Arthur Avilés, an award-winning New York-Rican dancer/choreographer, was born in Queens and raised in Long Island and the South Bronx. He’s the founder of his contemporary dance company, Arthur Avilés Typical Theater, and the co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received his B.A. in dance and theater from Bard College, and became a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and toured internationally with the company for eight years. Aviles was honored with a Bessie Award, an Arts and Letters Award from his alma mater in 1995, a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award, a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship, the Mayor’s Award for Art and Culture in 2008, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Master’s Grant from Pregones Theatre in 2010 and has receive an honorary doctorate from Bard College in May 2015. He’s choreographed over dozens of dances, many of which embrace Latino and queer cultures.

Michael Freeman is a Pochinko-trained clown, writer, and movement artist. Pochinko is a clown training developed by Richard Pochinko in Canada, and is a combination of the french mime Lecoq-training, with Native American clowning. Michael studied modern dance on scholarship at the Martha Graham School, Merce Cunningham Studio, and with Bessie Schonberg at Dance Theater Workshop. He combines clown, movement and writing in his work. He has performed at MOMA with chreographer Steve Paxton, with lesbian playwright Susana Cook at La Mama, and has collaborated with renowned puppeteer, Ralph Lee. His writing has been published by the Secret Theater, and he is the recipient of grants from PEN America; NYFA; the Dramatists Guild; Nicholas Pekearo Award for Creative Writing (2012 and 2013), and the Richard Porter Leach Fellowship. Michael is also a Kabbalist/psychic practitioner. Check out his website(s): www.michaelpsychic.com (psychic practitioner)  ww.notagainstliving.com (writer/performer)

Keith A. Thompson, danced internationally for the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1992-2001, served as Trisha’s Rehearsal Assistant from 1998-2001, currently Associate Professor and Acting Associate Chair in the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, performs and rehearsal directs for Liz Lerman; teaches globally for Sasha Waltz & Dancers (Berlin), his company, ‘danceTactics performance group’, has been featured at Montpellier International Dance Festival, Dixon Place NYC, Jersey Moves Festival at NJPAC in Newark NJ, Triskelion Art Center’s Split Bill Series in Brooklyn, the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and the Hokusai International Dance and Theater Festival in Tokyo, Japan and Nimbus Presents OFFLINE at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn.

Parker Herren is a native of Wichita Falls, Texas, where he began his dance training at age fifteen. He attended Texas Christian University where he received his B.F.A. in Modern Dance, Magna Cum Laude. While studying at TCU, Parker choreographed multiple works and performed choreography by resident DanceTCU faculty as well as guest artists Ming-Lung Yang, Helanius Wilkins, Joy Atkins Bollinger, and John Gardner and Amanda McKerrow of the Antony Tudor Trust. Since moving to New York, he has performed with Amy Marshall Dance Company, Golden Hour Dance, and Sea Legs Dance. Dixon Place’s Moving Men series is Parker’s New York choreographic debut.