Stephanie Canter

Stephanie Canter was born and raised in Coral Springs, Florida and is currently a student at the University of Georgia.  She began dancing at the age of four and from then, her passion for the art grew exponentially.  She has been classically trained in tap, jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theater.  She works at Dance Theatre of Parkland in Florida as a guest choreographer and teacher and instructs all ages and all styles.  Stephanie has been a competitive dancer for ten years and has won numerous high scores and special judges awards.  Attending several conventions and winning multiple scholarships, she continues to search for the best training available.  She has studied from leading dancers in the industry and is excited to learn new ways to connect with others through dance.  This past summer, Stephanie trained for three weeks in New York City with David Parsons and his professional modern company, Parsons Dance. This is Stephanie’s second year with Project Seven and she is so blessed to be a part of this incredibly beautiful and inspiring company.

Mary Frances Doss

Mary Frances Doss has been dancing since the age of three. She has trained with various companies to collect and experience a variety of styles and choreography. She has been honored with numerous dance achievements, including: Miss Starpower, Miss Starquest, Miss Dynamite, Miss Shobiz and Cobb’s Talented Miss. In addition, Mary Frances has been named Outstanding Dancer at NYCDA and Miss Power Pak for two consecutive years in Las Vegas, Nevada. She also placed in the top fifteen at American Dance Idol. She has performed in Atlanta Ballet’s famous Nutcracker and took on the role of “Zaneeta” in Darlington School’s The Music Man. Most recently, one of Mary Frances’s dances, “Be Your Love” choreographed by Cherrise Wakeham was chosen as a finalist in the Capezio ACE Awards in New York City. In 2010, Mary Frances’s solo “The Letter” choreographed by Cherrise Wakeham placed in the top 5 throughout the entire competitive season. Mary Frances has been fortunate to receive dance training from Roswell City Dance, Focus Dance Company, Rhythm Dance Center, Centre Stage, and Atlanta Ballet. She also has formal acting training from the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and voice training with Musik Works in Rome, Georgia. Mary Frances attends of The University of Georgia and continues to pursue a career in the arts while going into the medical field.

Caroline Fagan

Caroline Fagan a freshman at Berry College, trained with Roswell City Dance for nine years in various forms of dance including ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, hip-hop, modern and musical theater.  Through participation in competitions and conventions, she was able to showcase her talents and received numerous awards and scholarships.  She received two title awards, Miss Starpower and Miss Starquest, and was named a Hall of Fame Inductee for two consecutive years for her solo performance of “All My Mistakes”, choreographed by Cherrise Wakeham, and for her solo performance of “Gravity”, which was self-choreographed.

Caroline’s dance training has been enhanced by her extensive participation in master classes conducted by leading dance choreographers in the country.  She received a special invitation to train with top Hip-Hop artists in the Plus 1 Master Class Series presented in Atlanta, and during the summer of 2010, she received a scholarship which allowed her to study ballet at Steps on Broadway in New York City. Caroline was also offered a talent contract with Real People Talent Agency in Atlanta.

As Caroline pursues her degree in Dance Management at Berry College, she is actively engaged in exploring and developing her talents in all areas of dance.  Under the direction of Dr. Jeanne Schul, she has been selected for the administrative position of Dance Concert Manager for Berry College’s 2010-2011 academic year.  As a choreographer, she has been invited to set a number of solo, duet and group pieces for students at various dance companies in the Atlanta area and, through an adjudication process, her work was selected to be performed at Berry College’s annual spring concert.

Torrie Gold

Torrie Gold is currently a sophomore on the president’s list at Kennesaw State University. While she excels in academics as well as in her dance career, she has participated in several charitable walks, served lunch for The Special Olympics, and co-choreographed for her high school’s production of A Chorus Line. Torrie was a member of Roswell City Dance for 9 years, training in ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, hip-hop, contemporary, and musical theatre. She has received several awards and scholarships from competitions and conventions including Tremaine, Nuvo, and Hall of Fame to name a few. She was an administrative intern at Roswell City Dance her senior year under the mentorship of Shannon Childers and Cherrise Wakeham. Torrie is very interested in the culinary field and plans to attend culinary school after receiving a degree in Business at Kennesaw State.

Sammy Janus

Sammy Janus is a sophomore at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the sorority Zeta Tau Alpha. She danced competitively with Roswell City Dance for 9 years where she received Dancer of the Year in 2007 and the RCD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Sammy also received several awards on both the regional and national levels for solo and group work. In 2008 she received a hip-hop scholarship at Shock the Intensive as well as Brian Friedman’s Intensive Scholarship at Pulse dance convention where she was invited to attend a week-long summer intensive in New York City. She has also studied at the D-sire dance intensive in Biloxi, MS. Sammy is currently volunteering at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She is working towards a degree in Science, Technology and Culture with a concentration in Biomedicine and Pre-Health as a Physician’s Assistant in Orthopedics.

