Teaching Artists – M4 – Music Movement Mountains … Magic!

Zane Potorti

Zane is from the Raleigh area of North Carolina. They’ve practiced many styles of dance and music over the past 10 years, and given lessons in contra, fusion, and contact improv. Their style tends to be energetic, adventurous, and playful. They also lead an open contra dance band called Original Neighbors.

Zane Potorti

Warren Doyle

Warren has over 50 years of experience as an educator, contra dancer, dance instructor/caller and dance event organizer. He is the Founder and Co-Director (with Terry) of the Appalachian Folk School.

Warren Doyle

Tom Krumm

Tom is a performer who specializes in versatility. He has logged performances with artists of every genre, ranging from Roseanne Cash to Jacob Collier to Aloe Blacc to Al Kooper, and many more. He's also performed with the contra dance band Live Wire, the swing band Swingology, and as a ringer for concert and pit orchestras throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he appeared as soloist alongside Grammy award-winning fiddler Jay Ungar and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in a performance his own original arrangement of Daybreak in the Mountains. Tom is also part of the band Midnight on the Water.

A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Tom logged over 400 hours of studio and performance time during his studies. He particularly enjoyed exploring microtonal Arabic music, which he credits with removing a range of limitations from his playing.

Today, Tom exhibits an unusual capacity to play anything asked of him on violin, mandolin, and guitar in recording sessions and concerts across the east coast. His work as a educator includes teaching engagements at the Ashokan Music and Dance camps since the age of 17, and more recent work at the University of Pennsylvania and his own private teaching studio in Philadelphia.

In his free time, he enjoys basketball, mixology, and hanging out with his cats, Banana and Bread.

Tom Krumm

Terry Doyle

Terry Doyle is a fabulous contra dance caller, flat footer, and co-producer of M4. Terry travels the country and beyond to call for contra dances. In Morganton, NC she is a full time Sociology Instructor at Western Piedmont Community College, where she is also offering Contra dance ("Social Dance") through the Continuing Education dept. at WPCC.

Terry Doyle

Sherone Price

Community is at the center of Sherone's work. In echoes of his teacher and mentor, Baba Chuck Davis, Sherone calls out "ago" to get the attention of his dancers and reinforces the thread that weaves throughout his life and his work. He strives to create community within his classes and his choreographed works and creates and teaches dance for everybody. While dance can be an end unto itself, for him, dance is also a vehicle for mutual exploration, communication and connection.

Dancer, teacher, choreographer, and mentor, Sherone Price has been actively engaged in the field of dance for over 40 years. Sherone's grounding is in the experiential foundation of curated and created movement. His movement vocabulary has its foundation in African Diaspora dance, and his work is informed by a career of extensive modern and contemporary dance training and practice. Prominent teachers include Baba Chuck Davis, Betty Jones, Nancy Pinkney, Mohammed Dacosta, Jan Van Dyke, Annie Dwyer, and Sekouba Camara.

Sherone holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He serves as Associate Professor of Dance at Appalachian State University where he co-directs Diyé African Dance and Drum Ensemble along with Baba Khalid Saleem.

Career Highlights:

Associate Professor of Dance at Appalachian State University
Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Visiting Instructor of dance, Florida International University in Miami, FL
Artist in residence/Henry Bascom Professor of dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Principal with Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, Durham, NC
Guest Performer, Gamble Dance Theater and Jan Van Dyke Dance Group
Performed Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench at the 1993 Scripps/ADF Award Ceremony
Studied West African Dance and Drumming in Guinea, West Africa
ADF faculty since 1993
Received 2014 North Carolina Dance Alliance fellowship

Sherone Price

Sam Stone

Sam Stone is a dance performance artist, teacher, community organizer, and creator. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Appalachian State University, a certified Axis Syllabus teacher of anatomy and biomechanics, and a dance education specialist.

Sam has founded several outreach programs, including Dance Class for Humans, a Salt Lake City-based Contemporary class series offering affordable training for local freelancers, Peer Practices, a nationally recognized peer-exchange dance class model, and Free Up the Space, a guided improvisational space for artists of varying mediums to exchange freely.

Sam is responsible for choreographing over 50 original dance theatre works. Sam founded and danced in the vîv dance company, and for Bianca Cabrera's Blind Tiger Society, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Joanna Kotze, Ashley Trottier, and Rosemary Hannon. She has performed and/or shown work at theatres including CounterPulse, Mission Theatre, Temescal Art Center, SAFEarts, Spyhop, and Hayes Christensen Theatre.

