Company Members
AK Bayer
AK Bayer is an interdisciplinary artist, professional dancer, writer, and emerging choreographer from Atlanta, GA. After falling in love with creative expression and performance at a young age, AK began training at Atlanta Dance before continuing with Decatur School of Ballet and Decatur City Dance. Living with dysautonomia and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a systemic genetic disorder, AK navigates the intricacies of dancing with a dynamic disability. A visual artist as well, AK focuses on mixed media work and illustration. They have been creating art their entire life and love exploring identity through new mediums. AK is passionate about each of their creative pursuits but credits dance as their first love and the driving force behind their other crafts. AK is excited for their second season performing with Full Radius Dance. In the last year, they have had the honor of working with choreographers such as Patton White of Beacon Dance, Meaghan Novoa and Dani Tirrell.
Photo by Veronica Fleming.
Jodie Jernigan
Originally from Jacksonville Florida, Jodie Jernigan received her A.A. with an emphasis in dance from Florida State College at Jacksonville, where she danced with and managed their dance repertory company, danceWORKS. Jodie went on to earn her B.A. in Dance and English from Brenau University, where she conceptualized and directed the annual cross-department dance on film showcase, “Poetry in Motion.” Her choreography has been presented at various events, including the American College Dance Association Southeast Conference and Fall for Fall. Outside of academia, Jodie served as an intern with Fly on a Wall in Atlanta, Georgia for their 2020-2021 season. In 2021, she was commissioned by Zoetic Dance Ensemble to create an independent dance film for their annual Mixtape Atlanta film festival. In 2023 Jodie presented an original short dance film with Dance Canvas. She is currently on faculty at Decatur School of Ballet and she looks forward to her second season with Full Radius Dance.
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Ashlee Jo Ramsey-Borunov (Rehearsal Director)
Grounded in the perspective that dance-making lives in the primal, physical, emotional and spiritual consciousness of all humans, Ms. Ramsey-Borunov’s artistic focus centers on collaboration, community participation and making dance available as a creative practice for all people. Ms. Ramsey-Borunov has shown work, performed or taught in North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Arizona, Austria, the U.K. and India. Her experience as an educator includes dance and yoga courses at Elon University, Wake Forest University, Winthrop University, and Salem College, and she holds a teacher certification with DanceAbility International. Ms. Ramsey has been published in the international academic periodical, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (2011) and has presented work or research at the NDEO National Conference, The Fifth Annual Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival, and Elon University’s Intersect Diversity and Leadership Conference. Currently working in Atlanta, GA, Ms. Ramsey-Borunov performs with Full Radius Dance and Beacon Dance, and teaches with CORE Dance’s Dynamic X-Change program.
Photo by Neil Dent.
Cecilia Rodriguez
Cecilia Rodriguez is a disabled dancer and choreographer originally from Dalton, Georgia. Rodriguez recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Agnes Scott College. While there, Cecilia presented her choreography in the Agnes Scott College Spring Annual Research Conference in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Additionally, she was invited to present her choreography at the college’s Spring Forward performances in 2022 and 2023, and her choreography represented Agnes Scott at the American College Dance Association 2023 conference. Cecilia performed as a member of Studio Dance Theatre at Agnes Scott for the duration of her college experience and held various leadership positions within the company. She was the 2023 recipient of the Dance Department Award for Creative Excellence at Agnes Scott. She first presented her choreography professionally in 2018 at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Cecilia has been an understudy for Full Radius Dance and previously served as their intern. She has performed works by choreographers including Meg Brooker, Rebecca Gose, Bridget Roosa, and Kerry Lee. Notably, Rodriguez performed in a restaging of Doris Humphrey’s “Water Study” (1928).
Photo by Tammy Rice.
Emma Singer
Emma grew up in northeast Georgia, where she spent her first 14 years studying ballet, tap, and jazz (with a brief hiatus for a failed career in basketball). Musical Theater and Theater were a very large part of her upbringing in the arts, as she spent most of her childhood holed up at her community theater. She continued her education after highschool at Valdosta State University, where she received her BFA in Dance. While at VSU she focused her studies on ballet and modern, and enjoyed learning about choreography and pedagogy alongside that. Post grad she moved to Atlanta to teach and create. She has danced with and choreographed for Profectus Dance, danced for SOMOS, and is now with Full Radius Dance.
While classical ballet will always be near and dear to her heart, Emma finds herself engulfed in the world of contemporary ballet and modern dance. Artistically she is very interested in the continued blur between the lines of contemporary ballet and hip hop and plans on continuing to research that in her own work.
Matthew Smith
Matthew is a Georgia native, born and raised in Atlanta. He developed a passion for sports at a young age with baseball at 8 years old and continuing until age 18. He also played soccer, track and field, handball, basketball, riflery, tennis, and sled hockey. In 2002 he joined the Shepherd Rifle team and traveled around the country competing in the NRA Beeman Grand Prix, winning National Team Championships in 2004 and 2007, and was ranked 3rd individually in 2007. He has an active career in the entertainment industry as background extra on films and TV shows including National Lampoon's Vacation (2015), Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4 (2017), Sleepy Hollow (2017), and 5th Wave (2016).
His passion for athletics and performance led him to Full Radius Dance, joining in 2017 as an apprentice. With his commitment and enthusiasm for Full Radius Dance, he was honored to return as a full company member in 2019. After spending most of his life in athletics, Matthew is excited to turn his abilities towards the arts.
Photo by Bubba Carr.