Brian Brooks, originally from Hingham, MA, moved to New York City in 1994. He performed internationally with Elizabeth Streb for 3 years and in 2007 worked as the company's Rehearsal Coach and Class Instructor. He has been a Teaching Artist at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education since 1999 and is currently the Chapter Leader of the TA Union. His dance group, the Brian Brooks Moving Company, began touring in 2002 and has since been presented throughout the US, Canada and South Korea. In NY, his work has been commissioned and presented twice by Dance Theater Workshop, and by the 92 nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Symphony Space and Central Park Summerstage, among others. Recent funding includes grants from the NY State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. Brooks has been an invited Guest Artist and led creative residencies at several schools and festivals including Illinois State University, the University of Maryland and SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara.

Juliana F. May , a New York City native, started MAYDANCE in 2002. Recently commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY) to create Discrete Body Dilemma (April 2009), their newest evening length quintet, May has also been produced by other prominent New York City dance institutions such as The Joyce Theater, Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, The Catch Series and Dance Theater Workshop (2005-2008). May's work has also been featured in dance festivals throughout the United States and abroad including a commission by the International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E.) in Chicago , Illinois and The Repertory Project, a Cleveland-based company. In October of 2007, Dance Theater Workshop sent May to Athens , Greece for the Balkan Dance Platform. Development of new work takes place in New York City , where the company is based.
In addition to the company's choreographic work, MAYDANCE has been involved in various educational community outreach efforts in New York City and the Midwest and will also be performing and teaching in various schools throughout Ohio and NY in 2009. May has also been the Director of the Lower School Movement program at The Trevor Day School in NYC for the past six years.

Vicky Shick has been involved in the New York City dance community since the late 1970's as a performer, choreographer and teacher.
Shick was a member of the Trisha Brown Company for 6 years, during which time she received a New York Dance and Performance Award, a “Bessie” for performance. She has also performed and collaborated with many other choreographers, including Yoshiko Chuma, Deborah Hay, Risa Jaroslow, Juliette Mapp, Jodi Melnick, Wendy Perron, Stephen Petronio, Susan Rethorst, Sally Silvers, Sara Rudner, and Christopher Williams.
Vicky Shick regularly teaches in New York at Movement Research, Hunter College , and for the Trisha Brown Company. She also teaches and has created dances in festivals, workshops, and at universities in the United States and Europe, including her home town, Budapest .
For the past twenty years, Shick has been showing her own work. Since 1994, she has worked with visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick. Their seventh project together, received a New York Dance and Performance Award (a “Bessie”) for “outstanding creative achievement” . Her new piece, “Glimpse,” (also in collaboration with composer Elise Kermani) was shown in Budapest in January 2009 and will be presented in New York City at Danspace Project in April.
Vicky Shick is a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and is currently a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

KOTA YAMAZAKI (Choreographer/Performer), was born in Niigata , Japan and was first introduced to butoh through the teaching of Akira Kasai. In 1994, he was a finalist in The Platform of Bognolet Competition in 1994. Rosy co., Yamazaki's first company has perform ed in numerous venues and festivals including Indonesian Dance Festival, Place Theater in London, Biennale Nationale de Danse Val-de Marine, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago Columbia College Dance Center, and Yorkshire Dance Festival. In 2002, Yamazaki moved his based in New York and started Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug. Their work has been presented at PICA TBA Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, and NUS for the Arts in Singapore . Through these years, he was invited to teach at a number of universities including National University of Arts in Korea , Arizona State University and Bennington College . In addition to presenting works with his company, Yamazaki also was comissioned to create works for both national/international dance companies. In 2007, Yamazaki received a New York Performance Award ( Bessie Award) with Germaine Acogny for the choreography of FAGAALA with Senegal-based company Jant-bi. Recently, he with fellow artists launced a new art organization, BAL (Body-Arts Laboratory) in Tokyo in 2009. www.kotayamazaki.com