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2024 Conference 10/17 – 10/19 in Los Angeles, CA

2024 Conference Registration

RegistrationDates AvailablePrice  
Early Registration5/1/2024 – 5/31/2024$200 (Plus processing fee)
Regular Registration6/1/2024 – 9/30/2024$250 (Plus processing fee)
Late Registration10/1/2024 – 10/17/2024$300 (Plus processing fee)
Student Registration
(Student ID required at Check-in)		5/1/2024 – 10/17/2024$100 (Plus processing fee)
2024 Conference Registration Information

Conference Activities and Sessions

Thursday, 10/17/2024

  • Conference Welcome Ceremony
  • Keynote Panel Discussions
  • Soloists Concert

Friday, 10/18/2024

  • Opening Speech by Women in Dance Honorary Guest Speaker
  • Movement Workshops by featured presenters and selected presenters
  • Dance on Film Screening and Discussion by selected presenters
  • Panel Discussions by featured presenters and selected presenters
  • Scholarly Paper presentation by selected presenters
  • Evening reception

Saturday, 10/19/2024

  • WID Talk by Women in Dance featured presenters
  • Movement Workshops by featured presenters and selected presenters
  • Dance on Film Screening and Discussion by selected presenters
  • Panel Discussions by featured presenters and selected presenters
  • Scholarly Paper presentation by selected presenters
  • Selected Choreographers’ concert and Talk back

Conference Hotel – The Biltmore Los Angeles

This iconic hotel has been a beacon of elegance and sophistication for the past 100 years. Since 1923, The Biltmore Los Angeles has played host to countless dignitaries and celebrities, from President John F. Kennedy to The Beatles, making it a living legend in the world of hospitality. It was also the location for numerous films, music videos, award ceremonies and more – one can only imagine the people and events these gilt walls and painted ceilings have lived through. As a testament to this, the hotel was designated a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument in 1969.  

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Conference Keynote Speakers

Dr. Imani Kai Johnson is an interdisciplinary scholar, specializing in the African diaspora, global popular culture, and Hip Hop. She was born and raised in Northern California, but comes to UC Riverside from her adopted home in Brooklyn New York. She has attended UC Berkeley (BA), New York University (MA), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.) where she received her doctorate in American Studies & Ethnicity.

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Dr. Johnson’s book on the ritual circle in international Hip Hop dance communities is titled Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: the Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop (Oxford University Press, 2023). This work examines the political, cultural, and spiritual nature of Hip Hop dance through a close examination of the ritual practice of cyphering—collaborative and competitive dance circles. Using the metaphor of “dark matter” (a physics concept about non-luminous matter comprising the majority of the universe), the book addresses histories of exclusion, marginalization, and invisibilization that fundamentally shape the aesthetic sensibilities of breaking culture, and the ways that such aesthetics inform the current circulation of Hip Hop dance transnationally. She has published articles in Dance Research Journal, Alif, Women & Performance, and the Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop. She is also co-editor, alongside Mary Fogarty, of the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, the first collection of peer-reviewed research on Hip Hop streetdances, including work by practitioners, practitioner-scholars, and scholars of dance, music, sociology, and the hard sciences.

As the founder, chair, and sole Artistic Director of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference Series, Dr. Johnson’s work on Hip Hop extends to cultivating sites for Hip Hop scholars to speak to one another and to a knowing Hip Hop community to foster the growth of Hip Hop Studies as a field that is responsible to communities beyond the academy.

Dr. Johnson is a former Ford Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009), and has held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at East Tennessee State University, Postdoctoral Fellow in Performance Studies and dramaturg in the Theater Department at NYU. Additionally, she has participated in several noteworthy institutes including the 2014 NEH Summer Institute on Black Aesthetics & African Centered Cultural Expressions, the Mellon Dance Studies Summer Institute, Decolonizing Knowledge & Power Summer School, the Summer School on Black Europe, Experimental Critical Theory, and the Advanced Oral History Summer Institute at UC Berkeley.  She was also a 2016-2017 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow.

Dr. grace shinhae jun is a mother, wife, artist, scholar, organizer, and mover who creates and educates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation. A child of a South Korean immigrant, a North Korean refugee, and Hip Hop culture, she values a movement practice that is infused with historical and contextual education to enrich the corporeal experience in her classes.

