BIOGRAPHIES

Aidan Un Video

Aidan Un (he/him) is a FrenchKorean-American filmmaker and photographer. Creating images is a way for him to consider questions of culture, identity/ancestry, and place. He regularly collaborates with musicians and movement artists to document their artistic processes and translate their work to video. His first feature documentary, The Ancestors Live: 50 Years of Kùlú Mèlé African Drum & Dance Company, featured at Blackstar 2020 and is a story about the oldest African dance ensemble in the United States. He is currently working on a documentary about Hip Hop dances and culture in Philadelphia, shown through the lens of the legendary Second Sundae party. His work has been featured at BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Mustard Seed Festival, The Outlet Dance Project Festival, New Urban Film Festival, The Philadelphia Film Festival, and The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival.

Diana Uribe Movement Collaborator

Diana Uribe (she/her) is a firstgen American, Jersey born dancer, teacher/choreographer, visionary, and believer. She has diverse dance training and holds a BA in Contemporary Dance and Psychology from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School (2020). She has performed at Movement Research, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Barclays Center, CHI Movement Arts Center, Bridge for Dance, United Palace, King’s Theatre, City Center Theatre, and Manhattan Center. She is currently a freelance artist, Company Director at Greenhouse Arts Center, a dance teacher for elementary through highschool age students in Livingston, New Jersey, and is a company member of the Lori Belilove and the Isadora Duncan Dance Company. Diana develops her own works deeply intrigued with displaying the labor and unseen processes of dance making and she craves collaboration with cross-disciplinary modalities.

Zinda Williams Costume Design

Zinda Williams (she/her) has been designing for dance since 1983, starting her career as the in house costume designer for Garth Fagan Dance. After leaving Rochester, NY in 1996, she returned to her hometown of New York City where she toured with Alvin Ailey, while continuing to design for dance with the likes of Carmen de Lavallade, Hope Boykin and Philadanco. She’s also collaborated with Wunmi Olaiya and Geoffrey Holder for works with Ron Brown Evidence and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Ms. Williams was reunited with Garth Fagan to design two of his works, Estrogen Genius 2017 and The North Star which premiered at The Joyce Theatre in November 2018. The critically acclaimed collaboration between TU Dance and Grammy winning band, Bon Iver, Come Through, brought Ms. Williams’ talents out to the Midwest for the first time (pre Covid). Then, (post Covid) Hawai’i was her first stop for Prince Dance Company’s My Empty Body Is Full Of Stars. In the world of theatre, Zinda Williams designed her first play, Infertility, The Musical That’s Hard To Conceive in 2004 and this past summer 2022, followed it up with the Audelco Award winning Ella, First Lady Of Song starring Freda Payne. She has also designed costumes for performance artist Maria Magdalena Campos Pons for her works, Celebrating Carrie Mae Weems, 2014 and Identify: Performance Art as Portraiture, 2016. The costume for “Identify” is being considered for inclusion in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Already a part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is the cape for The Wiz, which Ms. Williams constructed to replace the original, which had been lost.