MANAGING DIRECTOR | DANCER

Bonnie Boiter-Jolley is Co-founder and Managing Director of Cola Rep Dance Co. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Bonnie studied at the American Ballet Theatre in New York City, Kirov Academy of Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Bonnie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina with degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography and Political Science. She has performed in Italy under the direction of Anna Marie Holmes and the Czech Republic and in the Summer Stage series in New York City. Bonnie has performed with Wideman Davis Dance company and Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theatre and appeared in local theatre productions “Songs for a New World” at Workshop Theatre and “the Great Gatsby” at Trustus Theatre. Bonnie joined the Columbia City Ballet in 2011, was promoted to Soloist in 2013 and Principal Dancer in 2018. Bonnie has over 15 years of experience in dance education and is credited with developing the ballet program at the Columbia City Jazz Conservatory under the leadership of Choreographer and Master Teacher Dale Lam where she has been on faculty since 2011. Since Fall of 2022, Bonnie has been teaching in an Adjunct capacity in the University of South Carolina Department of Theatre and Dance. In 2019 Bonnie co-founded the Columbia Repertory Dance Company. The company is now in their sixth performance season and has since traveled to perform as part of the DUMBO Dance Festival  in New York twice, collaborated with the SC Philharmonic, artist Jordan Sheridan and 701 CCA and Historic Columbia. Bonnie is thankful for a life in the arts with her husband Chad Henderson.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CHOREOGRAPHER

Stephanie Wilkins is the Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer and Co-founder of the Columbia Repertory Dance Company in Columbia, SC. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Dance Performance & Choreography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in NYC, where she lived for fifteen years. She has taught, choreographed and performed extensively in New York, San Francisco, Brazil, Kenya, Scotland and South Carolina. Stephanie is an adjunct Professor of Dance at Columbia College and has previously taught at the University of SC and Coker University, as well as a guest instructor at Princeton University and College of Charleston.  In January 2015, she premiered Woven, her first evening-length work, with jazz composer Mark Rapp. She performed her solo, Burned, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2022. Her works Forgiveness (part 2) and Agitato were selected to be performed as part of the Dumbo Dance Festival at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY in June 2023, and Ache was selected and performed at the same festival in 2024. In the past year, Stephanie choreographed Legally Blonde The Musical for Workshop Theatre, choreographed and performed with Jamie Scott in Dancing with the Palmetto Stars at the Township Auditorium, accompanied Cola Rep Dance Company for their performance at Piccolo Spoleto and led the company in their 6th season with their concert at the Koger Center’s new lower level performance space.