Kun-Yang Lin is the founding Artistic Director of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (“KYL/D”) and a professor at Temple University. In 1992, Taiwan-born Lin came to New York where he danced with numerous companies and was described in 2002 as “an extraordinary dancer” (NY Times). Among the primary impulses nourishing Lin’s artistry are Buddhist and Taoist world views and the internal energetic flows of many Eastern arts he has practiced over the years, including qi gong and calligraphy. These experiences are filtered through his extensive training and performance experience across a broad range of contemporary dance techniques and improvisation practices, framed by ongoing cross-cultural research in dance as a medium for the integration of body, spirit, and mind. Lin’s journey as an immigrant navigating tensions between his traditional roots, his contemporary interests, and his embodied research, inform his view of dance as a calling that transcends labels, shapes, and particular movement. Lin’s dance company, KYL/D, is an extension of his continuing mentorship and the vehicle for sharing his teaching and research with the community. Lin’s devotion to artistic excellence, movement research and commitment to education and community inspired him to found the CHI Movement Arts Center in Philadelphia.

Gus Solomons jr, studied dance while he was an architecture student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon graduating in 1961, he moved to NYC, where he performed with the companies of Donald McKayle, Pearl Lang, Joyce Trisler, and Paul Sanasardo. In 1964, Solomons joined the Martha Graham Dance company for one season, though his most significant association during this period was with the Merce Cunningham company (1965-1968). 

Solomons formed the Solomons Company/Dance in 1972. Drawing on his MIT experience, he conceived dance as "melted architecture" and undertook a clinical, postmodern approach to dance making which linked a fascination with puzzles and architectural design to the process of "kinetic autobiography." The resulting abstract, non-sequential choreography was marked by its lean incisiveness and effect of fragmentary collage. Choreography by Solomons has been performed by the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and the Berkshire Ballet, among others.

In 1980, Solomons began writing dance reviews, which were published in The Village Voice, Attitude, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1996, he founded PARADIGM with Carmen de Lavallade and Dudley Williams. Solomons also worked as an arts professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts until 2014.

Pallabi Chakravorty is an anthropologist, dance artist, and choreographer. She is the author of several books, including Bells of Change, 2008 on Kathak, the classical dance form of North India. She has published journal papers, book chapters, edited a proceedings (Dance in South Asia, 2002), and an ethnographic film (Kathak in the City). Chakravorty’s training in visual anthropology and Kathak allows her research and choreographic projects to be deeply interdisciplinary.

Chakravorty’s writing on the transformation of Indian performing arts, including the influences of gurus and other significant figures who continue to choreograph, teach and perform into their senior years, has forged an original and critical approach to contemporary dance studies. Her new project on Yoga, performance, and healing combines medical anthropology and physical practices.

Chakravorty’s creative work is connected to community-building through her dance company, Courtyard Dancers, which stages performances in the US and India. Her choreographies express a postcolonial, modernist voice and are based on historical and contemporary events in India, such as partition, the anti nautch movement, globalization, migration, violence and healing. The company aims to develop dance for cultural literacy and empowerment.

Bob Finkelstein is a Philadelphia-based videographer and visual story teller with extensive experience documenting anything and everything through images, footage and spoken word.

Over the past 10 years, Bob has shot interviews in unbelievable spaces like the crime scene labs of the FBI, Lockheed Martin, the Washington Post, the Gap, Reebok, Comcast and Vanguard. He’s also worked with small, hardworking non-profits to help them further their goals, as well as documenting the work of artists at all levels of their career, from small dance and theater groups to well-known composers, choreographers and playwrights holding performances in some of Philadelphia’s best-known arts organizations.

Previous to being a videographer, Bob’s experience included working as a reporter for Bloomberg News and other outlets, as well as serving as a spokesman for political campaigns in and around the Philadelphia area. In these jobs, gathering information and presenting it in a quick, concise and engaging way have built the foundation of his work.

Nel Shelby Productions is a dance video production company based in NYC and founded by Nel Shelby, that provides videography, editing, photography, marketing, client relations and project management services.

Caroline is a videographer, editor and dancer based in New York City. She has been working at NSP since 2018, after spending a summer interning for Nel Shelby at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Caroline grew up in Dallas, TX, where she attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts to study dance, and later attended The Ohio State University, graduating with a BFA in Dance and minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Outside of NSP, her professional experience includes the Merce Cunningham Trust, Amy Jacobus Marketing, Kimberly Bartosik/daela and Treeline Dance Works.

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