Wolfgang Goluska is a freelance movement artist based in Grand Rapids, MI. His training began in the Lansing area with Elizabeth Williams School of Dance and Children's Ballet Theatre, with additional training with Grand Rapids Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and the New York Dance Project. He received his B.A. in Dance from Grand Valley State University. He has been a company member with CPR Dance: Inhale Movement and guest danced with various groups around Michigan, including the the West Michigan Youth Ballet and the Greater Lansing Ballet Company. Currently he teaches at CARE Conservatory of Ballet and Ada Dance Academy, alongside various choreographic pursuits. Wolfgang is excited to celebrate the 50th Anniversary with Happendance!

is a graduate of Everett High School where she trained in the Everett Dance Program, as well as at other local dance studios. She has been dancing for twenty-four years, and studied various styles such as ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, contemporary, partnering, and hip hop. Her specialties include contemporary, modern, jazz, lyrical, and hiphop.

Jennah is also a cross-fit enthusiast and has her level one certificate. Her main goal is to not only provide an open space for dancers to learn and grow, but also to engage students with the how and why of what they are learning to do with their bodies—to engage their minds, bodies, and souls as one.

She currently attends LCC for Business and Accounting, and also works in the office at Happendance, gaining experience in finance. Along with being an instructor at Happendance and Danceworks, she is also one of the Assistant Directors of the Happendance Impulse student company. Jennah is also an adjunct employee of the MSU Theatre Department, subbing classes in Jazz and Contemporary.

Amanda Green has had a lifelong passion for dance. Studying at Lansing Community College, she received training in a variety of dance styles and had the honor of twice being selected as student choreographer for their annual Spring Dance Concert. She has also choreographed for Dance Lansing annually between 2013 and 2016. Amanda’s performance repertoire includes many LCC and Happendance shows, Greater Lansing Ballet Company productions, and performances at various events in the Lansing area such as Jazzfest, Bluesfest, local gallery showings and a Lugnuts game.

In addition to performing, Amanda has also spent time as a teacher’s assistant and teacher of Creative Dance classes at Delta Dance Connection under Shannon Simon.

In 2023, Amanda and several other local artists co-founded (re)spire dance collective, a Lansing-based dance company with a passion for community outreach.

Outside of dance, Amanda enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, riding her bike, and making art.

Jim McEwan is the Artistic Director for the Greater Lansing Ballet Company and Director of the Greater Lansing Academy of Dance.  After attending Michigan Tech University, Jim began his dance training with Elzbieta Alabuszew-Kutek at Lansing Community College and with Barbara Banasikowski Smith at the Academy of Dance Arts, Inc. During his training, he received several dance scholarships, including Joffrey Ballet,  Interlochen Arts Academy, and Ballet Nouveau Colorado. He also had the privilege to study with Kip Sturm, former principal soloist with Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Madame Gribanova, dean of the Vaganova Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg.

Jim has also been awarded several choreographic scholarships to attend Regional Dance America’s National Choreography Intensive, has had multiple works selected for performance at RDA MidStates and RDA National Festivals, and has received RDA’s National Choreographic Recognition award. His growing list of full length ballets includes Little Mermaid, Dracula, Carmen Ballet Suite, Robyn Hood, La Bayadere, Hedy, An American Nutcracker, SteamWorld, and The Ratcracker.

Andrew Muylle received his early dance training as a student at Assiff Studio of the Dance and Mark Taylor School of Dance in Lansing. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Oakland University. He performed in the ensemble of 42nd Street at the Ogunquit Playhouse under the direction of Randy Skinner, and as a featured dancer in the televised Make the Season Bright holiday show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. He also spent one summer as a performer and stuntman at Idlewild & SoakZone, a theme park in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. 

