Nami Yamamoto, from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Nami is a Bessie awardee (The New York Dance and Performance Award) for the outstanding production of Headless Wolf which was presented at Roulette in 2017. She is honored to be a Hodder Fellow at Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in 2024-2025 and a 2025 United States Artists Fellow. She currently teaches at Lehman College and NYC public schools through Together in Dance.

Angie Pittman is a New York-based multidisciplinary performance artist whose choreographic work uses dance, text, and sound. Their work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center, The Invisible Dog(Catch 73), The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, and Roulette. As a dancer, they have danced in work by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Tere O’Connor, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, and many others and are currently dancing in the work of Cynthia Oliver and Ralph Lemon. They are currently an Assistant Arts Professor of Dance at New York University and a 2024-2025 Center for Humanities Faculty Fellow.