Hailey Summers
Dallas, Texas, USA
Hailey Summers is a freelance movement artist based in Dallas, TX. They specialize in freestyle, choreography, dance education, event curation, and creative direction. Summers’ focus has been to nurture innovations in movement expression by expanding the creative spirit through high levels of body awareness and exploration. Summers dance journey began with ballet and jazz; during their time at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Vidual Arts Summers was introduced to modern and contemporary. Within the past four years they have immersed themselves in styles such as hip-hop, house, popping, waving and animation, participating in various dance competitions around the country. The center of Summers’ work is found in movement collective, “Discovery Movement,” an artist sanctuary where people of all movement backgrounds and mediums may come together to create powerful resonance and harmonious collaborations. They have provided movement classes for organizations/institutions such as Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Junior Players, Joffrey Ballet Texas, Oak Cliff Dance, University of North Texas, and Booker T. Washington HSPVA, Bath House Cultural Center, and Battlegrounds. Their belief is that young designers of tomorrow can plant seeds of wisdom today, watering their innovations with limitless courage and curiosity.
Lily Cabatu Weiss
Dallas, Texas, USA
Lily Cabatu Weiss is the Executive Director for the Dallas Arts District and most recently served as the Artistic Director for Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts (BTWHSPVA), 2nd Artistic Director since Paul Baker, founder of the school. She served as Chair of the Dance Department that now serves as a national model; she holds advanced degrees from Texas Woman’s University, taught on the dance faculties at Southern Methodist University and Houston’s HSPVA, and joined the faculty at BTWHSPVA in 1978. She continues to work tirelessly over the past four decades to further the arts and education in the community. Her goals to create access and connectivity in the Dallas Arts District are demonstrated by her collaborative work on the Connect Master Plan, producing the Signature Block Party Series--a free, family-friendly event attracting over 50,000 visitors along with smaller activations throughout the year, and providing education outreach to 1,500+ students annually.
Dong Jun Lee
Seoul, South Korea
DongJun Lee pursues his dance that addresses changes in the way we perceive the world of trends and traditional dance under an environment of technology and civilization. Lee focuses on the phenomenon of the body in search of meaning of beauty, and develops relationships at the sensory-body-machine-technology level to create an ideal movement of multisensory using technology, and have developed the Korean traditional dance’s historic collection. Lee pursues performances that combine art and technology by overlapping visual mapping from a microscopic perspective to build a worldview to expand the Korean dance’s spectrum. Lee creates trendy art works by making dance film, technology creatives as a directors, graphic designers. He received many choreography awards such as The 8th Buddhist Dance Festival internatiaonl Grand Prize Award <but go> and, 2021 Korea Dance Association - Arts Council Korea Organization Chairman's Award <푸다꺼리, etc. Currently, he is representative of Korean dance Company KYUL.
SungPil Kim
Seoul, South Korea
SungPil Kim is the co-representative and media artist of Studio Artech, which presents remarkable works in the field of contemporary media art. Kim’s work crosses the boundaries between technology and art and is recognized worldwide.
Major projects;
140th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Korea and the UK <META CITY> at London, United Kingdom;This exhibition commemorates the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and the UK.
KIAF <META CITY>, GONG:GALAXY exhibition at COEX, Seoul; Kim presented <META CITY> and GONG:GALAXY exhibition at the Seoul International Art Fair.
Participated in LGDisplay OLED ART WAVE special exhibition <LONG DREAM> at Seonne, Seongsu-dong, Seoul.
Claudia Lavista
CDMX/Mazatlán
Performing artist with a 30-year career. Lavista holds a Bachelor's degree in Dance Pedagogy and has received multiple national and international awards. She is a co-founder of Delfos Danza Contemporánea and EPDM. Lavista has created over 65 works that have been presented in Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She has extensively taught dance courses at faculties in Mexico and abroad. Awarded with the Mellon Fellow 2011, the International Jerusalem Fellow Award 2022, and Fulbright Fellow 2024 and current member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico. Her shows for stage, video-dance, site-specific, and digital platforms reflect her interest in interdisciplinary collaborative spaces driven by artistic and human dialogue.
Ximena Fargas
CDMX, Oaxaca
Ximena Fargas (Mexico). Graduated from the Academia de la Danza Mexicana (INBAL) with a Bachelor's degree in Multidisciplinary Dance in Mexico City. Holds a diploma in Film Appreciation from the Cinematographic Training Center, specializing in visual performance and seminar in "Videodanza. an impossible dance" by the VideodanzaBa Festival. Completed a diploma in Dance and Technological Mediation from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Beneficiary of the program "With You at a Distance: Art Movement at Home" (2020). Choreographer for the short film "Tickle where it hurts" (2020). Director of "Bodies and Imaginaries - Intermedial Archive" presented in Iceland at the Boreal Videodanza Festival, and at the Red Iberoamericana de Festivales de Cine (2020). Photographer & editor for "Ephemeral Space" by the National Dance Company, Cepromusic, and CNAV (2021) for the Cervantino Festival. Co-director of Agite y Sirva Itinerant Videodanza Festival (2017-2021). Teacher in the Interdisciplinary Diploma in Alchemy Scenic Projects (2020-2021). Teacher in the International Diploma in Choreocinema (2020-2021). Participant in the Barcelona International Dance Exchange (2021). Teacher in the Videodanza Residency at the National Polytechnic Institute (2022). Creation residency in somatic and audiovisual arts "The body of the earth" within the framework of the Dance Encounter in Cuautla (2023). Director of the short film "We all deserve to eat well". In charge of audiovisual content for the Tierra del Sol restaurant in Oaxaca (2022-2024). Currently an independent artist, dancer, and visual artist exploring inter-multi and transdisciplinary approaches through dancefilm, new technologies, performance, cinema, and social and political contexts.
