Jeffery N. Bullock is Director of HU/ADF M.F.A. program, chair of Hollins' Dance Department, (Associate Professor, Hollins University) teacher, dancer and choreographer. Bullock performed with the North Carolina Dance Theater following graduation from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He continued his performing career with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Sharir + Bustamante DanceWorks, touring nationally and internationally. Bullock’s repertoire included soloist and principal roles in an eclectic array of works by George Balanchine, Agnes De Mille, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Daniel Esralow, Nacho Duato, Lucinda Childs, Salvatore Aiello, Yacov Sharir, Glen Tetley and others. He was also a featured performer in the 1986 Paramount Motion Picture The Nutcracker with PNB, and was a featured performer in the 1983 PBS Special Where Dreams Debut: The North Carolina School of the Arts. Bullock’s work "At Midnight" earned him a Dance Magazine’s Best Choreography Nomination at the 1996 American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jeffery has been a faculty member at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC since 1998, teaching in the ADF Six Week School and Young Dancers School; in ADF/Russia (2000), ADF/Korea (2000 & 2004) and ADF/Mongolia (2004 & 2005). From 2006 - 2010, he served as Director of the ADF Four Week School for Young Dancers. Most recent teaching engagement was at the international 2006 & 2008 Korean Dance Festival, Seoul, Korea. Also, Jeffery serves as a site visit consultant/panel member for Dance Advance of the Pew Charitable Trust located in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his MFA in choreography from the University of Iowa; taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Iowa and joined the Hollins University Dance Department in 2004; becoming chair in fall 2009 and Director of the HU/ADF MFA Program in fall 2010.

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Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Jang is a multi-city based choreographer, performer, teacher and writer. Her work is in dialogue with radical questions and necessary conflicts on possibilities of omni-presence in her migrating nomadic life. She dances to mirror unnamed images and to re-member what was forgotten/missing/unshared/silenced. Jang has presented her works throughout New York and internationally including the Kitchen, Dixon Place, Movement Research at the Judson, Center for Performance Research, Greenspace, CORD Conference (Roanoke), American Dance Festival (Durham), WUK (Vienna, Austria), University of Bristol (Bristol, UK), Atelierul de Productie (Bucharest, Romania) and Seoul International Choreography Festival (Seoul, Korea) among others. Jang is currently involved in the cross-border dance project "Available” as one of the three choreographers with Cosmin Manolescu (Bucharest, Romania) and Gabriella Maiorino (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Jang was awarded the Movement Research Artist-In-Residency Grant (New York, '10-11), Arts Council Korea Fellowship (Korea, '09-present), NYFA Mentorship for Immigrant Artist (New York, ’10-present) and DanceWeb Fellowship (Vienna, '11). She holds a BS from Seoul National University and an MFA from University of Michigan and Hollins/ADF. In the fall of 2011, Jang was visiting assistant professor at Hollins. www.hejinjangdance.com

Espinosa is a musician, actor, and choreographer born in Havana, Cuba, in 1964. He is currently an instructor of Latin Percussion, Afro-Cuban Dance, and Musician-accompanist in residence at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia. His specialties include Latin and Afro-Cuban music, contemporary Latin and Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance, and traditional African Diaspora rhythms. Vladimir graduated from the ENA (School National of Arts, Cuba) in 1985. He also studied with the National Folkloric de Cuba with Regino Jimenes and Pelladito; both having taught at the ENA. After graduating, Vladimir began teaching at the Arts School in Jiguani, Granma, Cuba and at the Casa De Cultural in Havana, Cuba. Vladimir performed, taught, and choreographed for many companies, including: Caribeno (Cuba), Companies National de Danza (Ecuador), Orile (Cuba), and Rojo Oscuro (Ecuador). Vladimir has also performed Afro-Cuban traditional rhythms and dance with Las Manos Del Sol (US) and the Roanoke Ballet Theatre (US). In 1996, Vladimir was the Artistic Director and Choreographer for the election ceremonies for the Queen of Ecuador. From 1996-1999 he toured with Havana Express (Arturo Bassnuevas, Conrado Garcia, Pablo Moya, Chanito, and Michel Ferre) and played in many venues across Washington, Virginia, New York, and Miami. Currently, he is the Musical Director of the traditional Afro-Cuban group Las Manos del Sol and produces workshops in elementary and high schools as well as universities and performs in festivals, theaters, and museums. He also plays with Los Gatos and is currently touring in the US. Vladimir's most recent work includes a musical collaboration with Michel Ferre (pianist from Cuba and ex-member of Havana Express), where he recorded an acoustic Latin Jazz CD. Vladimir has also been a teacher and instructor for the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) since 2005.