As a guiding principle, Sam follows art's potential to rebel and rouse.

Sam Stone

Rob Zisette

Rob Zisette (34) is a classically trained violinist-turned-fiddle player who started performing in dance bands when he was 13. After hearing what a violin can do in the hands of a fiddler, he vowed to never go back and for the last 20 years has been touring the nation with his fiddle on his back. The only thing left of his classical past is a thick vibrato that sometimes accidentally slips into his bluegrass licks. His style is a melting pot of any genre he can get his carbon fiber bow on, including bluegrass, irish, swing, gypsy jazz, and yes... maybe even a little classical.

Rob is part the following bands: Toss the Possum, Buzz Band, and Playing with Fyre

Rob Zisette

Nathan Bishop

Nathan Bishop is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. In addition to playing fiddle, viola, and hardingfele in Midnight on the Water, Nathan plays baroque violin in early music consort La Fiocco and fiddle in his Irish folk trio, Faoileán. He is a past artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center and with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s Equus Project, where he paired live fiddle with self-composed soundscapes to accompany dance and theater works. He founded the bi-weekly Irish seisiún at Flounder Brewing Co. in Hillsborough, NJ.

In 2022 and 2023, Nathan received consecutive project grants from the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission to fund When Waves Collide, the yearly new music and dance collaborative festival that he co-founded alongside Jess Michal. In 2023, he was awarded two grants from the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America to study hardingfele with Dan Trueman of Princeton University. In 2023, Faoileán released their first album, Far Hills, which has received over 250,000 listens across streaming platforms.

He has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA and regularly teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. He studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.Nathan Bishop is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. In addition to playing fiddle, viola, and hardingfele in Midnight on the Water, Nathan plays baroque violin in early music consort La Fiocco and fiddle in his Irish folk trio, Faoileán. He studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d'amore.

Nathan enjoys collaborating with dancers as well as accompanying them.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XitUNUK7jw8

Fun fact: Nathan likes hot chocolate but doesn't like kale.

Nathan Bishop

Meade Richter

Meade Richter is an official NC Master Fiddler from Boone, NC and elementary music teacher in the public school system. He has taught various styles of fiddle, classical violin, and improvisation for fifteen years as a private instructor and workshop teacher.

He studied with jazz violin legend, Tcha Limberger, in Brussels and gained an MA in Improvisational Music Performance at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2018. He has worked as a recording artist for over a decade and was part of a project which was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy (Spillemannsprisen) in 2019. Richter has played in award winning Bluegrass and Gypsy Jazz bands touring the US, Canada, and Europe and has appeared on stage with the likes of Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Hicks, and Casey Driessen. He runs his own band, SoLa Bazaar, a carnival of the arts fusing Appalachian and Middle Eastern traditions with jazz fusion.

Richter is a new father to a baby girl and spends all of his down-time performing for and playing with his daughter, Tulsi.

Meade Richter

Masankho Banda

Masankho Kamsisi Banda is a certified InterPlay Leader and multi-disciplinary performing artist known for integrating African traditions into the InterPlay system. InterPlay is an improvisational movement and storytelling practice that taps into "body wisdom" to foster community and healing. InterPlay, a system that offers easy entry into five core ways of expression: movement, voice, language, stillness and social connection. You'll discover a tool kit that supports teaching, performing, community building, health and well-being. This method also enriches personal artistic practice.

Roles and Contributions in InterPlay:

Leadership and Training: As a Certified InterPlay Leader (CIL), Masankho facilitates workshops—often called "Untensives"—that combine movement, voice, language, and stillness. He also leads the "Creative Leadership Seminar," which uses InterPlay to improve professional communication and decision-making.
BIPOC Advocacy: He serves as a BIPOC Liaison for InterPlay, co-leading "Points of Collaboration" and "The Loving Container" sessions designed specifically for racial healing and support within BIPOC communities.
Global Peace Building: He utilizes InterPlay techniques in international peace-building efforts, notably leading programs like "Cultures of Peace" in countries such as Brazil.
Ucandanc African Healing Arts: In 1997, he founded Ucandanc African Healing Arts to fuse his Malawian heritage of storytelling and dance with the InterPlay framework to inspire social justice and cultural understanding.

Artistic Influence:
His work is deeply rooted in his Malawian upbringing, specifically the wisdom and storytelling traditions of his grandmother on the shores of Lake Malawi. He frequently collaborates with other InterPlay performers, such as the WING IT! Performance Ensemble, to create hybrid (online and in-person) performance workshops.

