Bela Watson, Artistic Director & Co-Founder
Bela Watson is an award-winning choreographer, costume designer, and multidisciplinary teaching artist whose work lives at the intersection of movement, creativity, and healing. With more than three decades of experience as a dance educator, choreographer, and yoga instructor, she brings an embodied understanding of artistry as both discipline and devotion.
Bela’s approach integrates her training in yoga, dance and somatics to help dancers move with anatomical awareness—understanding how muscle connections, placement and alignment protect the body while enhancing performance. Her teaching emphasizes functional movement, body intelligence and long-term dancer wellness, helping students train sustainably and perform at their highest potential.
Her career spans higher education, community programs and the founding of Soul Play, a professional modern dance fusion company in Orlando, FL, dedicated to storytelling through movement. As Artistic Director, she mentored dancers through a pre-professional apprenticeship program bridging education and professional practice.
A survivor of advanced-stage cancer, Bela’s relationship with movement is grounded in resilience, purpose and empathy. Her teaching philosophy honors both structure and sensitivity—meeting each dancer where they are while guiding them toward confidence, strength and creative freedom. Through Liminal Dance Labs, she continues to integrate somatic awareness with technical artistry, cultivating spaces where dancers grow as both skilled performers and expressive individuals.
Bela holds an MFA in Dance: Creative Practice from Saint Mary’s College of California, where she specialized in Somatic Movement Therapy and earned certification in Dance Stage Management. She also holds a BFA in Visual Arts and Dance from Florida State University, with concentrations in Dance Performance and Photography and a minor in Psychology.
Laura Fegraus, Executive Director, Co-Founder
Laura Fegraus is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Liminal Dance Labs. With more than 25 years of experience leading healthcare organizations, nonprofits and serving on community boards, Laura brings deep expertise in governance, organizational growth, and mission-centered leadership.
Laura was most recently the VP of Strategic Transactions at SCAN Health Plan and also served as the Head of Government Relations for Verily. She held various positions at Kaiser Permanente from 2011 to 2022, including VP of External Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Institute for Health Policy. During that time, she also served as the Executive Director for the Council of Accountable Physician Practices, a non-profit consortium of nationally recognized multi-specialty medical group practices committed to advancing accountability in medicine.
She also served on the Senate Finance Committee Democratic health staff as a Presidential Management Fellow where she participated in the drafting of the Medicare Advantage and Part D related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare"). She currently serves on the boards of the Moraga Community Foundation and the Accountable for Health Institute.
Laura holds a Masters of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Bachelors of Arts from Drew University. Her professional roots in healthcare leadership have been profoundly shaped by her own lived experience with cancer— an experience that informs her empathy, resilience, and dedication to fostering spaces where healing and creativity intersect.
Laura envisions Liminal Dance Labs as both a creative home and a social impact organization — a place where dancers and community members alike can transcend the ordinary.
Tenaya Garrett, Managing Director, Co-Founder
Tenaya Garrett’s creative foundation was built at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she trained in performance and theater arts before working as an actor in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1999, when the SAG–AFTRA strike halted film and commercial production for over six months, Tenaya pivoted toward project management, discovering a new calling that would shape the next chapter of her career.
Within a year, she earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and began consulting for major corporations, including Disney and Clorox. Over the next decade, she established herself as both a strategic leader and entrepreneur, founding a successful integrative wellness center and body & bathcare company.
In 2009, she co-founded the nonprofit R Strengths, supporting families in transition through the Salvation Army Harbor House. By 2013, Tenaya returned to business and nonprofit consulting, focusing on organizations dedicated to purpose and positive community impact.
At Liminal Dance Labs, Tenaya brings together her background in the arts, business strategy, and community engagement. She oversees program innovation, community partnerships, and business development, helping advance Liminal Integrative Arts Corp.’s mission of providing integrative arts, healing, and movement-based performing arts education.
A lifelong advocate for resilience and healing, Tenaya draws on her background in performance coaching, meditation, and life coaching to support dancers’ mental and physical well-being. Tenaya also holds certifications in, Mindfulness-Based Pain Relief, hypnotherapy, and cupping therapy. Her mind-body approach cultivates confidence, focus, and calm—helping students manage stress and perform with grounded presence.