Berette S Macaulay is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer with a background in acting, contemporary dance, lighting design, and sound arrangements. Berette was born in Sierra Leone, W. Africa and spent her formative years in Jamaica and intermittently in England. She also claims her maternal Dominican and Czech-German family heritages. Her practices primarily engage matters of be/longing + memory, liminal im/migrant identities and trans*national personhood and love. Before relocating to Washington, Berette also served as Associate Director with Nina Buisson Contemporary Move (NBCM, New York) supporting works as acting coach and lighting designer at St. Marks Place, Julliard School Theater and The Duke on 42nd Street. She performed with NBCM and various companies at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Aaron Davis Music Hall, S. Oxford Space, Dicapo Opera Theater, Judson Church, and others.

As Curatorial Fellow with On the Boards, Berette recently presented UN-[TITLED] – an immersive and socially engaged multisite-specific theatrical work made collaboratively with Seattle artists and community organizers, that attends to the cultural harm of gentrification and resistances to it. Berette is the founder of Black Cinema Collective (BCC) – celebrating African and Afro-Diasporic films. She trained at Peridance Capezio NYC and holds a BA in Theater Arts and MA in Cultural Studies.
www.berettemacaulay.com
www.blackcinemacollective.org
www.imagineevolve.org

Takahiro Yamamoto is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer. He primarily creates live movement-based performance while expanding his outlets to publishing, sculpture, photography, and installation. He co-directs the performance company madhause with Ben Evans, and is part of the Portland-based support group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lu Yim.

Alyza DelPan-Monley (they/she) believes in the expressive power that can be accessed in the body through movement. Known for their embrace of whimsy, quirky non-sequitors and esoteric theatricality, they take inspiration from physical theatre, clowning, puppetry, cartoons, and a myriad of movement styles. As a movement designer and choreographer, their work has been presented at Cafe Nordo (Violet’s Attic, Jitterbug Perfume), Washington Ensemble Theater (Teh Internet, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Straight White Men, Dance Nation), and ArtsWest (Office Hour, The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion) and at 5th Avenue Theatre (ASTH, Sweeney Todd). They perform and collaborate regularly with Salvage Rituals and they are a company member and dancer with MALACARNE. Alyza is Velocity Dance Center’s Curating Artist in Residence through September 2023. As a mixed-race queerdo 2nd gen immigrant, they are always thinking about the liminal identity and the assumptions made on the perceived body, and how performance can both expand and restrict the possibilities of legibility. They strive to participate in and build processes where everyone feels like they can exist in their fullest selves by cultivating and celebrating every bodies’ unique form of expression.

Shane Donohue (he/they) is a Seattle based dance artist currently working as co-top with Drama Tops and Creative Producer at Velocity Dance Center. He works closely with zoe | juniper as a dancer and rehearsal director. He has set work with, and for, Zoe Scofield at the University of Washington, Strictly Seattle, Whim W’him, Bard Summerscape’s production of “Le Roi Arthus” in 2021. His work has been seen in Next Fest Northwest. He also works as an artistic collaborator and performer with Kim Lusk, Kinesis Project, Scott Shoemaker’s “:PROBED”, and BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon’s Holiday Special in the live, national tour and on Hulu. Shane graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point with a BA in Dance.