Alexander Boyd graduated from the University of California
at Davis Graduate Program in Performance Studies in June 2014.
His dissertation, “The Sustainability of Traditional Knowledge
Systems: Embodied Learning through Practice, Teaching and
Application,” draws on 20 years of professional practice and
teaching in Daoist Qigong arts (Daojiao Lishi Quanfa)
that he has studied since 1985 with his main teachers Chee Soo
(who passed in 1994) and Desmond Murray.
Christopher McCoy has worked as a teaching artist for Seattle
Children’s Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, the Denver Center
Theatre Company, and, most recently, for the Citi Wang Theatre in
Boston. In 2001, Chris was selected for an education fellowship
through OPERA America, through which he worked with St. Louis
Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, and Austin Lyric Opera. Directing
credits include Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver, Long Christmas Ride
Home by Paula Vogel, A Number by Caryl Churchill, Baltimore Waltz
by Paula Vogel, among others.
Kara Jhalak Miller is an Associate Professor of Dance in the
Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa. She is an artist/scholar, director, choreographer,
performer, movement based media artist, and yoga practitioner.
Her research in dance and performance studies has been published
nationally and internationally. Her creative work has been
commissioned and presented in North and South America, Europe,
Asia, and the Pacific. For over 30 years, she has performed,
choreographed, and collaborated with dancers and companies,
touring extensively.
Nita Little Nelson is a founding developer of Contact
Improvisation, and a dance artist investigating modalities of the
embodied mind in composition and performance.
