Sarah Marie’s natural love for dance grew over her fifteen years of training. She trained with the Louisiana Delta Ballet, Missy Crain Performing Company, and DBK Dance & Performing Arts. Currently, Sarah Marie is pursuing a double major in Dance and Sport’s Medicine and Exercise Science at Belhaven University. At Belhaven she is involved with the Dance Department as a DOXA member by participating in student and faculty concert choreography. She is also an active member of the Sports Medicine and Exercise Science’s SPEX club. Outside her majors’ departments she serves her university as the Vice President of the Conservation Club. Sarah Marie Littleton learned from a young age about the importance of community interrelations from growing up in her small-town home in northeast Louisiana. Her goal now is to build strong communities where the fields of art, science, and faith can come together. In the future, she hopes to create more relational connections between her major’s departments as well as other departments on campus. Through Feet Speak Sarah Marie looks forward to uniting communities through her interconnected fields of interest.
Rayley Farnam is from the Bay Area, California. She is currently studying at Belhaven University, pursuing a BA in Dance and a BA in English. She began dancing at the age of five, and she has performed several lead roles including Kitri from the ballet Don Quixote, and the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker. She has participated in several mission trips during high school which allowed her to serve both within and outside of the United States. Foreign countries and cultures have gained a special place in her heart after having lived for six months in Spain during her eighth-grade year. Rayley is excited to join her passions for foreign missions and dance through Feet Speak Dance.
Catherine Lukner grew up in Houston, Texas where she began her dance training at the age of seven. While living in Houston, she had the opportunity to train with Houston Ballet Academy, Ad Deum Dance Company, Uptown Dance Company, and other dance schools and companies in Houston and across the United States. Currently, she attends Belhaven University pursuing a B.F.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Computer Science with a Mathematics minor. While studying at Belhaven, she developed a connection between her Christian faith and the art form of dance. Through Feet Speak, she hopes to deepen this connection and share her passions for dance, people, and the Kingdom of God with the rest of the world.
Native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Alyssa Rainey is in her junior year as a Dance Major studying for her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree at Belhaven University. She has trained in classical ballet since age eleven, and began her formal study of modern and contemporary at Belhaven. Alyssa is a fervent lover of music and theater, and hopes to pursue a career in the professional performing arts industry. She is passionate about seeing the Kingdom of God displayed through the arts and is excited to partner with God in what he is doing through Feet Speak and around the world!
Anne Bishop, a native New Yorker, has recently relocated to the South where she is pursuing an MFA in Dance at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. Her passion for dance has led her through arts programs with Youth With a Mission where she was able to see the US and the world. Mrs. Bishop dwelled in the Southwest of US for some years where she earned a BA in Dance Performance and Production, and an MATD, at New Mexico State University. In the past decade, Anne has been able to be a part of Project in Motion in Las Cruces, NM, as well as teach in a wide range of settings including: public schools, Universities, studios, and fitness arenas where dance is valued and passed along. Anne is currently thrilled to be a part of what God is doing through Feet Speak this year and expects new works and relationships that will bring Him Glory!