PERCEVAL - Kevin J. Shannon

Kevin J. Shannon is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts. He received additional training from the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Paul Taylor, and Springboard Danse Montréal. After receiving his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2007, Kevin was invited to join Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Over his fifteen-year career with the company, he performed leading roles in works by Kyle Abraham, Aszure Barton, Brian Brooks, Alejandro Cerrudo, Peter Chu, Sharon Eyal, William Forsythe, Jirí Kylián, Alice Klock, Florian Lochner, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Twyla Tharp, Robyn Mineko Williams, among many others. In 2013 Kevin participated in DanceMotion USA, a cross cultural exchange program between Hubbard Street, BAM and the US State Department, where he taught and performed in North Africa and Spain. As an educator, Kevin has taught dance master classes around the world, led the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Intensive, and has been a guest teacher for Hubbard Street’s main company and the José Limón Dance Company. He has been invited to be a visiting artist for the School of The Art Institute of Chicago and has served as faculty for The Joffrey Summer Intensive, Gibney-Pro, Chicago Movement Collective, SpringboardX, Youth American Grand Prix, and Peridance Center. In addition, Kevin is a certified IMAGE TECH for dancers™ teacher.

GUINEVERE - Emilie Leriche

Emilie Leriche is a freelance performer and creator based between Göteborg, Sweden and Paris, France. From 2017-2021 she danced with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani under the artistic direction of Katrín Hall. Prior to her move to Sweden, Leriche danced four seasons with Hubbard Street, where in 2015 she was awarded a Princess Grace Foundation fellowship in dance. As an independent artist she has been a part of several creative and performance teams, including Ella Rothschild’s Milk Teeth, Kor’Sia’s Mont Ventoux, Imre & Marne Van Opstal’s Voodoo Waltz, Antonin Rioche’s we are doing great, and Martin Harriague’s Crocodile. As a choreographer, she has created work on Nederlands Dans Theater II, Whim W’Him in Seattle, the tanzensemble of Theater St. Gallen, and Ballett Hagen. In December of 2024 she premiered her most recent work Beck/Call in New York City, a new creation for Gibney Company. 

LANCELOT - Florian Lochner

Florian Lochner trained at Ballettschule Malsam in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, where he was the recipient of the Birgit Keil Dance Foundation scholarship. Lochner earned his master’s degree in the performing arts and joined Gauthier Dance Company in Stuttgart in 2011. He received a “Best of the Season” nomination in Germany’s “Dance for You!” Magazine in September 2013. He joined Hubbard Street in August 2015, and in the Fall of 2017 was named a Hubbard Street Choreographic Fellow. In 2017 he created FLOCK with Alice Klock through which he continues to perform, teach, and create.

MORGANA - Alice Klock

Alice Klock trained at numerous ballet company schools, Interlochen Arts Academy, and in the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program. She joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2009, where she performed for nearly a decade until 2018.

As a choreographer, Alice has been recognized with multiple awards, including Hubbard Street’s International Commissioning Project, NW Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, and Whim W’Him’s Choreographic Shindig. In 2017 she was named Hubbard Street’s Choreographic Fellow, and the following year was honored as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.”

Today, Alice performs and creates internationally as FLOCK with her artistic soulmate Florian Lochner.

MORDRED - Samuel Antinelli

Samuel Antinelli is a dancer born in 2005 in Palombara Sabina, in the metropolitan area of Rome. In 2022, he became part of the cast of Amici di Maria De Filippi, the popular talent show on Canale 5. His passion for dance has accompanied him since childhood, although in the past he also tried to pursue a career as an actor. Before joining Amici, he appeared in a Rai television series and even starred in a commercial for Wind alongside Giorgio Panariello and Vanessa Incontrada. He was also part of the cast of the period drama Rossella 2 – Il Coraggio di una Donna, where he had the opportunity to act alongside Gabriella Pession, Danilo Brugia, and Paolo Mazzarelli.

KING ARTHUR - Garrett Anderson

Garrett received training from some of the country’s premier academies, including Contra Costa Ballet Centre, San Francisco Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre and Pacific Northwest Ballet School.  Following this, he danced with The San Francisco Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Trey McIntyre Project, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.  Garrett went on to perform as a guest artist with Ballet Chicago, Civic Ballet of Chicago and SF Danceworks. Over the course of  a 20 year professional career in both classical ballet and contemporary dance companies, Garrett worked with some of the world’s most celebrated choreographers and directors performing the works of Forsythe, Kylían, Morris, Wheeldon, Ek, Duato, Naharin, Robbins, Balanchine, Tharp, Cerrudo, McIntyre, Rowe, and many more in theaters around the world. 

Following his full time performing career, Garrett became Chair of the Dance Dept. at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe.  After two years with this institution he moved to Boise to become the Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho, where he has served as Artistic Director since 2018.  Garrett was the recipient of the American Ballet Theatre National Dance Scholarship and holds a B.A. with honors from St. Mary’s college of California. He has been on guest faculty of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Civic Ballet of Chicago, Ballet Chicago and Francisco Gella Danceworks and served as a finalist juror for the American Dance Competition/International Ballet Competition. In addition to his role as Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho, he oversees the Ballet Idaho Academy and Ballet Idaho Trainee Program.

HOGAN McLAUGHLIN - COSTUME DESIGNER

Hogan McLaughlin is an American fashion designer, artist, and dancer.  He began his professional career as a ballet dancer, performing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street 2, and Lyric Opera of Chicago.  In 2011, he met and collaborated with artist Daphne Guinness on his first garments, which were featured in the windows of the former Barneys New York Madison Avenue, and at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.  Later that year, McLaughlin launched his first collection for New York Fashion Week, was subsequently profiled by The New York Times, WWD, andVogue.com, among others, and was given the opportunity to create custom pieces for Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way Ball”.  As an illustrator, he has had the pleasure of creating official promotional images for HBO's Game of Thrones, Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and History Channel's Vikings.