Born in Honolulu and raised in Los Angeles, Roberta Uno is a theater director and dramaturg. In 1979, she founded the New WORLD Theater in Amherst, MA, a theater dedicated to the works of artists of color, and served as its Artistic Director for 23 years, directing, producing or dramaturging over 200 works. In 2014, she was inducted into the College of American Theater Fellows at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her dramaturgy credits span over four decades, working with a range of artists including James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Chitra Divakaruni, Mark Bamuthi Joseph, thúy le, Pearl Primus, Dawn Saito, Sekou Sundiata,  Keo Woolford, and William Yellow Robe Jr.  Most recently, she directed and co-created Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite, with choreographer Toran X. Moore, nominated in 2026 for NY Drama Desk Best Book, Lyrics, and Choreography awards. In 2022 she directed the milestone We The Peoples Before at the Kennedy Center honoring the First Peoples Fund 25th Anniversary. Uno co-leads Pua Aliʻi ʻIlima o Nuioka, the NYC extention of Kumu Vicky Holt Takamine’s Oʻahu-based hālau, Pua Aliʻi ʻIlima. Her most recent publication is FUTURE/PRESENT: Culture in a Changing America with co-editors Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth Webb. 

(Tau) Peter Rockford Espiritu is the Executive & Artistic Director of Tau Dance Theater, the only professional dance company based in Honolulu founded by a native Hawaiian, marking its 30th anniversary in 2026. Tau choreographed the stage production of Disney’s ‘The Tale of MOANA’ on the ship, The Disney TREASURE. Tau is a 2023 ‘Dance USA Fellowship to Artist’; Western Arts Alliance Performing Arts Discovery Fellow; WESTAF BIPOC Fellow; Advancing Indigenous Performances Native Launchpad Fellow; and in 2022 was awarded the prestigious Intercultural International Choreographer’s Creation Lab residency at Banff Center for the Creative Arts in Canada. Tau choreographed the luau at the Disney’s ‘Aulani Resort and is a five-time Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts Choreographic Award winner. He has created three full evening length works: Hānau Ka Moku: An Island is Born; NAUPAKA: A Hawaiian Opera and POLIAHU: Goddess of Mauna Kea. The company presented five sold out performances at the Lincoln Center in New York City for the Festival of Firsts in 2022 and continues to be a driving force throughout of artistic realm of the greater Pacific and throughout our ‘Global Village’.

Little Feather is First Nation from the 3 fires Confederacy which is comprised of Ojibway Odawa and Potawatomi tribes. She is From Mnidoo Mnising which translated means "Home of the Great Spirit ", other wise known as Manitoulin Island located in Ontario.

She comes to us from 2spirited peoples of the First Nations based in Toronto as a former Crisis Response Specialist. & Designer from Project Runway Canada. With management experience from a National level at the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. As well regional experience as Executive assistant for the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation. Little feather is happy to be here as she is also a two time Indigenous Haute Couture Residency of the Banff Centre.

Valerie Chen is a Taiwanese American artist whose love for dance and movement creation began in Irvine, California. In high school she attended the Orange County School for the Arts in the Commercial Dance Conservatory, developing herself as a multifaceted dancer in both the commercial and classical spheres. Valerie simultaneously trained at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy and Jessie Riley’s Westside Dance Project. Continuing her dance education, Valerie received a BFA in Dance at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. While at Kaufman she witnessed new movement styles, a culture of care, and ingenious innovation which nourished her passion for performance and experimentation. She has performed works by Kyle Abraham, Hope Boykin, Jiří Kylián, Micaela Taylor, Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, and Paul Taylor, among others. Upon graduating Valerie joined South Chicago Dance Theatre as a main company member where she performed works by Frank Chavez, Kate Weare, and others. She is currently a guest artist with SCDT and freelance artist based in Los Angeles. Valerie aspires to bring dance to new spaces, break boundaries of expectation, and share movement histories with each community she meets.

Stephanie Dai is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Los Angeles. She received her B.F.A. in dance as a 2019 inaugural graduate of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under the direction of Jodie Gates and William Forsythe. She has performed in the original choreographic works of the TL Collective, JA Collective, and BEMOVING in addition to dancing for COACH, GAP, Solange, CL, Porter Robinson, UNIQLO, and 88Rising. She is currently on faculty at the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts and has assisted with teaching and setting repertoire at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Southern California dance programs. With her own work, Stephanie has been selected for residencies such as WIP LA at G-Son Studios, the Ghost Light Residency at the Barnsdall Theater, the USC Alumni Residency performance at the Glorya Kaufman Performance Center, and the Space Lab at LA Dance Project. Her most recent work “URETCHKO” premiered at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles and was selected for the 2025 International Modern Dance Festival (MODAFE) in Seoul, Korea. She enjoys employing dance by means of feeling and images to convey the impalpable connections and hidden phenomena of life.  

