Aimee Meredith Cox is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Anthropology, Black Studies, and Performance Studies. Cox’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize. She performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances as interventions in public and private space in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.

Brian Seibert is the author of What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing (FSG, 2015), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Since 2011, he has been a dance critic and features writer for The New York Times, and he has contributed to The New Yorker since 2002. His reviews, features, and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Slate, Dance Magazine, and The Threepenny Review, among other publications. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell and Yaddo. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia University, he has taught writing and dance history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, and Yale University. 

Cécile Feza Bushidi is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in dance and art history at Yale University. She is a graduate of the the School of Oriental and African Studies where she earned a Ph.D in History. Previously, she held fellowships at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Her current research interests cover dance history, dance historiography, and performance theory. As a performance artist, Cécile is involved in independent dance and theatre projects. 

Emily Coates is a dancer, choreographer, and writer who has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project, Performa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Ballet Memphis, Wadsworth Atheneum, University of Chicago, and Yale Art Gallery, among other venues. Recent work includes “A History of Light” with Josiah McElheny at Danspace Project. She is co-author, with particle physicist Sarah Demers, of Physics and Dance (Yale University Press 2018), and associate professor at Yale University, where she created the dance studies curriculum. 

Ms. Hanan Hameen, Doctoral Candidate is an Arts, Education and Curriculum Specialist, Founder/Director of the Artsucation™ Academy Network, Ms. Hanan’s Dance and Beyond, Artistic Director of the BAM DanceAfrica Candle Bearers, Adjunct Professor, dancer, percussionist, author, dance mentor, award-winning choreographer, studio owner, curriculum developer, company director, and Lupus warrior. Ms. Hameen holds multiple degrees in Dance Administration, Dance Education, Educational Leadership with an Advanced Certificate in School Building Leadership, and is pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.

Jenna Riegel, originally from Fairfield, Iowa, is a dance artist, maker and educator. Between 2008-2019, she toured and performed nationally and internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra Beller/ Dances, Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas & Company and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Jenna has been on the dance faculty at Barnard College, The Juilliard School and Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently an Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College. Jenna Reigel will be co-choreographing with artist Shayla-Vie Jenkins.

Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a performer, teacher, and maker based in Philadelphia, PA. Jenkins spent a decade performing with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and serves as a teaching artist and répétiteur. She has worked with many incredible artists most recently including Ni’Ja Whitson, Night of 100 solos Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration, Yvonne Rainer, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at The University of the Arts. Shayla will be co-choreographing with artist Jenna Riegel.

Kellie Ann Lynch is Co-Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective and has been teaching, choreographing and dreaming for ECDC since she co-founded the organization in 2008. In addition to her heart and soul work with ECDC, Kellie joyfully dances with David Dorfman Dance and has been traveling around the nation and beyond with her DDD family since 2017. Kellie’s choreography is currently supported through an artist fellowship from the CT Office of the Arts. Kellie will be choreographing in collaboration with Lindsey Bauer.
  
Lindsey Bauer is a dance artist, teacher, choreographer.  She is a co-Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective.  In recent years, Lindsey has worked with artists Kellie Lynch, Luis Antonio, Efraim Silva, Adejoke Tugbiyele, Cai Ying, Phoebe Hui, Lee Sher & Saar Harari, Olushola Cole and Rachel Bernsen.  Lindsey is a full-time dance faculty member at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School.  She loves experiencing dance in new ways and witnessing that experience with others. 

Renee Robinson is a lecturer at Yale, guest faculty at Juilliard and faculty at The Ailey School. Ms. Robinson spent 30 years as a member and principal dancer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ms. Robinson has performed at the White House for the State Dinner, has been honored with the Dance Magazine Award; was a presenter for the New York Dance and Bessie Awards; and was honored as an Artistic Powerhouse by Good Housekeeping L’ORÉAL Paris.