Artists and community partners
CURRENT // ONGOING
Rebekah Hampton Barger
Founder; Executive/Artistic Director
In 2006, Rebekah Hampton Barger was introduced to aerial dance while working as a company member & choreographer with Perpetual Motion Dance in Oklahoma City, where she also served as a guest performer and faculty instructor for the Oklahoma City Ballet. After relocating to Nashville in 2010, she founded FALL, Nashville’s first aerial performance collective.
With a multidisciplinary background ranging from classical ballet & rhythmic gymnastics to Capoeira & training as a classical pianist, Rebekah is interested in the ways that incorporating aerial elements within more traditional grounded dance techniques opens up new movement possibilities & challenges dancers to experience gravity in new ways.
Rebekah has been a guest choreographer for Nashville Ballet & created commissions for the Nashville Symphony & OZ Arts. She is widely sought after as a master instructor in ballet, contemporary, & 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 & dance with companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Axis Dance Company, Oklahoma City Ballet, & San Francisco Ballet, among others.
Abby Welch
Assistant Director & Creative Producer
Abby Welch attended the University of Central Oklahoma and, training in ballet, modern, jazz, and aerial dance, received her BFA in Dance Performance in 2019. During her time at UCO, she was a member of both Kaleidoscope Dance Company and KD2, which allowed her to attend the American College Dance Association in 2016 and 2019 and to participate in the company's performance tour to Korea in May 2019. Abby had the opportunity to perform as a dancer with 19th Century Hound in “Those Who Lie Beyond” at Factory Obscura’s “Beyond” experience, and was a company member with aerial and modern dance company Perpetual Motion Dance in 2020.
Abby moved from Oklahoma to Tennessee in 2021 to join FALL and was a collaborator and creative producer for the company’s 2022 production of A Bending Of Its Own Kind. Abby officially stepped into the role of Assistant Director at the end of that season and, while she has since returned to Oklahoma, has continued to serve in that position, providing administrative, creative, and production support virtually, as well as joining the company in person for large projects and events. Abby was the Box Office Associate for Lyric Theater 2024-2025, and currently teaches Jazz and is a certified AcroDance instructor at Everything Goes Dance Studio in Oklahoma City.
A. Almond-Harvey
Writer/Performance Artist
Kelly Landry
Lighting Designer
Martin O'Conner
Fine Art & Dance Photographer
Jon Epcar
Musician/Composer
Skyler Levine
Assistant Producer; Aerialist/Dancer
Marisa Pace
Aerialist/Dancer
Alexandra Winer
Dance Instructor; Aerialist/Dancer
Nicolas Hackler
Administrative Assistant; Aerialist/Dancer
Tavius Marshall
Writer/Performance Artist
Molly Robinson
Aerialist/Dancer
Dan Wright
Composer
Desiree King
FALL/NSA Apprentice
Mahoganye McFarland
Aerial Class Assistant/Instructor
Timbre
Composer/Harpist/VocalistNASHVILLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
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, in which one student annually is given 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.
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 began as a project within abrasiveMedia in 2012 and later launched as an independent nonprofit after completing a 5-year residency and incubation period.
PIRATESIREN PHOTOGRAPHY
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.