Julia Burrer hails from Austin, Texas and graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance. In 2004, she studied abroad at Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands, as well as participated in the International Dance Exchange in Essen, Germany, and in the summer of 2006, performed at the Hong Kong International Dance Festival. She has had the pleasure of dancing with and for the following lovely folks - Megan Williams, Daniel Charon, Adriane Fang, Colleen Thomas, Lauri Stallings, Teri and Oliver Steele, Gwen Welliver, and pocket engine, directed by Nora Petroliunas and Sarah Oppenheim. She has also performed with Chimaera Physical Theater under the direction of Mollye Maxner and Kathy Couch. Julia joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2007.

Ryan Corriston started dancing with the Kaleidoscope Dance Company at the age of 8, and was a company member for 8 years. He began dancing again in college and received a B.A. in Dance from the University of Washington, where he studied under Hannah Wiley. During the 18 years he spent in Seattle, Corriston worked with choreographers Rip Parker, Anne Gilbert, Maria Simpson, did several collaborations with Rob Kitsos, as well as performing his own solo work. In New York, Corriston has danced with the Metropolitan Opera and has worked with Nancy Bannon, Andrew Robinson, Tiffany Mills, Martha Clarke and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He joined Doug Varone and Dancers in December of 2005, five months after he and his wife were blessed by the birth of their son, Toby.

Alex Springer, originally from Farmington Hills, MI has always been a performer. He began his dance training under the direction of Toi Banks and Lisa Campos. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan while earning a BFA in dance and a minor in Movement Science. He has had the pleasure of working with such artists as Alexandra Beller, Amy Chavasse, Lindsey and Jason Dietz Merchant, Peter Sparling, and Leyya Tawil. Other performance credits include the Chicago-based Leopold Dance Group and Umbigada Dance, with whom he toured internationally to Colombia and Montreal. Alex creates work with Xan Burley, together alexanDance, and the two have presented their choreography at various venues throughout NYC. Alex joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2008.

Eddie Taketa holds a BFA in Dance Theater from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is the recipient of a 1998 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement in Dancing. Dancing professionally since 1982, Taketa has performed with such companies as the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Murray Louis Dance Company, and Nikolais Dance Theatre. He has also performed in the Jacob's Pillow's Men Dancers: The Ted Shawn Legacy. As a teacher, he has taught at numerous universities, festivals and studios throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Since 1995, he has been teaching and choreographing as Guest Artist in Dance at Connecticut College. He has been a member of Doug Varone and Dancers since 1994.

Netta Yerushalmy moved to New York in 1996 in order to complete a BFA in dance from Tisch School of the Arts. In NYC she has danced with Nancy Bannon, Karinne Kiethley, Marc Jarecki and many others, as well as with Ronit Ziv in Tel-Aviv. Her own choreographic work has been produced and performed in numerous venues in NYC, and at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Originally from Israel, her work was commissioned there by the prestigious Curtain-Up Festival and International-Exposure 2006 and, most recently, by the Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv. She has had the pleasure of dancing with Doug Varone in various settings, most notably in productions of Les Troyens and Le Sacre du Printemps at the Metropolitan Opera, and has also staged Varone's work at Michigan University and Point Park College. Netta joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2007.