Dan Wagoner is a renowned American modern dance choreographer. He danced with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Paul Taylor. For twenty-five years Mr.Wagoner directed his own New York based company, "Dan Wagoner and Dancers." He choreographed more than fifty-five dances for this company and performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia as well as for the annual season in New York City. Much of his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. From 1989 to 1990, Mr. Wagoner was the Artistic Director of the London Contemporary Dance Theater. He has taught at Harvard and Bates College summer dance programs and at numerous universities and festivals, both in this country and abroad. His work has been performed by companies in the United States, England and Finland. He currently teaches at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Jeffery N. Bullock
Associate Professor, Hollins University
Director, American Dance Festival (ADF) Four Week School for Young Dancers

Jeffery Bullock began his performing career with the North Carolina Dance Theater following graduation from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He continued his performing career with Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) Seattle, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Sharir + Bustamante DanceWorks, touring nationally and internationally. Bullock's repertoire included soloist and principal roles in an eclectic array of works by George Balanchine, Agnes De Mille, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Daniel Esralow, Nacho Duato, Lucinda Childs, Salvatore Aiello, Yacov Sharir, Glen Tetley and others. He was also a featured performer in the 1986 Paramount Motion Picture The Nutcracker with PNB, and was a featured performer in the 1983 PBS Special Where Dreams Debut: The North Carolina School of the Arts. Bullock's work At Midnight earned him a Dance Magazine's Best Choreography Nomination at the 1996 American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jeffery has been a faculty member at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC since 1998, teaching in the ADF Six Week School and Young Dancers School; and in ADF/Russia (2000), ADF/Korea (2000 & 2004) and ADF/Mongolia (2004 & 2005). In 2006, he was named Director of the ADF Four Week School. Most recent teaching engagement was at the international 2006 Korean Dance Festival, Seoul, Korea. Also, Jeffery serves as a site visit consultant for Dance Advance of the Pew Charitable Trust located in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his MFA in choreography from the University of Iowa; taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Iowa and joined the Hollins University Dance Department in 2004.

Wendy Woodson is a director, writer, and video artist. She is founder and artistic director of Present Co. Inc., a non-profit organization committed to developing original performance works that combine different media. She is also a Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College (and the Five College Dance Department). Since 1980 she has created eighty works for stage and video. Dance and theater works have been performed throughout the US and in Europe in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Emerson Majestic Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Wolf Trap, PS 122 and at numerous colleges and universities. Video works have been exhibited at festivals throughout the US and in Germany and at the DeCordova Museum. She has received numerous awards for her work including fellowships and grants in choreography, playwriting and video from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium, among others. Most recently she has been selected as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and will be in an artist-in-residence at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, 2007.