Ljuba Castot (DK) Completed the Professional Training Program at Merce Cunningham Dance Company Studio.  Her credits include Kinetic Junglist Movement & Urban Roots Project and choreographers Tricia Brouk, JoiLynn and Rhapsody James. She has presented work at Cunningham Studio and choreographed for Dannon and The Regis & Kelly show.

Teena Marie Custer is a dancer and hip hop dance theatre artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.  Teena Marie battles and performs internationally with her all female street dance crew, Venus Fly Trap, as well as her local Pittsburgh crew, Get Down Gang. She has trained in breaking, hip hop social dances, house, locking, and contemporary dance. Her hip hop dance theater work has been presented at Sadler’s Wells Theater in London, American Dance Festival, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, and the American College Dance Festival Gala Concert.  She has also created hip hop dance theater works for over 15 university dance departments around the U.S., and has appeared on BET, MTV’s MADE, and was also a featured dancer and assistant choreographer for the feature film “Leading Ladies.”  Teena Marie earned a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University and an MFA in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University. She is on faculty at Slippery Rock University in the Department of Dance where she teaches street dance styles, contemporary dance, and dance composition, and has also been on faculty at the American Dance Festival and Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. She has performed with Dance Alloy, Attack Theatre, and Ursula Payne, and she also represented CM² (Columbus Movement Movement) in Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch” in 2007.

Val "Ms. Vee" Ho has been dancing since the age of 5 when her mom, director of a Chinese folk dance company, threw her onto the stage. She danced in her mom's company, the Strathcona Chinese Dance Company based in Vancouver, Canada, for the better part of her life which allowed her to train in China and perform throughout the world. To stay connected to the roots of her heritage and her roots in dance, she is still involved in the training of the dancers and artistic direction of the company.

In 1988, she fell in love with Hip Hop music and dance instantly. Starting with the party dances of the late 80s and early 90s, she then discovered the dances that came before them - breaking, locking and popping. Vee has since been on a never-ending quest to master this dance, which eventually brought her to New York City. This passion follows her today and on her journey here she was blessed to have trained with renowned pioneers of the dance such as Mr. Wiggles, Buddha Stretch, Popin Pete, Skeeter Rabbit, Greg Campbellock Jr., and other greats as well.

Alongside her journey in Hip Hop, Vee has also trained in ballet, jazz, tap, modern/contemporary, martial arts (Wushu, Choy Lee Fut & Karate), swing and salsa. Ms Vee holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Kinetics (Kinesiology) and a Bachelor's Degree in Education.

Ms. Vee’s film Credits include: Step Up 3D, College Road Trip, and Deep Rising.  Stage credits include: Groovaloo: Freestyle (Off Broadway), Rennie Harris’ Legends of Hip Hop (Off Broadway, US & International Tour), Mop Top’s 20th Anniversary Reunion. Ms. Vee has been on the Broadway Dance Center Faculty since 2004, recently joined Peridance faculty, and travels throughout the US, Canada and the world teaching Master classes and workshops.

Erin Bryce Holmes, MS, R-DMT, graduated from Pratt Institute. She has danced as a member of Kariamu & Company: Traditions, apprenticed with Urban Bush Women, and was a principle dancer with African American Dance Ensemble, Dance Theatre X, worked with Bill T. Jones in developing FELA!, and Ase Dance Theater Collective. She traveled to Gambia, West Africa, to study songs and dances of the culture. Erin has taught African, modern and hip-hop master classes at Temple University, Dance New Amsterdam, Carlsbad High School and Pratt Institute. She is currently working as a dance/movement therapist at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY and as a dance teacher at Mindbuilders Creative Arts Center, Bronx, NY.

Richard Maguire was born in New Rochelle, NY where childhood hyperactivity would eventually cause Richie’s mother to enroll him in the local YMCA gymnastics program. At 13 years old, upon invitation, Richie left his family to train full time at the International Gymnastics School in Pennsylvania. His talents won him a full athletic scholarship at Temple University in Philadelphia where he studied Marketing while participating and winning a number of conference championships for the school. It was during this time that Richie was exposed to the world of B-boying. He initially focused on flairs, mills, and swipes and had no clue what the dance was about. After being labeled “nothin but a gymnast white boy,” by a few of Philly’s more accomplished b-boys, Richie decided to learn the culture and discover the dance. He bought VHS tapes from skate shops that showed him b-boying mixed in with skating, and graffing. Night clubs would eventually become his training ground.

