The Pin-Down Girls

Devin Fulton - Artistic Director
Devin Devin Fulton has been dancing since the tender age of 3. At 17 she became a company member of the State Street Ballet and Plexus Dance Theatre. In 2002 she was featured on the WB's hit show Angel. In 2003 she recieved a scholarship to the Edge Performing Arts Center where she trained 40 hours a week with top teachers and choreographers in the business. Devin has been a principal dancer with the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company since 2005 and has appeared with several other L.A. based dance companies such as Commonality Dance Co. and Joseph Allen Decker Dance Company. She was recently featured in 4 awesome commercials for American Apparel and in A Soldiers Tale with the world renowned Montreal Symphony at the Broad Theatre in Los Angeles. Devin enjoys teaching master classes and setting choreography for high schools and colleges, and of course teaching her very popular Sexy Sculpting classes for women in Ventura. Devin is thrilled to now have her own company, The Pin-Down Girls.

Annie Marostica - Executive Director
Annie As Devin's right-hand Woman, and a founding member of the Pin-Down Girls, Annie puts her heart and soul into this company. She has been a dancing fiend since the age of 5 when she began dancing tap, jazz, and ballet in Ventura. At 18 she joined the Hip Brazil Dance Company in Santa Barbara and has been featured in Vanessa Isaac's workout video series "Samba Party Workout Parts I and II". In 2004, she graduated from UCSB with a B.S. in Biopsychology and minors in Chemistry and Exercise Science. In 2005 Annie traveled to Brazil with Vanessa to study dance under Rosangela Silvestre and just recently trained with the LA Contemporary Dance Company in their summer intensive under the direction of Kate Hutter. She is the newest member of Viver Brasil Dance Company and will be perfoming with them at the Ford Ampitheater in July and two national tours in the next year. She has danced in New York, Paris (FR) and continues to perform and teach locally with various organizations. Annie received her Teaching Credential in 2006 and her Masters in Teaching in 2008 and spends her days teaching Chemistry in Oxnard, CA.

Charlene Bittinger
Charlene is a founding member of The Pin-Down Girls, and was part of their debut performance at the Playboy mansion in Hollywood, CA. As a Southern California native Charlene began her dance career with the West Coast School of the Arts and then the Orange County High School of the Arts. After graduating from UCLA with BA in World Arts and Cultures - Dance Specialization, she continued her dancing by joining the Los Angeles Laker Girls for two seasons. Charlene has worked with Beyonce, The Backstreet Boys, and Korn along with working for Nike, AVP and Liz Claiborne. In 2000, Charlene was the recipient of the Friends of the Cerritos Center of the Performing Arts Scholarship and was also chosen to perform in a production with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Dance has taken her around the globe to such countries as Russia, Australia, Hong Kong, and most recently to Afghanistan. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she continues to pursue her passion for dance.

Jenn Esses
Jenn Jenn Esses, a native of San Jose, California, began dancing at the young age of 4. She has trained with the San Jose Cleveland Ballet School and with various other studios throughout the Bay Area. Her passion for dance led her to Los Angeles where she attended UCLA to further her interest in choreographing and exploring different cultures of dance. In 2003 Jenn received a scholarship at the EDGE performing arts center where she got the opportunity to train with top choreographers in Los Angeles. After graduating Jenn moved to San Diego and for the past two years has been teaching dance in after school programs for various elementary and preschools. Jenn has performed with the Pin-Down Girls starting with the Quite Scenic show in Santa Barbara. She looks forward to more performances to come.

Chereese Mackey
Chareese Chereese grew up in her mother's dance studio in northern California and has trained in tap, jazz, and hip hop. Her performance experience includes being an understudy for Sesame Street Live, traveling the world dancing on Holland America Cruise ships, and a DancePlug.com commercial. She has worked with choreographers such as Adam Parson, Kobi Rosenfeld, Brooklyn, Swoop, and Darrien Henning and recently choreographed a piece with one of Bob Fosse's original dancers, Jennifer Nairn-Smith. She is currently also performing with Cirque Berzerk. As another founding member of The Pin-Down Girls, Chereese is really stoked to share with you another exciting production.

