josé e. abad

jose esteban abad is an Afro-Carribean Filipinx multidisciplinary choreographer, Vertical Dancer, DJ, and curator based in unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory (San Francisco). Their work explores the complexities of identity at the intersection of gender, sexuality, class, race, and geography. Rooted in collaboration and improvisation as tools of resistance and liberation, abad’s work centers QTBIPOC experimental collective process-based practices of becoming and re-membering to highlight the most intelligent technologies that exist in this world—our bodies, ancestral wisdom, and nature. They have held residencies and produced work with CounterPulse, the Joe Goode Annex, Paul Dresher Studio, Highways Performance Space, and Hope Mohr Dance; They have also performed and taught nationally and internationally in the Philippines, Palestine, Mexico, and Europe.

TARIQ MITRI + DOMINICA GREENE

Tariq Mitri, a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and arts administrator based in Seattle, WA, is a Palestinian-American born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Portland, OR. He earned his BFA in Dance Performance and Composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015. His performance career spans 10+ years across Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle, working with more than 25 choreographers. From 2019–2021, Mitri served as Rehearsal and Co-Director of the Brooklyn-based company HEIDCO. Since returning to Seattle in 2022, he has focused on developing solo, duet, and ensemble collaborative works. He’s shared works at International Dance Festival New Orleans, Velocity Dance Center’s Bridge Project, Friends of Waterfront Seattle, CO- Show 4 and CO-Presents, and On the Boards NW New Works Festival. In April 2025, he premiered his first evening-length work, “Of Us,” with collaborator Jenna Eady, as part of “CO- Presents”, produced by CO- in partnership with Dunya Productions. Mitri is a 2026 Centrum Foundation Emerging Artist Resident and a past Body Space Time Resident Artist at the University of Washington. He is currently the Program and Operations Manager for Base: Experimental Arts + Space and co-founded Dance Class Seattle alongside Una Ludviksen, a rotating class series featuring Contemporary, Improvisation, and Cunningham Technique. Tariq is a fiscally sponsored project through Velocity Dance Center and is currently developing three new works to premiere between Fall 2027 and Winter 2028.

I am Dominica Greene, a biracial Black woman who cherishes and channels my Caribbean heritage and Queerness through an art-based existence. I believe that dance is one of our purest sources of hope and liberation. Based in Brooklyn, New York, I make conceptual, body-based work, rooted in my mission of reflecting to as many people as possible that they not only have the capacity to dance, but are in fact already dancing, perpetually. Utilizing various modalities, tasks, and mental/emotional states to cultivate safe environments for sensorial and creative exploration, I am to impress that dancing is not something to be learned, but something we have innate access to simply by being alive. I create time-centered ecosystems under this premise, to be interacted with and performed by any number of participants. My work has been presented by Arts on Site, A Shedding, BADDANCE, Carnegie Museum of Art, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Issue Project Room, Judson Memorial Church, LEIMAY, Movement Research, PROCESSA on Governors Island, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Salt Contemporary Dance Company, and Triskelion Arts.