Brian Brooks, choreographer, is a Guggenheim Fellow who recently completed a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the University of Washington. He spent three years as a choreographer in residence at Chicago’s Harris Theater, creating dances for Hubbard Street, Miami City Ballet, and others. Originally from Boston, Brooks lives in New York City, where his internationally touring dance group, the Moving Company, is based.
Kurt Douglas (B.F.A. ’01, dance), choreographer, originally from Georgetown, Guyana, earned his B.F.A. in dance from Boston Conservatory and his M.F.A. from Hollins University. He has danced with Limón Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Aszure Barton & Artists in the United States, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, and toured for A Chorus Line. Douglas is a Princess Grace Award winner (2002), a Dance Magazine "Top 25 to Watch'' (2006), and recipient of a Berklee Teachers on Teachers Distinguished Faculty of the Year (2022). He is currently a faculty member at Boston Conservatory, where he directs the school’s Summer Dance Intensive, and he serves on the board of directors for the Limón Dance Company and the Northeast Youth Ballet. Learn more about Douglas.
Josh Knowles, composer, is a violinist, singer/songwriter, and composer based in Boston, Massachusetts. An alum of Berklee College of Music, he brings an eclectic array of influences to his work. Josh began his classical violin training at the age of four and is continually striving to fuse his traditional foundation with a myriad of contemporary styles. Learn more about Knowles.
Levi Philip Marsman, choreographer, is an instructor at Urbanity Dance, Boston Ballet, and the Ailey Extension program at the Ailey School in New York City. He has been movement choreographer for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s productions of Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest. He returns to Boston Conservatory this year to create his second work, and he will create new ballets for The Ailey School and Verb Ballets. Learn more about Marsman.
Daniel Pelzig, choreographer, is a director and choreographer for opera, theater, and ballet with numerous Broadway and off-Broadway credits, and as well as work with the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Ballet. A sought-after educator, he is currently on faculty at Boston Conservatory, and previously served on the faculties the Juilliard School, Barnard College, University at Buffalo, and the Ryan Opera Center. Learn more about Pelzig.
Crystal Perkins, choreographer, is a choreographer and performer from Augusta, Georgia who lives and creates in Ohio. She holds an M.F.A. from Ohio State University (OSU) and a B.F.A. from Southern Methodist University. Her choreography explores Blackness in contemporary dance with tours to Kazakhstan, Russia, and Brazil. Perkins is a Princess Grace Honoraria recipient, New American Dance Residency awardee, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award winner. She serves on the American Dance Festival faculty and on the OhioDance Board of Trustees, and is also an associate artistic director at Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and assistant professor at OSU. Learn more about Perkins.
Heather Stewart, choreographer, is a Canadian choreographer and the founder and artistic director of little house dance, an interdisciplinary dance company based in Portland, Maine (Wabanki Land). Fueled by physicality, her work offers intricate and complex meetings between movement and sound. Learn more about Stewart.