Adele Myers and Dancers (AMD) is a Miami based nationally recognized dance theater company made up of athletes of the heart who perform the company’s signature style blending robust athleticism with personal theatricality.

 Brittney Griffin graduated from the University at Buffalo with a BFA in Dance. Credits include: Hairspray, 42nd Street (International), Dreamgirls National Broadway Tour (Dance Captain/Swing), Dreamgirls Non-Equity and South African Tour (Associate Director/Choreographer), Apollo Club Harlem, After Midnight (NCL). Film: Bolden, A Jazzmans Blues (Netflix). Winner of 2022 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography for Five Guys Named Moe (Playhouse on Park). Most recently she is the Associate Choreographer of Broadway's five time Tony Award winning musical Kimberly Akimbo.

 Sara Hodges has been choreographing, coaching, and teaching various movement and theatrical disciplines for nearly two decades, and has worked with groups such as the Society of American Fight Directors, Live Action Theatre, and Art of Combat. Sara's work has been seen in projects stretching from her alma mater (James Madison University) up through the DC area and as far as New York City, including theatrical productions of She Kills Monsters, Metamorphoses, Twelfth Night, and The Rover. Film work includes Cavegirl Productions' short film Extraction and webseries The Broken Continent. Sara holds a blackbelt in Goju-ryu karate and has also studied Shito-ryu, Goshindo and Japanese jiujitsu.

 Sydney Manno (Choreographer) is a New York City–based multi-hyphenate artist: dancer, choreographer, and educator. She is currently on faculty at the world-renowned Broadway Dance Center, where she teaches an engaging theater class focused on storytelling, musicality, and connection. Sydney served as associate choreographer for Zoje Azeke’s debut full-length work, FITNESS, created for students of Barnard College at Columbia University. She danced for some of New York City’s top choreographers, including Zoje Azeke, Courtney Darlington, Emily Greenwell, and Nicholas Palmquist. She has also worked as an associate choreographer for both Courtney Darlington and Zoje Azeke. Outside of her work as an associate and performer, Sydney has a distinct choreographic voice of her own and loves creating, producing, and presenting original work. Her recent sold-out production,GREEN, premiered at Arts on Site and featured choreography, poetry, live music, and a 12-minute dance revue she conceived, choreographed, and directed titled A Little Green. Her choreography was most recently showcased at the iconic Joyce Theatre as part of the Young Choreographer's Festival. Other recent credits include Jersey Boys at The Cape Playhouse (assistant choreographer), I Put A Spell on You at Webster Hall (associate choreographer), ClubNYC at 3 Dollar Bill (featured choreographer), and Call Your Local Lesbian at Arts On Site (performer/writer). She is a guest faculty member at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Barnard College, and the Koin & Co training program. Sydney is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Broadway Dance Center's Professional Semester program. She has completed elite training programs such as Orsolina28 in Italy under the direction of Nicholas Palmquist, Rock the Industry under the direction of Luam Keflezgy, and INSTINCTS under the direction of Theresa Stone. Her choreography blends theatrical storytelling, contemporary fusion, and the dynamic street styles she has had the privilege of immersing herself in throughout her years in New York City.

 Brian Josiah Martinez embarked on his dance journey at Davidson High School in Mobile, AL, guided by the esteemed Angie Brocato Dussouy. At The University of Southern Mississippi, he excelled as the Teaching Assistant for Advanced Choreography. Graduating summa cum laude with honors in Dance Performance and Choreography, Brian guest-performed with Hub Dance Collective. Venturing to Chicago, Brian enriched his skills in Hubbard Street's Professional Program under the mentorship of Alexandra Wells. Brian later joined PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, collaborating with renowned choreographers Stephanie Martinez, Robyn Minekos Williams, and Helene Simoneau. In his choreographic pursuits, Brian has created captivating films for Chicago's New Dances and New York's Future Dance Festival, namely "Next to the Portrait of a Red Haired Lady" and "Breaking Mundane." Stepping onto the grand stage of the Lyric Opera in Carmen marked a pinnacle in his performance career before redirecting his focus to Boykin Dance Project, which he founded in 2022. Brian's choreographic ethos revolves around "contemporary, full-bodied theatrical gesture," a distinctive movement preference infusing dynamic performance with swift, purposeful movements. His most recent work, "Nonsense!” (2023), premiered at Boykin ONE in Spring 2023, exploring the whimsical essence of dreams through a multi-generational lens inspired by an aural landscape spanning the 1940s to the 1990s. Currently, Brian is immersed in developing "Real People, Not Paid Actors," his most seminal exploration of this movement practice to date.

