Delma Isles is the founder of Momentum and has produced its performances and programs since 1982.  She holds an M.F.A. in Dance from New York University and a B.A. in Teaching of Ballet from Virginia Intermont College.  She has danced with the Cincinnati Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Atlanta Ballet.  In New York City she worked with Rachel Lampert and Stuart Hodes, as well as choreographer Steve Goldbas and stage director Mark Roth.  She currently coordinates the dance program at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus.

In Miami she was a soloist with Fusion Dance Company and has appeared as a Guest Artist with Ballet Concerto Company, the Greater Miami Opera, the Miami Chamber Symphony, the Gold Coast Opera Company, the Mirochnik Ballet, and many others.  She studied in Paris, France on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship in 1978, and was awarded State of Florida Arts Fellowships for Choreography in 1987 and 1992, as well as Honorable Mentions in 1997 and 1998; and New Forms Florida Grants in 1993 and 1998.  She shares a daytime Emmy award for her choreography for the Coconut Grove Children’s Theater’s production of The Me Nobody Knows in 1999.

In addition to creating more than forty works for Momentum, she has choreographed two off-Broadway shows, several works for the Florida Grand Opera and the Miami Chamber Symphony, work for the Florida Shakespeare Festival, and her work has been featured on three programs produced by WPBT Channel 2.  Her Sand Dance was included in a film celebrating the arts in Florida commissioned by the Florida Arts Council, and she has created works for the Dance Umbrella of Greater Miami, Metro-Dade Art in Public Places, the Center for the Fine Arts (Now Miami Art Museum), Miami Dance Theatre, the Tallahassee Civic Ballet, Bristol Concert Ballet Company (Bristol, Va.), the Northwest Florida Ballet, Ballet Pensacola, and Ballet Concerto Company, among others.

She has been guest faculty twice for the Florida Dance Festival, as well as for the Northwest Florida Dance Festival in Pensacola and many other festivals and workshops.  She has performed and lectured for the Florida Arts for a Complete Education conferences, and performed with Momentum, as well as teaching classes and workshops at the Jose Limon International Dance Festival in Mazatlan & Culiacan, Mexico in 1995.

She was the Executive Director of the Children's Cultural Coalition from 1995-1998, and is a designated Florida Department of State Arts in Education Artist.  She created the dance portion of a full Performing Arts curriculum at La Salle High School.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Arts Action Alliance (a South Florida based arts advocacy group), and formerly served on the statewide Boards of Arts for a Complete Education and the Florida Dance Association.  She was awarded the 2003 Doris Leeper Award for her contributions to Arts Education throughout Florida by Arts for a Complete Education, a statewide arts education advocacy group.

In 2007 she was selected for a Miami Made Project by the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.  In 2008, 2009, 2011 she was selected for Creative Capital Consulting Grants. In summer of 2009 she received a grant from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Department for study in India.

In 2010, Momentum’s entire 28-year video archive, consisting largely of Iles’ work, was incorporated into the Lynn and Louis Wolfson Archive of the Moving Image as a permanent record of the company’s contribution to dance in Florida.

In 2011 she was asked to consult on the dance portion of the national CLEP Test for the Humanities.

Dr. Devin Marsh is an accomplished performer, writer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist.  He has toured internationally with his band Nori Nori supporting his three self-produced CDs.  He has composed, recorded and produced for various films, commercials, ballets, dance groups and other artists, all while managing his recording facility, The Chill Lodge.  On a Gary Burton Scholarship, Dr. Marsh studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.  He continued his studies at the University of Miami where he received his Bachelors in Music Education, a Masters in Commercial Music and a Doctorate in Theory and Composition.  He serves as a lecturer for the Media Writing and Production department at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.  He is now proud to join the A.P. Mays family as the director of Television Production as well as teaching Sound and Recording and Music Theory.

Marilyn R. Skow is the Chair of the Theatre Department at Florida International University.  She is also one of four award winning faculty designers in the Theatre Department.  Prior to coming to FIU she worked as a professional costume designer in NYC where she designed a number of works for the New York Baroque Dance Company and the Omega Dance Company.  She also worked as a draper in the New York Shakespeare Festival costume shop, working on such shows as the original Chorus Line, Shakespeare in the Park productions and ballet costumes for the Eliot Feld Ballet Company.  Here in Miami she frequently designs for Momentum Dance Company and the Dance Now! Ensemble, in addition to her design assignments for the FIU theatre program.  Her costumes for the South Florida Shakespeare Festival Company’s rotating productions of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received a Carbonell nomination.  She also frequently serves as the dramaturg on department productions.  She received her B. A. from University of Northern Iowa, her M.A. from Schiller College in Berlin, and her M.Ph. from Columbia University, NY, NY.

Barbie Freeman is Momentum Principal Dancer and Biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  A native of Alexandria, VA, she trained with various schools, including Chris Collins Dance Studio, Starmaker Dance Studio and the Russell School of Ballet, while performing with the Fairfax Ballet.  She received summer training at the Joffrey School in NYC and studied dance at Shenandoah University.  She moved to New York to train on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and later relocated to Philadelphia to dance with Philadanco II and study at the Pennsylvania Ballet while pursuing pre-med studies at Temple University.  She has also studied at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and performed at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.  She has performed in classical repertory such as the Nutcracker and Paquita, as well as original choreography by Christopher Gillis, Thomas Russell, Fred Benjamin, Keith Lee, Lynne Wimmer, Gretchen Ward-Warren, and Sandra Robinson-Waldrop among others.  For Momentum she has created roles in works such as Jungle, Birds Flying in Warped Time, Black Feeling, Shadows and Accumulations II, The Tyranny of Beauty, Parsing the Curve, and roles in many children’s works.  She has also performed historical modern works with Momentum including Doris Humphrey’s Water Study and Night Spell and Jose Limon’s Exiles.  In addition to her dance career, she has an undergraduate and a Masters degree in Biology from FIU, and is a genetic technician at the USDA.  She has one son and a new baby daughter.

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