Keanu Forrest Brady (he/they) is a San Francisco-based dance artist working at the intersection of contemporary improvisation, hip-hop, and post-modern movement forms. In 2020, Keanu received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Modern Dance at the University of Utah. He has been a company member of FACT/SF since 2018, and began serving on the Board of Directors as a Dancer Liaison in 2022. Over the years, he has worked closely as a performer and creative collaborator with various San Francisco-based companies and arts nonprofits, such as LEVYdance (2017-2021), AXIS dance company, ODC, Kinetech, and Sarah Shelton-Mann, alongside other local choreographers and drag performers. Within the United States, he has worked on stage and screen with Carl Flink, Eric Handman, Satu Hummasti and Scotty Hardwig, among others. His performance work has allowed him to tour within the United States and Internationally. If you are unable to find him dancing in the studios, stages and streets of San Francisco, you can find him on Instagram, @keanu.dance.

Alfonso Cervera (He/They/Él/Elle) is a current Assistant Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University, where he shares his research interests and movement practices. Being a Queer first generation Mexican American practitioner and choreographer, his research and specialization as an artist focuses on the conversation between queerness, Ballet Folklorico, and Afro-LatinX social dances in a contemporary auto-biographical embodied experience that he calls Poc-Chuc. Poc-Chuc, an emerging and inclusive dance technique developed by Cervera, weaves these techniques as a pedagogical tool to adhere to the current times and to create representation for marginalized communities. Cervera is both a founder and collaborator with Primera Generación Dance Collective located in Los Angeles, where they create works that represent Mexican American identities, corporeality, and social justice dances, that utilize a pastiche of hybrid social dances and aesthetics. Among other things, he has been awarded grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Artist Trust in Seattle, and Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles, and is now one of the four Executive Directors of Show Box L.A.

Emily Hansel is a San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, arts administrator, and artist advocate. Originally from Rochester, Minnesota, Emily received their BFA in Dance from the University of South Florida. Emily has danced with SFDanceworks, Post:ballet, Christy Funsch, Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Robert Moses’ KIN, Garrett-Moulton Productions, Jennifer Perfilio, and FACT/SF, among others. For their choreographic work, which is centered around dismantling systems of oppression in the dance field, Emily recently received an San Francisco Artist award from the San Francisco Arts Commission, was selected to participate in MANCC’s Forward Dialogues program, received an ODC Theater RDI Award, and was named an Individual Artist Fellow by the California Arts Council.Katherine Neumann (she/her) is a San Francisco based dance artist. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Katherine received her early dance training at Danspace in Oakland, under the guidance of Beth Hoge. She holds a BFA in contemporary dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Katherine has worked with Robert Moses’ Kin, the Mari Meade Dance Collective, ka·nei·see | collective, and Stephanie Unger & Artists. She is currently a company member of both FACT/SF and Liss Fain Dance.

LizAnne Roman Roberts fell in love with dance at age four after seeing Giselle on TV in her hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Honored to have been working in the profession of her dreams for over twenty years, LizAnne began her career with Tulsa Ballet while finishing high school and earning a BFA at the University of Oklahoma. She has worked with various artists throughout the Bay Area, including collaborating with FACT/SF since 2012. LizAnne has appeared internationally in Avignon and Claremont-Ferrand, France; Belgrade, Serbia; and Sofia, Bulgaria as well as across the United States. LizAnne is the mother of two, and lives in Oakland, CA. She is also a certified Pilates instructor.

River Bermudez Sanders (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary Bay Area theatre artist and arts administrator with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College. They have worked as a director, choreographer, actor, stage manager, and more with companies around the Bay Area including San Francisco Playhouse, SFBATCO, Cutting Ball, Ray of Light, Palo Alto Players, Children’s Fairy Land, the Oakland Theatre Project, SPARC, Townhall Theatre, NCTC, and Theatre Rhinoceros. They are the author of an award-winning thesis that explores the ways Latiné theatre artists advocate for equity in the theatre industry. They are deeply invested in creating art that openly challenges white supremacy culture in content and process. When not at FACT/SF or in rehearsal, they can be found tending to their tomato garden and their bonsais. Instagram: @_riverberate_; Website: www.riverberate.com

Charlie Slender-White (he/any) is a queer, San Francisco-based contemporary dance artist of mixed European and Roma descent. He is an instigator, organizer, dad, husband, and the Artistic Director of FACT/SF. Charlie is one of 60 Countertechnique Teachers worldwide, and he has taught, performed, and made choreography across North America, Europe, Russia, and in Hong Kong and Australia. Slender-White founded FACT/SF in 2008, and is the lead designer of FACT/SF's Fieldwork programs.

Erin Yen is a mixed-race professional dancer and choreographer currently residing in San Mateo, CA.  Erin is the founder of Dragons Dance 501c3.  Erin’s choreography, which utilizes her experiences with contemporary, release, improvisation, Gaga, physical theater and floorwork techniques, has been featured regularly throughout the Bay Area since Dragons Dance’s inception in 2020.  Erin is fluent in Laban Movement Analysis, and she holds a BFA in Dance from the Ohio State University.  Most recently, Erin has begun to teach contemporary dance and other movement workshops for adults in the Bay Area.