Jennifer Chin is a freelance dance artist who has performed and taught throughout the US and abroad with a variety of inspiring choreographers, including Alan Danielson, Kristin Jackson, Arthur Aviles, Michael Mao and Yin Mei. Her work has been performed in Mexico City, Mexico; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Varazdin, Croatia; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh; Florence Dance Festival, Italy; San Nicola, Bari; International Contemporary Dance Festival, Nicaragua; and Breaking Ground Festival in Tempe, Arizona. Locally in NYC, Jennifer’s choreography has been performed at Bare Bones Showcase-American Dance Guild, BAAD! Ass Women-Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dancenow/NYC, Danspace Project’s Food-for-Thought, The Future is Female Festival. She has been commissioned to create work by Queens College, Peridance Center, and The Yard where she was a dancer-in-residence for four years. She also choreographs for theater and has worked in opera on Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, a Theatre Piece for Players, Singers and Dancers with a cast of over 100 performers. She received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and BA from Queens College. In addition, Jennifer is an instructor in the Humphrey-Limón technique, yoga, pilates and embodied anatomy. She has taught Master classes at Arizona State University, in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Finland and was a resident choreographer at Toscana Dance HUB in Florence, Italy. She has been on faculty at The José Limón Institute, The Martha Graham School, Montclair State University, Brooklyn College, Dance Space Center, Peridance, and Université du Québec á Montréal. Her business, LUMINOUSbody, transformative health and fitness, is a group that offers private lessons in yoga, pilates and fitness training. www.luminousbody.net

Patti Gilstrap (Costume Designer) holds a BFA in dance and choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1996 and 1997 she attended the American Dance Festival on scholarship as the costume assistant. In 1997-1998 she toured with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble as wardrobe supervisor. She has designed costumes for many choreographers including: Sharon Kinney, Judith Steele, Incidents Physical Theater, Heather Harrington, Alan Danielson, Heidi Latsky, Teresa Wimmeer, Ali Kenner, Pat Cremins, Sue Bernhard, Dana Doggett, Chris Ferris, JENNIFERCHINdance, and Tina Croll. She has worked extensively with Treehouse Shakers designing costumes, headdresses, and puppets since 2005. She spent 17 years as the co-owner of Flirt Brooklyn clothing boutiques in NYC. She wrote a sewing book with business partner, Seryn Potter, “Flirt Skirts: Learn How to Sew, Customize, and Style Your Very Own Skirts” in 2011. These days you can find her splitting her time between her sewing business www.staysharpbrooklyn.com and teaching robotics at the Brooklyn Robots Foundry.