Paulina Ruiz Carballido is a Franco-Mexican dancer, choreographer, and somatic educator. Her work explores the body-voice as a sensitive space, in dialogue with perception, landscape, social relations, and eco-somatic connections. Through hybrid choreographic projects combining dance, video dance, and somatic practices, she weaves links between ancestry, mythology, feminism, and connection to the earth, within a decolonial approach to embodied knowledge. Nourished by her Mixtec roots and the learning of Tu’un dau, her work articulates creation, research, and intergenerational transmission, and has been presented in Abya Yala and Europe.

Dancer and choreographer currently represented by galería de arte Llano.

His practice centers on researching and experimenting with alternative modes of presenting dance, developed 
through laboratories and creative methodologies in which architecture serves as a core framework.

Karla Barthelmy-Hippolyte is a cultural curator and event coordinator committed to bringing history, art, and culture to life. Originally from St. Lucia, she moved to Brooklyn in the early 90s and later earned a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies from St. John Fisher, followed by an MA in Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture from the University of Westminster. Over nearly a decade, she has contributed to museums, cultural centers, and historic homes. As Auditorium Programs Manager at the Modern Fort Worth, she develops film, music, and performance programs and collaborates with partners on dynamic cultural projects.

Elisa De La Rosa is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University, Artistic Director of the TWU International Dance Company, a choreographer, performer, and dance educator, and the founding artistic director of De La Rosa Dance Company. Daughter of migrant farmworkers and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, she is a first-generation college graduate from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Her research centers on Dance of the Latinx Diaspora, examining borderlands, migration, and embodied cultural memory through Pre-Hispanic Indigenous, Mexican, and Tex-Mex dance forms. She taught dance in public schools for 14 years and holds a BA from Texas Woman’s University and an MFA from Montclair State University.

Lee Boramie is a producer and choreographer based in South Korea, working across various fields of
performing arts, including contemporary dance and musical theatre.
With a focus on contemporary dance, she has planned and produced performances for multiple groups.
Beyond stage productions, she also creates workshops, small gatherings, and spaces where people can
share personal tastes and sensitivities. She is interested in how art can naturally connect with everyday
life, and continues to plan projects that create points of encounter between people and art through
expanded artistic forms.

Art critic. Her work focuses on the accelerating pace of the contemporary world and changing sensory
perceptions of the body. She explores shifts in cognition and layers of memory produced by art as
experience. She has written on art and culture for critical journals, daily newspapers, institutional
publications, and mainstream media. She serves as a juror and lecturer at public art museums and
cultural foundations. She works as an editorial board member of arts and culture criticism journals and
as an art book editor. She won the Art Criticism category of the 2024 Chosun Ilbo New Year’s Literary
Contest and received an award at the 2016 Gravity Effect Art Criticism Competition. Her books include
The One Who Looks from Behind, Something That Shimmers, Ordinary Ways of Seeing, and Marina’s
Eyes.