Our team.
Andee Scott
Andee Scott is an interdisciplinary dance artist based in St. Petersburg, FL. In recent years, her focus on dance as public art has led to her creating, curating, and producing large-scale, site-specific dance performance events including Our Town and Our Trail, as well as Dance in the Time of Coronavirus, a socially-distanced dance performance series which was featured in Dance Magazine.
As a choreographer, Andee is re-thinking what it means to both make a dance and watch a dance, devising innovative performance experiences for both dancers and audience. Her multi-media work has been performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Sweden, Mexico, and China, and she has received commissions to create new works for both dance companies and university programs. She was a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in 2011.
As a dancer, Andee is deeply invested in improvisation as a physical practice. She is currently in rehearsal with a collective of nationally-based independent performers working with Alpert-award winning choreographer Jeanine Durning on a new dance work set to premiere in Berlin, Germany in July 2023. She was a company member of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and a founding member of Blue Lapis Light in Austin, TX. She was a member of Deja Donne in Italy, and has performed as a guest artist with David Dorfman Dance and AlienNationCo., under the direction of Johannes Birringer.
As an educator, Andee has conducted choreographic and performance residencies and taught master classes around the world. Prior to joining the dance faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa where she is currently an Associate Professor, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sadie Lehmker
Sadie Lehmker is a choreographer and dancer currently based in the Tampa Bay area, where she is an active member of the dance community.
In 2017, Sadie received her MFA in Dance at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and additionally received a Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan in 2016. Through her time at the University of Michigan, she worked with Charles Gushue/Gushue Moving Arts, Xan Burley + Alex Spring/the Median Movement, and Meredith Monk, as well as university faculty.
In 2010, Sadie received her B.A. in Dance Studies magna cum laude from the University of South Florida with a focus in Dance History and Honors College Distinction. While at USF, Sadie performed in the 2010 USF School of Theatre and Dance’s production of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Serenade/The Proposition. She also had the opportunity to study abroad and perform in France in 2008 and returned in 2009 and 2016 for solo creative research ventures.
Beyond her studies, Sadie has been invited to perform across the nation through performances and festivals in Florida, in New York City, in Michigan, and in California. She has also performed internationally in Paris, France, and in Vietnam.
Sadie has set her choreography throughout Central Florida at Florida Southern College, St. Petersburg College, Moving Current Dance Collective, Florida Dance Arts, America's Ballet School, Florida Dance Festival, and Shoes at the Door Dance. Her choreography has been accepted into several festivals in Florida, and has been showcased in southeast Michigan. In 2013, Sadie was selected as a Choreographer-in-Residence for the annual Florida Dance Festival.
Additionally, she has extensive project and production management through different non-profit organizations in the Tampa Bay area, and works as a stage and house manager at both the University of South Florida and Florida Southern College. She is also the American Ballet Theatre at USF Summer Intensive Coordinator. Sadie works as a freelance dance stage manager for local professional companies and for the USF dance department’s concerts.
Currently, Sadie is an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Florida, at Florida Southern College, and at Eckerd College.