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Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is a choreographer, music artist, writer, visual artist, educator, podcaster, community advocate, and Feldenkrais Method practitioner living between Lenape/Canarsie land, colonially known as Brooklyn, NY, and Tongva and Gabrielino land, colonially known as Los Angeles, CA. His work centers attention as a material form and as a means to unravel normative belief systems. He creates empathetic and irreverent spaces for QTPOC folx (including himself) to dream, find agency, and process grief. His strategies include, as Siobhan Burke has written in The New York Times, “trenchant, darkly funny structural critiques, addressing the faults in the very systems that undergird his artmaking.” His work has been presented nationally and internationally in venues such as Festival d’Automne/Paris, the Walker Art Center, and in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, four NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, and a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography at UCLA in the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he also serves as Vice Chair for the MFA in Choreographic Inquiry.

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Jay Carlon (he/they) is a performance artist, choreographer and community organizer whose work facilitates shared healing, exploring postcolonial identity, ancestry, and the complex queer/Filipinx experience. The youngest of 12 in a migrant family, Carlon connects a global network of AAPI creatives and communities. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch,” Carlon has shown work with the Filipino American National Historical Society, at REDCAT, homeLA, Lincoln Center, and more; and performed with The Industry Opera, Oguri, Bill T. Jones, and the Metropolitan Opera. Commercial work includes performance and choreography for Mndsgn, Kanye West, and Solange Knowles; and as associate director with aerial spectacle company Sway at the Olympics and Super Bowl.

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Justin Faircloth (he/they) is a performing artist from North Carolina. Since relocating to New York, Justin has had the pleasure of working with Blaze Ferrer, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Doug LeCours, loveconductors, Jordan Lloyd, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Maddie Schimmel, Third Rail Productions, Third Class Citizen, Erik Thurmond, Alexa West, Ash Yergens, Jessie Young, Abby Zbikowski, and others.

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Wendell Gray II (he/him) is a dance artist, choreographer, and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY, situated on Lenapehoking land. Wendell's artistic journey has led him to perform with a myriad of influential choreographers in contemporary, experimental, and concert dance. Those artists include Miguel Gutierrez, Pavel Zustiak, Tere O’Connor, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Christal Brown, and Kevin Beasley, among many others. Wendell's original choreographic works have been shown on stages and platforms across the country. His original works have been showcased at venues such as Coffey Street Studios, Kinosaito Arts Center, Gibney, University of the Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and The Painted Bride. Wendell is an alumnus of the University of the Arts, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, his artistic journey has been enriched by a diverse range of influences.

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Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez (she/her) aka evelina aka Letty Leticia aka ehd-dhe!!!!! Comes from cleaning houses with her mom! Excited, Proud and Grateful, this saddie baddie continues to listen to the aprendizajes that “la limpieza” have gifted her. To See +  To Do + To Be Thankful For All Of It. evelina is currently working on embodying healthy anger, the lawyer brain, and the movements of a soft tissue specialist. Evelyn has been apart of projects with Miguel Gutierrez + Jill Sigman + Abby Zibikowski,  Curated by Eva Yaa Asentwaa + Gibney Dance Work Up 4.0 Artist  + Art Educator with Urban Art Beat & Elders Share The Arts  and an American Dance Festival + Gibney Dance + Movement Research COMMUNITY MEMBER. Compost + Scents + Fascia + Inflammation + Sound + Texture + Volume + Crunch + Color

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Carolina Ortiz Herrera (she/her) is a NY based Lighting Designer for theatre, opera and dance, born and raised in Mexico City, She tells stories through light to elevate the human experience to a universal language illuminating the complexity of the human experience. She thinks of light as an enigmatic, yet subtle living force transporting an audience to “stand at the threshold” where a new understanding of our collective experience is revealed.   Carolina has collaborated with many regional theaters across the United States, including Broadway. She is excited to continue a second collaboration with Miguel on this new piece. She is honored to have been featured on the 2nd Annual “Women to Watch List” from the Broadway Women’s Fund.

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Michelle Fletcher (she/her) is a live performance maker, director, educator, artist manager and psychodynamic therapist based in Catawba and Cherokee lands, colonially known as Greenville, SC. Fletcher earned her BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts, MFA from Florida State University, and MSW from NYU. Fletcher was a Fulbright Scholar at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, teaching contemporary technique and dance technology. Her dances have been presented at ODC Theater, CounterPulse, Triskelion, and CPR. Fletcher’s film Dan’s House headlined the Dance for Camera Festival at Lincoln Center and San Francisco. She currently serves as Manager to Miguel Gutierrez.