Emily Beattie  is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Somerville. She believes deeply in dreams that inspire her performance work and teaching. She combines movement and technology in immersive space. Her work has been shared at the ICA Boston, Boston CyberArts Festival, Ammerman Center for the Arts, Brown University, Los Angeles’ Pieter Performance Space, and in Kyoto Japan. See emilybeattie.com for more.

Naoko Brown is a native of Nagoya, Japan. At the age of six, she was introduced to the world of classical ballet by Michiko Matsumoto. She continued her training with Barbara Banaskowski Smith in Lansing, MI. While there, she performed with the students of the National Ballet School of Gdansk in Poland, as well as students from Vaganova Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Brown received her B.F.A. in Dance from The Boston Conservatory. While there, she performed works by Daniel Pelzig, Sean Curran, Lar Lubovitch and José Limón. She also attended the Boston Ballet School Summer Dance Program, Ballet Intensive from Moscow, and was a full scholarship recipient at Summer Stages Dance in 2012.

She has performed with Michiko Matsumoto Ballet, Urban Nutcracker, Zoé Dance, Contrapose, Prometheus Dance and Jo-Mé Dance. She is currently a faculty member of Walnut Hill School for the Arts Community Dance Academy as well as Boston Ballet.

Alli Ross is a dance theater artist, choreographer and educator.

Favorite touring projects include Healing Wars with Liz Lerman and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Boston/NewYork.  Locally she is a founding member of Excavate, a collective exploring the intersection of somatics, nature and community. Her work strives to connect people of different perspectives and mediums often leading to uncovering HERstories. With the support of NEFA’s New England Dance Fund 2020, Danza’s Organica We Create Festival 2019, Studio 550’s Creative residency 2019, and as a CATALYST artist at the dance complex, Alli is creating a new work, a reckoning and celebration through dance theater and song. She is on faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in the Theater Division.

Tim Mateer practice his curiosity in Austin Texas he’s home for over 40 years. He’s been fortunate to have a career in the performing arts. He’s a little obsessed about snail mail and mail art sending over 700 pieces of mail a year. In his spare time he loves throwing axes. He always wanted to be an astronaut.

Court Dorsey is an activist, theater artist and conflict resolution specialist living in western Massachusetts. He is chief playwright and artistic director of Project
Unspeakable, a theater project centered on the assassinations of MLK, JFK, RFK and Malcolm X. He was a founding member of Bright Morning Star, a cabaret folk ensemble, and he maintains an active practice as a mediator, facilitator and circle keeper. He developed Conflict Resolution Theater for work with young people and adults in schools, community centers and behind bars. He has worked with over thirty companies as an award-winning writer, actor, director and touring performer in the U.S. and abroad. He frequently appears as Will Newcomb of NUCORPAC (Nuclear Corporations Political Action Committee), ironically campaigning and testifying against every cause he has ever believed in.

Pedro Alexander  is a concept engineer specializing in immersive environments and networked events. His work has explored ‘the collaborative construction of experience’ through creative processes as diverse as sculpture, installation, and theatre in Europe as well as in the United States. He is best known in for his pioneering ‘happenings’ synthesizing traditional art disciplines with digital technologies and universally recognized psycho-geographical maps. Pedro taught theatre design at Marlboro College, VT and has served as
assistant to the Master Scenic at the Seattle Opera. His projects include work with: The Untied Nations; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Bellevue Art Museum; Experience Music Project; Seattle International Film Festival; as well as collaborations with many internationally known artists such as: Dale Chihuly; Michael Singer; Dave Matthews, REM, Pearl Jam; and Phillip Glass.