Vyette Tiya (she/her) is a Kenyan-American dancer and performance artist based in Philadelphia. Her work often explores cultural heritage and sense of belonging. Vyette is most interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation as practice, and centering movement as a way to tap into our authentic selves. Vyette studied international studies and dance at American University and she holds an MPA from Princeton University. Connect with her at vyettetiya.com or @vyettetiya.

Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, writer, dance leader, and teacher. In her own performance, she works with movement, speech, and sound coming from her body, drawing on training in Contact Improvisation, Six Viewpoints, acting, Black American social dance, and other influences. She is also a skilled Yiddish dancer, having trained under Steve Weintraub. Miryam's solo dance/theater piece "Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish" which premiered in the Cannonball Festival this September, was hailed a "must-see performance" by The Dance Journal, and recently opened SoloFest at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill, NY. miryamcoppersmith.com

We are Shana Crawford and Aubrey Donisch, a long-distance dancing duo from Minneapolis. Shana by trade is a lighting designer and production manager in New York City, and Aubrey is a Philadelphia-based dance teacher and arts administrator. We have a deeply embedded shared history of movement as a practice of access. We ground ourselves in principles of shared authorship, building around the people who are in the room, autonomy over one’s own body and thoughts, and a belief that dancing isn’t about image, it’s about people