International singer, songwriter, & choreographer Tendayi Kuumba is Spelman College graduate with a BA in Drama with a Dance Concentration. Her training as a youth ranges from Buffalo Inner City Ballet, Ballethnic, Callanwolde Fine Arts, and Moving in the Spirit. As a Brooklyn transplant her choreographic roots embody a long thruline of musical exploration, vocal portals, response of the body and storytelling. Formerly a touring company member of Urban Bush Women, she recently made her debut as a singer/dancer in  David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway. Past choreographic works have been featured on multiple platforms including Palace Akropolis, Cmon Everybody, Danspace Project, HiArts, Harlem Stage & BRICLab with collaborative partner Greg Purnell. She has worked with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Marjani Forté-Saunders, ASÉ Dance Theater Collective, Nathan Trice/ Rituals Performance Project, Jim Findlay’s “Electric Lucifer” workshop, Philadelphia Opera’s We Shall Not be Moved directed by Bill T. Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili & Annie B. Parson. Discography includes “Just A Matter or Time,” “Incognegro,” “American Utopia Live from Kings Theater” of the American Utopia World Tour & Broadway cast album. As well as generating and co-creating the artistic space “The Golden Ratio Project ” in Brooklyn, NY alongside Greg Purnell. Recent projects include U.F.O (Unidentified Fly Objects): Stardust Melanin under the Gibney Spotlight residency Spring 2020, member of the Voice/Body Danspace Project research group, a creator within 100 Years / 100  Women with Urban Bush Women, & a practitioner in Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born’s Sitting on a Man’s Head. She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.

Greg Purnell is a Brooklyn born and bred barber, visual artist, writer, music producer and all around creative. He has cultivated and refined his multi medium artistry and sense of vision through barbering, which has provided a beautiful reservoir of inspiration and people from vastly different walks of life and cultural backgrounds. Greg has been featured in the  2015 BRIC Stoop Series Barbershop Stories: it’s all about hair and BRIC TV’s Brooklyn Made series. Other features include Afropunk, BAM, OkayAfrica and Nike collaborations , and webseries feature in I Don’t Camouflage by Aiko Tanaka. He embodies various practices such as sound designer, lighting designer, director & music creator for various solo and collaborative works. Past choreographic/creative works include collaborations with Tendayi Kuumba, Courtney Cook, Urban Bush Women, The Illustrious Blacks, and MVMNT PHLSPY. Currently, Greg is the Founder and primary visionary of artistic lab/creation space “The Golden Ratio Project ” where he has developed his own brand of barbering utilizing aesthetics, art, music and storytelling to create a personable therapeutic experience.  He recently self produced the art exhibition “33”, commemorating his 33 years of barbering in collaboration with his visual artistry, U.F.O (Unidentified Fly Objects): Stardust Melanin under the Gibney Spotlight residency Spring 2020, & Okwui Okpokwasili/ Peter Born’s Sitting on a Man’s Head. Purnell believes all forms of art and expression are united by our dreams, and it is through technique and passion that our dreams become realities.

Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. is an international artist who creates from a Black womanist framework. Hunter is a co-founder of the collective Brother(hood) Dance! and a 2015/16 Dancing While Black Fellow. They are also proud to be a founding collaborator of AfroAZN, a diasporic alliance with día bùi.

In her work, Hunter tackles issues resulting from a white supremacist system. She grew up dancing hip-hop and graduated with a BFA in Dance from Univ. of Minnesota where he acquired movement vocabularies such as Afro-Brazilian, West-African Guinea, and Contemporary Yorchha, a mix of yoga, a martial art form called Chhau, and Oddissi. 

While attending he performed works by Donald Byrd, Bill T. Jones, Carl Flink, Louis Falco, Colleen Thomas, Uri Sands, Stephen Petronio and Nora Chipaumire. His solo “Mutiny” was selected to represent the University of Minnesota at the 2011 ACDFA gala in Madison, Wisconsin.In 2014  he co-choreographed “Redbone: A Biomythography” that debuted at the Nuyorican Café, Wild Project Theater, Duke University: Women’s center, and Flight deck theater in Oakland, CA. Hunter studied GLBT activism and history in Amsterdam and Berlin. He has performed with Christal Brown/INspirit Dance Company, Contempo Physical Dance, Forces of Nature, Germaul Barnes, Andre Zachary/ Renegade Performance Group, Makeda Thomas, Erick Montes/ Danceable Projects, Threads Dance Project, TU Dance and Ananya Dance Theater, an all women of color company where they were the first male bodied member and toured with them to Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe. 

día bùi is a Queer Vietnamese artist, organizer, and strategist with diasporic roots and deepening spiritual practice. Her lifelong commitment to liberation work is woven from her experiences growing up in a refugee family, and living in a low-income, immigrant neighborhood of El Monte, CA. She has over seventeen years of experience in organizing, advocacy, and activism across immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive rights, health equity, economic justice, youth empowerment, and Queer/Trans rights. Her passion in story-telling is anchored through poetry, performance, media making, design, and film. In 2017, she directed and co-produced “Resistance Vol. 1”, a short documentary highlighting activists and artists on the frontlines of the resistance at the presidential inauguration.

día is a founding collaborator of AfroAZN, a diasporic alliance with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. of Brother(hood) Dance!, a Cypher Apprentice & Collaborator with Ni’Ja Whitson, and producer of Study Sessions: Field Stories with jumatatu m. poe. 

Connect with her @diaqbui and www.diabui.com.

Angie Pittman is a New York based Bessie award-winning dance artist, dance maker, and dance educator. Her work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center(Sunday Service), The Invisible Dog(Catch 73), and Danspace Project. Angie is currently working as a collaborator and dance artist with Adam Linder, devynn emory/beastproductions, Anna Sperber, Stephanie Acosta, and Donna Uchizono Company. Angie has had the pleasure of dancing in work by Ralph Lemon, Tere O’Connor, Jennifer Monson, Kim Brandt, Tess Dworman, Antonio Ramos, Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, and many others. Angie’s work resides in a space that investigates how the body moves through ballad, groove, sparkle, spirit, spirituals, ancestry, vulnerability, and power.  angiepittman.com

Indah M. Walsh is a choreographer, performer, dance educator, and administrator. She has danced in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and across the US. Indah earned a BFA in dance from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance in 2008 and an MFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2014. As a choreographer, Indah Walsh was awarded a Creative Engagement Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2017. Indah has showcased work at venues including NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Lawrence University, Danspace Project, The Watermill Center, Seattle Asian Art Museum, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, and many others. Indah has taught and choreographed works for high schools, colleges, and dance conventions in New York, Connecticut, Wisconson, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, including: Steffi Nossen School of Dance, Greenwich Academy, Lawrence University, Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, Taipei American School, Singapore American School, Dance and Movement Workshop for Educators, Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asia Schools Cultural Convention, Southwestern College, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Indah is currently Adjunct Faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.