Kalila Kingsford Smith is a Philly-based choreographer, performer, dance educator, Pilates instructor, and a certified Spiral Body Techniques® teacher. She has an MA in Dance from Temple University and a BFA in Dance and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Much of her choreographic work is informed by her early dance training and performance career with Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center and Dancefusion. She has performed in works by Molly Shanahan, Dianne McIntyre, Paul Taylor, Pauline Koner, Mary Anthony, José Limón, and Donald McKayle, among others. She has produced and performed in a number of independent dance works in Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival. Kalila’s approach to dance is fundamentally healing and transformational. Her primary teaching practices include Spiral Body Techniques®, somatic improvisation, modern and contemporary dance techniques, jazz and musicality, historical and cultural dance analysis, choreography and creative process, and Pilates. In any class, these modes cross-pollinate to generate an informed and rigorous practice that moves people through various relationships to gravity, to musicality, to tension and to release. She is an adjunct faculty member at Drexel University, and she offers Spiral Body Techniques® and Pilates classes to the Philadelphia community.

Loren Groenendaal (they/she) is a Philadelphia-based performing artist and educator, specializing in contemporary modern, creative, and traditional Balinese dance, contact improvisation, comedy improvisation, and genre defying performance. She holds a MFA in Choreography from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and BA in Dance and Visual Arts from Oberlin College. Loren is certified in two somatic practices of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and Fascia Flossing (TM Bonnie Crotzer). Loren is the artistic director of Vervet Dance whose contemporary modern dance work is steeped in contact improvisation, often inspired by nature, or in deep collaboration with music. Loren has also performed with the following dance groups The Naked Stark, From the Earth Dance Project, Gamelan Semara Santi, Graffito Works and in the choreography of Ann Cooper Albright, Boris Charmatz, Mark Dendy, John Gamble, Christina Gesualdi, Curt Haworth, Nusha Martynuk, Helen Simoneau, Leah Stein, Jan van Dyke, and in genre-expanding performance directed by Adam Kerbel and Annie Wilson and in collaboration with Ben Lloyd. Loren regularly teaches Contact Improvisation through ContactImprovPhilly, improvisation through FreeFleetByFreeFleet, creative and modern dance, improvisation, somatic fitness to children and adults at Cardell Dance Studio.

Margot Electra Steinberg (they/them) is a Philly-based dancer, educator, and fiber-artist. They are thrilled to be making their set design debut as the creator of Tængle’s expansive quilt! Margot’s work includes crochet, embroidery, and sewing, and they aspire to do more work as a support to performing artists. 

desire amaiya suarez (they/she) is a staff writer with thINKing dance and 1/2 @foxkisshoneybee. strangeness/generosity/love/justice.

Kimya Jackson is a dancer, creator, clown and Ph.D. trained Biobehavioral Health scientist. She works in these mediums because she is excited by the extraordinary nature of ordinary things.

Maddie Rabin is a dancer, musician, and performance artist based in West Philly and sometimes in Burlington, Vermont. Some years ago, she released her first album of original songs called "In the name of starting over" under the moniker Madeline Lee, which you can find all over the Internet on streaming services and Bandcamp, as well as on a burned CD if you ask her for one. It's been many years since she's been in a dance piece, most recently was her 2017 Fringe show, "Sprout! A full-length Not-a-ballet," so she's excited to get back on stage to dance and sing with her friends.

Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, dance leader, and Jewish educator.  She leads and teaches Yiddish dance at festivals, synagogues, and celebrations around the country. Her solo dance/theater piece Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish was hailed a "must-see performance" by The Dance Journal and has since been performed in Phoenix, AZ and Catskill, NY. Miryam has studied with the Worker’s Circle, YIVO, KlezKanada, Mitsui Collective, Yiddish New York, LabShul, and Hebrew Union College. They have performed with Vervet Dance, Theatre Ariel, Rabbinic Arts Company, Janna Meiring, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and others.  miryamcoppersmith.com

Leigh Huster (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, choreographer, and multidisciplinary maker whose work explores ecology, grief, embodiment, and our relationships with the natural world. Their practice blends movement, participatory performance, ritual, and play. Their ongoing project Clapping for Nature uses collective movement and applause to explore attention, reciprocity, and connection with local ecologies. Leigh also develops site-responsive work rooted in Philadelphia’s waterways, landscapes, and environmental histories. Their current research includes eco-somatic performance and community-based practices, with an interest in using humor to approach ecological crisis and our complicated relationships with the more-than-human world. Leigh is a graduate of the Headlong Performance Institute and a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist.

Madelyn Wansong (she/her) is a Philadelphia based dancer/artist. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Madelyn was a pre-professional company member with Center of Creative Arts (COCA). In May 2022, she received a BFA in   Dance from University of the Arts (UArts) under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. While at UArts, she had the opportunity to perform works by Doug Varone, Merce Cunningham, Jordan Lloyd, and Kim Bears-Bailey. She is

currently a company member with The Equus Projects and Era Dance Company. Additionally, she has performed with Alessandra Corona Performing Works, Mystical Feet Company, Augie Sherman, and Margaret Brackey. Within her own work, Madelyn plays with intertwining the landscapes of reality and imagination to reconstruct spaces and allow shared adventures to come to life.

Shannon Brooks is a multisensory artist grounded in iterative experimentation. Their practice engages with the full range of our senses and draws on ritual, material, and performance to construct strange worlds between the physical and the ephemeral. As a Disabled/low-vision person, Shannon understands accessibility as a creative force that transforms time, space, and power structures.