In 2004 Richie hung up his gymnastics grips and entered the world of b-boy performing. Cast from a worldwide audition, he went on to be a key contributor and original member of Le Reve, directed by Franco Dragone (Cirque du Soleil).  A herniated disc and a shoulder surgery would effectively end his time as a member of le Reve. An exhaustive regiment of self-lead rehab would slowly begin the healing process, but determination and a hunger to return to dancing and acrobatics overtook his pain. His recovery was slow but eventually Richie healed and met the members of Full force and Super crews, of  which he would eventually become a member.

More recently, Richie was a principal performer in “ID” by Cirque Eloize and appeared in Hephaestus at the Looking Glass Theater in Chicago. In addition, Richie has appeared on SNL for roughly 10 seconds and has performed alongside Neil Young, Chaka Chan, N.e.r.d., T.I., and M.I.A, and for two years represented the American Heart Association in its hands only CPR campaign.

MiRi Park is a NYC b-girl, modern dancer, actor, singer, writer, producer, and scholar. Recent performances include RENT at the Hollywood Bowl, directed by Neil Patrick Harris, and the final Broadway tour of RENT with Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, as Alexi Darling/Dance Captain. She is the choreographer for “Born Blue” a new musical by Caren Tackett. MiRi has worked with choreographers Doug Elkins, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Maura Nguyen Donohue/inmixedcompany, Marlies Yearby, Nia Love, Rennie Harris, and actor/producer Kate Rigg. MiRi holds a BFA in Dance and BA in Journalism from UMass-Amherst and an MA in American Studies from Columbia University. Her academic work focuses on the oral histories of NYC b-girls in the 1990s and she has presented her work extensively at academic conferences. MiRi has written for The Village Voice, KoreAm Journal and Dance Spirit Magazine. She was on faculty at NYU Steinhardt where she taught hip-hop dance and culture and also served as the Program Coordinator for Columbia University’s Oral History Master’s Program. She is the B-Boy Consultant on the Sony Screen Gems film Planet B-Boy (Dir., Benson Lee, expected release: Jan. 2013). MiRi is the 2004 World & US Air Guitar Champion. www.seoulsonyk.com

Marty Beller received a 2009 Grammy Award for his work on Here Come the 123s by They Might Be Giants. He was the composer for Season 3 of the acclaimed HBO show In Treatment starring Gabriel Byrne. Marty has composed for and performed with international dance companies Jennifer Muller/The Works, Sean Curran, Julio Bocca/Ballet Argentino, Ann Marie DeAngelo, RhythMEK, Heidi Latsky, Rebudal Dance, Alice Tierstein/Young Dancemakers, Andrew Jannetti and Dancers, Bill Hastings, Kathy Wildberger, Chet Walker/8and ah one, Kelli Wicke Davis and Roger Williams University Dance. Composing credits include: Emmy Award winner The Cruise; Biography of Groucho Marx (A&E); iRead and Expert21 (Scholastic); Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege and Justice (CourtTV); The Green (Sundance); DVD/CD Here Comes Science, Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s (Disney Records); Theatreworks USA’s Romeo and Juliet. Film: Another Gay Movie, Another Gay Sequel, Gypsy 83 and 7th Street. Marty is the drummer for two-time Grammy Award winner They Might Be Giants. He was the drummer on Steve Earle’s Grammy winning album Washington Square Serenade. He has recorded and toured with Tony Award winner Stew and The Negro Problem, Jonathan Coulton, Nettwerk recording artist Ivy and Mike Doughty among others.

David Bengali designs projections and lighting for theater, dance, and opera. He has designed for the Stolen Chair Theatre Company,  Emerging Artists Theater (The Sensational Josephine Baker), the Irish Arts Center (TransEuro Express), Soho Rep, Royal Family Productions (Dedalus Lounge, Safe Home), Fundamental Theater Co. (3D Hamlet), Opera New Jersey, Propel Her Dance, Puleio Dance, Jamal Jackson Dance, and many others, as well as internationally for Battery Dance Company.

Tim Cryan (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway: Cymbeline (Fiasco Theatre Company / TFANA), Additional NY credits Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theatre Company), Fragment (Classic Stage Company) Poetics-a ballet brut (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma), The Magnificent Cuckold (East River Commedia), Welkom in het Bos (dir. Erwin Maas) Woody Guthrie Dreams (Bull Moose Party), Las minutas de Marti, El medico y su honrra, & Open Up Hadrian (Carborca Theatre Co). Adjunct Faculty: Dance Department, Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), & Bard College at Simon’s Rock. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. http://timcryan.net