Joshua Blake Carter was appointed Artistic Director of Dance Kaleidoscope in 2023 after a 14 year career with Giordano Dance Chicago.
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Joshua began his dance training at the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at age 14. He continued his dance education at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he received his BFA in Dance. During his time in Arizona, Joshua’s work Moura-Sion for the UA Dance Ensemble secured him as a finalist in Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s (BNC) dancemakers2.0 choreography competition. In the spring of his senior year, Joshua created Mothertongue for BNC, marking his first ever professional commission. The work went on to win the competition, landing him his second commission and launching his choreographic career.
Christel DeHaan Artistic Director
In June of 2020, Indianapolis lost a thoughtful and dedicated community leader and arts supporter, Christel DeHaan. Before her passing, Christel expressed her desire to award Legacy Gifts as the culminating act of her philanthropic organization, the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. Dance Kaleidoscope is honored to be a Christel DeHaan Legacy Gift Recipient. In memory of Christel’s generosity and legacy, Dance Kaleidoscope has gratefully retitled our Artistic Director as the Christel DeHaan Artistic Director in perpetuity.
Kim Gutfreund joined Dance Kaleidoscope as Executive Director in June 2021. Kim has more than twenty-five years of nonprofit leadership experience, serving as executive director of Jackson School of the Arts in Michigan and as the founding executive director of Peter Sparling Dance Co. in Ann Arbor. As executive director of the school of the arts for 16 years, Kim was a driving force behind the tremendous growth of the organization and the community’s arts and cultural sector. She positioned the organization as a leading provider of accessible arts education and developed a public-private partnership with the City of Jackson to relocate the organization downtown to support organizational growth and the city’s economic development. At the school of the arts, she managed a capital campaign to transform the historic Masonic Temple into a center for the arts, and when she arrived at Dance Kaleidoscope, with the Board and David Hochoy, completed the capital campaign to create an artistic home for the company.
Ms. Gutfreund has been active in volunteer activities and has served on numerous boards. Currently she serves on the Executive Board of the Indianapolis Consortium of Arts Administrators. She served as a member of the Indy Arts Council Equity Task Force and in Michigan, served as the Chair of the Jackson Public Arts Commission and on the boards of the Arts and Cultural Alliance, Business and Professional Women, the Jackson Symphony Guild and was a frequent panelist for the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.
After graduating from Valdosta State University with a BA in English, she worked in advertising and public relations, at the Americans for the Arts and then at the American Express Foundation in the international philanthropic department.
Sean Aaron Carmon is a former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where he performed many principal roles — including Mikhail Baryshnikov’s original role in Alvin Ailey’s Pas de Duke — and featured roles in ballets by other notable choreographers such as Judith Jamison, Ulysses Dove, Wayne McGregor, Robert Battle, Jiri Kylian, Aszure Barton, Johan Inger and Paul Taylor, to name only a few.
Mr. Carmon has performed as a guest artist around the world with Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, Houston Contemporary Dance Company and more. In addition, he has been featured on Conan, the national TBS television talk show, Good Morning America, LIVE with Regis and Kelly, Lincoln Center at the Movies, broadcast nationally on PBS, and he was profiled in the Huffington Post for his work as an AGMA union representative. As a musical theatre performer, Sean has been a featured performer on Broadway, regional theatre, and national tour stages across America in La Cage aux Folles (Original 2010 Broadway Revival Cast), The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s The Lion King, Kinky Boots, and Ragtime.
Mr. Carmon is a Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship nominee, a National Choreographers Initiative awardee and a YAGP Outstanding Choreographer. He won The Joffrey Ballet’s Winning Works award in 2017 and has been chosen as Audience Choice Award winner on several occasions. He has had the pleasure of choreographing a world premiere ballet for the Indianapolis Ballet and the Indianapolis Summer Stock Stage’s production of The Prom, both in 2025, and contributed choreography for SSS’s 2026 production of Ragtime. Sean has been commissioned as Resident Choreographer for prominent institutions such as The Black Artists Dance Collective in Atlanta and the Banyan Dance Festival in West Palm Beach. He continues to create works for Dance Kaleidoscope and to educate dancers worldwide as a freelance artist, choreographing critically acclaimed, award-winning dance works and teaching master classes for festivals, companies, studios, and universities across the country and internationally.
