Dr. Ananya Chatterjea is a dancer, choreographer, dance scholar and dance educator, who is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater Arts and Dance, and the Director of Dance at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Chatterjea is also the Artistic Director of Ananya Dance The

Feminist, Intense, Lush, Pioneering, Political, Power, Rhythmic, Social revolution

Thome is a sarcastic fellow that likes to consistently radiate with a healthy mix of wit and philosophical seriousness. He has submerged himself primarily in art history-based research and writing, curatorial studies and practices, gender theory, micro-blogging, and short story writing.

Death, Deconstructive, Domestic, Feminist, Psychological, Queer, Self-reflection, Surreal

Chandralekha is credited as being the first to make a place for contemporary dance in India. She used her own style of classical Bharata Natyam to convey social messages and and political critiques. Her work has a quality that allows it to reach diverse audiences and has toured internationally, per

Clever, Feminine, Feminist, Political, Power, Rebel

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions

Baroque, Erotic, Feminist, Intimate, Open-ended, Playful, Polychromatic, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Sublime, Witty