Megan Mayer I am an award-winning Minneapolis-based artist working with choreography, dance, experimental video and photography. My work pulls from minimalism, transposition, mimicry, grief, tenderness, wry humor, loneliness, social anxiety, fake bad timing and exacting musicality. By exposing tiny emotional undercurrents, I find virtuosity through vulnerability and gesture. Drawn to the edges of the experience of performing: the anticipatory rapid heartbeat before going onstage, and the regretful relief after exiting, my work often reveals where that switch lives in the body. I make deeply pe ..read more

J’Sun Howard is a Chicago-based dancemaker. He holds an MFA in Dance and a certificate in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan. He is a 2020 3Arts Awardee, a recipient of their inaugural Esteemed Artist Award from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and a 2019 Asian Cultural Council Fellow. A Links Hall Co-MISSION Fellow, a Ragdale Foundation Sybil Shearer Fellow, 2017 3Arts Make A Wave Awardee and 2014 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. His works have been presented at Links Hall, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre Com ..read more

Maria Gomez Tierney has been choreographing, dancing and teaching in the Twin Cities since 1989. She received a B.A from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tierney has directed Gomez Dance Group since 1998. Her dance work has been presented at many venues throughout the St. Paul and Minneapolis area.  She was a faculty member at Gustavus Adolphus College and Hamline University, where she directed and co-directed the dance company programs.  Tierney has taught Creative Dance and Dance for All Abilities for Young Dance, where she also serv ..read more

Megan Flood danced for over a decade as a member of Zenon Dance Company, was a founding member of Wynn Fricke's Borrowed Bones Dance Theatre, performed as a guest artist with Bill Young and with Wil Swanson, and collaborated with a myriad of independent choreographers in the Twin Cities.  In collaboration with guitarist/composer Dean Magraw, Megan created improvisation-based work, including the dance/music duet "Eva Arriving," and in 2005 was awarded a McKnight Fellowship for lifetime contribution to the field of dance in Minnesota.  As a member of a hospital-based Integrative Therap ..read more

Duncan C. Schultz, born and raised just outside the Twin Cities in Minnesota, received his early dance training at Metro Dance Center. After completing his B.A. in Dance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities he worked with Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA Dances, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad’s BodyCartography Project and Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands’ TU Dance. While in the United States, he has had the privilege of working with choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Gioconda Barbuto, Camille A. Brown and Gregory Dolbashian. Following his time working in the Twin Cities, he moved to K ..read more

Leslie has danced professionally since 2004. She began her formal training at age 18 at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and received her BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota in 2003. Leslie was a founding member of Black Label Movement from 2005 – 2009, and joined nationally acclaimed repertory company Zenon Dance in 2006. She built a rich and diverse performance career at Zenon until its final performance in 2019 when the company closed its doors. Leslie has performed as a guest artist with the Minnesota Opera, Jon Ferguson’s Theatre Forever, Shapiro and Smith Dance, Tamara ..read more

Diane Elliot was born in Chicago and grew up in the north suburbs. Trained in dance from an early age, she received extensive training in dance and theatre at New Trier High School in Winnetka and in 1971 graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa from the University of Michigan, with a major in American Arts. For the next 25 years, Diane enjoyed a varied career in dance and theatre, studying with Alwin Nikolais and Murry Louis, Nancy Meehan and Finis Jung in New York City; performing and touring from 1972-77 with New York-based Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company; and producing her own work in New Yo ..read more

Cynthia Stevens/ INSITU slips into swamps, streams and forests creating environmental performance and media. This multidisciplinary work explores the interconnections of dance with original music, somatics and ecology to foster a visceral sense of place.  Over the past 40 years her productions have been presented in the United States, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. She has created over 60 works including What If I…; Calling Down the Moon; Unearthed with Judith Howard in their collaborative company Flying Sisters Theatre; numerous site-based works for her group INSITU including Leonora’s ..read more

Chitra Vairavan is an artist, seeker, contemporary indian dancer/choreographer and educator born in Milwaukee, WI (occupied Potowatami, Ho Chunk and Menomonee land) and culturally raised as an artist based in Mni Sota Makoce / Minnesota (occupied Dakota Oyate land). With ancestral roots in Kandanur and Rayavaram, she is immersed in Tamil/Thamizh culture and progressive politics in the U.S. Her embodied practice and experimental process is rooted in deep listening, spatial observation, freedoms, poetry, vulnerability and ancestral memory. Vairavan dances to heal and creates dance to help heal o ..read more

Erinn Liebhard (MFA University of Colorado Boulder, BFA University of Minnesota) is a dance artist making opportunities for people to experience the reflective and connective power of groove through performance and education. Guided by this inspiration and a fondness for jazz and American social dance ideas, she's worked with creatives as varied as hip-hop dance theater artists Rennie Harris and the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers Appalachian clogging company. Currently, in performance, she makes and performs new staged works and presents those of others through her company Rhythmically Speaking and ..read more