Miguel Gutierrez, a dance and music artist based in New York, has been called “one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices” by Eva Yaa Asantewaa of Dance Magazine. He makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. His work, characterized by the immersive quality of the attentive state that it imposes on the audience, centers around enduring philosophical questions about desire, longing and the search for meaning. His work includes: enter the seen (2002), I succumb (2003), dAMNATION rOAD (2004), Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies (2005), myendlesslove (2006), Everyone (2007), Nothing, No Thing (2008), Last Meadow (2009), HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE (2010), I SAY THE WORD, a collaboration with visual artist Jenny Holzer at ICA Boston (2010), and he instigated the performance/protest/meditation freedom of information (2001, 2008 & 2009). His work has been presented at several festivals and venues nationally and internationally, most recently the American Realness Festival in NY, and the Festival D’Automne in Paris. Others include Antipodes Festival in Brest, France, TBA/PICA in Portland, Oregon, Out There Festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Austria. He has received support from Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund NYFA, NEA and NPN. In 2010 he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and United States Artists. He is the winner of three New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) awards. When You Rise Up, a book of his performance texts, is available from 53rd State Press. He also invented Deep Aerobics, an absurdist workout for the radical in all of us. www.miguelgutierrez.org

In his 30th year as a choreographer, Mark Haim has choreographed over 100 dances. Born in New York City, Mark studied as a classical pianist at the Manhattan School of Music before beginning his formal dance studies with an honorary scholarship at The Juilliard School, where he received his BFA. He received his MFA in Dance from the ADF/Hollins University MFA program. He was Artistic Director of Mark Haim & Dancers from 1984-1987, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa from 1987-1990. From 2002-2008, he was Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington and most recently was Visiting Associate Professor of Dance at Reed College. Mark has created new works for many dance companies in the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Jose Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, the Silesian Dance Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the TRANS Dance Co., and Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his works on companies such as The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex, and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. Since 2002, he has been guest choreographer at The Wooden Floor, an after-school organization that has promised hope and opportunity to nearly 400 low-income youth annually. He is a recipient of a 1987 NYFA Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Fellowship and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink, Inc. the Harkness Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. In 2000, he was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. His full evening solo project, The Goldberg Variations, has been performed at the American Dance Festival, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, The John F. Kennedy Center, On The Boards, and other venues in the U.S, Europe, and Asia — most recently at the 2009 Bumbershoot Festival. He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1993 and has also been on the faculties of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Hollins University.

Nicholas Leichter (Choreographer/Artistic Director) has taught throughout the United States and at festivals in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Eastern and Western Europe, and he has been on faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, Bates Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival in Durham, New York, Russia, Korea, and Shanghai. Leichter has created over 25 works for his own company, including Carmina Burana and Rite of Spring commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Sweetwash with Eisa Davis for The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College. Recent commissions include The Barnard Project, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of The Arts, je danse donc je suis in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and The Chicago Dancing Festival. Leichter has been artist-in-residence and guest artist at many institutions including CSU Summer Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Hollins University, George Washington University, University of Houston, Muhlenberg College, and Idaho State University. Leichter received the 2006 Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award from Wesleyan University. In 2008, he received a Choreographer Fellowship from NYFA and a National Performance Network/Network of Cultural Centers of Color Artist-of-Color Residency Award at Sacramento State. He received the 2009 Copperfoot Award for Choreography from Wayne State University. Leichter is the 2012 Young Arts Mentor in Choreography Founded in 1996, New York City based Nicholas Leichter Dance has performed in over 50 cities in 17 states and 12 countries at venues including The Joyce Theater; the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; The John C. Wright Theater at CSU Fresno; The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College, FL; The Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA; Modlin Center for the Performing Arts at University of Richmond; Central Park Summerstage; The Dorothy H. Baker Theater at Muhlenberg College, PA; Reynolds Industries Theater at Duke University; Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC; Bates Dance Festival; The Broadway Center in Tacoma, WA; the Fabuleus International Theater Festival in Leuven, Belgium; Kaohsiung Jazz Dance Congress in Taiwan; Freedance in Ukraine; Time to Dance in Riga, Latvia; Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal, and Dialogue de Corps Festival at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the invitation of the United States Department of State. In recognition of his unique approach to contemporary dance, Leichter has received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, New York State Council on the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) through the National Dance Project (NDP) with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Pamela Pietro has combined careers on stage and in academic fields of dance equally successful. She has performed professionally with Houlihan and Dancers, Anthony Morgan Dance Company, Michael Foley Dance, RaceDance, bopi’s black sheep/dances, Jennifer Nugent and Adrienne Westwood. Pamela served as rehearsal director for Houlihan and Dancers from 1991-1999, as well as for New World Dance Ensemble. She collaborated with choreographer Mark Haim for several projects at The Wooden Floor, formerly Saint Joseph Ballet. Pamela has been on the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 1997 and taught for the Festival’s linkage programs to Guangdong Dance Company in Guangzhou (China), The Dance Library Summer Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel and Henan Normal University in Henan, China (2011,2012). Internationally Pamela has taught at Newtown High School for the Performing Arts in Sydney, Australia, Momentum Danza in Panama, LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, Singapore, Tsekh Festival in Moscow, Russia, Ekoda de Dance at Nippon University in Tokyo, Japan and Henan Normal University in Xinxiang, China (2011, 2012). Nationally, she has been on faculty at Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA, Dance New Amsterdam and Dancewave Center. Along with Guest Artist Faculty for Slippery Rock University, University of Florida, Gainesville, University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of California, Irvine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (ACDFA). Pamela's choreography has been presented in New York by Dancespace Draftworks and Dance New Amsterdam. Nationally at Dancespace in Miami, Florida, Booker School for the Arts in Sarasota, Florida, Fuzion Dance Artists in Sarasota, Florida, Momentum Danza Company/Panama, Inspirit Dance Company, Brooklyn, NY, Meredith College/Raleigh, NC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and La Salle Academy/Singapore. She has presented and taught at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Santa Barbara. Pamela received the first place award for academics and performance from the National Society of Arts and Letters, a gold medal winner at the Asiagraph Video/Choreography competition in Shanghai, China and her latest research was presented at the Hawaiian Arts and Humanities Conference Conference in Waikiki. Pamela is currently based in New York City, where she is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts. She is a certified Pilates instructor, Movement Specialist, as well as, the assistant to pioneering bodywork expert Irene Dowd. Pamela received a BFA/Dance from Florida State University and her MFA/Dance from University of Washington.

Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn based dance artist who works as a performer, teacher and arts administrator. She is a graduate of Hollins University where she earned both her undergraduate and master's degrees. As a founding member and former Artistic Associate of Shen Wei Dance Arts, Sara has performed and taught at renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. She has been a member of the ADF faculty since 2008 and has served as adjunct faculty at The University of the Arts since 2011. Other 2012 teaching engagements include: the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC; the National High School Dance Festival in Philadelphia, PA; and the Korea International Dance Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Currently, Sara is working with choreographer and media artist Jonah Bokaer and is a 2012-13 Arts Management Fellow through a program of the DeVos Institute of Arts Managament at the Kennedy Center in conjunction with the BAM Professional Development Program.

Artist Christopher Roman started his formal dance training at the age of 14 in Wilmington, DE and moved to Cleveland at the age of 16 to study with Nicole Sowinska, Daniel Job and William Griffith at the School of Cleveland Ballet joining the company there as an apprentice, under the directorship of Dennis Nahat, the following year. He moved to New York soon after to continue his studies on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet at Juilliard, official school of the New York City Ballet, as well as open himself up to the dance world of New York City. For the past 12 years he has been a principal dancer with The Forsythe Company in Germany formerly known as the Frankfurt Ballet under the direction of William Forsythe. He has been a full company member as a soloist and principal with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, The Miami City Ballet with Edward Vilella, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal, the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia and was a guest artist with Complexions Contemporary Ballet in New York City and Sasha Waltz and Guests in Berlin. Christopher has co-directed his own company with former Wooster Group video designer Philip Bußmann called 2+ and has choreographed pieces for The Russian Ballet Theatre, The Pennsylvania Ballet, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Festival de Danse in Cannes, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm, Cadance Festival Holland, Skulpturenpark in Graz and others. As a freelancer and guest artist, he has performed in many galas and installations worldwide, most notably You made me a monster, a performance installation in collaboration with William Forsythe which premiered at the Venice Bienale in 2005 and won the 2007 Bessie Award for Best Installation and New Media for its New York premiere at the Baryshnikov Center and was performed at every major dance festival worldwide. He has worked as a teacher and ballet master for the works and improvisational technologies of William Forsythe with such companies and institutions as the Lyon Opera Ballet, Staatsballett München, The Finnish National Ballet, La Scala Opera Ballet, Universal Ballet, Seoul, Boston Ballet, D.A.N.C.E. in Brussels, guest teacher for NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the dance department at Ohio State University for the groundbreaking "Synchronous Objects" project and was featured in the film on which it is based, One Flat Thing, reproduced. He is an alum of the Atlantic Acting School in New York City and was recently awarded The Faust Theater Prize, Germany's highest theater honor, as best performer in William Forsythe's 'I don't believe in outer space'. He is currently the choreographic assistant to William Forsythe for his new work being produced by Sadler’s Wells for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche.

Dancer/choreographer/video artist Andrea E. Woods is Associate Professor at Duke University teaching Modern Dance and Dance for the Camera. She is artistic director of SOULOWORKS/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers, native of Philadelphia,and former resident of Brooklyn, NY. She graduated magna cum laude from Adelphi University has danced with Leni Wylliams, Saeko Ichinohe, Clive Thompson and Mafata. She is a former dancer/rehearsal director of Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Co. (1989-1995). She completed her MFA in dance technology at The Ohio State University and an MAH in Caribbean Cultural Studies from SUNY Buffalo. Woods is a staff writer for Attitude Magazine. Her work and research have taken her to: The Cannes International Danse Festival, Taiwan, Russia, Senegal, Morocco, Korea, Poland, Puerto Rice, Singapore, Belize, Yucatán, Cuba, Ghana and throughout the US. While having a generous world view, her dances centralize family, and African American history and culture. Woods has founded a SOULOWORKS summer repertory workshop in Puerto Rico and continues to create artistic links between the US and the Caribbean. Woods is a 2012 recipient of the NC Arts Council Fellowship. She calls her dances SOULOWORKS because they are works from the heart, works from the soul. www.souloworks.com