In Good Company Dance is a professional modern dance company and 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in May 2021 by Gabriella Bonocore and Meredith Koloski-Stack . The women-led, grassroots, intergenerational organization grew from their shared belief in the healing and connecting power of movement and in the ability of the arts to give voice to experiences that are not always easily expressed in words. From the beginning, IGCD's vision has extended beyond presenting dance for the sake of performance alone. The organization was created to bring professional artists together to create meaningful work while using movement, music, visual art, and storytelling to foster connection, personal growth, and community. IGCD's professional company is made up of accomplished dance artists with college degrees in dance who bring professional performance, teaching, and choreographic experience from across the United States and internationally. The company provides these artists with an opportunity to continue their professional creative practice within their own community—creating original work, collaborating with other artists, rehearsing and performing, and sharing their experience with others. Community connection is woven directly into IGCD's artistic process. Each season, the organization partners with local nonprofit organizations, families and community members to bring greater awareness to important human experiences and the resources available to those navigating them. Through dance, music, visual art and storytelling, IGCD has explored topics including domestic violence, grief and loss, suicide prevention, brain injury, different abilities, addiction and mental health. These collaborations allow performance to become a meeting place between art and lived experience. Rather than simply presenting a topic onstage, IGCD seeks to create work that encourages conversation, helps people recognize themselves or others in the stories being shared, and reminds audience members navigating difficult experiences that they are not alone.
IGCD's collaborative model also extends across artistic disciplines. The organization works with local musicians, visual artists, and professional artists from a variety of genres, creating opportunities for artists to share their craft, reach new audiences, and develop work in conversation with one another. Since its founding, IGCD has expanded beyond its professional company and performances to include ongoing adult modern/contemporary dance series, pop-up classes, workshops, and developing somatic movement programming. These programs extend the organization's artistic philosophy into the community and create pathways for people of different experience levels to participate in movement and the creative process.
The Company
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Meredith Koloski, Co-Founder,Artistic Director,SYTYCD Creator/Teacher
Meredith Koloski holds an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University and a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University. Her passion is to bridge movement, meaning, and human connection. As a dance teacher, certified yoga and meditation she leads somatic movement classes and trainings that blend movement, mindfulness, and artistry to inspire self-reliance, authentic connection, and transformation.
Since 1999 she has performed, choreographed, and taught with professional dance companies and universities across the U.S. She has been featured in Dance Teacher magazine and her choreography has been presented by the Andy Warhol Museum, Dance Alloy, ODC Theater, San Francisco Summerfest, Rayne Dance Theater, Phoenix and Philadelphia Arts Festivals, the Pittsburgh Arts Council, Princeton Ballet, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company., Meredith also served as a teaching artist and choreographer-in-residence at Red Bank Regional High School, inspiring young local dancers to move with authenticity and purpose.
An inspirational speaker and spiritual empowerment guide, Meredith integrates body, mind, and spirit in her work—helping others reconnect with their creative essence. She is the proud mother of an incredible 14-year-old, three amazing bonus kids, and their rescue pup, Chewbacca.
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Gabriella Bonocore, Co-Founder, choreographer, Teacher,Rehearsal Director, Advisor
hopes that through her choreography, audiences will be inspired to find their passion project. A proud wife and mother of two teenagers, she is also a home cook and food & flavor enthusiast. Gabriella holds a BFA in dance and choreography from The Boston Conservatory. Her dance journey started in Long Island, NY where she was nurtured to grow her love of movement. Later, she taught José Limón technique to students hungry to learn Modern dance. Move yourself to do what moves you.
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Nicole Smith Levay, Dancer, Choreographer,Teacher
is an energy healer and coach who integrates somatics, meditation and breathwork to help women with anxiety and depression live and love more fully. With a background as a former professional dancer and dance teaching artist, highlights of that era include being an adjunct professor at the Montclair State University dance department, as well a traveling repetiteur and teaching artist with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Other (beloved) credits include collaboration and touring with Shen Wei Dance Arts, ZviDance, and Freespace Dance. In 2017, she earned a MA in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She has since become a well known transformational retreat leader, voted as a She Heals the World's "Woman to Watch” in 2023.
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Michelle z. Aronowitz, Dancer, Choreographer
is a Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance graduate. She danced for Amanda Selwyn Dance Theater Co. in NYC for five years before starting a family and returning to New Jersey. Michelle later studied interior design at Parsons in NYC and founded her own firm, Wildflower Interiors based out of Rumson. Michelle is thrilled to be dancing and choreographing with In Good Company Dance.
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Jade Carneiro, Dancer,Choreographer,Teacher
is fascinated by movement and how it makes her feel. Jade has studied various styles of dance, toured nationally and internationally. Some of her favorites are ballet, house, modern, aerial arts and capoeira. A Long Branch local, wife and mother to three boys, Jade hopes to keep on dancing performing and choreographing until forever.
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Felecia Kutch, Dancer, Choreographer
expresses her life journey through movement. She has danced and choreographed professionally with many companies and works produced throughout the country. In 2020 she received a grant from Staten Island Arts and self-produced a solo show called Evolution of a Woman. She is a mother of 5 beautiful children and continues to grow herself and provide a positive influence for her family.
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Kate Brannan, Dancer
obtained her BA in Dance at the University of Maryland in 2001. Kate was certified in 2003 as a Classical Pilates instructor under Joseph H. Pilates' protégée, Romana. She owns Center for Pilates of Red Bank and loves watching her clients improve their strength, flexibility and posture! After losing most of her hair to cancer in 2016, Kate was thrilled to find Modern Nature. She stepped into leadership with the company, and now serves as a Mentor for those looking to find solutions for their hair or build their own customer base.
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Robin Hertlein Candrea, Choreographer
began her career as a modern dancer in NYC in the 1970s. She continued into the early 2000s collaborating with local NJ artists, as former owner of Synapse Studios, a center for dance-music-media art and then as co-owner of Dancing Foot Yoga, both in Red Bank. Her primary influences in modern and post-modern dance include Merce Cunningham, David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer, Dana Reitz; and in music, electronic pioneers Morton Subotnick, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno.
Robin is thrilled to be re-involved in the dance world now creating pieces alongside In Good Company Dance. A special thanks to the dancers who contributed wonderful choreographic ideas and love & dedication to the art of dance. They are inspiring.
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Elaenee Nowell, Dancer
began dancing at the age of 5, studying a wide range of styles and training in the Royal Academy of Dance Arts in Red Bank, NJ. She continued her studies at The Rock School in Philadelphia, PA. As a performer she danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Aida with the Philadelphia Opera Company, multiple well-known ballets with the Company of Dance Arts, the New York Jazz Choreography Project and various productions in the tri-state area. Elaenee is a faculty member at the Academy of Dance Arts, Movement Dance Academy in West Long Branch, The Center for Pilates of Red Bank, and member of the artistic staff for The Company of Dance Arts, serving as ballet mistress. She received her Pilates certification from the Kane School of Core Integration in NYC and is a certified FLX Conditioner Specialist.
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Jennifer Burger
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Miranda Taylor, Dancer, Choreogrpaher,Teacher
Miranda Taylor, trained at the Academy of Dance Arts in Red Bank, NJ and received a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has taught and choreographed for the past 20 years. She is beyond grateful to be able to call herself a "dancer" again and to perform with in good company dance.

