Our Team

Production Manager

Amelia is an award winning theater practitioner who has been wearing many “hats” all over Austin since 2008. She is an actor, visual artist, yoga teacher, and movement artist. She is a company member of Vortex Rep, En Route Productions, Circus Picnic, and The Hidden Room Theater. She worked as Production Manager for En Route Productions off and on since 2015. She is thrilled to be working as the Production Manager for Shakti Moves as the company continues to grow and evolve. She is deeply enamored with the mission of Shakti and is honored to be a part of such an inspiring dance company. Amelia is grateful to Erica Santiago for supporting and encouraging her as an artist.

Artistic Director’s Assistant/Social Media Coordinator

Brianna B's path to dance has been nonlinear. She began in middle school as a baton twirler with minimal prior dance experience. In high school, she dug deeper into dance through color guard, falling in love with the grounded feeling dance can provide. She continued to compete at a high level with Origins Open Color Guard through college. Brianna's color guard experiences inspired her to pursue a Minor in Dance at Texas State University, which she completed in two years. When she graduated in May 2025, she did so with a BS in Psychology, a Minor in Dance, and a Minor in Anthropology. She believes in the healing impact of dance and is excited to share and create that with others. 

Guest Choreographer (photo by Corey Haynes)

Lisa Nicks run run leaped with her degree from Sam Houston State University to Houston, and danced James Clouser’s Space/Dance/Theater, and Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre. She performed regularly in Houston Grand Opera, Theater Under the Stars, and Children’s Theater Festival productions. A crash in the economy sent her packing to NYC, where she met and married the Doug Elkins' Dance Company: dancing, rehearsal directing, teaching, and administrating. Since relocating to Austin in 2001, she’s danced and choreographed independently, spent six seasons with Kathy Dunn Hamrick, and three years with Kate Warren Circuitous Dance. Her troupe: Lisa Nicks and her Band of Wild Ponies, is a collective of free-lance and prance dancers who commit by project, making movement dreams come true. While her leotards are drying Lisa Nicks /Emerald City creates postage stamp collages with new and used stamps. Please visit:  www.postagestampcollage.shop‍ Ms. Nicks Loves Crabtress, is a caregiver to her parents, and is president of the Austin Texas Stamp Club.