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Brenson Thomas is a Black and queer writer, actor, and theatre-maker. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA Theatre program, Brenson has collaborated with and performed in productions by Tony Award Winner Stew, Raja Feather Kelly, Lightning Rod Special, Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, and the Wilma Theater. Brenson’s plays include how i got over, or...red Kool-Aid stains on bubblegum lips; What We Lost & Never Knew; and How We Return. He also writes for TV/Film, most recently on Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe’s Twenties. When he’s not hunched over his laptop crying about blank Google docs, Brenson enjoys long walks around his beloved Philly, doing bad accents, smashing patriarchal white supremacist structures, and Beyoncé.

Iréne Hultman is a native of Sweden and a New York based choreographer, performer and educator. She has toured extensively with her own company and is a former member and rehearsal Director of Trisha

Brown Dance Company. She is a recipient of multiple grants and awards including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her current research interest is how media, affect and speculative theories influence movement and art production. Ms. Hultman is a former member of The Bessie Committee and currently on the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project and serves as faculty in Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.

Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer who has presented his work at On the Boards, Joe’s Pub, Brown University, the SPACE Gallery, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Provincetown Dance Festival, and La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres. He is a member of the companies Music

From the Sole and Subject:Matter and has danced with Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement, the Tap Family Reunion, Arc Iris’ iTMRW, and Danny FisherLochhead’s Tap Quartet. Orlando holds a B.A. in English from Yale

University. He has received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts, and he is currently an Artistin-Residence at the Center for Performance Research. You can find him atorlyhernandez.com or @pineappleju_icefrog

Leonardo Sandoval (dancer) is a Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer renowned for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. He founded Music From The Sole with composer Gregory Richardson in 2015, and he has been a core member of Dorrance Dance since 2014. He was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” and is the recipient of a 2022 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise and a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography.

Lucas Santana (dancer) is originally from Pernambuco in the Northeast of Brazil. He started studying tap at 8 and has since performed across Brazil, on TV, and, with Music From The Sole, at Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Harlem Stage, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Lucas also directs the group Afetos Sonoros in Rio, holds a philosophy degree from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s degree in Theatre from UdeSC in Florianópolis.

Isabella Serricella (dancer) is a dancer, actress and choreographer based in NYC. She holds a dance degree from Angel Vianna University in Rio de Janeiro and is a graduate student in Pedagogy from Estácio de Sá University (distance learning). She is part of the cast of Companhia Motirô, awarded 2nd place as best show with Catarse at 2018 Festival Set, Portugal. She is currently a student of the “Training & Preparation” Program with Dormeshia and part of the “NY Tap Ensemble” directed by Derick Grant.

Liberty Styles (dancer) is a tap dancer, singer, and producer. She has performed internationally and on NYC stages including The Apollo Theater, Nublu, and ShapeShifter Lab. Liberty is a co-founder of The Spell, an NYCbased electronic duo creating improvisational dance music. Liberty also performs with Bostonbased tap company Subject:Matter, and recently toured the UK as a tap dancer with the Xhosa Cole quartet.

Danny Fisher-Lochhead (saxophonist, composer, musical director) grew up in New York and started playing cello when he was young. Later he picked up the saxophone, which continues to be his main access point into the world of music as a performer. He has released seven records as a leader -- Tools of the Abstract, Piano Songs and Piano Songs 2, Wake The Baby Up, On Ceremony, small talk, and most recently Homebody. He lives on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and teaches saxophone at the University of Maine, Orono.

Gregory Richardson (bassist) is a composer and multiinstrumentalist. He is the cofounder and co-artistic director of Music From The Sole, and the musical director of Dorrance Dance. As a composer for dance, he’s created work at Lincoln Center Education, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, National Dance Institute, Works & Process, BAM, The Joyce, and New York City Center. Recent credits include performing with Toshi Reagon in her opera Parable of the Sower, touring with indie band

Darwin Deez, and playing with Grammy-winning artists Keyon Harrold and Marcus Gilmore.

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Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa

Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants.

Performed in works by luciana achuga, Jonathan Gonzalez, Snoogybox, Nile Harris and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.

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Corey Whittemore (He/Him) has designed shows with North Shore Music Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Eclipse Group Theatre, Salem Theatre Company, Columbia University, New York University. He was recently nominated for an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He is also frequently an Associate Lighting Designer to Rich Latta at Ogunquit Playhouse. Corey received his MFA at New York University and his BFA at Salem State University.