Mutual Dance Theatre in Modern Mix 2025

Susan Honer hails from Virginia and has been performing and choreographing in Southwest Ohio since 2008. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Hollins University in 2004 and her Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival in 2008. She has studied with renowned teachers and artists such as Donna Faye Burchfield, David Dorfman, Jennifer Nugent, Gerri Houlihan, Douglas Becker, Miguel Gutierrez, and Pamela Pietro. Susan worked with Mutual Dance Theatre (then MamLuft&Co. Dance) from 2010-2019 as a dancer, choreographer, and company director. She has set her own work on regional ballet schools including Northwest Florida Ballet and Southwest Virginia Ballet. She has travelled to universities to set Müda repertory on universities such as Kent State and Northern Kentucky University. Susan regularly collaborates with sound and multimedia artist Sean Simon to create original music for her work. Susan’s work Iceman 3000 received an NEA grant through MDT which premiered at the Cincinnati Art Center in 2018. Her work has been seen at festivals in North Carolina for the Merge Records’ 20th Anniversary Performance, Connecticut College’s Art and Technology Symposium, Cincinnati’s Area Choreographer’s Festival, at the WUK in Vienna, Austria, and in Virginia and New York City. Susan is owner of Present Body Pilates in Dayton, Ohio where she teaches Pilates, Roll Model Method® self myofascial release, and SmartSpine© Therapeutic Bodywork.

Achinta S. McDaniel, a pioneer of contemporary Indian dance in the United States, is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Blue13 Dance Company, with a recent world premiere presented by the prestigious Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA. She choreographs for the screen as well, from music videos for DJ Snake and The Strokes to TV shows like “New Girl,” “The Amazing Race,” to commercials including Madden NFL and Heineken, and for Walt Disney World on both American coasts.

A prolific choreographer, performer, and instructor, McDaniel’s style draws from diverse techniques, including ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, bhangra, Kathak, and Bollywood. Her work is highly dramatic and a true reflection of her upbringing: Eastern and Western, mysterious, rebellious and unconventional.

McDaniel was born in Queens and grew up studying dance in Cleveland, Ohio, where she got her start as a choreographer at Hathaway Brown School at the age of 14. Throughout school, she danced in ensembles at Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve, thereafter graduating from New York University with a BA in Choreography, Dance, and Theatre.  She later studied classical Indian Kathak in Bangalore, India with guru Maya Rao.

Kyle Sangil (he/him) is a professional artist with Whim W’Him Dance currently residing in Seattle, WA. Kyle was born in the Philippines and moved to Beaumont, Texas at the age of five. He then began his training at iRule Dance Studio at the age 14. Kyle started with Hip Hop and around the age of 16 he started training in Ballet. He also has had the chance to experience additional training with Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Fast forward to college, Kyle earned his BFA in 2022 in Ballet at Point Park University.  Kyle is currently about to start his 3rd season with Whim W’Him. He has had the joy to work with choreographers such as Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Olivier Wevers, Rubberlegz, Emilie Leriche, Hannah Garner and many more talented individuals.  Kyle is thrilled to be starting his 3rd season with Whim W’him and can’t wait to see what it holds.

Jasmine Snellen, former Mutual Dance Theatre company dancer, began her dance training at Louisville Youth Performing Arts School where she studied Martha Graham’s technique and classical ballet. She is a graduate of the selective and esteemed Kentucky Governor’s School For the Arts. Snellen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Shenandoah Conservatory and University where she trained with equal emphasis in Ballet, Jazz (classical, contemporary, and commercial), Modern (Graham, Limón, Horton), composition, and pedagogy.

Snellen has had the honor of training with Alan Arnett, Tiffanie Carson, Ting-Yu Chen, Maurice Fraga, Elijah Alhadji Gibson, Erica Helm, Linda Miller, and Lisa Startsman among others, including mainstage features by Mike Esperanza of Bare Dance Company NYC, Company | E of Washington DC, and Brussels-based artists Katie Vickers and Albert Quesada. Jasmine has performed at Peridance Salvatore Capezio Theater in NYC, trained with LA Contemporary Dance Company and Sidra Bell Dance New York, and presented work at the Kentucky Center for the Arts.

Snellen has a passion for design and digital media and has previously served as Mutual Dance Theatre’s Marketing Manager. She created three works for Mutual Dance Theatre during her 5-year tenure as a company dancer. She conceptualized, choreographed, and edited a five-part dance-for-camera entitled FFIFF (2020), which explores society’s rapidly shifting polarity, clashes of beliefs, and the tethers of groupthink. In 2022, she created “Cingularity,” a 20-minute work exploring the idea that “singularity” might be reached, when humans and technology eventually become one (the title is also a nod to the 90s cell phone network, Cingular). Her original work, “Womb”, takes the audience into a place of creation and transformation. The work originally premiered as part of Modern Mix ‘24, and it was selected to appear at the Dance St. Louis SPRING TO DANCE festival.