Cori Terry, Wellspring’s Artistic Director, was born in Brooklyn and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook before moving to New York City to complete her dance training.  In 1974, she joined the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, performing and teaching throughout the US and Europe.  She moved to Kalamazoo as Artist-in-Residence at Western Michigan University in 1980 and founded Wellspring in 1981.  In 1983 and again in 1991, Ms. Terry received a Creative Artist Grant for choreography from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and in 1987, she received Kalamazoo’s Community Medal of Arts.  She completed a BA in dance from WMU in 1989 and on occasion teaches master classes there as well as throughout Michigan and the Midwest.  In 2006, Ms. Terry was honored by Kalamazoo College as an award recipient in the first-ever Women in Town celebration, recognizing the achievements of local visual and performing artists. Ms. Terry was awarded the 2008 Community Advocacy Award from WMU's Partners in Dance for her outstanding contributions to the Greater Kalamazoo community and advancing the art of modern dance. Most recently, Ms. Terry was honored at the 2008 Governor's Awards as a finalist for her lifetime achievement as a Michigan artist. To date, she has choreographed more than 60 major works for Wellspring.  Ms. Terry is a certified advanced Rolfer®, in practice since 1996.

Alexis Harris began her modern dance training with Wellspring in 1996 and became a Company Member in 1997.  Prior to this, she danced with The Kalamazoo Ballet Company for 10 years.  In 1999, Ms. Harris received an Irving S. Gilmore Foundation Emerging Artist Grant to participate in a Continuum movement workshop with Emilie Conrad in New York state.  She also has studied anatomy and movement at The School for Body-Mind Centering in Massachusetts.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in bio-medical sciences from Western Michigan University and is a practicing certified massage therapist.  Alexis and her husband Brent, co-owner of the Alchemist Sculpture Foundry, are the proud parents of Elijah and Lilly Harris.

Jennifer Hudson has been involved in performance arts since she was a child, including years of dance training and appearances in community theater. She studied dance at Western Michigan University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996. Her collegiate dance highlights include a performance at the Jazz Dance World Congress, annual participation in the American College Dance Festival, and a presidency of the Orchesis Dance Society. She was also awarded a dance scholarship at the Gus Giordano Dance Studio in Chicago. Jennifer joined Wellspring in 1998, where she has had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented artists. She performed in "Prose in Motion", an evening length work choreographed by Rachel Miller. She also collaborated with Bruce Brubaker in the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Fringe Concert. She is a certified massage therapist and a hair stylist at the Milan Style Shop.

Rachel Miller started dancing at the age of seven and went on to train with Southold Dance Theater as a member of their training company.  She performed with the University Dance Company at Ohio State where she studied as a dance major.  She then resumed teaching, choreographing and professionally performing with the Southold Dance Theater.  Rachel began dancing with Wellspring in 2001.  She then graduated Magna Cum Laude from Western Michigan University with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing.  Recently Rachel studied in Prague with the Batsheva Dance Company of Israel where she received high honors for her choreography. In 2005 she received an Irving S. Gilmore Foundation Emerging Artist Grant to choreograph and perform a new evening-length work titled “Prose In Motion.”  Rachel is a certified Stott Pilates instructor as well as an Aerial Artist for ZFX Flying in Louisville.

Francesca Pileci-Bates received a BA with Honors in Creative Arts and earned her Masters degree in Dance from the internationally renowned LABAN in London.  As a full-time member of the professional performers' union British Equity, she danced with Dance Company 7, a modern dance company based in London. Since coming to the U.S., Francesca has danced with companies in Michigan and Ohio and recently traveled abroad to study "Gaga" technique with Batsheva Dance Company members and to perform works by Rambert Dance Company, England.  Performance credits include London Theaters, BBC Television, ITV, Channel 4, Music Hall and Opera House. Choreography credits include Eastern Michigan University's dance program, NDEO and MAPSA.  Francesca joined Wellspring as a company member in 2005 and will be performing in NYC with the company this season.  She is also a Michigan certified K-12 dance educator and a resident artist with KRESA’s Education for the Arts.