Directors

Fernadina Chan 陳孝晶 (Co-Director/Founder) was the Founding Artistic Dean and Chair of the Dance Department of Boston Arts Academy (BAA). After retirement, Chan founded Continuum Dance Project (CDP) as a choreography laboratory with BAA alumni in 2013. With CDP, she was awarded the 2017 Boston Center for the Arts Choreographer Residency, and received two LLC Grants from The Brookline Commission for the Arts. CDP under the Co-Directorship of Fernadina Chan and Adriane Brayton was the recipient of a 2020 LAB grant from The Boston Foundation. Brayton and Chan are 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalists, and recipients of the 2022 AiR residency at the Somerville Arts Council’s ArtAssembled. Most recently, Chan received the 2022-2023 Dancemakers Residency from Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance. In 2023 Chan and Brayton were commissioned to create a site-responsive work for the Momentum Greenway Dance Program, presented by Amazon.

Ms. Chan has received numerous awards: most notably Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship in 2001; Teacher of the Year from the International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education in 2005; Boston Educator of the Year in 2011 and 2013 Dance Champion from Boston Dance Alliance. Chan’s work has been presented at High School Dance Festivals in Miami, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; South Vermont Dance Festival, Rebound Festival and numerous festivals in the Greater Boston area. She collaborated with Soyoung L Kim on Kim’s performance art project “Ghost Roots” funded by a 2021 LAB grant from The Boston Foundation. 

She is also a Certified GYROKINESIS ®  and GYROTONIC® Instructor.

Adriane Brayton, (Co-Director/Performer) is the Co-Artistic Director of Continuum Dance Project. Born in Boston, Adriane’s choreography has been performed at The Eustice Estate (Milton, MA), Pao Arts Center (Chinatown, MA), Emerson College (Boston, MA), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), Tufts University (Medford, MA), The Museum of Science (Boston, MA), The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA), Boston Center for The Arts (Boston, MA), and Boston University (Boston, MA). She attended the Boston Arts Academy and Connecticut College, where she received BAs in Biological Sciences and Dance.  In 2017 she completed a 3 year guest artist residency for the Expansive Meanings and Makings in Art Science Project in partnership with the The National Science Foundation. Adriane’s professional credits include Beheard.world, Weberdance, and Continuum Dance Project. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), a United States Pilates Association Certified Instructor, and a GYROKINESIS® Method Certified Instructor. Brayton and her Co-Director Fernadina Chan are 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalists, recipients of the 2022 AiR residency at the Somerville Arts Council’s ArtAssembled, and most recently received the 2022-2023 Dancemakers Residency from Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance. In 2023 Continuum Dance Project were commissioned to create its newest site-responsive work ‘Becoming Water’ for the Momentum Greenway Dance Program, presented by Amazon.

Performing Artists

Jess Chang (Performer) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, grew up in Arcadia, CA, and returned to Taipei at the age of 10. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in Dance and moved to the Boston area in 2011. Jess is a data analyst at Harvard Business School Online, freelance dancer, and occasional teacher and choreographer. She currently performs with Luminarium Dance and is excited to be working with Continuum Dance Project. Jess has also had the pleasure of dancing with Audra Carabetta, Cynthia McLaughlin, Ruckus Dance, StyleMe Dance, Vimoksha Dance, and VLA Dance.

Mayra Hernandez (Performer) was born and raised in Boston, where she began dancing at a young age. Mayra’s training led her to Boston Arts Academy, where her growth as an artist started and continued at Smith College. It was in college that Mayra realized that her calling in life was to engage the community through movement and arts education. After graduating from Smith with two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Dance and Sociology, Mayra returned to Boston. She began her professional dance career as a member of Fly by Night Dance Theatre, eventually leading her to work with BoSoma Dance Company, Continuum Dance Project, and Beheard.world. Throughout Mayra’s dance career, she has had the opportunity to work with world renowned, influential choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Ronald K. Brown, and many others. After tending to her need to dance professionally, Mayra focused on her teaching career while exploring ways to give back to her community. Mayra first started teaching dance in and around Boston at local community centers, dance schools and afterschool programs. Mayra’s work in the community eventually led her to become the Director of Dance at Brookline High School, where she currently serves the needs of dancers and future choreographers. Mayra is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) who uses movement as means for her students to listen to their bodies, move with intention, accept change, and cultivate a deep sense of gratitude for life. Mayra’s innate love for the arts has inspired her to obtain her M. Ed. in Education. Mayra loves exploring movement as a vehicle to expand the role of the arts to be a connective force between individuals and communities. Mayra is thrilled to be dancing for Continuum Dance Project alongside a fierce group of dancers led by influential choreographers.

