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About
At the heart of See Why Studios, creativity is more than an artistic practice - it is a way of making meaning, building relationships, and tending to our inner core. As we move through loss, change, fragmentation and uncertainty, we find that movement, story, music, and artistic collaboration helps us to release, remember, integrate, and grow. We honor the creative process: the questions and discoveries, the undoing and becoming, the individual journey and the collective experience. See Why provides a meaningful place for imagination, connection and belonging.

Instructors


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Devin Fulton

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Brittney Nevison

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Audrey Martel
is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer, living in Ojai, CA. She started her dance journey at Nordhoff High School under the direction of Kim Hoj and continued on to receive her Bachelor in Theater and Dance at UCDavis in 2020. Post graduation she helped form Stoopid Dance Company under the direction of David Grenke. She then found a home back in Ojai with local dance company, Dev Dance Theater, directed by Devin Fulton. Audrey also focuses on mentoring local choreography and dance students, as well as crafting and showing her own choreographic work.
Audrey is extremely excited to introduce NotA2ndThought, the comedic/dramatic theater duo formed alongside Chaney Holland, as collaborators on this new Dev Dance Theater show, A Hot Summer Night’s Dream.

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Kerri Krizer
Kerri is a dance educator, performer, choreographer, and somatic therapist whose work bridges dance, depth psychology, and embodied movement practices. Drawing from over a decade of teaching and performing experience, she is passionate about creating spaces where dancers can cultivate technical skill, artistic expression, and a deeper relationship with their bodies.
Currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, Kerri integrates classical ballet pedagogy with somatic principles, emphasizing presence, nervous system awareness, musicality, and creative exploration. Her work is rooted in the belief that dance can be both a rigorous art form and a pathway to greater self-awareness and connection.

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Olivia Valdellon
is a founding member of Dev Dance Theater, starting in 2017. She is from Oxnard, California and grew up dancing hip-hop and jazz. Over the years, she grew an interest in different styles of dance, such as jazz funk, contemporary, burlesque, and salsa. Her spark and love for contemporary dance started when she took her first class with Devin. After that fateful day, she has been in enthralled by this style of work. Her credits include: performing and touring with world champion salsa dancer, Abel Pena, Omambo Dance Company, and the De’Lish Dames. Dev Dance Theaters “Just As The Moon Comes”, “Drift”, “An Indefinite Duration”, and “Is It Art?” …a site specific work at the Ventura Museum, Namba Performing Arts Shows “Duets” and “The Launch”, LA Salsa Congress, Delaney Gibson’s music video “La Di Da” and Samson Szakacsy’s music video “Walk Slow. Outside of dance, she enjoys spending time with her loved ones.

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is a muitidisciplinary artist from Ojai California. Growing up participating in numerous Ojai theatrical productions, Chaney learned the immense privilege it is to work in the rich artistic home of this valley. Chaney went on to study theatre and Shakespeare in Seattle, New York, London and Chicago, where she landed at the Second City Film School. This program synthesized Chaney’s love for performing, directing and writing all in the lens of improvisation, and creating from abundance. Chaney is now living in the Ojai valley again, where she is active in Veritas Theatre, Theatre 68 in North Hollywood, and makes improvisational sketches with her fellow cast member Audrey Martel (@notaseconthought). Chaney also coaches theatre and writing to students in the valley, and is thrilled to be combining all of her training for the one-of-a-kind production of “A Hot Summer Nights Dream”
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Bio coming soon.

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Sage Stoneman
Bio coming soon.
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Devin Fulton

01
Devin Fulton

02
Brittney Nevison

03
Audrey Martel
is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer, living in Ojai, CA. She started her dance journey at Nordhoff High School under the direction of Kim Hoj and continued on to receive her Bachelor in Theater and Dance at UCDavis in 2020. Post graduation she helped form Stoopid Dance Company under the direction of David Grenke. She then found a home back in Ojai with local dance company, Dev Dance Theater, directed by Devin Fulton. Audrey also focuses on mentoring local choreography and dance students, as well as crafting and showing her own choreographic work.
Audrey is extremely excited to introduce NotA2ndThought, the comedic/dramatic theater duo formed alongside Chaney Holland, as collaborators on this new Dev Dance Theater show, A Hot Summer Night’s Dream.

04
Kerri Krizer
Kerri is a dance educator, performer, choreographer, and somatic therapist whose work bridges dance, depth psychology, and embodied movement practices. Drawing from over a decade of teaching and performing experience, she is passionate about creating spaces where dancers can cultivate technical skill, artistic expression, and a deeper relationship with their bodies.
Currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, Kerri integrates classical ballet pedagogy with somatic principles, emphasizing presence, nervous system awareness, musicality, and creative exploration. Her work is rooted in the belief that dance can be both a rigorous art form and a pathway to greater self-awareness and connection.

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Olivia Valdellon
is a founding member of Dev Dance Theater, starting in 2017. She is from Oxnard, California and grew up dancing hip-hop and jazz. Over the years, she grew an interest in different styles of dance, such as jazz funk, contemporary, burlesque, and salsa. Her spark and love for contemporary dance started when she took her first class with Devin. After that fateful day, she has been in enthralled by this style of work. Her credits include: performing and touring with world champion salsa dancer, Abel Pena, Omambo Dance Company, and the De’Lish Dames. Dev Dance Theaters “Just As The Moon Comes”, “Drift”, “An Indefinite Duration”, and “Is It Art?” …a site specific work at the Ventura Museum, Namba Performing Arts Shows “Duets” and “The Launch”, LA Salsa Congress, Delaney Gibson’s music video “La Di Da” and Samson Szakacsy’s music video “Walk Slow. Outside of dance, she enjoys spending time with her loved ones.

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IMG_2373.jpg
is a muitidisciplinary artist from Ojai California. Growing up participating in numerous Ojai theatrical productions, Chaney learned the immense privilege it is to work in the rich artistic home of this valley. Chaney went on to study theatre and Shakespeare in Seattle, New York, London and Chicago, where she landed at the Second City Film School. This program synthesized Chaney’s love for performing, directing and writing all in the lens of improvisation, and creating from abundance. Chaney is now living in the Ojai valley again, where she is active in Veritas Theatre, Theatre 68 in North Hollywood, and makes improvisational sketches with her fellow cast member Audrey Martel (@notaseconthought). Chaney also coaches theatre and writing to students in the valley, and is thrilled to be combining all of her training for the one-of-a-kind production of “A Hot Summer Nights Dream”
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Bio coming soon.

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Sage Stoneman
Bio coming soon.
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