KATIE KILBOURN, Artistic Director, Co-founder
Katie Kilbourn, a Sacramento native, began her dance journey on the West Coast before earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Dance Performance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. After relocating to New York, she danced with several companies, including Balasole, J/D Dansfolk, and IKADA. Throughout her career, Katie became increasingly aware of the pressure to conform to certain body standards, a challenge she personally faced.
In 2015, Katie co-founded Borne Dance Company with Kianna Moye, focusing on mental health and eating disorder awareness. As Borne's Artistic Director for six years in New York City, Katie led the company in promoting body positivity, self-acceptance, and recovery through dance. Drawing from her personal experiences, she collaborated closely with therapists to create therapeutic workshops that inspire compassion and understanding. Her commitment to this cause was further developed by her four years of volunteer work with the National Eating Disorders Association.
After her time in New York, Katie returned to Sacramento, where she opened a second branch of Borne Dance Company. Along with Borne, Katie is extremely passionate about arts education. She continues her work as an educator, teaching at the School at the Sacramento Ballet and with the Teaching Artist Company at the Clara. Now, as the owner of the Borne Arts Collective in East Sacramento, Katie fosters a welcoming and healthy environment where dancers of all ages can explore their passion for movement. To learn more about her vision, visit the "Our Vision" page.
MONICA PADILLA, Assistant Director, Dancer
Monica is a multidisciplinary artist that specializes in aerial acrobatics and dance. She fuses together aerial and decades of classical ballet training, making her known for her grace and poise in the air.While ballet is her forte, on the ground Monica is also trained in jazz, contemporary and modern dance. She has most recently collaborated with SacDanceLab, Hip Service and Borne Dance Company in the Sacramento area. In the air, she specializes in aerial silks, hammock, lyra and she enjoys the silver kisses of aerial chain. She captivates audiences with rich storytelling through the use of musicality and dynamic movements, leaving them in awe at her acrobatics. Her performances have enchanted audiences across a variety of venues, from the Crocker Art Museum and Napa Language Academy, to the Rancho Victoria Vineyard, backyard get togethers and corporate retreats. Monica has an insatiable thirst to continue growing as an artist and coach. She currently lives in Sacramento, CA and when not performing you can catch her teaching in the community. Her experience with movement artists across disciplines has brought to light the immense amounts of pressure that individuals put on themselves to fit the mold of what they think their bodies should look like. As a member of Borne Dance Company Monica is excited to use performance art to raise awareness on mental health and eating disorders to transpire change in the community.
ALEXIS BOSEMAN, Dancer
International dance educator, choreographer and creative director Alexis Boseman uses dance to help develop social-emotional learning in others. The Sacramento native trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Bachata, Heels, and Acrobatics, has set work on organizations such as Borne Arts Collective, Mirror Image Dance Company, American River College, River City Dance Academy, Ignite Dance Academy, Fancy Feet Dance Academy, and more. In addition, the multi-hyphenate has served as head administrative support, competition team director and music engineer. As a touring international dance educator, Boseman has taught for festivals and master classes in Cebu, Philippines. As a professional dancer, Boseman participates as a company member for bi-coastal performance ensemble, Borne Dance Company as well as Nhan Ho Project. She also has performed as a dancer in music videos such as “Uber” by Tikibooya and “Run It Up” by Ode To Saturday. Alexis Boseman holds an Associates degree in Dance, Sociology and Psychology from American River College and has recently graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Minor in Sociology from the University of California, Davis. Alexis also started her own dance company ANB Dance Co in October of 2023. This company is based on body positivity and sexual liberation in femme dance styles.
Rhia Guadalupe
Dancer
Rhia Guadalupe is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Sacramento. She began dancing at Step 1 Dance & Fitness at age 7, spending 8 years on the competitive team and training in styles such as contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, and jazz. After high school, she continued teaching at Step One while earning her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food from Sacramento State. Rhia also danced with Nhan Ho Project for four years, where she grew as both a performer and collaborator.
She is now in her second year with Borne Dance Company and is grateful for the opportunity to create and perform with the collective. In addition, Rhia teaches at Step One Dance & Fitness and Borne Arts Collective, while also leading her own dance company. She is excited to continue sharing her passion for dance and creating spaces that inspire connection and community through movement.
Tallulah Orosz
Dancer
Tallulah is elated to be joining Borne Dance Company for their first season. They started dancing at the age of 11, training in multiple dance techniques, including: ballet, jazz, hip hop, and contemporary, under the mentorship of Pepper Von and Nhan Ho. Since 2021, Tallulah has danced for multiple local companies, including Sacramento Cabaret, Sac Dance Company, Dynamic EnerG, and the Linda Bair Dance Company.
