Enter the Garden
With 6 sold out shows in just under 2 years, Enter the Garden has created an all new experience for our guests. Some of the best acrobatic dancers in the world bring to life a sensual journey of rebuilding yourself after tragedy.
We have been resting for the last 2 years and are ready to come back with a vengence!
Allow us to invite you to
Enter the Garden:
The Awakening
The Event Space at Hi-Wire Brewing
2A Huntsman PL Asheville, North Carolina
The Creators
Chris Evans: Lead Producer of Enter the Garden & owner of Divination Tattoo. Chris is a tattoo artist, touring musician, music producer, pun connoisseur, entrepreneur & pickle ball player
Katie Walbroehl: Co-Producer, Choreographer & Soloist. Katie has an extensive dance background and is a national pole dance champion. She is a dance teacher, tattoo artist, fashion designer and mother.
Chris and Katie are the ultimate power couple in Asheville, building this project together from the ground up and creating a powerful show that has sold out time and time again.
The Cast
Enter the Garden showcases exquisite performances from our cast of local and national dancers
Pole Soloist
Roxie Nebel
Roxie is a performer as well as a yoga & dance teacher in Asheville. She began pole dancing in 2020 & draws from her life long background as a ballet & modern dancer. She loves creating, competing & collaborating with other dancers. When she's not performing or putting on shows, she specializes in teaching Yoga for Dancers. She trains dancers to level up their technique, mobility & confidence while preventing injuries and burnout.
Pole Soloist
Medusa Mami
Medusa is an embodied sensual movement artist & exotic dancer based in Charlotte, NC! She began pole dancing in 2014, and is now approaching 10 years of stealing hearts with captivating performances for many moons and has performed on big stages internationally and in the states! She is so excited to be back with Enter the Garden for the fourth time, for another round of the world's most delicious taboo pole show EVER!
Pole Soloist
Kristen Nichole
Kristen is a pole dance teacher and movement artist based in South Florida. Much like Kristen’s identity, their movement cannot fit in a box. She challenges the boundaries of pole, sensual movement and dance through improvisation and freestyle.
Pole Soloist
Dalton Rhodes
Dalton has been dancing for well over a decade but fell in love with the erotic art of pole dancing in 2016. Since then he has gone on to perform, teach, and compete internationally and holds the title of Mr. Pole Dance America. Currently based in Chicago his signature style is inspired by his time in strip clubs with an emphasis on heel work & flow.
Pole Soloist
Estefania Jimanez
Estefania is an old school pole dancer based in Mexico. She started pole dance back in 2013 after having intensive training in ice skating and ballet in her younger years. She has been teaching and performing around the world for years at studios & pole retreats.
Pole Soloist
Leah Von O'daera
Leah Von O’Daera is a performer and international instructor from Charleston, SC. She started her pole journey 13 years ago & has propelled her career into stage performance art & elaborate story telling. Known for her darker gothic undertones and slink, she always brings an edge to each piece. Best known as Queen of the Underworld
Pole Soloist
Sophia Schonwetter
Sophia took her first pole class in July 2019 and immediately fell in love. She has been teaching since January 2021 and is passionate about sensual movement, heel technique, freestyle, and refining the tiniest of details. Based at Fly Club Chicago, she also teaches workshops and performs across the US (and soon to be the world!).
Pole Soloist
Katie Kranz
Katie is a masterful movement artist and pole dancer in Charleston, SC. Known for her dynamic blend of mesmerizing spin techniques and powerful static tricks combined with impactful musicality and storytelling. Katie brings a unique, sensual flow to her performances that both captivates audiences as she weaves a spellbinding experience, leaving viewers enthralled.
Pole Soloist
Kathleen Hahn
Kathleen is the owner and head teacher of Danceclub Asheville. She grew up dancing as a wee ballet babe, then expanded to modern dance—her first true love. She earned a B.F.A. from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Her studio is dedicated to sharing the sexy and fun of pole dance to ALL the people. Kathleen is in love with creating and honored to be a part of such a beautiful, inventive show.
Pole Soloist
Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine is a dancer and teacher based in Asheville. Her love for dance and passion for sex worker’s liberation has perfectly accumulated in her art. Her experience in the many environments that pole dance occupies has inspired her to spread love for it everywhere. This will be Katherine’s third Enter the Garden with her favorite people in the world.
