Meet the Collective

Grace Sutherland

Grace began dancing at Dramatic Truth School of the Arts at age 4 and graduated from the ballet program at the age of 17. Grace began dancing professionally the following year when she moved to Texas to dance with Ad Deum II. Grace learned various styles of movement from Shizu Yasuda and Randall Flinn, as well as guests such as Alicia Graf Mack, Roxanne Delores, and Durell Comedy. Some of her favorite styles of movement include Limon, Graham, Ballet, and Jazz. Grace was given the opportunity to use dance in outreach and ministry projects with Open Sky Arts Collective during the first couple years of her time in Texas; she eventually joined Open Sky as a company member in 2018. In 2019, Grace moved to Dallas from Houston to teach dance at Cornerstone Ranch, a ranch for adults with special needs. While her love for teaching movement grew, Grace joined Zion Dance Project as a company member. During her time in Texas, Grace found that dance could be used as a powerful tool to not only worship God and interact with Him, but also reach the hearts of those who don't know Him yet! Grace moved home to Kansas City, MO in 2020 and joined Störling Dance Theater for two seasons. After moving back to KC, Grace began to feel God putting Maranatha on her heart. Not knowing fully what it would look like, she began renting a dance studio and asking dancers to join her to worship and pray together to ask God what He wanted Maranatha to do. Since then, Maranatha has grown into a project based collective, gathering artists to host the presence of Jesus and make His name known through outreach and dance performance.

Collective

Hannah Adamo • Hannah Anderson • Alexis Beurskens • Shannon Benton • Katie Casey • Mike Casey • Christopher Cheng • Brianna Collins • Molly Cook • Roma Catania • Ann Sterling Dale • Kaleen Frisbee • Grace Gimmotty • Chloe Waters-Gloria • Havilah Gililand • Beret Holaday • Daphne Johnson • Rachel Keller • Jane Kilpatrick • Katarina Larson • Jen Lawrence • Izzy Lee • Anna Leighthart • Heidi Loubser • Amy Miller • Liz Meyers • Natashia Moten • Gabriel Morton • Covenant Olatunde • Amanda Patton • Elora Pfeifer • Sarah Roberts • Rana Schmidt • Andrew Schmidt • Sherah Shipman • Truman Sutherland • Grace Unruh • Kaden Vandorn • Chelsea Villamayor • Natalie Wilson • Alex Wilson • Jackie Winnie • Madison Winters

Tribe

Ellie Bridges • Piper Bohlender • Henley Ferguson • Iris Friedline • Mattie Helmer • Charlotte Henderson • Cambry Henderson • Eliysha Rivera • Yashab Rivera • Gabbie Strong • Emma Winters