He has just completed four years as the tap dance instructor of Happendance, and is a dancer in the professional company, where he also serves as rehearsal director. He formerly served as the artistic director of Evolve Theatrics, a local theatre company, and choreographed their productions of Mary Poppins, Chicago, and The Sound of Music. He also works as an adjudicator of high school musical theatre for the Sutton Foster Awards through the Wharton Center. Other performance credits include Newsies (Porthouse Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Meadow Brook Theatre); A Chorus Line, Oklahoma!, and Hands on a Hardbody (Oakland University); Jesus Christ Superstar (Riverwalk Theatre); and The Nutcracker (Children's Ballet Theatre). He has also danced as a guest with the Detroit-based Croatian folk dance ensemble, Nova Nada. 

Haley Rosendale began her dance training at the age of three and has spent years studying ballet and contemporary under the direction of esteemed instructors, including Diane Newman at Happendance, where she trained since the age of nine. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Dance and Criminal Justice from Grand Valley State University and has gained additional performance experience through training with Northeast Academy of Dance and a summer internship with Deos Contemporary Ballet in 2024. Haley is excited to continue her artistic journey as a member of the Happendance professional company, returning to the place that has played such an important role in her growth as a dancer.

Emily Scott is a dancer, instructor and choreographer based in Mid-Michigan. Growing up in the Lansing area she as a member of the Children’s Ballet Theater and Happendance 2, now Impulse Student Dance Company. She also performed as a guest performer with the Cincinnati Ballet Company, and the Moscow Ballet.

Emily majored in dance performance at Eastern Michigan University and has had the opportunity to work with many Michigan Dance professionals including Kristi Faulkner, Joori Jung, Joanna McNamara, Sherry Wilkinson, Phil Simmons, Jeremy Blair, and Haleem Rasul. Emily is a popular teacher in and around Mid-Michigan, formerly teaching at Foster Community Center in Lansing and Gardner International Magnet School. Her current teaching posts are Happendance School in Okemos, her alma mater, and Jackson Center for the Arts- Jackson MI. She is also engaged as an Assistant Director for Impulse Student Dance Company, and Co-Directs DANCE Lansing, a summer festival for the entire dance community of Lansing. As a performing artist Emily is a member of Velocity! Concert Dance Company and Education Exchange Company.

Samantha Tort Goluska is a dancer and teacher graduated from Gand Valley State University Dance in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She grew up in Williamston, Michigan dancing with Elizabeth Williams School of Dance And Children’s Ballet Theater in the Lansing area with the guidance of Elizabeth Williams, Elzbieta Alabuszew-Kutek, and Jesse Powers. During her dance education she acquired a Bachelors of Arts in Dance and had the privilege to learn several dance styles from teachers and professors such as Carrie Brueck-Morris, Hannah Seidel, Rachel Miller, Edgar Page, Stephan Sanford, Samantha Shelton, Dana Powers-Klooster, Dawnell Black, and Alexandra Meister-Upleger. During her time at Grand Valley she also worked with amazing guest choreographers Justin Koertgen, Alissa Tollefson, and TruDee.

Samantha has had the honor to choreograph and teach at several studios throughout the Grand Rapids Area over the last 5 years such as Lake Michigan Dance Academy, Evolve Dance, Sky Dance Studio, Ada Dance Academy, the Wyoming Community Recreation Program, and CARE Conservatory Ballet. She is currently a teacher with CARE Conservatory Ballet and an administrator with Ada Dance Academy. She is so excited to be dancing with Happendance Professional Company this season and thrilled for opportunity to dance again in the Lansing Area she grew up in.

Bridget Vander Hoff graduated from Oakland University with a Bachelor of Arts in dance. There, she was a member of the Oakland Dance Theatre and performed the lead role in The Autumn of the Rite of Spring. Upon graduating, she danced with Velocity and taught at Happendance for a season, which brought her here to Lansing. Bridget has performed in work with Diversiform Dance Project and Dynasty Dancers, and currently dances with Dance Uprising and Greater Lansing Ballet. She also works as the assistant director of Delta Dance Connection's Company. Her choreography has been showcased in both Ypsi Dance Swap and Dance Lansing, and she also serves as Michigan Dance Council's executive secretary. Bridget is very excited to return to Happendance for her second season with Velocity.