Jules Bakshi is a dancer, choreographer, and health coach. She is the founder of the body- positive dance and fitness studio GOOD MOVE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Dance from Barnard College and is certified in Pilates and Integrative Nutrition. Her own choreography has been shown at The Brooklyn Museum, National Sawdust, The Knockdown Center, and other venues. She has choreographed videos for Matt and Kim, the late Mac Miller, and various recording artists. DD+D has been her modern dance home since 2010—in addition to dancing in the company, she was the managing director of DD+D from 2010-2017.

Mississippian Cemiyon Barber received his BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2018. He has had the pleasure of dancing works by choreographers Bill T. Jones, Kyle Abraham, Johannes Wieland, Jessica Lang, Norbert De La Cruz, Christopher Williams, Liz Gerring, Chase Brock Experience, Megan Williams, Igal Perry, the late Merce Cunningham, and George Balanchine. Cemiyon has also been featured in fashion editorials VOGUE Russia and Numéro Berlin, and he has made guest appearances on TV networks PBS Social, HBO, Telfar TV and MTV. Cemiyon was mentioned in The New York Times twice in 2021 and 2022, as well as The New Yorker in 2017, 2021, and 2022.

Jay Beardsley is a nonbinary dancer, multimedia artist, and teacher currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They work and perform with Ballez (Company Artist), TheRedProjectNYC/ Johnnie Cruise Mercer (Media Artist and Movement Ensemble Artist), Katerina & Jay (Co- Artistic Director and Founder), GREYZONE (Grants Assistant), Cornfield Dance (Co- Administrator), and MICHIYAYA Dance, among other freelance projects. Jay also creates their own work and has been produced by organizations such as Movement Research (NYC), Performance Mix Festival (NYC), Proteomedia (NYC), Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), and Dogtown Dance Theatre (Richmond, VA). Jay is also a teacher of movement and theater at various local venues and within the NYC DOE schooling systems. Jay attended Virginia Commonwealth University, graduating in 2020 with an Outstanding Choreographer award and the Bobby Chandler Award for Theatre and studied with and performed works by the likes of Jenna Riegel, Trebien Pollard, André Zachery, MK Abadoo, Christopher K. Morgan, and Scott Putman along with many other valued guest artists and faculty. Additionally, Jay has deepened their performance research through a multitude of workshops and intensives with artists/ organizations including Sidra Bell, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, and American Dance Festival. jaybeardsley.com

After many years studying classical ballet, Alexandra Berger finally found herself within modern dance vocabulary. Working professionally in New York since 2003, Berger has had the privilege of dancing for, among others, Pat Catterson, Merce Cunningham (RUG 2007), Douglas Dunn, Matthew Mohr, Roz Newman, Sally Silvers, Dǔsan Týnek, and Matthew Westerby. In addition to dancing, Berger ascribes to the Gyrotonic Expansion System® through the lineage of Juergen Bamberger and Hilary Cartwright, teaching at Fluid Fitness in Manhattan and privately in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Berger holds a BFA from The New School and is currently pursuing an MSW through Fordham University, interning this year with the United Nations. She has had the honor of dancing with Douglas Dunn + Dancers since the fall 2013.

Dwayne Brown is a native New Yorker who has lived in every borough (…except the fifth) and loves the ways in which the city still reveals itself even after three decades. He trained at The Ailey School and The School of American Ballet, and received a B.A. in Psychology from Vassar College. As a professional dancer and performer his credits include: (Theater/Stage) The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall; (TV/Film) At Home With Amy Sedaris (TruTV), The Get Down (Netflix), Great Performances at The Met (PBS); (Commercial) Mount Gay Rum, Stadium Goods, The Consistency Project, and NYFW; (Modern Dance) Bill T. Jones/AZ Co., Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley, Seán Curran. Recent credits: Lyric Opera Chicago as a soloist dancer, Lifes exhibit at The Hammer Museum, and the upcoming film She Came To Me, directed by Rebecca Miller. He is represented by Clear Talent Group and currently serves on the advisory committee for ARTBATH, an immersive performance salon series at the historic Blue Building.