Sarah Pacheco, (Performer) originally from Southern California, is a freelance artist, administrator, and educator living in Boston, MA. She graduated with a B.A. in Dance and Business Administration with a Concentration in Arts Administration from Goucher College. She has had the opportunity to work with VLA DANCE, Eliza Malecki Dance, the Izizwe Collective, the Slutcracker, and Shura Baryshnikov through the Boston Lyric Opera. Sarah is also a certified GYROTONIC® Instructor and an arts administrator with local organizations including Midday Movement Series and the Urbano Project.

Sasha Peterson (Performer) currently lives and grew up dancing in the Boston area. In 2016, she completed a dance major at Connecticut College, through which she had the privilege of learning from and performing works by renowned dance faculty and guest artists. Sasha has worked with Ali Kenner Brodsky & Co., Audrey Maclean, Betsy Miller Dance Projects, Boston Lyric Opera, Grant Jacoby & Dancers, Jessy Zizzo & Dancers, Laila Franklin, Lisa Race, Shura Baryshnikov, and apprenticed at David Dorfman Dance. She is a company member at Ruckus Dance and VLA DANCE, and is also in process with Continuum Dance Project. She currently teaches at Midday Movement Series and is also a licensed massage therapist.

Jennifer Roberts (Performer) is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she began her formal training in dance. Throughout her career she’s encountered many forms of dance and the different pedagogies for engaging and teaching movers. When not in the studio, Jennifer can be found indulging in good fiction, good food, or a good nap.

Lonnie Stanton (Performer) is a proud native Hawaiian raised in rural Northern California and based in Boston. Lonnie has been committed to dance education with a strong somatic focus as well as a professional contemporary performance career since graduating from the Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Dance (2009). She has completed her 200 hour yoga certification through Yogaworks (2011). For 10 years she worked with Prometheus Dance performing and teaching with the company. Lonnie is a freelance dancer currently  performing with Jean Appolon Expressions, Peter DiMuro/ Public Displays of Motion, Callie Chapman, Lynn Model, and Continuum Dance Project. During her time dancing in NYC, she worked with Kinesis Project Dance Theater focusing solely on site specific performance. Stanton is passionate about sharing dance in unconventional, often outdoor spaces where a broad audience can be reached. She was thrilled to choreograph auditory movement maps for the American Repertory Theater’s: Arboretum Experience (2021) and be rewarded the Live Arts Boston Grant (2022) for her collaborative augmented reality project: Emotive Land. She has also produced and structured dance for film or public space for the Somerville Arts Council, Neoscape (advertisement), Tamara Al- Mashouk, Silvi Naci, Moe Pope, Linda Tegg, and Toni Lester (all visual or sound artists). Stanton is on faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Harvard Dance Center, and Deborah Mason School of Dance. Bringing dance education into public schools through Notes in Motion, New York City Ballet, and Boston Ballet has been especially rewarding to Lonnie.

Cross-Disciplinary Collaborators

Michael Alfano (Sculptor) is known for creating figurative and surrealistic sculpture that goes beyond the literal, adapting the figure to convey philosophical ideas and abstract concepts. He creates art that relates to the everyday, yet causes people to experience, think, and understand life more fully. In the Northeast, Alfano has more than a dozen public sculptures, including George Brown at the start line of the Boston Marathon, and five sculptures at the Museum of Science in Boston. At juried exhibitions, he has won over 80 awards, including the designation “Sculptor of the Year.” 

Elaine N. Fong (Musician/Composer) has over 30 years of taiko experience: founder and former artistic director of Odaiko New England in Massachusetts, (www.onetaiko.org); former member of Soh Daiko (NYC); member of Maze Daiko (Alameda, CA).  She has collaborated with choreographers, has composed for film and for the theater, and is a certified Taketina rhythm teacher, advanced level.  Undergraduate degree: Princeton University.  MBA: Yale University.

Soyoung L Kim’s (Visual Artist) mixed media and installation practice converges memories of the past, the feeling of the present, and the dreams of the future. Transforming forgotten materials into something new, Kim draws inspiration from her art-adjacent practice as a writer to create dynamic, ethereal compositions scattered with poignant textual references. She currently lives and works in Boston, MA.