Ana Baer is an award-winning Mexican-American video choreographer whose work bridges dance for camera, performance, and multimedia. Active internationally since 1990, she fuses movement, film, and visual art to expand embodied storytelling across screen and stage. Her work has been commissioned by leading organizations in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America, and presented worldwide. She has received awards from major international film and dance festivals across five continents. Baer is a founding member of Avant Media and Merge Dance Company, and has served as Artistic Co-Director of the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema since 2004. She co-founded WE Create Productions and ALEBRIJE. She holds credentials from the Royal Academy of Dance, a BFA from Centro Nacional de las Artes, and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Rocío Luna Urdaibay is a dance artist, researcher, and educator whose work spans over 60 creations in contemporary dance, videodance, installation, and transmedia performance. A faculty member at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo since 1999, she currently leads the development of a Master’s in Arts and Transdisciplinary Studies. Her award-winning videodances have been recognized across five continents, and her stage work has been commissioned internationally. Rooted in body, memory, and territory, her practice positions dance as a tool for connection, transformation, and community. She is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII), holds the PRODEP Desirable Profile, and contributes to international research networks, including DEED. She is also an evaluator for CAESA and leads the project Mirasoles de otoño: Artivism for Women’s Embodied Fullness.

Scotty Hardwig is a somatic artist and teacher born and currently based in the Appalachian mountains of southwest Virginia whose work blends artistic, scientific and humanistic approaches to the body. His training as a professional dancer and performer has spanned a wide breadth of physical studies and movement philosophies, including kunga and ashtanga yoga, Gyrotonic/Gyrokinesis, capoeira, somatics, contact improvisation, movement meditation, anatomy, and kinesiology. His creative research projects emerge from the confluence of choreographic art and sensorial media, placing the body between the environment and human technology. His award-winning dance works have been called “dance science fiction” (National Public Radio/NPR) and “beautiful and eerie” (New York Times), and his projects blend multiple forms of performance from stage to screen. His past artistic and scientific projects span a diverse range of interdisciplinary methodologies and technologies, including motion capture and projection mapping for live performance, dances in virtual reality, multi-continent telematic performances, teleoperated robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and live electroencephalography to visualize the brain activity of dancers during varied embodied states. In addition to being a choreographer and somatic researcher, he is also an internationally award-winning dance filmmaker, and his screendances have been shown at film festivals in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Iasonas Psarakis is a a multi-award winning Greek-born composer, filmmaker, and multi-instrumentalist working across North Indian Classical, world, and experimental dance & music film forms. A soloist on sitar and esraj, he is a GRAMMY® Voting Member of the Recording Academy and contributed as a session musician to the GRAMMY®-nominated album The Colors in My Mind (Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album, 2026). His cinematic work explores the visceral meeting point of complex North Indian rhythmic structures, contemporary and classical movement, and the language of dance film. He holds a B.Mus. in Hindustani Classical Music (Sitar) from Sangit Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University (India), supported by scholarships including ICCR, and has studied with acclaimed teachers in the Ali Akbar Khan lineage and beyond. His work has been presented internationally across concerts, opera houses, site-specific performances, and film contexts. As founder, composer, and arranger of the Iasi Ensemble, he released the ensemble’s debut album Astris (2023), featuring collaborations with musicians from India, the Middle East, and Greece. Astris received six Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards, won Best World Music at the Clouzine International Music Awards, charted on Ethnocloud and One World Music Radio, and appeared on the first-round ballot for the GRAMMY® Awards in Best Global Music Album. His film and music projects have been recognized and awarded by festivals including the Thomas Edison Film Festival and Jaipur International Film Festival. With his recent work, including the experimental shorts Dancing with the Unknown, Whirling Desert, and Sea of Fire, he has developed a distinct cinematic voice, and he continues collaborating internationally across dance, music, and moving image works.