Arushi Singh is a dance scholar, writer, educator, and performer from New Delhi, now based in Los Angeles. Moving between theory and practice, she traces how dance both shapes and is shaped by the worlds it inhabits. Holding a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA, her award-winning research examines contemporary and experimental dance in South Asia—its shifting institutional terrains, systems of patronage, and the political economies that sustain or unsettle performance.

Her writing appears in South Asian Dance Intersections, Didaskalia, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Dance Chronicle, Race & Yoga, and Tilt Pause Shift: Dance Ecologies in India, with forthcoming essays in The Oxford Handbook of Dance Praxis and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive.

Her choreographic practice runs in conversation with this scholarship—rooted in Indian movement vocabularies yet restless in its search for new temporalities, architectures, and relations. Recent collaborations in Los Angeles include works with Ajani Brannum, Emily Barasch, Victoria Marks, Lionel Popkin, and Christine Suarez.

As a performance artist and emerging scholar, Moodzi (Abhijeet Mudgerikar) narrates stories at the intersection of social dance, gender experimentation, cultural geography, and interactive systems. They are currently pursuing an MFA in Choreographic Inquiry at UCLA, where they are investigating the etymology and cultural circulation of nazar—translated as gaze, perception, or the “evil eye”—from its Arabic origins to its regional transformations across South Asia. Their research is informed by a background in architecture and their practice of queer Black social dances in India, through which they draw relations among space, migration, and cross-cultural interaction.

Valeria Tizol Vivas is an artist from Bayamón, Puerto Rico who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a B.EnvD from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, and an MFA in Sculpture from UCLA. Tizol Vivas is currently Faculty in the School of Arts at California Institute of the Arts.

Tizol Vivas’ practice explores the morphology of materials, time, and ancient dialects with the Caribbean as a point of origin. Her work alludes to memory, cultural histories, traditions, elemental processes, and architectural sensibilities, all of which are investigated through introspection, material interventions, experimental arrangements, and mark-making techniques. Her hypotheses and observations transfigure the narratives and languages of displacement and marginalization through the instinctual nature and processes of the elements, materials, and forms she communicates with.

Her recent work has been featured in Lenzner Gallery at Pitzer College, Transformative Arts, M+B, Gavlak Gallery, Five Car Garage, Adornment | Artifact x Getty, La Muestra Nacional de Artes de Puerto Rico, and La Galería Diagonal. She is a former Ceramic Artist-in-Residence at Pitzer College (CA) and an Artist-in-Residence at La Espectacular (PR).

Negar Kamali is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer whose work investigates the relationship between space, movement, and cultural memory. Trained in architecture, she applies spatial analysis to choreographic practice, examining how built environments shape bodily knowledge and social relations. Since 2011, she has taught Persianate and Iranian dance as well as contemporary dance, and her extensive travels across Iran have profoundly shaped her creative practice. Her choreography draws on the country’s diverse geography and rich literary heritage.

Currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental Choreography at the University of California, Riverside, Negar’s research asks: What do we carry when we move? Her methodology employs objects as live collaborators and draws on the Persian concept of Shuridegi a passionate transformation born from deep longing. Her work engages sensation as knowledge and acknowledges temporality’s imprint on movement, demonstrating how relocation across geographies shapes embodied understanding, and how movement itself becomes a living archive.