Callie Jordan

Callie Jordan trained at Centre Stage School of Dance for fifteen years, where she now teaches tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary and hip-hop. She was a member of Emory University’s Nextphase hip-hop dance team as well as a choreographer for AHANA Dance at Emory.  As a competitive dancer, Callie received numerous first place solo awards and various titles, including Miss Showbiz and Miss Dance Rave.  Her choreography has received Entertainment and Choreography awards, as well as the Xcalibur Award in 2008 for the highest scoring routine of Dance Xplosion's Atlanta Regional Competition.  Most recently, she has enjoyed choreographing shows such as The Apple Tree, and Beneath the Banyan Tree for Emory’s Ad Hoc Student Musical Theatre Troupe.  Callie is currently pursuing several degrees at Emory University in French, Spanish and German in addition to International Business and Marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory.  After dancing with Project 7 for two years, she took a break to attend the Vienna University of Business and Economics in Austria in 2010.  Callie is looking forward to dancing and performing with Project Seven again this season.

Sheila Kaiser

Sheila Kaiser grew up in Grayson, Georgia and is trained in all styles of dance.  She is currently a fourth year Civil Engineering student at The Georgia Institute of Technology.  Along with school, she has also had a cooperative work assignment as a Resident Engineer with the Federal Aviation Administration working in Florida and Mississippi.

She has been a member of Project 7 for the last three years.  Her credits with Project 7 include Roswell City Dance’s Annual Winter Concert, Cici Kelly’s Phazes of Love, Dance Athens, Dance 101’s Incarnation, Flux Projects, and the Pulse showcase.  Sheila was also privileged to make it to the top 45 during Vegas week on So You Think You Can Dance Season 4.  In addition, she works non-exclusively with Xcel Talent Agency.  Her work includes the 2010 NCAA March Madness commercial and performances for the Georgia Lottery at the Falcons and Hawks halftime shows.

Sheila has been honored to attend Brian Friedman’s Intensive in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and to receive the Elite Protégé Scholarship for the 2009-2010 PULSE Tour.  With the Elite scholarship she was able to assist choreographers such as Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Cris Judd, Wade Robson, Dave Scott, Laurie Ann Gibson, Gil Duldulao, Desmond Richardson, and Ben Susak.

When Sheila isn’t dancing or studying, she loves to spend time with family and friends.  She is an active member in Alpha Omega Epsilon, a professional engineering sorority for women, and is a part of the women’s Ultimate Frisbee club team.

Adrienne Hicks

Adrienne Hicks began her dance training with Mary Lou Houme at Troy School of Ballet in Troy, Alabama, supplementing this training with the following summer intensives: North Carolina School of the Arts, the Joffrey Trainee program, American Ballet Theatre, and RDA's Craft of Choreography at the Rock School. To continue a more serious training, Adrienne moved away from home at 14 to study with Dothan School of Dance, one of the South's most prestigious studios, where she earned many dance awards, including but not limited to, Teen Miss West Coast, DMA Top 5 Miss Dance of American Nationals, IDC National Senior Winner, Applause National Solo Winner and Miss Bounce National Senior Winner. In addition to dancing competitively, Adrienne was a member of Southeast Alabama Dance Company, a Southeast Regional Ballet Association honor company.

Upon high school graduation in 2006, Adrienne Hicks entered the Ailey/Fordham BFA program. Her freshman year, she was one of only two female dancers chosen to dance in guest choreographer Sean Curran's piece for the Fordham/Ailey Fall BFA performance showcase. Contacted during her sophomore year by Chancellor Jack Hawkins of Troy University in Alabama, Adrienne agreed to help charter the university's first dance program. Since transferring to Troy University on scholarship, Adrienne has been instrumental in bringing dance to the Troy University campus. Under her leadership, the Troy Dance Repertory Ensemble, which began with 6 of Alabama's best dancers, all of whom Adrienne herself was influential in recruiting, has grown to 23. In 2009, Adrienne joined Adrienne Canterna's Pretty Girls of Dance and, during the summer of this same year, worked as Canterna's understudy for Rasta Thomas's Bad Boys of Dance in their performance of Rock the Ballet, an experience which prepared her for much of how to develop TDRE into the company it is today.

An additional and noteworthy achievement of Adrienne's was working with Chancellor Hawkins, the Confucius Institute, and the College of Communication and Fine Arts to organize and help direct an hour-long performance which TDRE toured to universities in Beijing and Hebei, China in the sumer of 2010. During this tour, Troy Dance Repertory Ensemble performed in The People's Great Hall, the only dance troupe to have ever done so. Adrienne's direction and example has not only helped TDRE to become a respected company, but has given her a deep appreciation for the work that goes into building anything from the ground up, and she is most proud to have played such a crucial role in TDRE's beginning.

Graduating Summa Cum Laude on May 6, 2011, Adrienne has now moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she is a member of Project 7 Contemporary Dance Company and has just been signed with Xcel Talent Agency. She is currently dancing in the Holiday Shrektacular at the Opryland in Nashville, until January 2012, when she will return to Atlanta.

Ashley Watson

Ashley Watson attends the University of Georgia majoring in Speech Communication with a minor in Dance. She has been dancing since the age of three with instruction from Laura Soles, former owner of Fancy Dancer, and Jane Madison, owner of The Madison Studio.

Ashley has studied various styles of dance such as jazz, tap, contemporary, ballet and hip-hop. While attending dance conventions such as JUMP and LA Dance magic, Ashley has won the titles of VIP Dance, Magic Performer and others. Most recently, she was awarded the title of Advanced-Pro Protégé at the Pulse Dance Convention in Atlanta.

While being a member of Project Seven and dancing under the instruction of Cherrise Wakeham, Ashley has experienced her best two years of performing and grown in a way that would have never been possible without Mrs. Wakeham.