Meet the Company

Katie grew up in Wellesley, MA where she began dancing at the age of three. She trained at two local dance studios in the following styles of dance: ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, tap, hip hop, and acrobatics. She began teaching her own dance classes at age sixteen. After high school, Katie attended Roger Williams University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in May, 2014, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and Performance Studies and a minor in Biology. During her time at RWU, she worked with numerous choreographers from across New England, New York, Europe, and Asia.

Upon graduating from RWU, Katie began teaching at dance studios in the Greater-Boston area as well as the South Shore. She also teaches dance classes in public and private schools in and around Boston (both during the school day and after-school).

Around the same time that she started a career in dance education, Katie pursued opportunities to dance professionally in Boston. She was a member of Rainbow Tribe, Inc. from 2014-2021, and has also danced with two smaller contemporary companies: Grant Jacoby and Dancers and Penumbra:RME from 2014-2015. While in Rainbow Tribe, Inc. she choreographed a number of dances for their annual performances, and gradually took on more leadership roles and responsibilities throughout the years.

Being Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Mosaic Dance Inc. has been an incredible honor. Katie is so excited to see where this chapter of her life will take her!

Henry "kidspin" Kasdon loves to dance. Whether at a party, onstage, in class, a battle or a video; he's always ready to break it down. Combining his athletic experience and love for music, he started out his dance career as a freshman at Tufts University in 1998 as a Breaker. He quickly spread into all styles of hip hop, and throughout his college career he expanded into jazz, modern, and various cultural dances. After graduating in 2002, Henry joined Rainbow Tribe and began teaching hip hop at Boston University and Harvard University. In the following years he expanded to various elementary schools, high schools and dance studios. He has spent time teaching for Boston Ballet, Berklee College of Music, and Boston Conservatory. He was featured in the only Boston episode of MTV's My Super Sweet 16. In 2008 Henry co-founded Bside and has been Director ever since. Along with his ongoing classes, he teaches master classes all over New England under the Hip Hop Umbrella. From breaking to boogaloo, reggae, funk and krump, he works on both choreography and freestyling. As a DJ, drummer, filmmaker, property manager, coach, husband and father, he has a full life - but there is always time to dance. Henry continues to be the director of Bside with Mosaic Dance Inc.

Charlene has been dancing since the age of 2. She was trained at Dance Explosion in Dedham, MA and was a member of their competitive team from 7 to 18 years old. Charlene began teaching at the age of 14, and that spurred her passion to stay in the dance world as much as possible. As a teacher at Dance Explosion, and during her tenure in Dance Theatre Group at BU, Charlene entered the world of choreography- specifically choreographing jazz, contemporary, and tap. In addition to dance, she was avid in musical theatre in high school; performing in Once On This Island as Ti Moune, and Footloose as Rusty. She attended Boston University, where she received her BA in Psychology, with a minor in dance in 2015, and then her Master in Social Work in 2018. Upon undergrad graduation in 2015, Charlene then joined Rainbow Tribe and has been in love with the company ever since. Though originally joining just Tribe, she quickly joined Embrace and Linx in 2016; and her most recent choreography bio includes both a jazz and contemporary piece for Embrace in the past two years. Currently under Mosaic Dance Inc., she is the director of Embrace.

Rachel Buffer hails from North Brunswick, NJ and began her dance training at the School of the Arts Dance Education Center. She has been dancing with Boston-based Tribe the Dance Company since 2008, serving as rehearsal director and embarking on an all female Hip-Hop company under Tribe’s umbrella, Linx. She is also a member of the all female Hip-Hop crew, We The Females. As a choreographer, Rachel has created full-length pieces for Tribe and WTF, as well as choreography for various youth troupes throughout New England and in the tri-state area. Rachel is a passionate teacher and has instructed master classes all over Massachusetts. Miss Buffer has also worked with fellow New England musicians and artists serving as a choreographer and backup dancer for shows and music videos

Greg Dunlap started his dance career with Boston University’s Filipino Students Association (BUFSA) in 2001. BUFSA introduced Greg to traditional Filipino and hip hop dance styles.

Greg joined Rainbow Tribe and Bside in 2008. Since then, he has choreographed multiple dances for Bside and handled videography for the company’s annual shows and flash mobs.

