Our Team
Meet our people…
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Co-Founder/Director(she/her) is a Colorado-based theater-maker, applied theatre practitioner, educator, and "artivist." She brings with her over twenty years of experience as a performer spanning from regional theater, national tours, and the cruise ships/casino industries. Additionally, she has worked as a teaching artist, facilitator, and director/choreographer for over ten years. Kristel received a BFA in Theatrical Performance from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and an MA in Applied Theater from the City University of New York. She served as the Director of Voice and Theatrical programming at Parlando School of Musical Arts from 2015-2020, and has worked as a director/choreographer and teaching artist with organizations such as the Denver Center for Performing Arts, Beam +, Metropolitan State University, the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Bayview Music Festival, Spellbound Theater, the CAT Youth Theater, and numerous community organizations in the Denver-metro Area. Kristel is currently in the process of getting certified as a holistic sexuality educator through the Institute of Sexuality Education and Enlightenment (ISEE). With a pedagogy rooted social justice work and community-based arts, she is passionate about radical, human-centered democratization of the arts, creating space for authentic dialogue, and making the arts accessible to everyone. She has co-created theater and dance with humans from all walks of life, ages, and abilities. Kristel currently resides in Broomfield with her partner, two children, and 12lb pup, Peggy.
Email: kristel@dandelionartscollective.org
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Co-Founder/Director(she/her) is a movement educator, performer, community leader, producer, and arts & health advocate. With twenty consecutive years in children’s movement education, she brings her passion and expertise in dance, movement, and the arts to the organizations she partners with. She has taught in multiple schools, libraries, community centers, churches, and art spaces, reaching thousands of students over her career. She served as the program director for Mountain Contemporary Dance Arts for seven years, implementing an artistry-focused program for movers ages two-adult in the licensed childcare facility Mountain Kids Louisville. She has worked with students with a broad range of movement experiences and cultural, physical, and neurological diversity in classroom and family settings. Mimi received a BFA in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder and has continued her education in child development, arts education, and public health with institutions including the Colorado School of Public Health, Luna Dance Institute, University of Colorado Denver, and National Dance Education Organization. She served on the 2021-2022 revision committee for the Colorado Academic Dance Standards for the Colorado Department of Education. Mimi recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Arts in Public Health with the University of Florida’s School of Arts in Medicine. She performs professionally with Wild Heart Dance and New Breed Dance Company and is mama to her two young children.
Email: mimi@dandelionartscollective.org
Collaborators & Advisors
Sami Scovel
Maren Waldmen
Annie Wilson
Board of Directors
Interim President - Carolyn D. Miller
Treasurer - Corina Gerety
Secretary - Elise Silva
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