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Her work as an educator and artist is influenced by choreographers Rennie Harris, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and Doug Elkins, and critical scholars Dr. Nadine George-Graves, Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dr. Imani Kai Johnson, Dr. George Lipsitz, and her husband Dr. Jesse Mills. 

grace also directs bkSOUL, an award-winning performance company that merges together movement, poetry, and live music. As a collective, they create and conspire as educators, artists, storytellers, and organizers who directly challenge the systems of violence and oppression steeped in anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity. She has presented her work in Trolley Dances, WOW Festival, Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Dumbo Arts Festival, San Diego International Fringe Festival, and at Link’s Hall. grace has also choreographed for numerous staged plays, most notably for Will Power’s “The Seven” at Occidental College. She is a founding core member of Asian Solidarity Collective, a grassroots organization committed to expanding Asian American social justice consciousness, condemning anti-Blackness, and building solidarity for collective liberation and co-conspires with the artists and healers of Street Dance Activism.


grace received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her PhD in Drama and Theatre through the joint doctoral program at UCSD/UCI. Her scholarship includes publications in the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Journal, and she is the co-editor for Dance Studies Association’s 2022 ​​Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies “Cyber-Rock: A Virtual Hip Hop Listening Cypher.” She teaches at San Diego City College where she also serves on the Sankofa Social Justice & Education Conference committee and is an educator with transcenDANCE Youth Arts. grace has been teaching at UCSD for over twenty years and is the recipient of the 2022/2023 Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award.

Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie is a NYC-based director, choreographer, performer and b-girl and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. Asherie has received numerous awards to support her work including Dance Magazine’s Inaugural Harkness Promise Award and two National Dance Project Awards.

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In 2019 she was the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. As Artistic Director of Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD), Asherie’s work has been presented on stages nationally and internationally with commissions from companies including Malpaso and Parsons Contemporary Dance and additional commissions from Vail Dance Festival, Fall for Dance, River to River, Firatatrrega, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and the Kennedy Center.  Additional directorial work includes UNDERSCORED: On Screen at Lincoln Center, FLOORISH,  Solo Chini: Un Dia en Nueva York and In the MOment: A Drawing Dance. Her most recent work for the stage UNDERSCORED —  awarded a 2019 Creation and Development Award from the National Performance Network and a 2022 National Dance Project–premiered in November 2022 at Works & Process at the Guggenheim and is currently touring the country.  Asherie is honored to have been mentored by Richard Santiago (aka Break Easy) and to have worked and collaborated with Michelle Dorrance, Doug Elkins, Rennie Harris, Bill Irwin, Gus Solomons jr, and Buddha Stretch, among others. Asherie earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University in Italian and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee where she researched the vernacular jazz dance roots of contemporary street and club dances. She is a co-founding member of the all-female house dance collective MAWU and is forever grateful to NYC’s underground dance community for inspiring her to pursue a life as an artist.

Conference Honorary Guest Speaker

Joanna Harp, President of Dance Media, leads digital transformation while spearheading revenue, business and content operations for five titles including the global publication of record, Dance Magazine.

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A proven, accomplished commercial chief with over two decades of media experience, Joanna is a passionate builder who excels in zero-to-one. In her current role she has pioneered innovations for the dance world, creating the only daily email, two paid membership models, several new event concepts, a virtual library of classes and conversations, and has grown its digital footprint from 4M to 10M. Having been a dancer herself, she brings those same distinctive qualities to her career: discipline, deliberateness, confidence, patience and the pursuit of excellence. Joanna has led award-winning teams in a variety of professional b2b environments, while developing and maintaining deep and trusted relationships. Finding new ways to meet her audiences where they are, Joanna’s proof as a dynamic media entrepreneur is illustrated across all the industries to which she has been dedicated. As launch Publisher of PilatesStyle, Joanna identified the market opportunity through the fastest growing fitness activity of its time, embedded herself in the industry and created a voice for content and commerce where one hadn’t existed prior, and which still thrives today. As Publisher of Direct Marketing News, Joanna led the successful transition of a weekly print to a daily digital product, with a wide offering of virtual and in-person events. Leading sales for Best Lawyers, she developed their Women in the Law content and event platform; and, leading sales for Econsultancy developed their first in-person event and content focused event platform. Making strategic connections to form greater, more valuable partnerships and develop new, lucrative opportunities within, across and beyond the industries she has worked is always at the forefront of her intentions. Joanna is a long time resident of the East Village, and a proud NYU Alum.

Conference Featured Presenters

Ana María Álvarez, a 2020 Doris Duke Artist and an inaugural Dance/USA Artist Fellow, is a choreographer, dancer, teaching artist, and movement activist. Her thesis work explored the abstraction of Latine dance, specifically Salsa, to express social resistance as related to the U.S. immigration battle.

