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 recently performed with Chimaera Physical Theater under the direction of Mollye Maxner and Kathy Couch. Julia joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2007.

Daniel Charon hails from Moorhead, MN and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. A company member since 1999, he previously danced with the Limón Dance Company for three years. Other performance credits include Dance Kaleidoscope, the Metropolitan Opera, Mordine & Company, the Aquila Theatre Company, and the Mary Anthony Dance Theatre. He teaches regularly at the Limón Institute, Dance New Amsterdam, and the 92nd Street Y and has taught at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bates Dance Festival and at numerous workshops and colleges around the country. Daniel has shown his own work at various venues in NYC including Judson Church, University Settlement, the 92nd Street Y, Dancenow/NYC/the Festival, DanceMopolitan at Joe’s Pub, the DUMBO Arts Festival, and Joyce SoHo where he presented his own concert in 2005. He has also staged the works of Doug Varone, José Limón and Jiri Kylian.

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 attended the University of Michigan where he worked with such artists as Alexandra Beller, Leyya Tawil, and Doug Varone, while earning a BFA in dance with a minor in Movement Science. Other performance credits include ChavasseDance&Performance, Peter Sparling Dance Company, the Chicago-based Leopold Dance Group, and Umbigada Dance with whom he toured internationally to Colombia and Montreal. 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 TroyensLe 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.