Annie Bunker is the Artistic Director of O-T-O Dance, now in its 23^rd season and based out of both Tucson, Arizona and the Big Island of Hawai’i. She is on the dance faculty at the University of Hawai’i and Hawai’i Community College teaching modern and aerial dance. During a span of over 30 years, her teaching and dances have been presented throughout the U. S., Europe, Russia, Mexico, Central and South America. As an artist, she has been a recipient of numerous awards from state, national, and international agencies including the prestigious Community Foundation of Southern Arizona’s 2005 Arizona Arts Award. Notable projects have included: teaching and performing in San Jose Costa Rica with The Festival Internacional de las Artes, in Northern Ireland through a fellowship from Americans in the Arts, in Ecuador for Festival ALAS and the Festival of Scenic Arts sponsored by the US Embassy, and in St. Petersburg, Russia for Festival OPEN LOOK. Award winning collaborations with husband and best friend Chuck Koesters and many other acclaimed artists have spanned over three decades. In March of 2008 Annie and O-T-O Dance completed a teaching/choreographic/performance residency at UT Dallas and in August she will guest as an aerial dance instructor for the 10^th annual Aerial Dance festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Carolyn Minor began her dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Modern Dance Performance. She moved to NYC to pursue further training and professional opportunities. She worked with among others Hannah Kahn, Senta Driver’s Harry, Jennifer Muller, and Pilobolus. She continued her association w/ Moses Pendleton in Momix, where she danced for six years. In Tucson, she danced with ORTS and was briefly the Assistant Artistic Director of Orts Theatre of Dance. She was also an original member of Tenth Street Danceworks. After retiring from her performing career, Carolyn chose to immerse herself in the ancient teachings of Yoga. She has been teaching Yoga for the past 8 years and is curious to observe how freedom in dance and awareness in Yoga are blending within her own style of movement.

Aja Knaub is the assistant school director for O-T-O Dance. She has performed, studied and taught for O-T-O for over eight years. Aja became interested in movement and performance at the age of 5 choreographing dances for herself to Madonna tapes in the woods behind her house.  From there she took about fifteen years off before seeing aerial dance, taking her first class, and dedicating herself to studying this art form.  Her skills have increased immensely under the tutelage of many fine aerialists and she has found herself flying now for over eight years.  With that in mind, she'd like to say.....the fun is for Patti, the precision is for Annie and the work is for me.

Steve Granek is the founder and director of the Make Music Dance and Draw learning center, has been working with the Sunshine School students for the past 10 years.   Using the principals of Freedom, Awareness and Control, he has opened a world of experiential, improvisational dance, music making and drawing to many children throughout the years.  His hands on approach allows the students to experiment with a wide variety of world beat instruments as well as using their own bodies as instruments of expression.  His work is based on the Creative Dance work of the master improvisational dance teacher, Barbara Mettler, who he danced with professionally in her company in 1977 and 1978.  A unique tenet of her work is teaching how the individual enhances the group and how the group in turn enhances the individual.