Fall Round
Dance/Theater Panel
Donald Borror (New York, NY)
Managing Director of Chelsea Factory
Jasmine Hearn (Houston, TX)
Interdisciplinary artist, director, performer, choreographer, organizer, doula, and teacher
Laurel Lawson (Atlanta, GA)
Choreographer, designer, and artist-engineer, director of Rose Tree Productions
Angelina Ramirez (Tucson, AZ)
Flamenco movement artist, teaching artist, and 2022 Dance/USA Artist
James Scruggs (Plainfield, NJ)
Writer, performer, producer, and arts administrator
Music Panel
Terry Jenoure (Northfield, MA)
Musician, visual artist, writer, professor, and 2023 Creative Capital awardee
Tomas Pena (Teaneck, NJ)
Journalist covering and documenting the crossroads between Jazz and Latin music
Dameun Strange (Saint Paul, MN)
Sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer
Jennie Williams (Charleston, WV)
West Virginia State Folklorist and Director of West Virginia Folklife
Stephanie Zelnick (Lawrence, KS)
Orchestral, solo, chamber musician, and Professor of Clarinet at the University of Kansas
Spring Round
Dance/Theater Panel A
Alexandra James (ME)
Maker, Mover, and Bates Dance Festival’s Director of Training Programs
Daniel Jones (TN)
Producer, curator, dramaturg, and Producing Artistic Director of Kindling Arts
Ayako Kato (IL)
Contemporary experimental dancer, choreographer, and improviser
Ellice Patterson (MA)
Executive and Artistic Director of Abilities Dance
Dance/Theater Panel B
Katy Dammers (IL)
Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts at REDCAT
Prasanna Kasthuri (MO)
Indian classical dancer, teacher, organizer, composer, and drummer
Nibia Pastrana (PR)
Dancer and Improviser creating site-specific ‘choreographic events’
Kholoud Sawaf (AR)
Theatre Director and Filmmaker
Music Panel A
Qacung Blanchett (AK)
Performing Artist, Multi-Media Producer, and Arts and Culture Educator
Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds (NC)
Director of Graduate Programs and Jazz Studies, NC Central University
Motoko Honda (OK)
Pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary creator
Johnna Wu (NY)
Performer, Improviser, and Founder of PinkNoise Ensemble
Music Panel B
Pius Cheung (OR)
Percussionist and Composer
Fernanda Navarro (AZ)
Composer of Acoustic and Electroacoustic Music
William Parker (NY)
Bassist, composer, writer, and educator
Langston Collin Wilkins (WI)
Assistant Professor of Folklore and African American Studies at UW Madison