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Kim Galloway joined Dance Kaleidoscope as the Operations Manager in April 2025. Originally from Sidney, Ohio, Kim graduated with honors from Indiana University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, concentrating in Contemporary Dance with a minor in Exercise Science. She danced and choreographed professionally in Chicago for 10 years before moving back to Indiana in 2024 with her husband, Dance Kaleidoscope company member Ryan Galloway. Kim continues to dance as a company artist with Pulse Dance Theater and is on the teaching faculty at Stage 1 Dance Academy and the Indianapolis School of Ballet.
Kim has been educating dancers throughout the Midwest for nearly two decades, including five years as the owner and Artistic Director of Principle Dance in the Chicago suburbs. There, she directed and produced the annual Nutcracker and storyline recital performances, in addition to running the studio’s pre-professional performing company. She is passionate about bringing dance to the stage and community, whether from the artistic or the administrative side, and is thrilled to be part of Dance Kaleidoscope’s 55th Season!
Laura E. Glover, Lighting Designer/Production Manager, in her 36th season with DK, owns international acclaim for her lighting with Dance Kaleidoscope, Ballets de San Juan, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, and Taylor 2. Ms. Glover is also a company member of the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, as well as having lit productions for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Summit Performance Indianapolis, American Lives Theatre, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Butler Ballet, and the Indianapolis Men’s Chorus.
Her dance lighting includes over 200 world premieres and the reconstruction of the lighting of Jean Rosenthal, Thomas Skelton, Jennifer Tipton, and David Finley. Ms. Glover was awarded a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indy Arts Council in 2001 and 2019 and holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from SUNY Purchase, where she studied with Brian MacDevitt and William Mintzer.
Laura is generously sponsored by Mark and Ann Varnau.
Liberty Harris began her journey with Dance Kaleidoscope as a guest artist in the 1997 production of Carmina Burana. She then went on to dance with the Charleston Ballet Theater in South Carolina for two years. Liberty came back to Dance Kaleidoscope and is currently in her 27th season. After dancing for David Hochoy for fifteen years, she retired from performing and became his Rehearsal Director as well as the company’s Education Coordinator. Liberty has been the Director of Education for five years and runs the Dance Kaleidoscope Studio. She also works alongside Sean Aaron Carmon as one of Joshua Blake Carter’s Rehearsal Directors.
Liberty is generously sponsored by Judy Byron and Carl Murray.
Christopher Simanton became the Costume Shop and Wardrobe Manager for Dance Kaleidoscope in August 2026. With over 20 years of experience in costume construction, They specializes in stretch fabric manipulation and costume pattern drafting.
Previously, Christopher assisted with several Dance Kaleidoscope projects in 2025 and 2026.
Christopher studied Fashion Design and Metalsmithing at Indiana University. Outside of work, they enjoy scuba diving and looking at coral reefs.
Tim Alan Thompson began working for Broadway Across America after departing IUPUI in 2009. There, he managed ticketing, communications, and guest relations for more than 350 touring performances at Clowes Memorial Hall and the Murat Theatre. During that time, Tim also worked part-time for Live Nation’s Old National Centre. He departed mid-2015, moving to the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields), where he served as Assistant Manager of Guest Services through 2017.
Since The Cabaret’s spring 2018 opening, Tim has served as Audience and Artist Experience Manager, expanding the organization’s global impact and visibility and helping to curate its guest experience and communications strategies.
Tim is a champion for exceptional artistic experiences for all and is thrilled to join one of Indianapolis’ most respected & established arts organizations.
Tim and his 8-year-old dog, Tofu, live in the Community Heights Neighborhood on Indianapolis’ east side and can often be spotted strolling through Ellenberger Park.
After 32 seasons with Dance Kaleidoscope, retired Artistic Director Emeritus David Hochoy is truly an international ambassador. David Hochoy was born in Trinidad, West Indies. After receiving a B. Sc. at McGill University in Montreal, where he began studying for a career as a doctor, he continued his graduate work in theatre earning an M.A. in Directing from Penn State. It was there, at age 20, David took his first dance class and discovered his true love of dance.
