Khala Brannigan
Khala Brannigan is a Los Angeles–based choreographer, filmmaker, educator, and somatic trauma practitioner. Her practice centers embodiment, emotional resilience, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has created 15 dance-based works for the stage, film, and multimedia productions.
Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Brannigan studied on scholarship at Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet Training Program in San Francisco from 2011–2013. She was a resident choreographer with SAFEhouse Arts from 2013–2019 and received awards from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Dancers’ Group CA$H Grant. Her work has been presented at ODC Theater, Joe Goode Annex, Z Space, and festivals including SF Dance Film Festival. From 2017–2019, she was also a company member with Robert Moses’ Kin.
After relocating to New York City in 2019, Brannigan participated in a choreographic fellowship with Sidra Bell Dance New York and presented work at Peridance, Arts On Site, Three’s Brewing, The Woods, and Dual Rivet’s Made By Women Festival. She choreographed for the short films Amor Fati (dir. Katherine Huggard) and An Unwanted Guest (dir. Nicole Rinaldi), and was commissioned in 2024 to create a new work for Robert Moses’ Kin. She presented work at Hartford’s Dance Festival and released her short film Blood & Innocence in 2025.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 2024, Brannigan has been a guest artist in the CalArts Residency at The Reef, premiered MEND to a sold-out audience at Arts On Site in New York City, and choreographed and performed in multiple music videos. She also received an award from The Rauschenberg Foundation in June 2025. She holds a Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate from Embody Lab and works as a yoga instructor and somatic therapy practitioner. Brannigan is currently developing ‘Maura,’ an evening-length dance work and short film to be presented in 2026.
gizeh muñiz
gizeh is a movement, teaching, and performing artist currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a breathing body through movement and stillness. Through their work, they create spaces that allow them to play and divest from concepts of linearity in a creative process, with the intention of practicing freedom. gizeh’s choreographic and teaching work has been shared in the United States, Mexico, and Europe in festivals such as P.O.R.C.H in Germany, Improspeckje in Croatia, GUSH in San Francisco, and 4×4 in Tijuana. gizeh has been an artist in residence at Atland Residency, CounterPulse, PUSH, BANDALOOP, and Bridge Live Arts, and is the 2023-25 Radiate fellow of RAWdance. gizeh is the curator and producer of Gatherings – a free movement workshop series in the Bay Area.
Kevin Lo
Kevin CK Lo is a composer, choreographer, writer, and artist based in Oakland on Chechenyo Ohlone land. Working across live performance, installation, and sound-based practices, his work combines instruments, digital sound processing, and generative programming to explore space, perception, movement, and audience experience. He is also one half of the experimental interdisciplinary duo DROUGHT SPA with alex cruse, whose work has been presented at venues and institutions across the United States and internationally, including the Oakland Museum of California, Gray Area, CounterPulse, and the International Symposium of Electronic Art.
Babatunji Johnson
Babatunji Johnson is a dance artist, choreographer, and creative innovator based out of Oakland, CA. Though never formally trained as a child, Babatunji was always moving his body to the beat. At the age of 15, he discovered the art of hip hop. Following this epiphany of love, he grew up through his teens breaking and popping on street corners in Hilo, Hawai’i. After being “discovered” by a local dance instructor, he began his formal training at Center Stage Dance Alliance in various styles of dance, including ballet. This training would lead him to Lines Ballet’s Training Program, and from there, into LINES Ballet company.
For over a decade, he has worked with one of the greatest American choreographers, Alonzo King. Throughout their time together, Babatunji originated many roles, including the acclaimed “Lift Every Voice” solo in which he’s been blessed to share the stage with Grammy Award-winning vocalist, Lisa Fischer. As a freelance dancer, Babatunji has worked with Post:ballet, SFDanceworks, tinypistol, and Ballare Carmel, and has performed works by choreographers such as Adji Cissoko, Yue Yin, Danielle Rowe, Brett Conway, Rich and Tone Talauega, David Harvey, and Mike Tyus. Additionally, his work for film includes features in Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting on Starz. Most recently he co-starred alongside Misty Copeland in her short art film Flower, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. The San Francisco Chronicle profiled Babatunji’s journey from street performance to the big screen.
Over the past 10 years, Babatunji has developed a unique movement language, blending his background in ballet, contemporary, breaking, and hip hop. He has choreographed for Berkeley Ballet Theater, Boston Dance Theater, Post:ballet, Trolley Dance, SFDanceworks, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, among other Bay Area companies. As a solo artist, Babatunji has performed internationally, collaborating with visual, sound, and technical artists of numerous genres. His work has been seen at Museum of Dance, Lion’s Jaw performance + dance festival, København Danser, and SFJazz in collaboration with Terri Lyne Carrington. In 2015, he was awarded a Princess Grace Award, as well as a Chris Hellman Award for outstanding achievement and promise in the world of dance. In 2022, Babatunji was featured in Dance Magazine’s “Dancer Spotlight – Making New Movement”. Babatunji is immensely grateful to his mom for providing him with every opportunity and the guidance of her wisdom along the way.
Hadassah Perry
Hadassah is a queer woman, artist, and musician currently based in San Francisco. She grew up in Riga, Latvia where she began her studies in dance and piano. In 2016, she moved to Israel Palestine to study with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. In 2018, Hadassah joined New Dialect, directed by Banning Bouldin, where she worked closely with and performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Roy Assaf, Ariel Freedman, Rosie Herrera, Ana Maria Lucaciu, and Alex Ketley. In 2021, Hadassah moved to San Francisco and joined UNA Productions, directed by Chuck Wilt. Hadassah is the co-director of the contemporary program at the Westlake School of the Performing Arts, where she teaches, mentors, and choreographs. She is passionate about making queer art with her partner, Kira Fargas, and has performed throughout the Bay Area.
Charmaine Butcher
Charmaine (they/them) is a dance artist based out of San Francisco. Charmaine has worked professionally for choreographers, including Amy J Lambert, Chuck Wilt, Beth Terwilleger, Cameo Lethem, Dwight Rhoden, Robert Moses and performed with Ballet22, Ballare Carmel, Coriolis Dance, the Seattle Opera, SFJazz, and Verlaine & McCann’s Burlesque Nutcracker. They currently work with Post:ballet, Sharp & Fine, and BODYSONNET. Charmaine frequently collaborates with their partner Babatunji, showing work independently at San Francisco Trolley Dance, RAWdance’s CONCEPT Series, Dance Lovers (SF), and with Inner Child Foundation. In 2019, Charmaine completed their Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing & Entrepreneurship. In addition to dancing and teaching movement, Charmaine is a visual artist working in the mediums of floral, paint, and clay.
Johnny Huy Nguyễn
Johnny Huy Nguyễn is a Vietnamese multidisciplinary dance artist and son of refugees based in unceded Ramaytush – Ohlone territory. He weaves together movement, theater, multimedia, spoken word, ritual, and installation to create body-based works characterized by sweeping physicality and dramaturgical depth. His works deal with themes of masculinity, spirituality, lineage, loss, and inheritance while interrogating the social, political, and cultural forces that shape us. Nguyễn is a 2025 Walter & Elise Haas Creative Power Award Finalist, 2025 Caldera Artist-in-Residence, 2023 United States of Asian America Festival Featured Artist, 2022 Isadora Duncan Dance Award recipient, and 2021 APAture Festival Featured Artist.