 Julie Nakagawa (DanceWorks Chicago) was a featured dancer with Christopher D’Amboise’s Off Center Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, and Twyla Tharp Dance. She has also performed in Ruth Page’s Nutcracker and Die Fledermaus. Returning to Chicago upon her retirement from dancing, she has been especially interested in the development of dance artists and their related artistic collaborators. At the invitation of Lou Conte, Julie joined the staff of Lou Conte Dance Studio in January 1994 and rose to the position of Associate Director. In addition, she led Hubbard Street 2 from its inception in 1997 through February 2007 as the artistic director of the second company of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, nurturing young dancers and establishing the National Choreographic Competition to provide creative opportunities for emerging dance makers. Julie has taught classes for dance studios, university programs, and companies, locally, nationally, and internationally. She has served as a member and officer of the Board of Trustees of Dance/USA, has engaged as a mentor in multiple pairings through Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training, has been a panelist for peer review panels including the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, McKnight Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation, and US Artists International.

 Miguel Perez (Conflux Dance Theater) started dancing at the University of Arizona where he was fortunate enough to receive a 4-year scholarship for dance. He then went on to dance for both River North Dance Company, and Hubbard Street 2 in Chicago. After making a change from concert to commercial dance, Miguel moved to Las Vegas to dance for Celine Dion's A New Day at Caesars Palace. Once A New Day closed in Vegas, Miguel was fortunate enough to go on Celine Dion’s world tour Taking Chances, where he was appointed Dance Captain. After being on tour, Miguel made L.A. his new home. He has appeared on America's Got Talent, SYTYCD, and danced with Leona Lewis on Dancing with the Stars. Miguel was also a featured dancer in the show Viva Elvis for Cirque Du Soleil. He has performed on the Miss USA Pageant and Miss Universe. He also performed for Paulina Rubio in Mexico City. Miguel has performed in two movies: Behind the Candelabra, where he worked with Marguerite Derricks, and Ted 2, choreographed by Rob Ashford. Miguel's accomplishments include performing with BODYTRAFFIC Dance Company, Shania Twain’s A New Day at Caesars Palace Casino in Las Vegas, and at The Oscars. Additional accomplishments include performing with Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards and at The Kennedy Honors awards tribute to Rita Moreno. His most recent performing credits include Steve Wynn’s ShowStoppers at the Wynn casino and acting as Dance Captain for The Donny & Marie Osmond Show. He has also been an adjunct teacher at the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, and a guest instructor at George Mason University, University of Arizona, and Cary Ballet. Miguel is currently teaching at West End Academy of Dance, Premiere Dance Studio, and Valley Dance Theater in addition to being the Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at JMU and co-directing for Conflux Dance Theater. 

 Isabel Robles was born in Arlington, Virginia and began training in ballet at age 4. At the Classical Ballet Theatre she trained in the styles of ballet, jazz, Horton, Graham, character dance and contemporary forms. Isabel was a scholarship student at The Houston Ballet program in 2013 where she performed works of Stanton Welsh, George Balanchine, David Lichine and John Neumeier. During high school, she attended the The Washington Ballet, where she worked with Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes and performed with the company in The Nutcracker. In May 2022 Isabel graduated from James Madison University with a B.A. in Dance. This is Isabel’s second season with Ballet Hispánico.

 Max Roman featured in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, is the founder and Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance in Washington, DC. Her choreography is “intellectually probing, politically minded, and personally revelatory” (Dance Magazine), "boldly explores technology's downsides" (Washington City Paper), and provides "a searing comment on how pervasive social media and mobile devices affect human behavior" (Arts ATL).