When not dancing, Greg works as a Sales Engineer in the cyber security industry. He also enjoys gaming, watching the Celtics and spending time with his wife and daughter.

Greg is very excited to continue his dance journey with Mosaic Dance Inc!

Cory Fazio has been dancing for over 20 years. His dance career began with b-boying in high school to founding IC Break and dancing with IC Unbound. After college, Cory joined Rainbow Tribe and performed with the company for over a decade. In recent years, Cory has brought his dance styles to the world of professional wrestling entertaining crowds throughout New England.

Abi has been dancing for over 25 years and joined Mosaic Dance Inc in the fall of 2022. She began her dance career at the Dance Gallery of Melrose, MA and then later LaPierre School of Dance in Reading, MA where she studied jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, and hip hop and performed on their competition teams. She continued dancing at Boston University under the direction of Micki Taylor-Pinney as a dance minor and performed with the BU Dance Theatre Group. She also danced at the University of Auckland, New Zealand with their dance studies program in 2014, including a week long dance installation at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. When Abi is not dancing, she spends her days as a cyber security analyst at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and teaches trauma-informed yoga weekly. She is extremely happy to have found a dance community with Mosaic Dance Inc.

Taylor Lombard has been dancing since a young age, growing up she studied at Dance Track in Wakefield, MA and Center Stage Dance Studio in Melrose, MA. Taylor then went on to receive a BA in Psychology and Theater Arts at Brandeis University, where she was involved in choreographing various student musical theater productions and a choreographer, dancer, and board member for Adagio Dance Company. Taylor received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy from Lesley University. Currently, she is an outpatient therapist working as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Registered Dance-Movement Therapist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. When she’s not dancing with Mosaic Dance Inc., you can catch Taylor performing in various local burlesque productions such as Ballet Russes’s “The Slutcracker” and the upcoming “Can You Feel Me Now?”, a tribute show to Britney Spears.

Ester Tos was born in Houston, TX but considers herself a Bostonian since being raised here since the age of two.

She began Rhythmic Gymnastics at age 9 while having prior Artistic gymnastics training including some Ballet. She trained for 10 years at the Olympic Academy of Gymnastics with her coach who competed at the 1993 European World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics. Ester went on to compete in many State, Regional and National competitions. Once in college, Ester began her dance training in 2003 when she was sophomore in college and continued on to perform as well as become a teacher for the studio.

At BAD, she has been trained in jazz, modern, lyrical, character, street, contemporary and hip hop since her dancing life began. She has performed for many years at several of Boston's Landmark Venues including Primetime at the Boston Garden Celtics games, "Making Strides" at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, Calderwood Pavilion and guest performances at the Dance Complex, BU Theater, Pine Manor, Family theatre, and the like.

In 2010, she joined Contemporarily Out of order where she spent three years training and performing all over the city of Boston. In 2013, she became a member of Rainbow Tribe Inc., until 2021. Most recently Ester is a proud member of newly formed, Mosaic Dance Inc. and is excited to continue dancing and performing with a group of fantastic people.

Ester is a mom of two, and when she isn’t dancing, she is a Finance Manager for a General practice law firm and Real estate agent.

Raeann is a lifelong lover of all styles of dance. She started dancing when she was 3 years old, taking jazz, tap, and ballet throughout her childhood. As she enter her teenage years, she expanded into modern dance and performed in a pre-professional ballet company. Raeann completed her undergraduate studies at

Ohio Northern University, studying psychology and dance. She later attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education earning her M.Ed. degree in Human Development and Psychology, concentrating in dance education. During this time, Raeann interned with the Boston Ballet and Cambridge Public Schools, offering dance education programs. She was also a resident choreographer with the Harvard Dance Program and a member of the Harvard Radcliffe Modern Dance Company.

Throughout college and graduate school, Raeann worked with several dance artists and companies, including Ailey II, Pilobolus, Kent Boyd, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Eisenhower Dance, Erich Yetter, and the American College Dance Festival Association.

Raeann currently spends her non-dancing hours working as a software product manager, loving on her dog Napoleon and cat Ainsley, and traveling with her partner.