JESSE PHILLIPS-FEIN MOVEMENT COLLABORATOR

Jesse Phillips-Fein (she/her) grew up dancing at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange/ BAX. Jesse holds a BA in Dance & Cultural Anthropology from Smith College (2001), a MA from the Gallatin School/ NYU (2015) and she participated in the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC program (2012). Her choreography has been performed at venues in New York City, Colorado and the Women’s Works Festival in Maine. Her writing on dance is published in several journals and anthologies and she has presented on the intersections of dance and race at local and national conferences. She currently teaches middle school dance in the New York City Department of Education. She is forever indebted to the visible and invisible labors of Pop B, Grandma C and Grandpa O, Unc G, Auntie Kim & Auntie Shana. Love to Nalo - now and always!

AMANDA K. RINGGER LIGHTING DESIGN

Amanda K. Ringger has been designing locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Cynthia Oliver, Doug Elkins, Leslie Cuyjet, Molly Poerstel, Ivy Baldwin, Laura Peterson, Darrah Carr, Antonio Ramos, Alexandra Beller, Sean Donovan, and cakeface, among many others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is the recipient of a Bessie award for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Venice Boulevard at HERE Arts Center.

MAKEDA-LILY LOVE-RONEY MOVEMENT COLLABORATOR

Makeda-Lily Love-Roney (she/her/they) is a fourth-generation artist from unceded Lenape Nation land known as New York. She’s a life, body, & energy alchemist, creative, dance artist, and Body Alignment/Pilates coach. Makeda’s previously performed with BalletNext, Nimbus Dance Works and nia love | Blacksmith’s Daughter, Liz Lerman, and Debbie Allen. She’s currently a freelance dance artist, nia love’s teaching/choreographic assistant and movement collaborator of 10 years, the Producer and Co-Host of Black Dance Stories, and an apprentice of Urban Bush women. Makeda’s features include The New Yorker, Cake and Whiskey Magazine, A Ballerina’s Body Book, KT-LA Debbie Allen’s Hot Chocolate Nutcracker Excerpt, Ritual: Short Film, and more.