A choreographer and dancer from Tokyo, Japan, Miho Ryu is a Qigong Master from Beijing Shinshu Qigon Society. She won the Best Dance Choreography Prize from ONIROS Film Awards in Italy, 2018. Her repertories were shown at many places, such as at Jogja International Performing Arts Festival (2013-15, Indonesia), Seoul International Choreography Festival (2008, Korea), X International Contemporary Dance Festival (2006, Portugal), and Danspace Project at St. Marks Church and DRA Festival (2003, USA).

Alaina Wilson is a New York-based choreographer, performer, and visual artist. She graduated with a BA from Vassar College and received her MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College in 2018. Her choreography, investigating phenomena of perception, strives to combine movement with elements of visual art to alter and shape viewer experience. Her work has been presented at venues including the Actors Fund Arts Center, the Access Theater, Green Space, Eden’s Expressway, the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York, Northern Vermont University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Vassar College. Currently she is collaborating with multidisciplinary performing artist Oriana Catton on a series of duets.

Creative director and physician at The Aseemkala Initiative, an organization that uses traditional dance to narrate stories of women in medicine, Shilpa Darivemula began training in Kuchipudi at the age of 8 with Ms. Sasikala Penumarthy at the Academy of Kuchipudi Dance and performed her solo debut recital—her Rangapravesham—in 2011 with Ms. Anuradha Nehru and Mr. Kishore Mosalikanti at the Kalanidhi Dance school.

Selma Treviño is a performer/choreographer/director and co-founder of Corporeal Arts Incorporated. Selma develops works based on the Corporeal Mime technique in the field of dance and theater as well as for academic research in the field of Performance Studies. Selma teaches at her own Pilates and Yoga studio in Maspeth which is also home for her artistic company Corporeal Arts Incorporated. In New York she had her work performed at: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lincon Center, Dixon Place, HERE, Center for Performance Research – CPR. Her work was also performed in venues in California, Brazil, France and Canada.