Collette Kollewe (she/her/hers) is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in Santa Cruz, CA. She is also the Director of Motion Pacific Dance, a nonprofit organization and movement studio in downtown Santa Cruz. Collette views dance as a source of healing, community, collaboration and inspiration. From 2010-2012 Collette studied dance at Cabrillo College where she received both the Roberta Bristol Award and Tandy Beal Scholarship. She then graduated with her BFA in Dance from San Diego State University in 2014 and received the “Outstanding Graduate in Dance” award. That same year, she co-founded E&C, a dance performance collective, in partnership with Erin Reynolds. Their works show representations of the intricacies of the human condition through a kinesthetic experience. E&C performed work in Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Sacramento including ArtStreet Sacramento, Looking Left & max10, and in 2018, E&C produced an evening of work In Explicit Memory premiering at Motion Pacific in Santa Cruz. Collette Tabone has also been a member of Cid Pearlman Performance dance company since 2014 and has danced in works premiering in Sweden, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Cruz and was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award for Ensemble Performance for Two, a duet, in 2019. Collette plans on continuing to find the small and large dances in the world, using the artform as a platform for connection, conversation and social change.