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Alethea Alexander (she/her) is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator, and is the Artistic Co-Director with Undercurrent. Community, sensuality, care, effort and collaboration are central tenets of her work with dance partners human, object and sonic. She performs her own improvised, choreographed and installation-based works in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists in Seattle and nationally. Her recent works have been supported by 4Culture, City of Seattle, the Kreielsheimer Foundation, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Cornish College of the Arts, and Sam Houston State University. Alethea is Co-Founder and Teaching Artist for Ballet Rituals, a Seattle-based community practice initiative.

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Bebe Miller Company’s practice includes individual and collective choreographic contributions from the dance artists, whose creative insights and energies are an integral part of each work. Her vision of dance and performance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and sheer beauty. She has collaborated with artists, composers, writers, and designers, along with the dancers who share her studio practice and from whom she’s learned what dancing can reveal.

A native New Yorker, she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Since then, the Company has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, The Joyce Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts, On the Boards, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Artaud, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, and Danspace Project, and has performed worldwide.

The Company’s work encompasses choreography, writing, and film, along with digital archive products that share their creative practice. Named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005, Bebe is an inaugural Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, a Movement Research honoree, and a Danspace Project Gala honoree. She has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, the David R. White Award from New York Live Arts, and honorary doctorates from Ursinus College and Franklin & Marshall College. Bebe is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Ohio State University, and lives on Vashon Island, WA.

Angie Hauser(she/her) is a “Bessie” Award-winning dancer whose work is grounded in improvisation and performance. She is a principal collaborator with Bebe Miller Company, contributing to the work as a performer, writer, and choreographic collaborator since 2000. Other dancemaking projects include long-time collaborations with dance artists Chris Aiken and Darrell Jones. She has taught dance, improvisation, and choreography throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. She received her MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She is currently a Professor at Smith College, where she directs the Graduate Program in Dance.

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Darrell Jones (he/him) is a performer, educator, researcher, and choreographer. He has performed extensively across the United States and globally, in all kinds of venues, including Links Hall in Chicago, Danspace Project, Dance Box—Kobe, Japan, and the Venice Biennale. He maintains long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. Additional foundational experiences have included working with Min Tanaka, Ronald K. Brown, Kokuma Dance Theatre (Birmingham, UK), and Urban Bush Women. Jones is a two-time “Bessie” Award recipient and has received grants and awards including the 3Arts Award, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the MAP Fund. He is a tenured faculty member at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches classes in physical practice, performance, and improvisational techniques. He holds an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.

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Maurya Kerr(she/her) is a bay area-based artist and the artistic director of tinypistol. Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University. After co-curating ODC Theater’s 2023/24 season, she was appointed as Resident Curator for their 2024/25 season. Maurya’s sophomore film, Saint Leroi, was described in the Village Voice as “a surreal meditation on Black history, violence, and American decay and a powerful indictment of racism.” Maurya is a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and her poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart prizes and appears in multiple journals. Other recent honors include winning Rhino Poetry's 2024 Editor's Prize, second place in Palette Poetry's 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize, and first place in the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. She is author of the chapbooks MUTTOLOGY and tommy noun (winner of the 2022 C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award).

Rachael Lincoln (she/her) is a dance-maker, performer, and teacher committed to collaborative process and performance. For over two decades, she has co-created and toured extensively with longtime collaborator Leslie Seiters, building a body of duet work that is both precise and deeply human. She is in her eleventh year with AVID, a Seattle-based improvisation collective, where she continues to explore ensemble practice and performance. Since 1998, Rachael has been a performer and associate director with BANDALOOP, bringing site-specific vertical dance to theaters and architectural landmarks across the globe. Her performance history includes work with celebrated artists such as Joe Goode, Jo Kreiter, Bebe Miller, Sara Shelton Mann, and Nancy Stark Smith. Currently, she is enjoying teaching Low Fly—a responsive, momentum-based rope, harness, and floor technique—and is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

Leslie Seiters (she/her) is a San Diego-based teacher, performer, and dancemaker. She holds a degree in visual art from Kenyon College, an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, and is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner. Since 2002, Leslie has directed Leslie Seiters/little known dance theater and has sustained a long-term collaborative practice with Rachael Lincoln. Her performance history is rooted primarily on the West Coast, including work with influential artists and companies such as Sara Shelton Mann, Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, Scott Wells, Knee Jerk Project, Jess Curtis, BodyCartography Project, LIVEpractice, and Deborah Hay. Seiters has been a member of the Dance faculty at San Diego State University since 2005. Her creative and pedagogical practices emphasize experimentation and inquiry, seeking out projects that continuously invite her to rethink and reimagine her role as a dance artist. Her research is focused on what dance does, rather than what it means.