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This work became the impetus for founding CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater in 2005 in Los Angeles. Alvarez and CONTRA-TIEMPO have continued to tour “joyUS justUS” (2017). Her work has been presented in theaters across the country and the world, including in Germany, Bulgaria, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and El Salvador.  She was selected as the 2018 BiNational Artist in Residence, connecting communities in the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix (U.S.), Douglas (U.S.), Tucson (U.S.), and Agua Prieta (M.X.), through leading artistic workshops, collaborative performances, and public talks, and concluding with a performance at the U.S.-Mexico border. Alvarez and CONTRA-TIEMPO were also invited to represent the best of American Contemporary Dance Abroad through The Obama Administration’s U.S. Department of State cultural exchange program, produced by BAM, DanceMotionUSA. In the Fall of 2022, Alvarez was invited to join the UC San Diego Theatre and Dance Department as a tenured faculty member. In this exciting new chapter of her career, Alvarez, in collaboration with her colleagues and students, is imagining and designing a new future for embodied performance and practice at UCSD.

Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie is a NYC-based director, choreographer, performer and b-girl and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. Asherie has received numerous awards to support her work including Dance Magazine’s Inaugural Harkness Promise Award and two National Dance Project Awards.

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In 2019 she was the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. As Artistic Director of Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD), Asherie’s work has been presented on stages nationally and internationally with commissions from companies including Malpaso and Parsons Contemporary Dance and additional commissions from Vail Dance Festival, Fall for Dance, River to River, Firatatrrega, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and the Kennedy Center.  Additional directorial work includes UNDERSCORED: On Screen at Lincoln Center, FLOORISH,  Solo Chini: Un Dia en Nueva York and In the MOment: A Drawing Dance. Her most recent work for the stage UNDERSCORED —  awarded a 2019 Creation and Development Award from the National Performance Network and a 2022 National Dance Project–premiered in November 2022 at Works & Process at the Guggenheim and is currently touring the country.  Asherie is honored to have been mentored by Richard Santiago (aka Break Easy) and to have worked and collaborated with Michelle Dorrance, Doug Elkins, Rennie Harris, Bill Irwin, Gus Solomons jr, and Buddha Stretch, among others. Asherie earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University in Italian and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee where she researched the vernacular jazz dance roots of contemporary street and club dances. She is a co-founding member of the all-female house dance collective MAWU and is forever grateful to NYC’s underground dance community for inspiring her to pursue a life as an artist.

Jannet Galdamez is a dance artist born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, CA. Her love for dance and music began at a very young age through social, street, family settings. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and minor in Education from the University of California Irvine June of 2012 training intensively in jazz, improvisation, modern and ballet.

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Jannet has been studying salsa for the last 17 years, Afro-Cuban dance, music, and culture for the last 10 years and she continues to dive deep in her studies of various dance forms inside the Latin and African Diaspora.  Jannet is currently rehearsal director, teaching and dance artist with CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater while simultaneously dancing with Kimbambula Cuban Dance Ensemble directed by Cuban Master Kati Hernadez and touring with Spanish Guitarist, Roni Benise’s Emmy Award Winning World Music and Dance Spectacular.

Marisa Hamamoto is the first professional dancer named People Magazine “Women Changing the World.” A leading authority on disability inclusion and building a culture of belonging, Marisa was recently named LinkedIn Top Voice, and has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Today, Forbes, Fast Company, amongst other media outlets.

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As a sought-after international speaker and performing artist, Marisa has shared the stage with Tim Cook at Apple HQ’s Steve Jobs Theater, and her clients and partners include Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Red Bull, Deloitte, adidas, PayPal, among other forward-thinking brands. Marisa is a stroke survivor, a late-diagnosed Autistic, and a proud fourth-generation Japanese American. She is the founder of Infinite Flow, an award-winning dance company and nonprofit that uses dance as a catalyst to advocate for disability inclusion.

Holly Johnston is an artist, activist, somatic phenomenologist and human ecologist, serving as the Envisioning Director of RESPONSIVE BODY, a social movement and body liberation practice. As the founding Artistic Director of LEDGES AND BONES, holly has received critical acclaim and awards for her choreography.

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As an educator in higher education she fosters critical thinking and teaches through a pedagogy of liberation. She works with CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater as a human(e) systems ecologist centering operational systems around bodied health, wellness, and vitality. Through ancestral practices of collective and communal learning, her work celebrates resistance and rebellion.

Mims is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work spans across the disciplines of dance, advocacy, facilitation, curation, and direction. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and uses that information as a guide.

