Rhonda Moore

Rhonda is a dancer, performance artist, educator, and a founding member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Moore has danced with Jamie Cunningham’s ACME Dance Company and began her dance career with intensive training in Dunham technique, performing with the Akosua Afro-Haitian Dance & Drum Troupe. Currently a teaching artist for the award-winning Pierre Dulaine’s Dancing Classrooms Program, Moore previously served as Choral Director for the Singing City-in-the-Schools Program. Moore’s extensive international and domestic portfolios include conducting professional sound and movement workshops; creating site-specific interdisciplinary installations that integrate sound, movement and visual art through shared experience collaborative elaboration; teacher-specific professional development laboratories geared to generate curriculum development with a focused, integral inclusion of visual art, design, movement; and music and vocal concerts as jazz soloist in small combos as well as with chamber and full orchestral formations. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, a diploma in classical piano performance from Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, and full, permanent certification in Italian as a second language, conferred by the Foreign University of at Sienna, Italy. Ms. Moore serves as adjunct professor, dance faculty at Boyer College of Music and Dance, teaching a variety of courses spanning from dance composition to the study of the development of jazz music and dance in the United States.

Ben Grinberg (he/they) is a Philadelphia-based performing artist, director, educator, and festival producer. For over ten years, they have created community-based platforms for artistic presentation and exchange both in Philadelphia and abroad. He is a company member, co-founder, and director of Almanac Projects (formerly Almanac Dance Circus Theatre), an award-winning and internationally touring physical performance ensemble, and from 2017-2021 was a founding core faculty member and head of Performance and Artistic Craft at Circadium, the nation’s first certificate granting program in contemporary circus performance, where he developed and curated the Test Flights series. He co-founded and led (2021-2025) Cannonball Festival, a hub for new performance in Philadelphia, and is on faculty at the (formerly UArts) Pig Iron MFA program in devised performance. Through Almanac, they initiated and co-produce the biannual Fit Fest in Penn Treaty Park. He is the 2025 recipient of the APAP/CIPA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Producing, is a 2024 Festival Academy graduate, and was a 2024 and 2022 invited choreographer at the Breaking Walls Festival in Cairo, Egypt, a 2022 Subcircle resident artist, and a 2021 APLI fellow. With Almanac, he won a 2020 Rocky Award, a 2017 Suraya Award, and a 2019 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Movement/Choreography. Recent directing and producing credits include I Think It Could Work, Dead Muse, Fix Me, $7 Girl, I Hear You and I’d Like to Respond, The Fleecing, and xoxo moongirl. Grinberg’s work has been presented by Queer Zagreb, Jacob's Pillow, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Morris Museum Presents, Touchstone Theatre, FringeArts, New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co, the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Assembly Festival, Zoo Edinburgh, Circus Now, and more. Regional performance includes Pig Iron Theatre Company (Franklin’s Key, Swamp is On, 99 Breakups, Pay Up!), Theatre Horizon (Peter and the Starcatcher, Hero School), Lantern Theatre Company (The Tempest), and more. As a video collaborator he has worked closely with artists such as Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Eiko Otake, and Zina Saro-Wiwa.

Shannon Murphy (she/her) is a dance artist/educator who creates invitations to notice our complexity, differentiation, and resilience in the classroom, studio and stage. She received her MFA in Dance from the University of the Arts and a BA in dance from Point Park University. She is senior faculty specializing in Franklin Method for dance at Franklin Method Institute, Switzerland, training educators internationally since 2019. Shannon created the first Franklin Method modular training for dancers and has focused on bringing this to professionals and dancers in training. As an educator, she is committed to radical sustainability and develops curricula to reduce injury and support the resiliency of performers. Shannon is an Assistant Professor at Temple University. As an adjunct professor, she has taught at Drexel University, was assistant director of the Drexel Dance Ensemble, Stockton University, and UArts, where she was the Curricular Head of Body Pathways for 10 years. This year she was commissioned for a new site specific work at Subcircle Residency and has been presented at many institutions including Cannonball Festival, Penn Museum, The Painted Bride Art Center. Her choreographies span contemporary performance, dance theater and musical theater. Shannon has performed for choreographers such as Charles Anderson, Nichole Canuso, Group Motion, Jaamil Kosoko, and Annie Wilson, and was co-director of idiosynCrazy productions alongside founder Makini (Jumatatu Poe). She has been awarded a Rocky Award through Dance USA Philadelphia for her choreography. Her work has been supported by numerous residencies, including New Edge at the Community Education Center, Live Arts LAB, Mascher Space Co-Op, the Whole Shebang, Archedream for Humankind, University of the Arts, The Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University, and most recently, Subcircle Residency.

Marguerite is a Jamaican-American artist who specializes in emergent, improvisational and social movement styles and technologies. They research the subversive role of dance and music throughout the African Diaspora and channel this research through performance, body, text, social/public media, and moving image.

Hemmings’ work is also embedded in alternative pedagogy and social practice having worked with various universities, afterschool programs, and community centers. They have received grants and fellowships from many organizations such as Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to further their research.