Whitney Harris-Gutierrez

Associate Professor

As an Associate Professor of Performing Arts and Director of the SLCC Dance program, Whitney brings a unique flare to SLCC. Whitney’s professional dance career spans more than 20 years and includes productions, performances and choreography for the stage, TV, the internet, professional sports arenas and international cruise lines.

Whitney studied dance as an undergraduate at the University of Utah and received her M.Ed. from the University of Utah in 2013. Other passions of hers include social justice advocacy, equity in access, and storytelling. In this role, Whitney regularly embraces each of these passions as well as skills her work in higher education for more than 15 years has developed to engage with our beautifully diverse student body in meaningful ways through movement, the telling of rich stories, and community-building.

Rosie Banchero

Rosie Banchero holds a B.F.A. degree in modern dance from the University of Utah. Rosie has served as guest faculty for American College Dance Festival, and has choreographed and performed professionally for years in Utah. She traveled to Africa twice to study African movement and drumming and has created a new style called “afro-jazz-mod-hop”. She also teaches African dance at The Rose Wagner Community School.

Brian Benington

Brian Benington has degrees in dance from Brigham Young University (B.A., ’82; M.A., ’85) and a master of fine arts degree in choreography and performance from Arizona State University (’96). In the United States, Brian has been on the faculty of Salt Lake Community College, the University of Idaho, and New York University; in South Africa, he was a faculty member at Stellenbosch University (Capetown) and at the Performing Arts Workshop/P.A.W. (Johannesburg).

He has performed in South Africa, New York, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah.

During thirteen years in Arizona, Brian performed with: “A. Ludwig Dance Theater,” “Desert Dance Theatre,” “Center Dance Ensemble,” “Elina Mooney and Dancers,” and “Kelly Roth and Dancers.”

Danell Hathaway

Danell Hathaway received her associate degree from Salt Lake Community College, where she was a member of SLCC Dance Company. She received her BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah in 2004 and worked there for six years as their PR/marketing director. She is the artistic director/dancer of Movement Forum (aka MoFo) and currently a dancer in Natosha Washington's The Penguin Lady. In addition, she is the director of the Olympus High School Dance program.

Ashley Mott

Ms. Ashley Mott is a teaching artist, choreographer, and dancer currently based in Utah. Ashley is a master teacher with over a decade of experience in university, college, secondary, private studio, and community education settings. She is currently a performing member of Bone & Fiddle Dance Collective, a national collective based out of Ohio. She also presents her own original work throughout the western United States.  

Ashley is currently the dance program director, dance company director, and co-fine arts department chair for Park City High School. She also works as a guest master teacher and adjudicator throughout the Salt Lake Valley, and as a primary guest teacher for Performing Dance Center. She has significant experience as an artistic director, production manager, stage manager, designer, and administrator.

Ashley holds an MFA in dance, creative process degree (with somatics, phenomenological theory, and design emphasis) from Saint Mary's College of California, and a master’s degree in education and a BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah.

Find out more at ashleymottdance.com

Carly Schaub

Carly Schaub completed her M.F.A. in modern dance at the University of Utah and a B.F.A. in theatre and dance from the University of Wyoming. Currently, she works as an adjunct faculty member for the dance programs at Westminster College and Salt Lake Community College, she is on faculty at Wasatch Arts Center, and teaches dance for Parkinson’s for Grey Matters for the University of Utah Skaggs Wellness Center and Repertory Dance Theatre.

Here in Salt Lake City, she also directs Dance Balletti, a Renaissance and Baroque ballet reconstruction ensemble.

Before attending graduate school, Carly danced, choreographed and served as the education coordinator at Northern Plains Dance in Bismarck, North Dakota. This led her all over the state, performing and guest teaching with North Dakota Ballet and Red River Dance as well as choreographing numerous musicals for Sleepy Hollow Summer Theatre, Bismarck State College and area high schools.

Carly has choreographed for Deseret Experimental Opera (also serves on board of directors), Snow College, and Cache Valley Civic Ballet, Northern Plains Dance, North Dakota Ballet, and Lyrical Opera Theatre of Utah. She also recently completed the Screendance Certification with the University of Utah.

Frankie Henderson

Frankie Henderson is an experienced dance performer, choreographer, and teacher who emphasizes cultivating a community culture centered in critical thinking and rigor in physical movement. Frankie's research interests include dance science and cross-training methods for dance education. Frankie's pedagogy methods are built from teachings of critical pedagogy and focused on equitability and inclusion. Her movement practices include classical modern techniques, contemporary, jazz, tap, and hip hop. Frankie specializes in floorwork techniques inspired by movement styles such as Capoeira, soft acrobatics, flying low, and Break Dancing. Frankie's professional teaching background includes serving as faculty at Rio Hondo College, graduate teaching at the University of California, Irvine, and guest teaching at Orange County School of the Art, Scottsdale Community College, and Sonoma State University. Her professional performance experience includes dancing with many esteemed companies, including PGK Dance and DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion. Frankie obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, and holds certifications, including the CrossFit L1 and the Precision Nutrition L1.