Janet Charleston joined DD+D in 1993; she continues to work with the company as a dancer, rehearsal director, and company manager. She danced with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company for many years and performed in the 1992 world tour of Einstein on the Beach. Other artists she has worked with include Christopher Williams (currently), Chamecki/Lerner, Kota Yamazaki, David Parker, RoseAnne Spradlin, Stephen Koester, June Finch, Leslie Satin and Beverly Blossom. Invited to teach at his studio by Merce Cunningham in 2001, she currently teaches for the Cunningham Trust and independently, and is on faculty for the Cunningham Technique Teacher Training Program. Other teaching engagements have included Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, SUNY Purchase, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Illinois, the Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program, SEAD (Salzburg, Austria), and El Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico City). Charleston has also enjoyed teaching yoga and movement for children and the elderly. Her choreography has been presented at venues in New York City, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Arizona, and South America. A Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile in 2008, she subsequently served as Peer Reviewer in Dance for the Fulbright organization. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois, C-U.

Savannah Jade Dobbs (she/they) is a New York City-based professional dance artist with roots in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) with a BFA in Contemporary Dance in 2021, then transitioned to New York that same year. She has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Caroline Fermin, Shen Wei, Ravid Abarbanel, Dafi Altabeb, Trisha Brown, Yin Yue, Larry Keigwin, Juel Lane, Ja’ Malik, Celia Rowlson-Hall, and more. Savannah Jade works as an active dancer and a cross-disciplinary collaborator in film, visual art, and choreography. She has facilitated all-arts inclusive events with UNCSA, MOtiVE Dance, and Synaptic People. She actively creates spaces for artists to express, experiment, and thrive as themselves. Her passion is to help others use creative outlets to discover that they are brilliant, multifaceted creatures. savannahjadedobbs.com

Steph Jacco is an interdisciplinary artist who has her fingers in a number of different pies. A trained dancer and professional musician, she is interested in the intersections of dance, music and film, particularly super 8 and 35mm. She was based in Western Massachusetts for the past 12 years, surrounded by the Holyoke Mountain Range and meadows of the Connecticut River. Steph has been living in New York for the past 10 months, where she is pursuing a masters in dance education at NYU.

Originally from the Chicago area, Eve Jacobs is a dance artist based in NYC. Training early on at Dance Center Evanston, she completed high school at North Carolina School of the Arts. Eve earned her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School, where she held a Gluck Community Service Fellowship and was awarded upon graduation the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography. She was a member of Jessica Lang Dance from 2015-2019, performing in over 75 cities across six countries and in productions at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Recently, Eve made her Metropolitan Opera debut as a dancer in Wagner’s Lohengrin and Der Fliegende Holländer. She has also appeared in productions with Washington National Opera, The Merce Cunningham Trust, and Cornfield Dance. Jacobs has choreographed for dance, theater, and film, including commissions for Columbia Ballet Collaborative and Shakespeare’s Richard III at Fourth Street Theater. In 2022, her choreography was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival in a 3D-animation short for JuVee Productions & Verizon. Eve’s work as a teaching artist for New York City Ballet has led her to public schools in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, bringing dance education programs to young people. In addition, she has served on the faculty of both DeSales University and Hunter College, where she is completing her MFA in Dance.

Vanessa Knouse is a dance artist based in New York City. Originally from Santa Fe NM, she trained at the School of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Vanessa has performed work with the Merce Cunningham Trust, Cornfield Dance, Graham Cole Dance, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., Garnet Henderson, Ian Spencer Bell, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Susan Marshall Dance and Jody Oberfelder Projects. Vanessa has been a guest teaching artist at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Nightingale Bamford School, New Mexico School for the Arts, Southern Vermont Dance Festival and Dewitt Clinton Highschool. She worked with Kimberly Bartosik/daela as her rehearsal assistant and has assisted Patricia Lent in staging event versions of Merce Cunningham's work. vanessaknouse.com

Corinne Lohner (she/her) is a performing artist from Dallas, Texas. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since graduating, she has danced with Boston Dance Theater as a guest artist, BAIRA Dance Theater as a founding company member, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Currently, she freelances in NYC with companies like Yin Yue Dance Company, c/s movement projects, Sha Creative Outlet, and more. She has presented work in Salt Lake City, Berlin, and New York. corinnelohner.squarespace.com

Cassidy Martin grew up in Vermont, with dance experience from the Putney School. She put her dance career on pause after a dance injury, but with commitment to healing and relearning how to relate to the body, healing came and dance became her freedom. She spends a lot of time doing experimental improvisational movements, focusing on the various moods cultivated from the liberation of the body’s suffering. She has performed in her hometown in Vermont, as well as with Douglas Dunn in the Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs series in Brooklyn. She is also a student and spends her time studying and building a yoga and writing career.

