2025 Panelists
interdisciplinary artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY)
Choreographer, Artistic Director, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA
Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Fisher Center at Bard
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY
artist/filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Professor of Visual Arts, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
scholar, maker, and teacher of activist media, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY
artist/filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Mexico City, Mexico and Paris, France
composer, performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York and Vermont
cellist, composer, improvisor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Chicago, IL
pianist, composer, record producer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY
Senior Director of Artistic Programs, YoungArts
Miami, FL
Editor, Theater magazine and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University
New Haven, CT and Brooklyn, NY
theatre artist, director, consultant, co-curator DNAWORKS
Honolulu, HI
Curator and writer; Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
Executive Director, The Industry
Los Angeles, CA
Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) List Visual Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
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| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roya Amirsoleymani | Dance | 2022 |
artistic director & curator of public engagement, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR |
| Philip Bither | Dance | 2000 |
curator, performing arts, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| Thomas DeFrantz | Dance | 2012 |
Writer, director, professor, researcher, Duke University
Durham, NC |
| Ali Rosa-Salas | Dance | 2023 |
curator, Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center; Associate Curator, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
New York, NY |
| Wendy Perron | Dance | 1999 |
dancer/choreographer and lecturer, Program in Theatre and Dance, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, and New York |
| Donald Byrd | Dance | 2010 |
choreographer, artistic director, Spectrum Dance Theater
Seattle, WA |
| Charmaine Warren | Dance | 2024 |
Founder/Artistic Director, Black Dance Stories; Dance on the Lawn-Montclair Dance Festival; Producer, DanceAfrica@BAM; former curator, E-Moves Harlem Stage
Montclair, NJ |
| David White | Dance | 1997 |
executive director, Dance Theater Workshop
New York, NY |
| Alma Guillermoprieto | Dance | 2021 |
reporter/writer
Bogotá, Colombia |
| Ann Daly | Dance | 2001 |
critic, theorist, and professor, University of Texas
Austin, TX |
| Thomas F. DeFrantz | Dance | 2022 |
performer, professor of theatre and performance studies, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL |
| Rem Cabrera | Dance | 2000 |
chief of cultural development Miami-Dade Cultural Council
Miami, FL |
| Simone Forti | Dance | 2012 |
Dancer, choreographer, writer, adjunct professor UCLA
Los Angeles, CA |
| Eva Yaa Asantewaa | Dance | 2023 |
veteran independent arts writer, podcaster, editor, curator, dramaturge; founding Director of Black Diaspora
New York, NY |
| Allegra Fuller Snyder | Dance | 1999 |
dance ethnologist, filmmaker, and professor emeritus, UCLA
Pacific Palisades, CA |
| Janice Ross | Dance | 2010 |
dance critic; professor, Stanford University
Atherton, CA |
| Joanna Haigood | Dance | 2002 |
site choreographer and director, ZAACHO Dance Theatre
Bolinas, CA |
| nora chipaumire | Dance | 2021 |
choreographer, dancer, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York |
| Priscilla Regalado | Dance | 2001 |
choreographer and dance educator, American Conservatory Theater and San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA |
| Olga Garay-English | Dance | 2022 |
international arts consultant
Los Angeles, CA |
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