Kristen Brown-Maki
Kristin Brown-Maki is new to the Maryland area and grew up in Tampa Florida, where she was a graduate of Howard W. Blake High School of the Performing Arts. She received her early training around Central Florida before joining the Lakeland Ballet Florida Dance Theatre. She was the Donald Bryd/Ruth Eckerd Hall Dance Scholarship recipient, the First Place winner at the National Society of Arts and the Letter Ballet Career Competition, and was recognized as a merit Award recipient from the National Endowment of the Arts. Kristin continued her dance education on scholarship at the University of South Florida working towards her a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance. She has been a guest artist with the Brandon Ballet, performing around the country with the United Nations of Dance, and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland with Burklyn Ballet. Kristin taught extensively in the Tampa area for three years and has spent the last five summers working and teaching at the Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Johnson, Vermont. In 2003 she joined the Ballet Theater of Maryland, the teaching faculty of the School of Ballet Theatre of Maryland and local dance studios in the area.

Emily Jamison
A performer since the age of four, Emily Jamison has danced for sixteen years competitively as a member of the Susan Ina Dance Studio in Linthicum, MD. She has received formal training in tap, ballet, pointe, basic ballroom, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical, and received local and national recognition for her efforts. Impressed with her leadership and patience with her fellow cast mates in productions at Seton Keough, Emily, as only a sophomore, was approached and eventually hired to be her school's head choreographer for all-future productions. As a senior, Emily took the head choreography job at Mount Saint Joseph, and presides over the position to this day as a rising junior at Towson University. Over that span, she has educated over 150 young men and women to perform jazz numbers, to waltz, and to tap in productions of A Midsummer's Night Dream, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Damn Yankees, Into the Woods, Anything Goes, and in the spring of 2009 Disco Inferno. She is very excited for the opportunity to join Design in Motion Dance Studio and cannot wait to get started!.