Our Instructors

Lead Instructors

Julia Andreas was first introduced to aerial in 2021 after she saw Mountain Air Dance perform at the Sweet Pea Festival. Instantly entranced, she signed up for classes the next day. Julia loves the strength and grace that comes with aerial arts and is excited to learn every apparatus. She extends that excitement for learning to her students, encouraging them to be creative and adventurous.
Before aerial, Julia was a competitive figure skater for the Washington (DC) Figure Skating Club. Her training included exposure to several dance styles, including ballet, jazz, lyrical, and modern. When not at the studio, Julia loves to hike, read, play games, and snuggle her two very silly cats.

Blair Bodie is co-founder of BodiGram Dance Company. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA in choreography and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in dance. She performed with Ground Zero Dance Co., Kelly Donovan and Dancers, Joey Liew, Dance Theater of Shannon, Number 9, Joe Goode Performance Group, Cali and Company, Zaccho Dance, and Cat Call Choir. She left her native home of Virginia to teach dance, pilates, and yoga in Malaysia; where she returned regularly to produce dance works and conduct yoga workshops. Outside of her graduate school studies in NYC, her local work focused on choreography for Clay Chapman’s up and coming theater group, The Pumpkin Pie Show, and building “.... And Dancers” collective. She left NYC, to establish herself in the San Francisco Bay area as a dance theater artist. She now lives in Bozeman, MT, where she is helping to build the contemporary dance scene with Collective Movement and raising two young adventurists and movement enthusiasts.

Robyn started practicing aerial dance in 2014 in San Diego, CA. She immediately fell in love with aerial silks and has been training ever since in studios in San Francisco, Seattle and New York. When Robyn moved to Bozeman, she was delighted to find a tight knit aerial community at Mountain Air Dance where she started teaching. While silks will always be her first love, she has expanded to training on hammock, Lyra, and rope. Outside of aerial, Robyn works in web security, loves dogs, the outdoors, and all things coffee.

Rita Ramsey fell in love with aerial after taking her first class with Mountain Air Dance shortly after moving to Bozeman in 2018. With a previous background in rock climbing, she loves the combination of strength, grace and musicality that come together to make aerial so unique and engaging. Rita works full-time as an art and German teacher at CJ Middle School here in Bozeman, along with instructing for Mountain Air Dance. In her spare time, she loves to create art, travel, work on house and garden projects, and move her body in the great outdoors, be it climbing, yoga, skiing, or mountain biking.

Cecilia is an artist, teacher, performer, and choreographer with over 27 years of training in a wide variety of movement styles. Cecilia is from Massachusetts and graduated Cum Laude from Elon University with a BA in Theatre Studies and a dance minor. She also completed one year in the MFA Dance program at the University of Oregon. Cecilia has had the opportunity to perform in a variety of spaces, including but not limited to the American College Dance Festival (ACDF) Regionals in Missoula, MT, the ACDF Nationals in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center, The Marsh Studio, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, and The Lakewood Cultural Center. Cecilia previously performed with DAMAGEDANCE, BRIAH Danse, Iluminar Aerial, and In the Wings during her time in Colorado. Her dance training has heavily influenced her teaching style as a health and wellness professional (ACE CPT, ACE GFI, RYT 200). Cecilia is honored to teach contemporary and aerial dance in Bozeman at BDA and Mountain Air Dance. When Cecilia is not dancing, she's most likely hitting the trails or whitewater rafting with her family.

Cathy Stone Werner is a gymnast turned modern dancer who loves to fly! She graduated from Texas State University in 2000 with a B.S. in Dance and then went on to complete the M.F.A. program in Choreography at the University of Colorado in 2003. Cathy has taught and performed with Frequent Flyers Productions, an innovative aerial dance company in Boulder, Colorado; as well as Wicked Sister Dance Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cathy founded Mountain Air Dance in 2009; Montana's first aerial dance company. Her classes, workshops and performances have thrilled Bozeman and surrounding communities ever since. Cathy continues to learn new styles and approaches to teaching, performing and choreographing wherever life takes her and has a love for sharing aerial arts with her community.
Through the melding of modern dance, gymnastics, yoga, pilates and aerial arts Cathy has created her own choreographic and teaching style that moves dancers through the vertical space on the stage and creates strong healthy dancers. She believes in the healthful benefits of dance and strives to pass her knowledge and love for the art on to future generations.