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In her ever evolving exploration of what it means to be in “right relationship” with ourselves, each other, the land, and other species; her body is her first place of inquiry and practice. She is fascinated by questioning as a space of collective grappling and nuance, the work of interpersonal relationships as the foundation for healthy communities, the richness and sacredness of cultures around the world, and all the lessons and beauty of the non- human world.

Vidya Patel is a UK based dance artist, choreographer, performer and educator. Her work merges influence of Kathak, one of the major classical Indian dance forms with contemporary dance, whilst working collaboratively with music, poetry and visual arts to draw on social/ political and autobiographical themes relating to identity, belonging, nature and empowerment.

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Vidya has performed nationally and internationally with several companies, artists and organisations, including Sir Richard Alston, Gary Clarke, Thick & Tight, Hetain Patel, Sujata Banerjee. She also performed in the late Pandit Ravi Shankar’s opera “Sukanya” and has collaborated with artists including Shammi Pithia, Connor Scott, Zia Ahmed, Sarathy Korwar, Shankho Chaudhari, Ryan Stafford, and many others. Her performances have received recognition, leading to three National Dance Critics Circle Awards nominations. Last year she received The Michele Fox Choreographic Award and the Vic Wells Award which will contribute towards developing future works.
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Karina Zaidé Sainz is making her way back to California after four years at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College as Associate Producer.

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There she focused on curating student produced events, while maintaining relationships with visiting artists and campus partners. Karina is a 2006 graduate from University of California, Santa Cruz where her event career began as an undergraduate. Her 15+ year experience in Event Production includes various outdoor festivals and events throughout California, most notably Golden Gate Park’s Outside Lands, Power to the Peaceful, and Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival. After the recession her career evolved to Tour Management, touring with Los Angeles legends, Ozomatli and Nickelodeon’s Yo Gabba Gabba Live! Karina is very excited to bring her expertise and network to the CONTRA-TIEMPO family.

Elizabeth “Liza” Yntema is the President & Founder of the Dance Data Project®. DDP is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting gender equity in all aspects of classical dance through data analysis, advocacy, and programming. Founded in 2015 as a simple database, DDP today stands as a central resource worldwide for women in dance.

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The existence of gender-based inequity in classical dance is indisputable thanks to DDP’s data, which has been recognized in numerous wide-reaching publications. DDP has released seventeen studies, several guides and checklists (addressing student and dancer safety, financial literacy and budgeting, and choreographer resources), a global listing of female leaders, choreographers, and designers in the industry, and a virtual interview series, Global Conversations.

Liza has underwritten and sponsored ballets and programs with Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Company, BalletX, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Boston Ballet. She is a Lead Individual Sponsor of Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER and American Ballet Theatre’s Women’s Movement. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for WTTW/WFMT and the Board of Directors of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Liza graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan Law School and spent a year training with The Philanthropy Workshop, a global network of over 450 selected philanthropists, from 26 countries.

2024 Conference Selected Presenters

  • Choreography
    • Na An (Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China)
    • Katrina Binks (Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)
    • Melissa Bobick (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
    • Brandi Coleman (Dallas, TX, USA)
    • Ruth Mair TB Howard-jones (London, UK)
    • Lyrric Jackson (Atlanta, GA, USA)
    • Seung-Yeon Mah (Seoul, South Korea)
    • Rukhmani Mehta (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
    • Alyssa Mitchel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
    • Preeti Vasudevan (New York, NY, USA)
    • Sarah Zehnder (Springfield, MA, USA)
  • Dance on Film
    • Gianti Giadi (Jakarta, Indonesia)
    • Lindsey Hanson (Holland, MI, USA)
    • Dr. Maria Salgado Llopis and Aleth Berenice (London, UK)
    • Marta Renzi (Nyack, NY USA) *will not be presenting in 2024 conference
    • Ankita Sharma (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
    • Tomo Sone (Kyoto, Japan)
  • Additional presenters from 2023 International Film Festival:
    • Natalja Aicardi (Chicago, IL, USA)
    • Ana Baer and Heike Salzer (San Marcos, TX, USA)
    • Merli Guerra (College Station, TX, USA)
    • Kavitha Krishnan (Singapore)
    • Lisa Naugle (Irvine, CA, USA)
    • Kellie St. Pierre and Irishia Hubbard (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
    • Ming Hwa Yeh and Kai Ting Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Scholars:
    • Dr. Chia-Li Chien (Charlotte, NC, USA)
    • Dr. Emilia Cholewicka (Warsaw, Poland)
    • Yessica Herrera Guzman (Chicago, IL, USA)
    • Christa St. John and Jamie A. Johnson (Draper, UT, USA)

2024 Conference Sponsors

The Creary De La O Family Foundation (CDF) is committed to promoting and preserving the arts and advancing scientific endeavors of critical interest to Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino communities. We believe that the arts are an essential part of our culture and have the power to inspire, educate, and bring people together around issues of social justice, racial equity, and cultural heritage.

