Sara Pearson, co-artistic director of PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER since 1987 and associate professor at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland since 2009, has been creating and presenting "appealingly subversive, engaging, wry, and deeply affecting work" (The Washington Post) for the stage and alternative sites throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and New Zealand. She is the recipient of a 2013 Dance Metro DC Award and a 1990 American Choreographer Award.
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Ronya-Lee LaVaune Anderson is an artist who draws inspiration from the authenticity of Nina Simone, the grace of Martha Graham, the social consciousness of Bob Marley and the unapologetic style of Jimi Hendrix. For Ronya-Lee, music-and dance are avenues of expression, providing space to wonder, to speak, to invite, to challenge. With a Master's of Divinity from Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland at College Park, Ronya-Lee approachss the arts through multiple lenses.
Stephen Clapp, M.F.A. is a choreographer, composer, perfonner, arts educator, writer and cultural activist. He is Co-Artistic Director of Dance Box Theater (with Laura Schandelmeier) and serves as the Executive Director for Dance Metro DC. Clapp and Schandelmeier have co-created and performed in eight original full-evening dance theater works, toured regionally and internationally, and received
William (Bill) Moats was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He holds a BA in Art and Anthropology from Western Kentucky University and a MA in Counseling Psychology from Regis University, Denver Colorado. After a 20 career developing exhibition graphics for the Unversity of Colorado Museum of Natural History and maintaining a successful freelance business, he relocated to Maryland in 2015 and returned to making art full time.
Warren’s photographic journey began over fifty years ago when, just out of high school, he worked for his father’s accident investigation service. By the year’s end, he had joined the U.S. Marine Corps. In the Marines, he was trained as a motion picture/still photographer and did a tour in Vietnam, working out of DaNang. Upon reentering the civilian workforce four years later, he landed a job at National Geographic Society, where he worked as a B&W/digital lab technician, where he would work for the next thirty-five years.
Enelay Creative is the identity for Nadia L. Adona, a photographer and multimedia designer based in Maryland. A graduate from the Art Institute of Washington, Nadia began using her powers for good in 2011 by supporting various organizations such as Katsucon, Asia Heritage Foundation, D.C. Funk Parade, and Black Rose Dagger Films, LLC, along with other cultural, charity, and fandom groups. Nadia also captures intimate life events such as weddings and church events, and enjoys working with individuals and families to photograph their next heirloom portraits.
Holly Carton is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Bowie, MD with her husband and baby girl. Her art tends toward the colorful and fantastical, bridging off of her whimsical view of the world.
I am a artist by passion and city planner by trade. My work pairs bold line work and architectural forms with high voltage color and patterns to engage in storytelling and provide the medium for this self-exploration. I also love spreading Black Joy! So naturally my favorite subjects are black women, natural hair, and afrofuturistic imagery.
Pitches Be Crazy (PBC) Vocal Band is a 5 person, all vocal cover band rocking R&B, Hip-Hop, Funk, DIsco, Rock, Pop and soul hits of the last 5 decades. Focused heavily on the jams of the 1990s, this genre-bending, self proclaimed "garage band" remixes and mashes songs like no other and infuses tight harmonies with bone rattling vocal percussion/beatboxing and ground shaking bass. Described by the international a cappella community as “a party on stage”, the award winning PITCHES BE CRAZY bring their “dope noise” to the show and will have audiences singing and dancing.