Marirosa Crawford is a Miami native and a New York based movement artist. She began her training at a local studio in Miami and went on to focus more extensively at New World School of the Arts. Crawford went on to study at SUNY Purchase where she received both her BFA in Dance and a BA in Literature. While at Purchase she worked with Doug Varone and Marcus Jarell Willis, and performed works by Martha Graham and José Limon. Shortly after graduating, she traveled to Montreal to attend Springboard Danse Montreal and had the opportunity perform works by Johannes Weiland and UNA Productions. Marirosa moved to Los Angeles after graduating, choreographing and performing her own solo work titled “measuring undercurrents”. During her time there she toured internationally with L.A. Dance Project, Volta Collective and worked extensively with Marcella Lewis, Bret Easterling, Chris Emile, and Genna Moroni. She has recently moved back to New York to continue researching her artistry as a performer and movement artist and hopes to begin her career as a writer.

Kyle Carr Scheurich was born in 1992 in New York. In 2010 he graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts. During his time at LaGuardia High School he also studied at Manhattan Youth Ballet under the direction of Francois Perron. He graduated from The Juilliard School under the direction of Larry Rhodes, and joined Batsheva – the young Ensemble in 2014. Kyle joined Batsheva Dance Company in 2016-2021, with Ohad Nahirin acting as both artistic director and house choreographer. Kyle has performed with AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) for the stage premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s & Or Schreiber’s ‘Broken
Theatre’. In 2025 Kyle served as assistant director for AMOC’s ‘Rome is Falling’, premiered at Alice Tully Hall.

Currently Kyle performs in various works, under the direction of choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, co-founder of P.OR.K (Portugal). Kyle is a teacher of Gaga movement language and works as a stager/rehearsal director for Ohad Nahirin at universities and dance companies around the world. Kyle is also a creator, choreographing and directing his own dance-theatre works. He is an Ilan Lev Method practitioner & musician.

Jonah Tran is a queer, Vietnamese American artist, originally from Mustang, Oklahoma. He is a New York City based freelance artist and earned his BFA in Dance at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. There, he had the privilege of performing works by acclaimed choreographers such as Kyle Abraham, Peter Chu, Bret Easterling, Roderick George, Jiří Kylián, and Micaela Taylor. Jonah furthered his training by participating in programs like the BEMOVING Dance Program under the direction of Bret Easterling, and Springboard Danse SpringboardX under the direction of Alexandra Wells. He has done workshops and worked creatively with artists such as Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, Dolly Sfier, Megan Paradowski, Lauren Edson, and JA Collective.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bella Allen is a queer movement artist invested in work that engages individuals in connection-based movement practices. During her formative years she trained with Westside Dance Project and attended the Orange County School of the Arts. Bella graduated from the USC Kaufman School of Dance in 2022 where she organized community events in collaboration with peers, Change the Stigma, and USC Visions & Voices. Since graduating, Bella has worked with esteemed artists such as Bret Easterling, Charissa Kroeger, Genna Moroni, Sara Silkin, and Mike Tyus & Luca Renzi. Additionally, Bella has collaborated with LA based companies Volta Collective, GUM Collective, BEMOVING, and directors Claire Loudis, Curry Tian, and Joey Frank. Outside of her performance experience, Bella has continued her work in community engagement by teaching somatic classes at R&R Health to share the healing properties of communal movement. Bella is currently based in Los Angeles as a freelance artist.

Originally from Portland, Oregon where he studied with the Jefferson Dancers, Austin went on to graduate from NYU - Tisch School of the Arts. Following university Austin became a member of Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance, then a performer and rehearsal director for Punchdrunk’s ‘Sleep No More’ in NYC. Austin currently freelances with a home base in LA performing for choreographers such as: Micaela Taylor, Rebecca Margolick, and Bret Easterling. Austin is a frequent contributor as a performer, teacher, and creative developer for BEMOVING, a LA based non-profit uplifting queer voices in dance. Austin is also a certified Pilates instructor and studying to become an Ilan Lev Method practitioner.