Sara Shelton Mann (b. December 17, 1943, Tennessee) has created a substantial body of work over a 55-year career as dancer and choreographer. From 1979 to 1996, she directed San Francisco-based company Contraband. Trained with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Lewis in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1979. Awards include John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2000), seven Isadora Duncan Awards, and San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldies Lifetime Achievement Award (2014). Her Movement Alchemy training integrates metaphysical and healing traditions.

Nils Bultmann is a San Francisco Bay Area-based violist, improviser, and composer. He completed his PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. His work includes solo recordings Forgiveness and Terminally Unique and collaborations with Roscoe Mitchell and the Kronos Quartet’s Hank Dutt.

Jesse Zaritt is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and Assistant Professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has performed with Shen Wei Dance Arts Company (2001-2006), Inbal Pinto Dance Company (2008), and in works by Netta Yerushalmy and Faye Driscoll. His solo Binding received three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards. He works in creative dialogue with Sara Shelton Mann.

Niall Noel Jones is a New York City-based artist working with theater, labor, temporality, and fantasy. He received a Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer (2017) and a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants-To-Artists Award. He holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and teaches at University of the Arts School of Dance in Philadelphia.