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FULL-TIME DANCE FACULTY

Whitney Harris

Whitney Harris

As full-time Performing Arts faculty and the director of the SLCC Dance program, Whitney Harris brings a unique flavor to SLCC. Whitney’s professional dance career spans nearly 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 student 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. It’s no wonder she calls teaching at SLCC her dream job; on a daily basis in this role she is able to tap into all those passions as well as skills her work has developed to engage with our beautifully diverse student body in a meaningful way through movement, the transmission of culture and the telling of the rich stories of our courageous students.

Adjunct Dance Faculty

Rosie Banchero

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


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

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.

Carrie LeBaron

Carrie LeBaron


Carrie LeBaron grew up dancing at Miki Casalino's School of Creative Arts in Salt Lake City. She received a B.A. in English and a minor in modern dance from Brigham Young University, where she danced with BYU's Dancensemble.

Carrie then attended Arizona State University to pursue her master's degree. She taught university courses in ballet and modern dance and served as a principal instructor in both the Moving Inventors and Discover Dance children's dance programs. She also performed work by Cliff Keuter and Yvonne Rainer while in Arizona.

Carrie has presented original research at both the Hawaii International Conference of the Arts and Humanities and NDEO Conference. Carrie graduated from ASU with a master's degree in dance in May 2004. She began teaching in outreach and studio classes for the Tanner Dance Program in 2005 and continues to enjoy dancing with students of all ages.

Ashley Mott

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

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.