Valerie Green has been an active dancer, choreographer and teacher in the New York City dance community since 1995.  She created her company Dance Entropy in 1998, adding a permanent company home in 2005 called Green Space. To date Ms. Green has created 39 dances and 10 evening-length works.  Her choreography has been seen throughout NYC and has toured to venues throughout the US. Internationally, Green has toured to Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Cuba both as VG/DE’s artistic director and as an individual teaching and performing artist.    www.DanceEntropy.org

Elise Knudson eliseknudson.orgis a New York City based dance artist. She teaches Contact Improvisation for Movement Research and facilitates CI at festivals and studios around the world, most recently at Beijing Dance Academy and Moab, UT. She created NEXToNow to provide a monthly platform in NYC for the practice of performing interdisciplinary free improvisation. Elise has also enjoyed the opportunity to perform choreography with various Artists, including Christopher Williams, Jenni Hong Dance, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Koosil-ja/DANCE KUMIKO, Noemie LaFrance. Most recently, she enjoyed rehearsals as a member of ‘the community’ in Bill T. Jones’s Deep Blue Sea which was cancelled. Over the years Elise has choreographed aerial dances, experimental installations and concert dances for stages large and small. She is currently interested in developing fluidity between instantaneous and premeditated choreography.

Selma Treviño is a performer/choreographer/director and co-founder of Corporeal Arts Incorporated in New York.  She hold a BA in Theater Arts from UNICAMP, Brazil( 1992); Specialization in Corporeal Mime with Thomas Leabhart in Paris and California (1996-2002); and MA in Performance Studies from NYU (2009). Selma develops works based on the Corporeal Mime technique for dance as well as for academic research in the field of Performance Studies. 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, Finland and Canada.

Since 1999 Elke Rindfleisch has created a critically acclaimed body of work characterized by raw, highly physical and emotional performances. Investigating human relationships and psychology in choreography, led her to a deeper study of intimacy and relationship dynamics, erotic/energy, and sexuality. Next to her performance and visual art projects, Elke is currently completing her Reiki Master training. She teaches pole/sensual dance, and facilitates Erotic Awakening Journeys, certified through the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program. Her sessions blend conversation, visualization, and body work, holding a wide open permission field for each individual’s needs and desires. Find her on Instagram @elkerindfleisch.