Amy Pivar, a Bessie Award winning dancer/choreographer, was a founding member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Loremil Machado Afro-Brazilian Dance Co.  Other companies include the Urban Bush Women, Hilary Easton and Dancers, Bill Young.  In 1990 she founded Amy Pivar Dances, with collaborator Freda Rosen, presenting evening length dance-theater works.  From 2001-07 she performed with singer Elaine Valby and composer Paula Kimper in “Songs for Solo Dance and Voice.”  Also a yoga teacher and goldsmith, Pivar took a brief hiatus from choreographing.  Impelling her onto this new phase of dance-making is the body/mind saturation in Shaivite Tantric meditation practice.

MizantyMoves Dance Works is a collaborative ensemble led by Megan Mizanty.  The group, hailed as “intriguing, fresh and unpredictable,” (Times Union) has performed at Little Spa Theatre, Brick Theatre, Gibney Dance, and is premiering an evening length work at Ailey Citigroup Theatre this Spring. Their creations bridge voice, movement and narrative, inviting audience members into a multidimensional and exciting experience.

Lisa Sokolov is a singular jazz vocalist, improviser and composer, known for her pioneering tonal, timberal and expressive range  Her recordingsangel Rodeo, Lazy Afternoon, Presence and A Quiet Thing have all received awards. Presence received, 5 star Masterpiece, Best CD of the Year, as well as, a place on 2010 Best CD’s of the Decade list in DownBeat. She has played the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Kool Jazz Festival, The Stimmen Festival, The Vision Festival, Havana International Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center and many other venues. A professor at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, Lisa is the originator of Embodied VoiceWork.
A graduate from Bard College’s Electronic and Experimental Music department, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez  received the 2013 Margaret Shafer Music Performance Award. He has performed at the The Stone, the Mercury Lounge, Vision Festival, Stimmen Festival, the Evolving Music series with William Parker and Dave Sewelson, and at Lincoln Center Out of Doors with Larry Harlow. He can be heard on the Sons of an Illustrious Father self-titled record and on Sokolov’s 2009 release “A Quiet Thing”. He enjoys peripheral incidents and central resonance. Jake moonlights as BABL and his electronic work can be heard at soundcloud.com/babelproductions.