Our Team
Kate Fitzgerald
Affectionately known as “Miss Kate,” she moved to Yukon in 2012 to experience life outside the big city and lend her dance teaching expertise to the community of Whitehorse. While a job opportunity brought Kate to the North, its people and lifestyle are what have kept her in the territory. She truly loves to entertain. For Kate, the magic of performing is in being able to tell the audience a story and help them forget everything else, even if just for a moment. She hopes Velvet Antler Productions can bring a little of that magic to each event they have the privilege of being part of.
Rebecca Reynolds
Rebecca (a.k.a. “Legs”) moved to Yukon in 2000 for a summer contract as a cancan dancer with the Frantic Follies. Little did she know the territory would become her home from then on. She was raised in the dance studio by her mother, a ballet teacher who loved all things art and dance. Rebecca soon followed in her mother’s footsteps, expanding her dance horizons as she grew older. Eventually she fell in love with all things vaudeville, showgirl, and burlesque. Rebecca is so excited for Velvet Antler Productions to continue to feed her need for these genres of dance, and to show Yukon and beyond just what we can offer!
Allyn Walton
Allyn grew up in Whitehorse. After living, studying and dancing in Toronto and Vancouver it was time to move home. In Toronto Allyn was training in classical ballet, jazz and musical theatre. After realising that auditions sucked, the realisation that the commercial dance industry was not for her quickly followed. In Vancouver Allyn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University and studied at Capilano University in Arts and Entertainment Management. Allyn is so happy to be dancing, teaching and creating with people who support one another and their projects.
Breagha Fraser
Born and raised in the Yukon, Breagha is an allum of MAD and NLSD. She left Whitehorse in 2014 for post secondary education. While at university in Nova Scotia, she trained in contemporary, jazz, commercial heels, hip hop, musical theatre and highland dance. The beauty and community of the North brought her back to the Yukon. In her spare time you can find her teaching, creating and performing with VA, doing something/anything/everything with Yukon Theatre for Young People; and working at/being a part of productions at the Guild Hall! She thrives in a creative and collaborative environment, teaching dancers of all ages and levels.
Anya Close
Anya (she/her) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist of Irish/Euro-settler ancestry originally from the stolen, traditional homeland of the Shawnee, Miami, Wyandotte and other Indigenous Nations known today as “Ohio” in the states. An alum of Kent State University, Anya holds her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre where she completed the professional dance program and has worked as a performing and teaching artist internationally for 20+ years. Around town, you might catch her performing burlesque + drag as sibling duo Ula La and Lou La La. Ballet was Anya’s first love, and it brings her great joy to share this style of movement and magic with her community. Anya approaches ballet from a decolonial lens, so come as you are and prepare to deconstruct some oppressive and harmful frameworks that have been built into western ballet practices over time.
Micah Robertson
Micah established her passion for dance in her late teens, when she took a Hip Hop class at what would be her first competitive studio: Dance By Design in Wasaga Beach, Ontario. Taking a huge leap of faith, she switched from a path of competitive ports, to immerse herself in dance training. She graduated in 2015 from York University with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. Since then, Micah has been training and performing commercially in Toronto, Ontario and more recently in her career, she has focused on commercial styles such as Heels, Jazz Funk & Hip Hop. Micah wholeheartedly thrives in creative environments. Collaborating with other multimedia artists on various projects, she naturally enjoys producing unique dance choreography concepts and experiences, as well as spreading the joy through teaching at all ages and levels.