 Kia Smith is a dance-maker whose work fuses contemporary ballet and jazz dance. Also involved in Stage Direction for Opera, Kia is a newly appointed Assistant Director for Chautauqua Opera. Her work as the Founder of South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) includes serving as the organization’s Resident Choreographer, Executive Director, and Artistic Director. Kia is the founder of an enduring Choreographic Diplomacy™ project that began in 2018 and presently spans the creation and presentation of new work with artists in Seoul, Korea; Arnhem, Netherlands; and Columbia, South America. Here, art making is a tool she uses to engage with diverse people to build collective experience, develop empathy in cross-cultural relations, and understand the importance of global citizenship. In 2022 Kia was named the “South-Side Diplomat of Dance” by the Chicago Reader. She is the daughter of a celebrated Chicago-based saxophonist. While she and her father were estranged for much of her life, she sees herself reflected in reviews written about his work and the ways in which he’s described as a composer and performer. In her dance making, she always had a vested interest in rhythm and musicality, and her creative process centers around an exploration of how to create both dissonance and harmony with sound. Showcasing form, energy and architecture, Kia's work derives from her subconscious, exploring disparate ideas from multiple vantage points such as movement invention, investigation of emotion, irony, and showmanship. Though Kia's work stems out of her experiences of living in the Black, female corporeal body, she is ultimately interested in the deconstruction and transcendence of race and in employing movement to build community. Using contemporary dance, Kia wishes to reflect upon the human condition, challenge notions of perspective, and increase opportunities for interconnected sensibilities throughout the global community.

 Vincent E Thomas received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina. He has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). His choreography has been presented at various national and international venues including DUMBO Festival (NY), Philly Fringe (PA), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK-Scotland), Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Avignon, France, Athens, Greece, Bari, Italy, Copenhagen, Denmark, Taipei, and Singapore. He received rave reviews for his performance of “Come Change” (2012) and “iWitness” (2014) in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Vincent was the Movement Coach/Choreographer for  Everyman Theater’s Brother’s Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Mosaic Theatre’s Unexplored Interior by Jay Sander,  Everyman Theater’s Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh, and Mosaic Theatre’s The Art of Care by Derek Goldman. He is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of the national touring What’s Going On project. Vincent was awarded the 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (DC), the 2019 University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, 2020 MDEA Living Legacy Award, 2021 Baker Artist Award, a 2022 Baker Award Finalist, and a 2023 Black History Month Honoree for Richland District Two (SC). Vincent was awarded the 2024 Robert M. Trotter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon. He is the Founder/Artistic Director of VTDance, an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator, faculty member for the UBW Summer Institutes (NY), Associate Choreographer for INTELLIGENCE Opera (with Jawole Zollar), Co-Choreographer for Scat! The Complex Lives of Al and Dot…Dot and Al Zollar (with Jawole Zollar), and Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD).

 Christian von Howard is the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT, a contemporary dance company based out of New York City. As an international artist, he has worked with many dance artists such as Doug Varone, Fernando Bujones, Douglas Becker, Germaul Barnes, Daniel Gwirtzman and various others. Christian is a Fulbright Specialist (2019-2021) and a NJ State Council of the Arts Choreographic Fellow (2006) and his choreography has been produced in various venues across the globe including Germany, Japan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Chile, South Korea and in the states at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, the Ailey Citigroup Theater amongst others. His guest artist teaching/residency highlights include the American Dance Festival, Dance It! Festival (Bulgaria), Peridance Dance Center, and the Korean Dance Festival. Christian is a 2013/2014 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts where he was part of the teaching faculty in the Department of Dance & Choreography from 2008 to 2014. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Montclair State University and concurrently teaches at the Alvin Ailey School in NYC where he has been on faculty since 1998. Christian served as the Northeast Regional Director of the American College Dance Association from 2016-2023. He holds advanced degrees in Performance and Choreography from the School of Classical and Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University and from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.