Artists and community partners


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Rebekah Hampton Barger

Founder;   Executive/Artistic Director
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Rebekah Hampton Barger is a choreographer and dancer based in Nashville whose work combines classical, modern, and aerial dance. Her creative process draws on deep community research and interdisciplinary exploration to create work that is bold, innovative, and socially engaged.

At age twenty-six, ongoing pain from severe scoliosis and related injuries threatened her ability to continue performing at a professional level. Then she discovered aerial dance, and with it came strength-building plus spinal and joint traction, which allowed Rebekah to continue her career. She learned to listen to her body during choreography, which developed her unique approach to movement creation: one that honors dancers’ bodies and helps them discover how to work within their own limitations and abilities. 

With more than three decades of experience as a teacher, performer, and choreographer, Rebekah thrives on collaboration, constantly seeking ways to connect across disciplines and communities. As the founder and director of FALL Productions, she has served as choreographer or lead artist for many projects in the Nashville area since 2010. Rebekah has taught and performed with the Oklahoma City Ballet, been a guest choreographer for Nashville Ballet, and created commissions for the Nashville Symphony, Healing Housing, and OZ Arts. She is widely sought after as a master instructor in ballet, contemporary, and aerial dance, where she is known for creating a learning environment that is encouraging yet challenging. Rebekah’s students have gone on to perform on Broadway and dance with companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Axis, Oklahoma City Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet, among others.



Skyler Meadow Levine

Assistant Director; Creative Producer; Aerialist/Dancer
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Skyler Meadow Levine is a multidisciplinary dance artist whose work spans classical ballet, contemporary dance, and aerial silks. She began her training at Nashville Ballet, progressing through the academy and trainee program before joining Nashville Ballet’s Second Company at age 17. There, she performed in numerous classical and contemporary works, including originating a role in Gina Patterson’s 72 Steps, commissioned by the League of Women Voters and dancing in the Corps de Ballet in main stage productions. She has since performed with diMossa, Shackled Feet DANCE in Steal Away at OZ Arts, and was a featured dancer in the historic Central City Opera House’s production of Kiss Me Kate.

After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree, Skyler accepted a company position with the Davis Contemporary Dance Company. There she worked with numerous choreographers including Robert Sher-Machherndl, Terrell Davis, Rachael Harding, Kevin “Iega” Jeff, Hannah Kahn, and Aubrey Klinger Fearns. Her work also includes choreography and performance at the Kindling Arts Festival and in music videos for artists such as Margo Price and Tristen Gaspadarek.

Skyler is currently a company member with FALL Productions, and in 2026 became the Assistant Director after her work on Where We Meet as a choreographer, dancer, and creative producer. Where We Meet in collaboration with Healing Housing told the stories of women in recovery from substance use disorder, working to decrease stigma and shed light on the recovery process. This production is at the heart of Skyler’s work as a dancer and performance artist. 

Skyler is passionate about using her work in the community as a Licensed Acupuncturist and a Social Worker to create art that promotes healing on a social, physiological, and environmental level. Her creative process involves synthesizing her work as a clinician and advocate with her various dance languages to create work that is both beyond words and fully digestible. Skyler views dance as the conduit of portraying the voiceless—the deepest emotional experiences that can only be felt and shown through the body. She believes that, when done with authenticity, integrity, and loving collaboration, this type of work can have profound ripple effects, changing the genetic coding of our bodies, communities, and environment.



Nicolas Hackler

Administrative/Rehearsal Assistant; Aerialist/Dancer
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Mel Allen

Aerialist/Dancer
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A. Almond-Harvey

Writer/Performance Artist
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Jon Epcar

Musician/Composer
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Allison Hardee

Aerialist/Dancer
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Desiree King

FALL/NSA Apprentice
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Kelly Landry

Lighting Designer
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Tavius Marshall

Writer/Performance Artist
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Mahoganye McFarland

Aerial Class Assistant/Instructor
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Martin O'Conner

Fine Art & Dance Photographer
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Marisa Pace

Aerialist/Dancer
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Asia Pyron

Aerialist/Dancer
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Molly Robinson

Aerialist/Dancer
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Timbre

Composer/Harpist/Vocalist
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Autumn Wegner

Aerialist/Dancer
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Alexandra Winer

Dance Instructor; Aerialist/Dancer
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Dan Wright

Composer

NASHVILLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

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In 2019, FALL relocated from our longstanding home studio to facilitate a partnership with Nashville School of the Arts, becoming the school's resident dance company.  Through this mutually beneficial relationship, FALL artists provide weekly training and performance instruction in aerial dance for students of the NSA Dance Conservatory, and FALL company rehearsals and training take place in the school's largest performance space. 

In 2025, we founded the FALL/NSA Apprenticeship Program, which allows select students the opportunity to train with FALL Company Artists, participate in the creative and rehearsal process, and receive expert guidance and coaching in all aspects of pursuing a career in the arts. 



ABRASIVEMEDIA, INC.

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abrasiveMedia is a Nashville-based nonprofit artist collective dedicated to helping artists grow, connect, produce, and give back to the community. The organization supports artists through fiscal sponsorship, project mentoring, and strategic guidance, making it easier for mission-driven work to secure funding, build structure, and reach its audience.

With a focus on accountability, collaboration, and long-term sustainability, abrasiveMedia exists to remove barriers for creators and help meaningful ideas move from concept to execution.

FALL joined abrasiveMedia as a resident program in 2012 and later launched as an independent nonprofit after completing a 5-year residency and incubation period.



PIRATESIREN PHOTOGRAPHY

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Ashley Litchford’s - PirateSiren Photography captures strength, flow, and vulnerability in motion, creating cinematic images that let dancers take up space and be seen as art. 

Ashley has been documenting dance, movement, and the human experience for over 26 years, developing a signature style, feel, and fresh breath to this practice. Not only knowing how to create the vision, but as a former dancer...knowing how it feels. 

PirateSiren has had the privilege of collaborating for over 10 years with FALL and it's talented artists helping develop a unique look to performances images in such projects as "Haunted" and "Stories", other workshops, summer intensives, and working closely with artists to translate aerial movement into powerful still imagery. PirateSiren functions as a multi-genre production company that has filmed for international podcasts, bands, creative arts, PBS documentaries, and short movies. Not only holding the camera but developing a heart, image and brand. At its core, Piratesiren Photography is about honoring movement as a language. Every session is a shared process, built on trust, curiosity, and care.