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