Epilogue- Rendering Nostalgia
Choreography: Sarah Walston Phillips in collaboration with performers
Performers: Bre Covais, Gracie Scaglione, Hannah Thompson
Music: Julianna Barwick, Danny Mulhern, Roger Goula
Costuming: Sarah Walston Phillips
Epilogue- Rendering Nostalgia is an excerpt from ATLAS Modern Ballet’s upcoming spring performance Embers and Echoes, which explores vulnerability in the tipping point of human emotions. Embers and Echoes is a title that reflects the continuously burning energy of emotion that stirs inside of us alongside the recognition of connection to our memories and to others.
ATLAS Modern Ballet is a creation-based dance company focused on bringing new performance art to local audiences in Tampa Bay and beyond. The company seeks to share the art of movement through bodily mappings of experiences across spaces in a contemporary movement language that pulls at the seams of ballet. ATLAS uses balletic movement vocabulary to expand tradition into modern concepts with choreography that incorporates pointe work and contemporary dance methods. With a focus on innovation and igniting conversations, creative works aim to investigate the shifting of human experiences as they evolve through familiar or new patterns. We aim to excite and engage diverse communities by bringing them together through shared experiences of art.
Bre Covais
Bre Covais is a dancer based in Tampa, FL. She is currently pursuing her associate's degree on the dance pathway at Hillsborough Community College. Bre began her dance journey as a competitive dancer finding versatility in a variety of styles. Pursing dance in college lead to her focus on modern and contemporary dance with maintenance technique in ballet. In 2024 and 2025, she had the opportunity to choreograph two works for the HCC Student Choreography Showcase. She has been included in dance films such as the CurArt Agency Dance Film and the Dance Rising Film. Bre has been to numerous professional intensives and workshops including Stewart Owen DELVE, FLOCK, and Water Street. She also plans to attend the FLOCK professional intensive in Chicago this summer, to further her training. Currently, Bre is an understudy for the ATLAS Modern Ballet Company founded and directed by Sarah Walston Phillips.
Gracie Scaglione
Gracie Scaglione began dancing in 2004, training in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, and Acrobatics. She furthered her studies as a Dance Major at USF, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance, with a concentration in Modern dance. She attended the University of South Florida on a full academic scholarship and has since received talent grants and scholarships from the dance program and its contributors. Gracie has taught a variety of styles of dance at Stagelights Performing Arts Center beginning in 2020, including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Pointe, Acro, and Contemporary. She has choreographed and performed in works for USF College of the Arts, performed for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Summer Intensive, and has worked as a Summer Nights performer at Busch Gardens. She enjoys performing, choreographing, and teaching, and intends to make dance her lifelong passion!
Hannah Thompson
Hannah Thompson is a Tampa native who began her dance training at just two years old. She spent most of her life training in classical ballet at Americas Ballet School which is now known as Tampa City Ballet School. During the summers, she attended many intensives at prestigious ballet programs around the country such as ABT New York, The Kirov Academy in DC, Ballet West, and Bolshoi NY. At 16, she began dancing with Tampa City Ballet as a trainee and was promoted to a company member in 2020. In 2024 she graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in dance performance and choreography. She is very excited to be joining ATLAS this season as a company artist.
Sarah Walston Phillips
Sarah Walston Phillips is a professional dancer, choreographer and instructor based out of Tampa, FL. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of ATLAS Modern Ballet, a new professional performance company serving the Tampa community. Sarah graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of South Florida in 2015. At the University of South Florida, she had the privilege of working with and performing works by choreographers such as Alonzo King, Maurice Causey, Robert Moses and Jennifer Archibald among many other guests and faculty members. After graduating from USF, she spent five seasons as a company member at Florida Dance Theatre where she performed and created new repertory presented by the company in Lakeland, FL and on tour. At FDT she performed principal roles in original narrative ballets and The Nutcracker, as well as in contemporary works by company directors and guests such as Jerry Opdenaker and Gregory Dolbashian. Following her time at FDT, Sarah was a member of Tampa City Ballet for two seasons as a performer, guest choreographer, and company class instructor. Sarah’s choreography has been presented in multiple festivals across the United States and internationally. She has choreographed for Florida Southern College and Hillsborough Community College's Dance Departments, where she is Adjunct Ballet and Modern Faculty. Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude in the Spring of 2022 from Jacksonville University with her MFA in Choreography.
