Our Dedicated Team

Diana Movius
(she/her)
FOUNDER AND Artistic Director

Diana is the Founder of Dance Loft on 14 which is the flagship dance center of Moveius Contemporary Ballet. Dance Loft is dedicated to providing professional and affordable dance spaces, and it serves the city-wide dance community and its local neighborhood with studio space, arts programming, and performance space.

Diana was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She trained with Patricia McBride at the Charlotte Ballet (formerly named North Carolina Dance Theater) and Melissa Hayle-Coyle at Charlotte City Ballet, and spent summers at North Carolina School of the Arts, Charlotte Ballet, and Ballet Chicago.

Diana is an international climate policy expert whose work experience includes Climate Advisers, the World Bank, Center for Clean Air Policy, the United Nations, and other notable environmental organizations.  Much of her choreographic work combines policy-related and scientific topics with dance.

Jenn Cinicola
(sHe/Her)
Developement Manager

Jenn Cinicola (she/her) is an arts administrator, dancer, reader, listener, and experimenter in a perpetual duet with the world around her. Jenn learned the significance of boundless creativity and sincere storytelling while growing up in dance spaces and amongst arts communities. She found a passion for arts administration working for her dance program at American University and cultivated her interest in fundraising and philanthropy at Dance Place in Washington, DC. Jenn realized her desire to strengthen communities dedicated to uplifting movement-based art and found that development was the best pathway for her to accomplish this. Following her graduation, Jenn relocated to the Greater Boston area and joined the Boston Ballet’s Patron Service team for their 2023-2024 season. She recently finished a summer. with Jacob’s Pillow’s philanthropy team as their Member Services Specialist and is excited to be joining Dance Loft on 14’s team as their Development and Administration Manager. In her free time, Jenn can be found fidgeting with Rubik’s Cubes, getting lost in a good book, or dreaming of the perfect cup of tea.

Gondré Lewis
(He/Him)
Rentals Manager

Gondre-Lewis is the Studio Associate for Dance Loft on 14/Moveius Contemporary Ballet. He is responsible for supporting facility-based programming and services, answering inquiries, attending the studio schedules, and helping maintain the various spaces and their needs. He is a graduate of University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s BFA Acting program and has a Master’s Degree in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts. Gondre is an artist of many mediums, from performance art, to visual, to the poetic. He’s excited to support the artists of DC in sharing, finessing, and enjoying their crafts and looks forward to connecting with all of their stories.

Kami Mccraken
(she/her)
Company and Education Manager

Kamillia McCracken was raised in Richland, WA where she began her dance training with the Mid-Columbia Ballet under Debra Rogo. Kamillia supplemented her training and received various scholarships from programs including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, and Alonzo King Lines Ballet. She attended Point Park University on artistic scholarship, graduating in 2019 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance, concentrating in ballet. She joined Moveius Contemporary Ballet during the summer of 2019. Since joining, Kamillia has performed leading roles in works by Diana Movius, Alvaro Palau, and Elizabeth Watson. One of her continued passions is dance education. While performing with Moveius, Kamillia has shared her knowledge of this art by teaching at various academies in the DMV area. She specializes in early dance training while also coaching contemporary and classical ballet at the advanced level.

Studio Associates

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FISCAL YEAR 2023

MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet dba Dance Loft on 14

The Board has 3-year terms and no term limits.

Megan Kimmins, Chair, Joined 2021
Senior Director of Leadership Giving, National Geographic Society
megan.kimmins@gmail.com

Megan Behm, Secretary, Joined 2021
Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, Round House Theatre
megan.behm@gmail.com

Messay Derebe, Treasurer, Joined 2022
Program Analyst, Department of Commerce
mderebe@gmail.com

Diana Movius
At Large – Joined 2014
MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet/Dance Loft on 14, Founder and Artistic Director
Senior Director, Climate Advisors
diana@danceloft14.org

Natalie Eckford, At large, Joined 2024
Cambridge Associates