Jen is a founding member of A-WOL Dance Collective. She wears many hats at A-WOL, but she absolutely adores her role as an artistic director and company member. As a lover of collaborative creation and the exploration of combining floor work with aerial movement, A-WOL brings completion to her life! Her background and training include Pendulum Aerial Arts, Polaris Dance Theatre and a number of amazing choreographers and instructors in the western states including Mary Hunt and Jayne Persch. She also enjoys teaching aerial, dance and aerial yoga and her most recent endeavor includes her Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, Soulaira, that she co-founded with Jessica Baker in 2014. In Jen's spare time she maintains her registration as a dietitian, runs a sheet metal company, attempts multiple coffee dates with her husband each week and is raising her two children, Rustin and Sienna. 

Alicia is a native Oregonian and has been dancing since the day she was born on this soil. Alicia holds a degree from the University of Oregon in Communication Disorders and Sciences and Psychology. She is quite busy at A-WOL holding many positions including Co-Director of the Company, Director of Education & Outreach, FlyCo Professional Training Company Coach, and Gym Rat. She has trained many dance disciplines including jazz, modern, hip hop, ballet and contemporary movement. Since becoming an aerialist in adulthood she has become a very passionate instructor and has trained with some of her favorite creative athletes such as Alex Allan, Deena Marcum Selko, Serenity Smith Forchion, Susan Murphy, Valerie Morris, and Elsie Smith. Her focuses include dance, partner acrobatics, rope, fabric, and lyra but she welcomes on any new apparatus when challenged to do so. Alicia’s favorite aspect of A-WOL is the fusion of dance, acrobatics, and aerial included in productions.

Sarah Burk has been performing with A-WOL since 2006 and became a company member in 2008 after playing an active role as company manager. Sarah has been involved in A-WOL hair and make-up as well as sewing costumes. She has a childhood background of dance and ballet. Much of her skills lie in her athleticism and strength from being an avid runner. Today she enjoys training for marathons and raising her son and daughter.

Olivia Shaw is a quirky and passionate dancer turned aerialist trained in multiple movement styles including Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and African. Having grown up a dancer and gymnast in Bend, OR, she went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance with an emphasis in Theatre Arts, graduating Cum Laude from the University of Oregon. Olivia has toured as a performer in Theatre and Dance productions, distinctively with the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company. She received her Aerial Yoga Teacher Certification through Soulaira, directed by Jen Livengood and Jessica Baker. This is her fourth year with A-WOL and she loves the collaborative creativity that fuels this company. She currently teaches a number of styles in and around the Portland area. If you don’t find her dancing, she is most likely climbing trees and mountains or sipping a local glass of Pinot.

Angela grew up in dance studios and on gymnastics floors, but her real passion was jumping rope. She performed and traveled as part of a jump rope team all through middle and high school. This is how she realized her love of the stage! Years later she took up partner acrobatics and aerial dance. As an adult she has found that these art forms feed her soul in a way that nothing else can. So much so that she has chosen the path of teacher and coach as well as performer. She performs as an acrobat with Tempos Contemporary Circus and is honored to be in the air as part of Awol Dance Collective!

Kim is originally from Eugene Oregon and fell in love with dancing at a young age. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in dance from the University or Oregon in 2014 where she spent her time performing in multiple shows, teaching, and touring with the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company as a lighting designer. Kim served as a board member for a student organization called Dance Oregon, helping to provide opportunities for dancers outside of the University setting. Her continued studies include the winter American Dance Festival, Joe Goode's summer dance intensive, AWOL Dance Collectives’ adult professional aerial training program Fly Co., and studying the gaga movement language at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. In her free time she enjoys a good pun, hiking, skiing, spending time with her husband, and pulling pranks on her closest friends.