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We also believe that science has the power to improve lives and to create a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future for people from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Our mission is to support and nurture individuals and organizations that seek to promote greater understanding, empathy, and appreciation of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino cultures and accelerate the pace of scientific discoveries that aim to improve the health and well-being of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino people. 

Brockus Project Dance was created at a time when there was not much concert dance in Los Angeles. Over the years since 1994, BPD has worked to enact change, bring more inclusion to the table and be a space for the LA arts community. BPD assists in the development and access for artists, from our culturally and racially diverse community, by being a space of encouragement for artistic development.

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Over the years, our organization has: produced over 200 showcases for local emerging and advanced choreographers, included 500 choreographers, thousands of dancers and audience members, provided video and photos to each company for their publicity use, hosted over 20 international master classes, 10 workshops, hundreds of open adult classes for artistic professional development, attended numerous town hall lectures, worked with over 15,000 of LA’s at risk youth both in school and after school through classes and performances, connected dance to community with our annual Dance/BACK charity events, raised the visibility and viability of LA Dance by creating emerging showcases, produced 10 years of Los Angeles Dance Festival a professional show for LA companies, created a hub and home for concert dance in our rehearsal studio BPS, empowered artists through mentorship of arts administration for the next generation to ensure growth in the future and created international exchanges with France, India, Korea and Finland. While also serving the arts community as a whole, we have developed our dance company BrockusRED.

DIAVOLO | Architecture In Motion® is a creative movement production company that explores innovation by creating unique live, cinematic, digital, and media experiences.

Our mission is to create socially relevant work that celebrates the diversity and complexities of humankind. Using custom-made architectural structures, DIAVOLO combines storytelling and movement with the goal of restoring one’s mental, physical and emotional strengths.

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DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion®, the renowned Los Angeles-based dance company, was founded in 1992 by Artistic Director Jacques Heim, an inquisitive guy who combined his academic background in theater, film, and dance with a passion for architecture.  Thanks to Heim and his talented crew of dancers, designers and engineers, the Company, for more than 25 years, has been applauded internationally for its ability to display surprising movement against a backdrop of elaborately designed space, all while entertaining audiences with what is, in fact, a new art form.

His skill in creating work that entertains is central to Heim’s artistic vision, one that combines elements of contemporary dance with martial arts, acrobatics, gymnastics, and hip-hop.  Throughout the years, the Company has captivated audiences in 250 cities and 14 countries and has performed to sold out audiences throughout the U.S.  International touring has included stops in Germany, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Holland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Chile.  DIAVOLO has also appeared at select corporate events and for special advertising and promotional engagements.

In 2017, DIAVOLO enjoyed an especially extraordinary season, highlighted by Heim’s creation of five new pieces for Season 12 of NBC’s hit series “America’s Got Talent.”  One of the Top 10 contestants to reach the show’s finale at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater, the Company was seen by over 90 million television viewers.

Through The DIAVOLO Institute, the Company also provides educational and outreach programs for people of all ages and abilities as it seeks to share the power of dance as a means of social impact. Two such programs are T.R.U.S.T., an initiative tailored for schools that explores the necessity of teamwork; and The Veteran’s Project, a four-month workshop using movement as medicine, that DIAVOLO has replicated in cities across the U.S.

Anticipating an exciting future of continuing to impact audiences throughout the globe, DIAVOLO looks forward to touring new work; expanding its Board; undertaking more corporate and customized commercial assignments; and reaching out to even more adventurous souls who want to join DIAVOLO on this marvelous journey.

2024 Conference Collaborators

CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company that creates communities where all people are awakened to a sense of themselves as artists and social change agents who move through the world with compassion, confidence, and joy.


Diversified Professional Coaching, LLC (DPC) is a collective of over 45 business coaches with diverse business and leadership expertise that runs deep and wide. DPC is located in the US, Canada, and Asia, offering a concierge coaching experience to clients.

MashUp Contemporary Dance Company is dedicated to the movement of female bodies and feminist ideas. Prioritizing innovation, collaboration, and inclusion, MashUp uplifts female-identifying artists and builds community through contemporary dance.