Tammy Sugden-Carrasco (she/her) is a visiting assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College in the dance program and is a Philadelphia-based dance artist, educator, and yoga teacher. Her research occurs in the studio in creative process, looking at the implications of queered choreographic spaces, and dance as a living archive of the creative process and people in the making-room. She has performed professionally in her own work (formerly Wild Beast Dance), as well as for Heidi Brewer, Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dana Katz, Melinda Mcguire, and Helen Simoneau, to name a few.
Robbie Cook (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Hofstra University, currently working on projects with Kota Yamazaki and Tammy Carrasco. During his career he has performed the work of Seán Curran, James Gregg, Guanglei Hui, Teena Marie Custer, Michel Kouakou, Edwaard Liang, Keith Thompson, Douglas Dunn, Margaret Jenkins, Liz Gerring, and Jan Erkert, among others.
Ramón Flowers is currently an Assistant Professor of dance at Butler University. He was a principal dancer in several ballet companies and has been featured on Broadway in several musicals, TV commercials, and feature films.
Gerri Houlihan has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to the present. She is the artistic director of the Big Red Dance Project, an organization that encourages adults to share their personal histories through dance. With dancers from the ages of 35 to 71, the group seeks to develop community and expand the notions of who can be a dancer in our current society. We believe that the longer one lives, the richer the information that is revealed as we carry our history and geography in our bodies.
Kate Jewett is a dancer, dance maker, director, and educator. She joined Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2005 and was named the company education director in 2008. She took on the role of rehearsal director from 2009 to 2018. Kate has performed original roles in MAP, Re-I, Re-III, Connect Transfer II, Undivided Divided, Limited States, Collective Measures, In Black White & Gray, and Neither and most recently assisted Shen Wei in China for the creation of Integrate. Kate has graced numerous stages and conducted master classes and workshops all over Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. She staged works at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the American Dance Festival. Other choreographers she's worked with include Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy group from 2002 to 2005, Sean Curran, Helen Simoneau, Rashaun Mitchell/Silas Riener/Charles Atlas, Helado Negro, June Finch, Mimi Garrard, Jeff Slayton, Louise Burns, Brenda Daniels, and Teatro De San Carlo, among others. Her own works have been presented at DeSales University, the United Nations, Park Avenue Armory, SCGSAH’s Gunter Theater, Milano Teatro Scuola, Paolo Grassi, Fabbrica Europa, and Performatica festivals as well as NYU, Forge, and Houying Dance Theater summer programs. In 2017, Kate founded Moving Minds, a mind-body learning and leadership program for organizations. Moving Minds has conducted workshops throughout Japan, China, and the US and was accepted to present at SXSW EDU in 2019. She is a trauma informed yoga teacher and social emotional learning facilitator and is an avid mushroom forager at her leisure.