Amanda Meyer
Amanda Amanda Meyer born and raised in Houston, Texas began her dance training at the early age of three. She is formally trained in ballet, jazz, tap and flamenco. After graduating high school, Amanda moved to Albuquerque to attend the University of New Mexico where she was a dance major with a focus on flamenco. A few years later, she moved to Las Vegas where she danced at the Palms Hotel and Casino and with Oxygen Dance Theatre, a jazz dance company. Amanda relocated to Los Angeles in 2003 to train at the Edge Performing Arts Center and to continue her career in dance. She is also a certified Pilates instructor through Body Arts and Science International and teaches independently through her own company, The Mobile Method and also at ORS Pilates and Yoga in downtown Los Angeles. She has been a member of several dance companies such as, The Joseph Allen Decker Dance Company, Alma Flamenca, The Rodriguez Flamenco Dance Company, The Bill Evans Tap Dance Co., and Oxygen Dance Theatre, and also a founding member and a driving force of The Pin Down Girls. She has performed extensively throughout Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, California, and Washington D.C. She is blessed to have worked with choreographers such as Bill Evans, Omayra Amaya, Pablo Rodarte, Robin Antin, Terri Best and Denise Leitner, to name a few.

Jamie Randall
Jamie Jamie was on scholarship at the Edge Performing Arts Center and has appeared in music videos for Gwen Stefani, My Chemical Romace, and The Blood Arm and was a dancer on the My Chemical Romance Chaos Tour. She has performed with Commonality Dance Company and has worked with choreographers such as JT Hornstein, Scott Hislop, and Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo.

Genevieve Carson
As a native of Juneau, Alaska, Genevieve Carson is a contemporary dancer unleashing her sexy side as a new company member of The Pin-Down Girls. She received both academic and dance scholarships to study dance at Chapman University, where she was named “Best Student Choreographer” two years in a row. In 2007, she graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance Performance, and was named “Most Outstanding Senior” by her department. Ms. Carson has trained extensively under Dale Merrill, Doug Varone, Larry Rosenberg, Jennifer Backhaus, Sean Green, Liz Maxwell, and Nancy-Dickson Lewis. Carson’s choreographic work has been showcased at the Los Angeles Dance Invitational, American College Dance Festival, Pulse Annual Showcase, and the Waltmar Theatre. She has performed with Arianne MacBean’s The Big Show Company, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Rebecca Pappas’ Pappas and Dancers, and Bare Dance Company. She is currently dancing with Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Kate Hutter.

Jamila Glass
Jamila Glass, a new Pin-Down Girl, began her formal training as a nine-year-old scholarship student at The Discovery Dance Group in Houston, Texas. She continued dancing in her spare time as a vocal music major at the multi-Grammy award-winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In May 2005, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Cinema-Television (Film & Video Production) and a Minor in Advertising. She is a founding member of the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC), performing with them since 2005 and is a guest artist with Mecca Vazie Andrews' company - the Movement movement. She has appeared in 3 American Apparel commercials, music videos for Ebony Bones, SONOS and VUM, the popular new web series INST MSGS, and a DanceSpirit Magazine photo spread on LACDC. Additionally, she was asked to join Ebony Bones for her May 2010 tour dates in China. Glass is currently in negotiations to produce and direct her original screenplay for a feature film and has a growing business called The Cutting Room where she does freelance film and video editing and web design.

Melissa Schade
This is Melissa's first production with The Pin-Down Girls and she is excited to be part of this supa-fresh company. Melissa Schade grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and has been immersed in the dance culture since the age of 3. Betty Johnson's School of Dance was where she got her serious dance training, as well as summers at the Broadway Theater Project and the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop. Upon graduation from high school, she attended The University of Arizona where she received her BFA in dance. Melissa danced briefly with IDT in Boulder, Colorado before moving to Los Angeles, CA. While living in LA, Melissa has worked with many great choreographers such as Mecca Vazie Andrews, Denise Leitner, and Scott Hislop. She is currently a member of The Jennifer Vaughn Dance Company, The Movement Movement, The DWD Circus, and now is proudly a company member of LACDC. Melissa also loves to teach dance and get jiggy with it.