MATTHEW CUMBIEPhoto Credit: Matthew Cumbie
Matthew Cumbie is a dancemaker, educator, and collaborator in Washington, DC, and is an Associate Artistic Director of Dance Exchange. His artistic research cultivates processes and experiences that are participatory and intergenerational, move through known and unknown, and bring a poetic lens to a specifically queer experience. He has been commissioned by places like Dance Place, Bates Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center, Texas State University, and Harvard University, as well as the New York City Roundtable Arts in Education conference and the LGBT Health and Art Making conference, among others, and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, and the Somerville Arts Council. He holds an MFA in dance from Texas Woman’s University.
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ALEX KARIGAN FARRIORPhoto Credit: Brian Guilliaux courtesy of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance USA
Alex Karigan Farrior was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Dallas, Texas receiving her preliminary training at Chamberlain School of Ballet and Dallas Dance Academy (now TBTS Dallas). She has a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University and an M.F.A. in Classical & Contemporary Dance with a Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies from Texas Christian University. She was Associate Artistic Director of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (TX) and company member from 2014-2018. Other professional performance credits include: Amy Marshall Dance Company (NY), BODYART (NY), ModArts Dance Collective (NY), and Bruce Wood Dance Project (TX). She has also collaborated with renowned dance photographer, Lois Greenfield, and is featured in her calendars and book, Moving Still. She has been an Adjunct Professor at Texas Christian University, and is currently on faculty at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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BRITTANY LOPEZ
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Brittany Lopez is a contemporary modern dance artist who calls San Antonio home. She's been involved in the dance community since 2014 when she moved here from the DFW area to begin teaching dance at Northwest Vista College where she is now a full-time Instructor and Director of the NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble.
Brittany's choreographic process draw from feminism, improvisation, site-based methodologies, and a playfulness with time, sensorial awareness, and athleticism. She experiments with these ideas and more with her new company grit danceworks. Most recently, she served three years as Board President of the San Antonio Dance Umbrella and currently sits on the coordinating committee for the Texas Dance Improvisational Festival and dance for Out On A Limb Dance Company based in Waco, TX. |