Experts Guide

Arreola has more than twenty years of professional experience as a theater and dance artist, including Grotowski's Objective Drama Project at the University of California-Irvine in 1987 and Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy until 1989. Arreola has Suzuki, contemporary dance and Butoh training and founded the experimental dance theatre company Mujeres en Ritual in 1999. She has worked as a performer, teacher, director and movement specialist in Mexico, the United States, Nicaragua, Canada, Poland and India.

Morris is a dance educator, researcher and choreographer. She has been invested in the field of dance education for more than twenty years and holds two terminal degrees in dance – an MFA degree in Dance Performance and Choreography and a PhD in Dance Studies. She is a regular presenter at regional, national and international dance conferences, a reviewer for multiple key dance journals in the field and has a wide variety of published work.

Foley received his B.A. in English and a minor Spanish from Bates College, and his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington where he performed in the works of several of the 20th century's major choreographers, including Mark Morris, Alwin Nikolais, Stephen Petronio, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Dore Hoyer and Bill Evans. As a dancer, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia in the companies of over two dozen choreographers including Doug Elkins, Kevin Wynn, Seán Curran, Donna Uchizono, Eun Me Ahn, Joy Kellman, Ruby Shang, Ben Munisteri, and Roberta Garrison.

Lehmker is a freelance dancer and choreographer currently based in the Tampa Bay area, where she is an active member of the dance community. She has worked with Charles Gushue/Gushue Moving Arts, Xan Burley + Alex Spring/the Median Movement and Meredith Monk, as well as university faculty.