Julia Boynton performed with Brian Jones' All-Tap Revue, Heather Cornell's Manhattan Tap and co-founded StopTime, a N.E. jazz-tap quartet. She has taught tap in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and nationally, at the New Orleans Center for the Performing Arts; Florida Dance Festival; Jacob's Pillow; Dance Program at Harvard and Harvard Summer Dance Center; MIT; Emerson College; Boston College; Brandeis; the Leon Collins Studio; and the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. Julia lives in Boston, Massachusetts; is currently on the faculty of the Dance Division at the Boston Conservatory and produces the Beantown Tapfest, Boston's annual summer tap dance festival.

Kieran Jordan has been teaching Irish dance in the Boston area since 2001.  Her classes were the first of their kind in New England, designed specifically for adults in a non-competitive format, and focused on embodied technique, musicality and performance skills, as well as Irish dance history and community traditions. Kieran is Dance Director for the WGBH production of “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.” She has collaborated with many of New England’s finest traditional musicians and is a frequent performer at concerts and festivals all over North America. Winner of a 2008 Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Kieran holds a BA in English and Irish Studies from Boston College, a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and the TCRG certificate for teaching Irish dance. She has produced two DVDs on Sean-nós (old style) Irish dance — a documentary called Secrets of the Sole and a new instructional video entitled Musical Feet!

Jen Schoonover has performed Scottish dance at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and in July, 2004, was honored to be the only representative from the “Boston States” invited to dance in the Chestico Days stepdancing festival in Port Hood, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jen has performed locally at Gaelic Roots, the New England Folk Festival, and Boston Celtic Music Fest. Also a modern dancer, she has served as artistic director of Cape Dance Theater and is co-director, with Kieran Jordan, of Turnstyles Dance Project, fusing modern and traditional dance.

Lauren O’Donnell began studying flamenco dance with Omayra Amaya in 2002, taking frequent trips on the Chinatown bus to New York for classes. Lauren lived in Sevilla, Spain during 2008 where she took classes with Alicia Marquez and Isabel Bayon. In Boston Lauren has performed regularly at Bar Lola since 2006, and in 2009 she began teaching flamenco dance classes. She produced and danced in the show TABLAO FLAMENCO in September 2009, with Ricardo Diaz (guitar), Vicente Griego (singer), and Antonio Arrebola (special guest dancer).  Lauren also does research in computerized analysis of medical images, lately developing methods for comparison of brain connections across hemispheres.  

Sean Fielder began dancing at age three at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. His professional debut occurred at age ten in Dance Umbrella’s Jazz Tap Hip Hop Festival. At eighteen he auditioned for Broadway’s Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk where he worked his way from understudy into the lead role. He is currently rehearsing his troupe, Boston Tap Company, for their upcoming audition for America’s Best Dance Crew TV show. Dancing has been an influential part of Sean’s life; it has made him the positive, productive and inspirational person he is today. “The only way to be different is to be yourself”.   — Sean

Jackie O'Riley began Irish set dancing as a teenager in the Boston area.  She has gone on to study traditional step dancing and sean-nós dancing with Kieran Jordan and with a variety of teachers in workshop settings in the US and Ireland.  She studied abroad at University College, Cork where she spent much time set dancing and learning traditional steps.  This past summer she attended the Blás summer school at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.  She has performed in "A Christmas Celtic Sojourn," “A Saint Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn,” “Celebrate!” at the JFK Library and Museum, and has choreographed and performed in the Boston Celtic Music Festival.  She has been teaching non-competitive step dancing and Irish social dancing for the past two years. Outside of dancing, Jackie works as an environmental scientist specializing in aquatic and coastal science.

Jai Underhill, an elementary school art teacher, jewelry designer and goldsmith , came to tap dancing as an adult, and studied the Leon Collins style of jazz tap with Judythe Lokich, and later with Dianne Walker. She also studied with the late Jimmy "Sir Slyde" Mitchell, and the late Sue Ronson.  Jai has been teaching adults and children in the Boston area since 2001. She is currently on the faculties of the Tony Williams Dance Center in Jamaica Plain, and the Kathy McCrohon Dance Center in Needham.

Siobhan Butler was born in Cambridge, England. She began Irish dancing when she was eight years old in San Diego, CA under Jeanie O'Connor. She has competed at the National level and performed across the US with acts such as Natalie MacMaster, Plymouth State Symphony, Niall O'Leary, and Celtic Crossroads to name a few. Most recently, Siobhan has began studying and performing Sean Nós dancing with Kieran Jordan. She is a Lisa Flormann Memorial Scholarship Recipient at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA where she is studying Tap, Modern, Flamenco, and Irish dance. In addition to dance, Siobhan is also a painter, photographer, and dress designer.

Hannah Pelton began Irish dancing since age five, and she has also explored ballet, tap, jazz, salsa, and Israeli dance. For 13 years, she competed in Irish dance with the Griffith Academy of Connecticut, under Colleen and Mary Beth Griffith, rising to Open Championship level and competing at the New England Oireachtas and North American Irish Dance Championships. She has been a student of Kieran Jordan since fall 2009, and also performs and choreographs Irish dance pieces for the Dance Troupe at the MIT, where she is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.