team

KEANU FORREST BRADY (company member)

Keanu (he/they) is a San Francisco-based dance artist working at the intersection of contemporary improvisation, hip-hop, and post-modern movement forms. In 2020, Keanu received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Modern Dance at the University of Utah. He has been a company member of FACT/SF since 2018, and began serving on the Board of Directors as a Dancer Liaison in 2022. Over the years, he has worked closely as a performer and creative collaborator with various San Francisco-based companies and arts nonprofits, such as LEVYdance (2017-2021), AXIS dance company, ODC, Kinetech, and Sarah Shelton-Mann, alongside other local choreographers and drag performers. Within the United States, he has worked on stage and screen with Carl Flink, Eric Handman, Satu Hummasti and Scotty Hardwig, among others. His performance work has allowed him to tour within the United States and Internationally. If you are unable to find him dancing in the studios, stages and streets of San Francisco, you can find him on Instagram, @keanu.dance.

Jonathan Kim (Company Member)

Jonathan (he/any) is a dance artist, educator, and choreographer currently based in San Francisco. Originally from Southern California, he worked with Lineage Dance Company, SJDanceCo, and SALT Contemporary Dance before spending five seasons with Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2024, recent projects include UNA Productions, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Detour Productions, and RAWdance, among others. His teaching philosophy emphasizes softness, tuning the mind/body/spirit, choice-making, and empowerment, and choreographic interests include the queer experience, improvisation, non-traditional partnering, and emergent storytelling. He joined FACT/SF as a Company Member in 2025.
IG: @jonkimrox
Drag Name: LUSTER

lizanne roman roberts (senior company member & Dancer board representative)

LizAnne fell in love with dance at age four after seeing Giselle on TV in her hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Honored to have been working in the profession of her dreams for over twenty years, LizAnne began her career with Tulsa Ballet while finishing high school and earning a BFA at the University of Oklahoma. She has worked with various artists throughout the Bay Area, including collaborating with FACT/SF since 2012. LizAnne has appeared internationally in Avignon and Claremont-Ferrand, France; Belgrade, Serbia; and Sofia, Bulgaria as well as across the United States. LizAnne is the mother of two, and lives in Oakland, CA. She is also a certified Pilates instructor.

CHARLES SLENDER-WHITE (Artistic Director)

Charles (he/him) is a queer contemporary dance artist of mixed European and Roma descent. He is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and organizer, and the Artistic Director of FACT/SF. Slender-White has worked in more than fifty cities across twelve countries on four continents. He began his career in 2006 as a dancer with Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and has since created more than 30 original works. His choreography has been commissioned by ODC Theater, CounterPulse, the US Department of State, and numerous others. Slender-White is one of 52 Countertechnique Teachers worldwide, and he completed his undergraduate degrees in Dance & Performance Studies and English Literature at UC Berkeley.

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