Emily Pope (she/they) is a performing artist, teacher, choreographer, dancer, and video artist. They are an alumna of UNCSA (1991), received their BFA in performance/choreography from OSU Dance (summa cum laude, 1997), and their MFA in dance/choreography from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (2007). They currently perform with Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Tiffany Mills Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma, and Douglas Dunn + Dancers. They are a recipient of the 2020 Bessie Honoree Award for Outstanding Performance.

Deniz Erkan Sancak was born and raised in Türkiye. Beginning his career in Ballroom/Latin dance, he became a member of the national team of Turkey for Latin American dance sport, competed around the world from 2013-2017 and danced as a guest at the Opera Ballet of Ankara. After performing works by Binnaz Dorkip, Korhan Başaran and Erdal Beşikçioğlu with Tatbikat Sahnesi, he moved to New York to study in The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY at the age of 18. He was awarded several scholarships throughout his education, including the Adopt-a-dancer scholarship program, BTF (Bridge to Turkey Fund) impact Educational scholarship, and many more talent-based scholarships. In his last year of college, he joined the Peridance Contemporary Dance Company as an apprentice for the 2021 season where he worked on pieces by Igal Perry and Yin Yue. Deniz graduated from Purchase with a concentration in Ballet in May of 2022. Throughout his education, he had the opportunity to perform works by Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Bettijane Sills, Jenelle Figgins, Ana Maria Lucaciu, William Forsythe, Eve Chan and Anna Sokolow. He was a company member in Wonderbound for the 2022-2023 season, and he is very excited to be working with Douglas Dunn this season.

Jin Ju Song-Begin is a choreographer, dancer, and dance teacher from Seoul, South Korea, whose work has been presented internationally in Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the U.S. Since moving to New York in 2010, her work has been shown in many venues in NYC. In 2012, she founded her dance company, Da-On Dance. In 2021, she created the dance film Bubble as part of the StuffedArts residency at Judson Church, and she was recently chosen to participate in the Rauschenberg Residency. She has danced for Tere O’Connor, Keith Thomson, Emily Berry, and Daniel Roberts. Currently she dances in NYC with Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Seán Curran Company, Cornfield Dance, and Netta Yerushalmy. In 2023 she will be starting a new project with Big Dance Theater.

Mac Twining trained with Nadege Hottier at the Premiere Division Ballet School and grew up absorbing knowledge of release technique and postmodern dance through his mother, Darla Stanley. After completing his training, Mac danced with the Stephen Petronio Company for 5 years. He has also performed with Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company, Tania Pérez-Salas Compañía de Danza, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the late, great, Aileen Passloff. In addition to Christopher Williams, Mac works with Tere O’Connor, Cornfield Dance and Kimberly Bartosik/Daela.

Timothy Ward grew up in Abita Springs, LA. After graduating from the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and earning a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School, he was a final member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group. Ward has worked for dozens of choreographers over the years. He continues to dance with Molissa Fenley, Julia Gleich, Fadi J Koury, Pat Catterson, Yvonne Rainer, and Douglas Dunn. He currently teaches Cunningham Technique® at Rutgers University.

Arthur “Trace” Yeames recently returned from two years in London, receiving his Master of Fine Arts from the London Contemporary Dance School / University of Kent (2022), and dancing with the Edge Dance Company. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and previously graduated high school from UNCSA, majoring in classical ballet. Trace was a Trainee at Charlotte Ballet and has also danced professionally for Ballet Hawaii and Eliot Smith Dance Company, UK. Since returning to NYC, Trace has been working with Greyzone and Zoemotion dance companies. Trace is thrilled to be working with Douglas Dunn + Dancers again, after the Company’s 2022 residency in Milton, Pennsylvania, where he performed Douglas’ Orchard Variations, Vain Combat, and the new quartet One Ways. Trace is extremely honored to be a part of Douglas’ current production of BODY / SHADOW.