Masankho Banda

Laura Zisette

Laura taught in the Music Department at Utah State University for 19 years. During that time she ran the USU Youth Conservatory which offered after school theory classes and private piano lessons for 300 K-12 students. She is the author of many teaching materials and of the Theory and Technic Gymnastics Series published by the KJOS Music Co in San Diego. She has taught hundreds of music students and loves to teach!

Laura started the family band when Rob was 12. She and Rob are still playing together as Toss the Possum. In 2013 on a trip to Mexico, she discovered art. For her, both art and music have been therapeutic, and she can’t imagine life without them. She is an award-winning artist and musician. She loves sharing what she knows and is constantly trying to learn more.

Laura Zisette

Karen Kinnamon

Karen is a retired high school English teacher with over 20 years of yoga experience. She currently holds a 500-hour YTT certification from Kripalu School of Yoga with extra training in both Thai Yoga bodywork from massage therapist Michael Sitzer and in Let Your Yoga Dance from Megha-Nancy Buttenheim.

For our summer M4 experience, she will provide a daily practice of bringing union to mind, body, and breath in the presence of music that engages the energies of the body as we begin each day with intention and joy.

Karen Kinnamon

George Paul

Emily Daughtridge

Professor Emily Daughtridge is an artist, educator, and community organizer. She regularly teaches in the areas of dance technique, somatic practice, creative process, and culture/history. Her course schedule rotates to include Modern, Jazz, Yoga as Somatic Practice, Collaborative Process, Composition and Improvisation, Choreography, and World Dance.

She is the co-founder/teacher of "Rhythm and Revolution", a cross-disciplinary, short-term study abroad program to Cuba. She has collaborated with ASU's Global Studies program, Honors College, and Watauga Residential College to facilitate experiences abroad for students.

Emily's service extends to the local community through Latin Dance Boone, a grassroots initiative she founded and directs. The project facilitates opportunities for community members to gather, learn, and share a variety of Latin dance styles and cultures. Latin Dance Boone hosts recurring classes, social dance events, community demonstrations, and occasional workshops with guest instructors.

Emily Daughtridge

Daniel Sherrill

Daniel Sherrill, based in the High Country, will be teaching clawhammer banjo. Winner of the 2025 App State Banjo Competition, and on the banjo judge panel for 2026, Daniel is recognized for his intricate fretwork that blends rhythm and melody into dynamic and lyrical compositions. His albums From A Heritage Tree (2022) and Back to P.A. (2023) have appeared on multiple Official Spotify Playlists, and have been praised for their calm, ‘zen-like’ atmosphere. From A Heritage Tree was named one of Songlines UK Magazine’s 10 Best Albums in the World. He has taught professionally for many years, most recently becoming JAM certified in NC. He is an active YouTuber, Record Producer, and co-founded a non-profit concert production company. He is sponsored by Shubb Capos, Waldman Banjos, and Headway Audio (UK) for more info go to danielsherrill.com.

Daniel Sherrill

Dani Hawkins

Dani is a Philadelphia-based cellist, teacher, and scholar who’s played with the Richardson Chamber Players, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, and various other ensembles and contradance bands. In 2012, they released “Ride EP,” a DVD of original multimedia art based on footage and field recordings taken while living out of a van. The debut album for their current project Midnight on the Water (midnightonthewater.com) is forthcoming in Spring 2026. Dani has taught cello at Cornell University, the Ashokan Center, Open Access to Music Education, Folk College, Pennsylvania Folk Gathering, Fiddle Hell, and Maine Fiddle Camp. They endeavor to make their cello teaching as accessible as possible and to emphasize the participatory nature of roots traditions.

Dani received their PhD in Musicology with concentrations in Ethnomusicology and American Studies from Cornell University in 2023. Research at American fiddle camps contributed substantially to both their dissertation, Listening Beyond Modernity: Race, Radicalism, and Folklife, which won the 2024 Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, and also to a paper titled “Writing Music / Writing Movements,” which was awarded the 2023 Pantaleoni Prize by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. They’ve conducted other fieldwork in Ghana, China's Hunan province, Brooklyn, Wet’suwet’en territory, Philadelphia, and presented the resulting scholarship at the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Studies Association, the Royal Society of Canada, the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. They’ve taught both conventional undergraduate music classes as well as original interdisciplinary seminars like “The Politics of Listening: Sound and Civic Life” and “Music in the Making and Unmaking of Race" at Memorial of University of Newfoundland, Cornell University, and Swarthmore College.

They enjoy bodysurfing, being a part of Philadelphia’s blooming mutual aid networks, and eating hot wings.