Josh Doster teaches in the art department at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He earned his MA Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. His visual practice walks a fine line between painting and printmaking. Doster creates formal series that use reproductive processes to create skeletal structures of repeated forms. Printmaking serves as a way to create repeated complex forms as a starting point. Instead of gesso, he use silkscreen or wood block or even hand-executed reproductive means. It is at this point each piece takes on its own unique form and direction.

Rafaela Sahyoun, a Latin American from São Paulo, working in the field of arts as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She spirals through these roles within the ever-evolving landscape of performative practices, community, and context. She dedicates herself to artistic and pedagogical projects that unfold and shape-shift continuously through ongoing research and shared practices. Actively collaborating with artists, researchers, students, and art institutions in Brazil and abroad, she has a strong inclination towards hybrid formats of multicultural collaborations in dialogues with multidisciplinary disciplines. As an educator, she cultivates her movement practice "The Body The Player The Journey" in diverse contexts, such as universities, higher education dance and theater schools, undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and both dance and theater companies. Her most recent choreographic work, "Fôlego" (2022), was commissioned by São Paulo City Ballet (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, BCSP) in partnership with São Paulo Cultural Center (Centro Cultural de São Paulo, CCSP) and had its 2023 season at São Paulo Municipal Theater (Theatro Municipal de São Paulo) and in 2024 an international tour in Switzerland and Germany.

Inês Galrão is a Portuguese dance artist and LGBTQIA+ woman, operates as a freelancer and production student. She collaborates with the Brazilian choreographer Rafaela Sahyoun. Their shared focus lies in continuous research of affectability and kinaesthesia, emphasizing the pulsation of bodies as a mechanism of togetherness and support. They have curated a collection of works centred around these themes, titled The Pulse Collection. Inês is also actively involved in performing, creating, producing, and multidisciplinary thinking.

Born and raised in the Buffalo, NY area, Amanda Maciuba graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in Visual Studies. She has a MFA in printmaking and a Certificate of Book Arts from the University of Iowa. Amanda Maciuba’s work is concerned with the landscapes, communities, development practices and environmental practices throughout the United States. The work, which consists of drawing, printmaking, book arts and animation, considers how humans influence and attempt to change, destroy and recreate the natural environments around them. She shows her work regularly throughout the United States and has participated in artist residencies at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Fire Island National Seashore, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Kathmandu International Artist Residency and the Haystack Open Studio Residency. Currently, she teaches printmaking, drawing and book arts at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by the artist Augusto Cascales. Visit them at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88

Lisa Race performed, choreographed and taught in NYC for many years before moving in 2004 to Connecticut, where she is a Professor of Dance at Connecticut College. She danced with David Dorfman Dance from 1989-2000, having received a Bessie in 1995 for her dancing with the company. She then took a pause when her and Dorfman’s son was young before rejoining the company in 2013. Under the guise of RaceDance, her choreography was seen at the former Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dancenow and MR at the Judson Church while in NYC. She has been fortunate to teach at Bates, ADF and ImPulsTanz dance festivals multiple times, and has given classes and workshops at many locations around the globe. Race has collaborated with Shawn Hove on three dance films, and is currently in the midst of a mediated video collaboration with Hove and Rachel Boggia, for a solo Race is creating centered on Race’s mother Beverly (1920-2022) for performances at Connecticut College in September ‘24. The evening, which will be shared with Kendra Portier, will also feature a duet Race and Jennifer Nugent created in 2001, which is being restaged on Portier and Christina Robson.

Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. Jennifer addresses her body, mind and being through questioning. Articulating internal experiences through performance and teaching, she augments these practices by sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language. Her dancing is profoundly inspired by Linda Rogers Albritton, Ann Cummings, Patricia Cummings, Beatrice LaVerne, Barbara Sloan, Bambi Anderson, Dale Andree, Gerri Houlihan, Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Lisa Race, David Dorfman, Patty Townsend, Thomas F. DeFrantz, and Janet Wong. Jennifer is currently performing in the cast of Weathering by Faye Driscoll, Lilach Orenstein, and earlier in 2024 had the opportunity to work with Beth Gill. She has been a company member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, and sustained a duet collaboration with Paul Matteson from 1999-2019. Jennifer received a Masters Degree in 2019 from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She currently teaches Sarah Lawrence College (NY) and Movement Research (NYC).

The Architects were born out of collaborations between Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle, and Pamela Vail in the late 1980s, later joined by Kathy Couch. For over 20 years, the quintet has been engaged in celebrating composition through their commitment to collaborative movement research. The Architects have presented their work and taught master classes in such venues as the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival; Chicago Dance Improvisation Fest; Jazz Fest, Burlington, VT (in collaboration with Ensemble V, directed by Arthur Brooks); The Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN; The Flynn Theatre in Burlington, VT; the University of Iowa; and Franklin & Marshall, Middlebury, Muhlenberg, Keene State, and Austin Community Colleges. They were the company in residence from 2001-2005 at Bennington College. For 13 years, 2006-2018, they held their weeklong workshop Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation (MICI) at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. They also offered “wiMICI” (winter Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation) each January from 2011-2013 in Tucson, AZ. In their professional and life-long devotion to choreography, improvisation, and teaching, the Architects bring a holistic and ferocious intelligence to the dialogue of dance-making and teaching, process and product, individual voice and ensemble composition, crafting, and opening to the unknown.