While performing was their first love, Tallulah fell in love with teaching when they began teaching heels classes in 2022. Since then, they have taught multiple styles including: heels, burlesque jazz, musical theater, jazz funk, and contemporary. Through their further work as an Arts Educator and Choreographer for Norcal School of the Arts, a local nonprofit, Tallulah specializes in social-emotional learning and healing through creative movement for all ages.
Tallulah is a recent graduate of CSU Sacramento, with a BA in Theater and Dance, training under the mentorship of Philip Flickinger, Megan Brunsvold-Mercedes, Lorelei Bayne, and many other influential educators.
For more information on Tallulah and their work, you can follow them on Instagram @lulahsimone or @tntartscollective916.
Rahcel Angulo-Bailey
Dancer
Sacramento born choreographer, Rachel Angulo-Bailey, received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance at California State University Sacramento in 2020. Rachel grew up in a small town where dance was taught outside of her Orangevale perimeters. She began tapping at the age of two when her mother became a traveling Tap instructor for Montessories and Park & Recreation locations. After suffering from Slipped Femoral Capital Epiphysis at the age of 12, Rachel decided she wanted to re-strengthen her body through dance.
Rachel furthered her training from multiple professional dancers such as Aubri Siebert, Philip Flickinger, Ed Brazo, Bernard Brown, Lisa Ross, Heidi McLean, Nahn Ho, Samuel Fulk, as well as Afia and Nafi Thompson within Contemporary, Modern, Tap, Jazz, Ballet, and African Caribbean aesthetics. Rachel is honored to have trained and performed for many well-known choreographers of the time such as Nolan T’sani, Li Chiao Ping, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Philip Flickinger, and Valerie Gnassounou.
Rachel has continued working in the dance field as a teacher for Sacramento Ballet and a Performing Arts instructor at Juniper Hollow. Occasionally she showcases her own works under the company name Anguloarts.
Annette Reich
Dancer
At the age of two, Annette put her ballet slippers on for the very first time. Her first steps in her tot-tutu and baby ballet bun began her life-long love of dance. Ever since, Annette has pursued artistic, technical, and, even, a collegiate-level of excellence in the art of dance. From ballet to contemporary, tap to jazz, and a few styles in between, she has almost trained in it all. Her dance career now spans over 20 years of dedication, investment, and passion for this beautiful art form, seven of which have been dedicated to teaching the next generation of young dancers. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Belhaven University.
KACIE YOUNG, Apprentice
Kacie Young is a well rounded dancer in Ballet, Tap, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, Acro, Modern,and Breakdancing. Kacie’s love for dance started by the age of 18 months, at 5 years old she wanted to be a professional dancer, has competed since the age of 5- 19 years old with solo’s, duo’s, and group dances in all genres. Kacie is currently attending college at DVC College as a dance major, works at the Dance Factory
Lelo Jamison
Apprentice
Lelo got her start in cheerleading in elementary school performing in the largest and oldest football, cheerleading, and dance organization, Pop Warner. In addition to performing at halftime and on the sidelines, she was also a Competitive Cheerleader. In high school she started on the Jr. Varsity cheer team, and worked her way up to Varsity by junior year.
Lelo has struggled with Anxiety and Depression throughout most of her life - though she was not aware that’s what she was experiencing until a few years after high school.
Following high school, Lelo stopped cheerleading as a result of her disorder(s) and remained inactive. 3 years ago, she found a TikToker named Lemongrasses, who was diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), and was getting back into Ballet as an adult. Lelo found inspiration in seeing their progress in Ballet and in following their journey living with DID. From there, she started taking Ballet classes at 25 - as an adult who had no prior dance experience aside from cheer.
Thereafter, she found Contemporary, which is what she would come to use as an escape/release from the struggle of living with severe mental illness. She continued taking classes in any and every style she had access to. From Modern to Acro, Heels to Ecstatic, Line Dancing and U-Jam, to partnered styles such as Salsa, Bachata, Zouk, Cumbia, Cha Cha, West-Coast Swing, and the like, she found safety in the release dance gave her from the difficulties of mental illness.
In the last year, at 27 years old, Lelo was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, and Insomnia. She started going to both group and individual therapy, in addition to starting psychiatric medication for the first time. She plans to utilize dance as a means of healing and expression for the rest of her life. Despite primarily dancing recreationally, Lelo is very intentional about being in class and in ensuring she makes the most out of the classes she takes. Her goal is to reach people through movement.
This makes her SO grateful for the opportunity to dance with Borne Dance Company. She looks forward to opening up the discussion for advocacy of mental health issues and eating disorders from lived experiences through communal efforts and love.