The Company

Leah 
Verier-Dunn
Artistic Director
​Co-Founder

Leah Verier-Dunn is a Sarasota, FL, based artist committed to establishing connection within and among local and global communities through dramatic reflections of real life. She received her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. Subsequently, she launched a professional career in Miami, then New York, and eventually returned to her roots in Sarasota, where she co-founded Moving Ethos in 2007. Having worked with several distinguished companies, Leah found her artistic home with Rosie Herrera Dance Theater in 2011, with whom she continues to collaborate while juggling her two children and the Artistic Direction of Moving Ethos Dance.

Leah’s work has been described as “psychological dance theater with a lasting impact” (Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2015) and she is recognized for creating performances that stir thinking and thrust people into conversation. Her process is intense, lengthy, immersive, and collaborative, providing space for deeper personalization of roles. The end results consistently create a feeling of “I’m not alone here” for audience members. This approach, critics have said, “leads to pieces that are intriguingly complex and multilayered, yet still refreshingly accessible and relatable” (Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2019).

In 2019, Leah was the first Spotlight Florida Resident at The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota’s leading cultural institution. This six-month residency focused on the development of her latest work, girlwoman, which, besides two performances, included eight community engagements, such as artist collaborations, masterclasses for Sarasota County educators and students, community workshops, and round table discussions. Since then, Leah has continued as an artist-in-residence at The Ringling. Most recently her residency has been focused on the co-created work, Florida Woman, with Rosie Herrera. 
Victoria Mora
graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in dance. During her time there, she had the privilege to perform works by David Justin, Charles O. Anderson, Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, and Robert Battle, among others. She has attended both Bates and the American Dance festival where she performed a new work under the direction of Rosie Herrera. She danced for a season with Ad Deum Dance Company in Houston, and she just recently moved to Florida to begin working with Moving Ethos in their current season. 
Jessica Pope
is a graduate of Booker High School’s VPA Dance program and though circumstances kept her from further academic studies her focus and innate abilities as a dancer have propelled her nonetheless.  Jessica previously taught modern dance at Deborah Vinton Dance Academy and has been working with Moving Ethos since 2009.



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Megan Wors
graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Florida with a degree in dance performance. She has performed the work of Doug Varone and Jennifer Archibald, as well as Michael Foley, Andee Scott, and Paula Nunez, among others. Megan has had the opportunity of showing her own choreographic works at Moving Current's 'New Grounds' performance, West Coast Civic Ballet, The American College Dance Festivals final Gala performance and Mica Danses Studio in Paris France. Megan has been with the company since 2013.