Barbie Diewald is a dancer, choreographer and Associate Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Choreography and New England Foundation for the Arts New Work New England Grant Recipient. Her dances have been presented in New York at BAM, the 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, University Settlement, The Center for Performance Research, and The Kitchen, and in New England at the historic Academy of Music Theatre, A.P.E Gallery, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, High Street Studios, Motion State Arts Festival, Northampton Center for the Arts, Salem Arts Festival and Movement Arts Gloucester. Diewald has been Artist-in-Residence at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, the Bogliasco Foundation, The Iron Factory, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Cleveland School for the Arts, Ponderosa, Subcircle and SILO at Kirkland Farm. www.barbiediewald.com
Meredith Bove is a dancer and dramaturg based in western Massachusetts, U.S.A. Her practices move between and across performance, writing, dance, and audio. Through each of these mediums, she is devoted to engaging the tensions between language and embodied experience. She has collaborated as a dramaturg with choreographers Barbie Diewald, Rebecca Pappas, and Lailye Weidman, and has performed in the work of Jérôme Bel, Luis Lara Malvacías, Sharon Mansur, Stephanie Miracle, Jillian Peña, Sara Smith, and Karinne Keithley Syers. Her writing on performance has been published inThINKingDANCE, Culturebot, and Contact Quarterly; for The Making Room (2018), a collaboration between choreographers Bebe Miller and Susan Rethorst; and by Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center for Reggie Wilson’s POWER (2021). She was Associate Editor for Contact Quarterly between 2018-2020, and worked as Program Coordinator at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts.