Mariterese Altosino (Contemporary), a Chicagoland native, received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Business and Entrepreneurship from Columbia College Chicago. Post-graduation, Mariterese danced with Giordano Dance Chicago for four years, where she worked with world-renowned choreographers Ray Leeper, Peter Chu, and Marinda Davis, and performed works by Ray Mercer, Christopher Huggins, Jon Lehrer, and Gus Giordano. Altosino continued her professional career with the South Chicago Dance Theatre, Banks Performance Project, and in a choreographic residency with Choomna Dance Company of Seoul, South Korea. Mariterese is currently in her second season as a company artist with Water Street Dance Milwaukee. Altosino teaches and choreographs at a variety of local studios in addition to coaching a high school dance team and an all-star dance team. Altosino is a veteran instructor with Universal Dance Association (UDA) and has been instructing summer camps at the high school and collegiate level for ten years. Through UDA, she has taken her passion for dance around the globe, teaching, judging, and choreographing in Ecuador, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, Austria, London, and China.