Pole Soloist
Callan Joyce
Callan has been dancing since age 11 and began pole in December of 2018. Today, she is a full time instructor at Danceclub Asheville and a performer in queer spaces around the city. A lover of all things sexy/flirty, she has also produced a number of Pole and Drag shows. She is thrilled to be dancing with Enter the Garden for another season.
Cyr Soloist
Josh Wise
Josh discovered “dancing in zero gravity” nearly a decade ago & has been madly in love since. An artist, coach, & Cyr wheel manufacturer, Josh has set about making this life-giving art accessible to others. An Asheville local, Josh regularly travels to teach & perform Cyr at venues and festivals. While at home, he can be found working with students and athletes at AdrenaZen Wheel Arts, his Asheville Cyr studio.
Pole Dancer
Shillo Amari
Shillo is a proud curvy dancer from Detroit, MI, who began pole dancing in 2015. She loves balancing emotion & sensuality on stage & teaching these elements to her students. Her journey spans from being a late-blooming modern dancer in high school, a praise dancer, a studio dancer, a stripper, & now a home poler. Based in Southwest Michigan, Shillo travels to guest teach, perform, & offer workshops and private lessons
Pole Dancer
Misty Miller
Misty is an accomplished Ironman Triathlete, surfer & former gymnast. She began pole in 2022 & was immediately captivated by the artistic expression of demonstratively owning her sensuality & strength. She has performed in every iteration of Enter the Garden & is honored to share the stage with dancers, to dismantle the insidious, patriarchal narrative that demonizes sex workers & sovereignty of one’s sexuality.
Show Hostess
Carin Metzger
Performing & acting with companies across the US for over a decade, Carin is a graduate of Elon University's BFA Acting Program & the Asheville Improv Collective. After discovering a passion for pole dance, she won 3rd place in the PSO Netherlands competition in the Level 4 Artistic category. She has been honored to host for Enter the Garden shows & is a full time performer for LaZoom Comedy Tours in Asheville, NC.
Volunteer Coordinator
Ashley Strohm
Ashley has been heavily involved with volunteer coordination for non-for-profit organizations for over a decade. When she isn't volunteering, she's playing video games, TTRPG's, or enjoying time with her partner and their six rescued animals. Casually pole dancing since 2017, she has been involved with the pole community to help create a safe space for creativity and inclusivity.
Enter The Garden Dance Company
This collective creates the magical group pieces woven throughout the show! The pieces feature local dancers & blend together many styles including heels, contemporary, chair, pole & burlesque
Company Choreographer + Dancer
Katie Walhbroehl
Katie is a local dancer, teacher, tattoo artist and the fashion designer for Slow Drip the pole wear brand. She is the show's co-producer, lead choreographer, soloist and known as "show mommy" the house mom for all the dancers. Known for her signature hard style flair, impressive tricks, flips and dynamic group pieces she's excited to bring a diverse range of dances to the stage, from the sexy to the emotional to the firey!
Company Choreographer + Dancer
Brenna Kirk
Brenna is a dancer in Asheville, NC. She began dancing contemporary & modern dance in 2008 as well as training as a competitive gymnast in her teens. Now she combines her loves of soft sultry movement with hard hitting acrobatics to bring provocative choreography to life in the dancers she works with. She is elated to have her new piece shared on the Enter the Garden Stage for the first time.
Company Choreographer + Dancer
Erin Gilreath
Erin has been dancing most her life, starting at age three as a studio kid and danced competitively until high school. At East Carolina University she was on the dance team, then started dancing professionally after college for some pro teams including the NBA team the Charlotte Bobcats. In 2014 she moved to Portland OR, where she furthered her dance career working with a neo-burlesque company performing cabaret style dance. Her choreography is heavily influenced by her jazz and cabaret background, bringing that to life on the stage. She's been performing and teaching her heels style of dancing in Asheville since the fall of 2022.
Company Dancers
Sol
Bonnie
Tracy
Anna
Katrina
Lexie
Sara
Amaya
Risa
MJ
Matilyn
Tori
Mitch
Carin
Misty
Katherine
Callan