Grew up in Rochester, New York, and studied with the Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education-training school to the Rochester City Contemporary Ballet. She attended Hubbard Street Dance Summer 2009, as well as Springboard Dans Montreal, and was invited to take class with Scapino Ballet of Rotterdam at the Joyce, and was invited to Rotterdam with the company. At NYU, Chelsea was fortunate to work with Jessica Lang and Christopher Williams while being a part of the Second Avenue Dance company, and also choreographed a piece on three members of the company. While at NYU Chelsea performed at Food For Thought with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Company, La MaMA Arts Festival under direction of Curt Haworth, performed with Bridgette Moore, PM Dance Co at Artists for Barak Obama, and was invited to spend an afternoon creating work with Julian Barnett. She also works as an online networking consultant and has aided such companies as David Dorfman Dance, and Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. She is an active volunteer for Dancers Responding to AIDS, as well as at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

As a dancer, Nicholas has most recently finished working with choreographer David Gordon on his recreation of Trying Times, performed at REDCAT in Los Angeles and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City. Nicholas has also performed in works by Stephan Koplowitz, Mira Kingsley, Rosanna Gamson, and Lorraine Chapman, as well as collaborations with artists Terrence Koh and Tracey Langfitt.He is also a participant in the pilot program Feldstärke International, which is a multi-cultural interdisciplinary exchange of artists held at the cultural institutions 104 Paris, in Paris, France, PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany, and CalArts throughout 2009. He has been generously supported by California Institute of the Arts in the creation of multiple works that have been presented at The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater at CalArts and REDCAT including his first commissioned work. Nicholas received his BFA from CalArts in May of 2009, as a Lovelace Full Scholarship Student. He has also been a past scholarship student of the American Dance Festival and Garth Fagan Dance.

After beginning his dance training at Dickinson College, where he recieved his BS in Biology and Psychology, "Matty" completed his MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2007, being awarded a full-scholarship Graduate Assitantship. While in NYC  he has danced with the Kevin Wynn Collection, and has played the role of Jackie in The Gallery Players NY revival of Lippa's "The Wild Party."  In addition to his second engagement with PNDC he also dances with Stefanie Nelson Dance Group. He is honored to be recently employed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company serving as Assistant to the Artistic Director.

Mika Yanagihara, was born in Japan.She has trained ballet, jazz, hip-hop and contemporary dance since started her training by modern ballet when she was 2 years old. She was a scholarship student at Martha GrahamSchool of Contemporary Dance in 1997-1999. Mika is teaching,choreographing and directing for the past 9 years.
She is currently dancing with 277 danceproject and Patricia Noworol Dance Company.