Joshua L. Ishmon is a performer and former rehearsal director with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, where he is also director and founder of its Emerging Choreographer’s Showcase. Ishmon has performed with Winifred R. Harris’ Between Lines (Denver), Seamless Dance Theater (Kansas City), Ballet Chicago, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (where he danced in the Bessie Award-winning cast of Donald McKayle’s “Rainbow Round My Shoulder”). He has shared the stage with Bobby McFerrin and choreographed for South Shore Dance Alliance and Cerque Rivera. Ishmon was voted Chicago’s “Best Choreography” in 2017 by Chicago Reader and listed by Newcity as a Breakout Contemporary Dance Artist. He is a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, a 3Arts Make a Wave artist, and the founder of Production: COLORS.

Nat Wilson grew up in Dexter, Michigan but has worked in New York, Los Angeles, and Israel. Wilson has performed for Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, ZviDance, Visceral Dance, Ballez, age9, Volta Collective, kNoname, Roderick George, More Fish Dance, LEVELdance, and Cocodaco. Currently living in Brooklyn, Wilson now performs for Yue Yin Dance Company, where is one of only two to be certified to teach Yue Yin’s FoCo technique. Wilson also trained with the Joffrey Ballet Studio Company.

Sirui Liu began her ballet training at the Shanghai Dance School in 2000, then continued at the Shanghai Dance College of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. In 2011, Sirui joined Cincinnati Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet. Demonstrating exceptional artistry and technique, she was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2017. She has earned numerous accolades, performed across the globe, performed extensive repertoire (most recently as Odile/Odette in Swan Lake), and worked with a great number of well-known choreographers including William Forsythe, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Justin Peck, Septime Webre, Trey McIntyre, Ohad Naharin, and more.