Enter the Garden

With 4 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 self discovery and acceptance of the dark, the erotic, and the vulnerable within.

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The Solace Inside

The Wortham Center for the Performing Arts

August 17 & 18, 2024

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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 and lead choreographer of Enter the Garden Dance Team. 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

Lead dancer

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

Pole Soloist

Nirvana

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.

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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.

Show Host

Carin Metzger

Carin has been performing for over a decade. A graduate of Elon University's BFA Acting Program and the Asheville Improv Collective, she has acted with many companies across the US. After rediscovering a passion for dance through pole, she won 3rd place in the Pole Sport Organizations Netherlands competition in the Level 4 Artistic category. She has been honored to serve as host for Enter the Garden shows & works full time as a performer for LaZoom Comedy Tours in Asheville, NC.

Enter the Garden Dance Team

Choreographers: Katie Walbroehl, Brenna Kirk & Erin Gilreath

Local Chair, Burlesque and Contemporary dancers in the show's group pieces