopes to continue toward her master’s degree in somatic education and teach at the collegiate level one day. 

She currently performs with Adaptations Dance Theater and teaches and choreographs at Momentum Dance Maui. Growing up around personal training and bodywork, Karli Jo is especially passionate about both teaching and learning movement fundamentals and corrective exercise. She loves to collaborate with her students through choreography; encouraging them to develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills to create works unique to them. Karli Jo believes in using the power of imagination to facilitate the opening of bodies, hearts, and minds to their highest potential.

Karli Jo is also a passionate singer/songwriter and can occasionally be found playing at various open mics and local events around Maui.

Madison McGain is a movement artist based in NYC and formerly San Francisco. Born and raised on Maui, her love of dance began at age 3 and was nurtured by the wonderful teachers she encountered on island. That love led her to New York where she earned her BFA from Adelphi University in 2017 and went on to freelance in the city. It was there she found an affinity for floorwork and the foundation was laid for her to eventually teach the technique at places like ODC, Western Oregon University, Shawl Anderson, and Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center. As a performer, Madi has danced on both the West and East Coast. She has worked with Fullstop Dance, Caitlin Adams, Randee Pauvfe, Nicole Von Arx, Christina Noel and the Creature, among others. Alongside her performance career, Madison has cultivated her own artistic voice as a dance maker. Her own work has been presented at The CraftNY, Small Plates Dance Festival, the New Work Series, ArtsonSite, SafeHouse Arts, among other spaces. Her debut dance film premiered at the Post/Future Performance Festival (2020), and went on to be exhibited at the Museum of Art History in Santa Cruz, CA. Most recently, Madison was a guest artist at the Sable Project artist residency in Vermont, where she dove deeper into her newest solo work, “Before the Sun Sets.” Madi is thrilled to be back home dancing with Adaptations Dance Theatre and is deeply thankful to Maui and the folks who call it home for playing such a large role in forming the person she is today.

Katie Whiticar is a resident dancer with Adaptations Dance Theater (ADT) and has performed with the company since 2016. Within ADT she has had the pleasure of performing in pieces choreographed by FLOCK, Hallie Hunt, Ali McKeon-Pineo, Nathaniel Hunt, and others. Katie has also performed with companies: Rosy Simas Danse, Rebecca Lemme|Acts of Matter, Keith Johnson/Dancers, and Kathleen Helm & Dancers. Katie received her B.A. Degree in Dance from California State University Long Beach as a scholarship recipient and received additional training at Orsolina28 FLOCK Creation, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Movement Invention Project New York.

As a choreographer, Katie created multiple works for ADT: Bring it Home 2024, SEED Process 2024, SEED Film 2021, and ArtMixx Maui 2020. In addition, she mentors high-school students and creates choreography for college auditions and dance competitions. Katie loves diving into intricate and intense choreographic processes, creating new ideas, and sharing her passion for dance with the Maui community.