Meghann Trago is a Chinese American freelance dance artist, performer, and arts administrator residing in Brooklyn, NY. A Bard College alumna, she holds degrees in both dance and economics. A pandemic knitter, Leo, and Asian femme. She approaches each process, each day, task, creation with a lens that interrogates the complexities and messiness of her identity, from then to now, from there to here. Being an East Asian/Asian-American/East-SoutheastAsian/Chinese/Chinese-American/Chinese-?/descendent. As an artist she has had the pleasure to work/perform/be in process with Michelle Ellsworth, Soulemayne Badolo, Marjani Forte-Saunders, Abby Z and The New Utility, Mia Martelli, Marion Spencer, and Jessie Young, among others.

Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a fourth-generation Japanese American artist. She explores the mediums of performance art, dance, writing, origami and paper, and is in a committed partnership with her .38 Muji pen. She is forever fascinated with Japanese folklore and as a lover of literature she finds herself making important life decisions under the eyes and influence of fiction. Her work combines her background in contemporary dance with her literary tendencies to create surreal performance art that is both joyful and haunting, and that gives platform and power to the Asian-American emotional experience. For Kimiko, art is intimate and inexact. Kimiko graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Creative Writing and Dance in 2016. She is a BAX Space Grant Recipient (2022), Gallim Moving Artist Resident (2022), Artist in Resident at The Floor (2021), and Fresh Ground Pepper Play Ground Play Group Residency Cohort Member (2021). She currently performs with glenn potter-takata and Morgaine DeLeonardis and has performed with marion spencer, Kizuna Dance, Seymour::Dance Collective, Lisa Fagan and Hannah Mitchell, HIJACK, Nial Ibragimov, Shawn Womack, Patrizia Herminjard, and Kristi Cole & Guests.

Kim Savarino is an artist working in film, theater, and dance. She creates performances that weave together folklore and movement, in spaces ranging from traditional stages to concrete backlots to (once) an old bathroom in a former mental hospital. Her work has received support from MANCC’s Forward Dialogues Lab, the EstroGenius Festival, and Arts@Renaissance. She’s created collaborative performances with Shiloh Hodges (seven bones), guzheng player Clae Lu (Toshi Reagon's Sacred Revolution), and members of the Great Jones Rep (nauageo). Performance highlights include a Broadway lab choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, playing the prophetess Cassandra in Andrei Serban’s sold-out revival of The Trojan Women (La MaMa), and nearly 1,000 performances of Then She Fell, Third Rail Projects’ Bessie award-winning immersive hit. Kim has worked with artists including Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Romeo Castellucci, Miguel Gutierrez, Maura Nguyen Donohue, and Dan Safer; she joined La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company in 2019. Kim studied dance at Florida State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and studied acting at the Terry Knickerbocker Studio. She loves dim sum, walking in the woods, and her black cat Hermes. Kim is Chinese-Sicilian-American and grew up in Southern California and West Virginia.

Rosita Roldan (Dancer/Choreographer/Performer/Visual artist) has been dancing most of her life. In her early 20’s she was awarded a full dance scholarship from The New Dance Group and a work scholarship from Ballet Hispanico. Later Rosita studied at the Martha Graham School. She has performed with numerous dance companies including: The Duncan Dance Collective, Return of The Sun, 911 Roving Dancers, Andrea Del Conte and The American Spanish Dance Theatre, UTA On The Rock Dancers, Living Through Movement and Co-founder of the Dar Vida Dance Theater to name a few. Her recent credits include: Jazz Hands Virtual performance, 2021 as a director, choreographer and visual artist; Dancing Within The Lines/Creative Dance Collective, 2018; Transmission A Decade with Melissa West, 2019; There Goes The Neighborhood Documentary with Alethea Pace, 2021; and Universal Temple of The Arts, Love In Bloom, 2022. Rosita’s passion is to utilize her inner voice to express a shared human experience by combining movement, visual art and the natural world to elevate, expand and engage the viewer. Rosita would like to thank Catherine Galasso for the opportunity to participate and contribute to the City of Wom_n: Harbor project. Rosita Roldan (Art and moving images) on Instagram @rositaroldan5346.

Catherine McRae is a composer and violinist and makes music for live film, dance, theater, visual artists and solo performance. Incorporating electronics and loopers into her toolkit, she has developed a sonic vocabulary that forms intricate and cinematic landscapes. Working with a wide array of visual and performance artists has deeply informed her approach to space, time and texture in her compositions. Collaborators include visual artist and poet Jen Bervin (Faire et défaire); choreographers Catherine Galasso (Dances for Doing, Cloud Dance 2.0, Field Notes) and Johanna S. Meyer (Maps); filmmakers Sam Green (Utopia in 4 Movements, Fog, The Measure of All Things), Jem Cohen (Empires of Tin), Danny Williams (Factory Films); theater makers Radiohole (Now Serving), Joseph Silovsky (Send for the Million Men, Who’s Oklahoma), Findlay//Sandsmark ((re)remember study); audiobook sound designer Ben Williams (Bird Lovers, Backyard by Thalia Field); writer Nick Tosches (Fuck the Living Fuck the Dead), and many musicians including T. Griffin (Quavers), Ben Dickey, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Vic Chesnutt, and Lumberob. She has performed extensively at clubs, festivals, museums, galleries, basements and rooftops.

Neva Marie Guido is an artist and performance maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts Philadelphia in 2021, but considers herself still, continuously, studying. She has performed in the works of Isabel Lewis, and at the CAMPING festival in Pantin, France in the works of Lauren Baskt, and Kim Itoh. Neva’s work tries to multiply the space between the performer and the audience until there is not a space at all. Constructing works that make-like forests, and watching forests with the intensity of an audience, she studies meanings, follows angels, trips, falls and trips again into the space between us, the space of possibility suspended in time.

Katherine De La Cruz is an Afro-Dominican dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated in 2020 from Hunter College with both a BA in Anthropology and Dance. Katherine has performed in various venues and festivals both live and virtually including City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, The Estrogenius Festival, The American Dance Festival, The WP theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Arts on Site’s Women in Motion, Brookfield Place and more. She has performed in works by Larry Keigwin, Blakeley White-McGuire, Monica Bill Barnes & Co, The Soul Dance Company, Andre Haenggi, and Maura Donohue Nguyen. Katherine has used dance to support climate justice and immigrants’ rights causes in New York City. She believes that dance is a powerful tool for community building and bridging divides. Katherine is a passionate choreographer whose work centers around themes of social inequality, LGBTQ+ stories, familial ties, immigration and mental health. Most of her work is born from a need to make direct political statements and to make visible often ignored inner healing processes. She is also an avid reader, baker and seamstress.

Beatriz Abbate is a lifelong Staten Islander. She has been dancing with Ballet Imagination for six years, and has just begun exploring contemporary dance. She has performed previously in the Staten Island Dance Festival and a few other public performances, but generally she prefers dancing in private while singing karaoke. Bea is a top-notch student in sixth grade at Notre Dame Academy with a love for science and math. She plans to apply her love of movement and science to become a jet pilot, with the ultimate goal of working for NASA, or even better: the SETI Institute. Her parents would like you to know that Bea is quite possibly the nicest person you may ever meet.