Hallie Dalsimer is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 2006 to 2009, she lived in New York and worked on various projects with Keith Thompson/ danceTactics Performance Group,Elizabeth Dishman/ Coriolis Dance Inc., Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, VIA Dance Collaborative, and Nicole Wolcott among others. She also appeared asa guest in "Underground" "with David Dorfman Dance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors and in Keigwin + Co's first production of "Bolero NYC." Hallie spent 16 months in Tel Aviv studying Gaga technique with Batsheva Dance Company and in open classes. There, she performed in "Splash," by Joel Bray and "Decomposition," by Moran Sanderovich, and collaborated with multi-media artist Yaara Nirel on a short dance film. She has taught Gaga technique in Santa Fe and New York City. As Visiting Artist for the UMBC Dance Department in Fall, 2011, her courses include: Advanced Modern Technique, Improvisation, Dance Workshop and Repertory.

Tzveta Kassabova was born in Bulgaria. At different times she has been a gymnast, physicist, and meteorologist. She has an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland College Park. As a dancer her main work was with Ed Tyler. She has been part of David Dorfman Dance and Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig and has also performed in works of Mark Haim, Nancy Bannon, Maurice Fraga, Zoltan Nagy, Joshua Bisset, and Netta Yerushalmy, among others. Her work as a choreographer has been presented at Mulberry Street Theater, ADF, Dance Place, and CSPAC. She recently received a Metro DC Dance Award as Emerging Choreographer for her duet 'to blue'. Some of the works that Tzveta created in the course of the MFA program at University of Maryland include: 'Bigodini' (2005), 'Alissa' (2006), 'DC' (2006), 'Grid' (2006), 'Sumiko' (2007), 'The stairs in my house' (2007), 'Unfolding' (2007), 'to blue' (2007), and 'Still new' (2008). She has collaborated on two site specific projects 'Bathroom#1900' (2006) and 'Locus' (2008). She has enjoyed working in collaboration with composers Rama Gottfried, Aleksei Stevens, and Martin Gendelman, and choreographers Brooke Belott, Lillian Cho, Katie Iacono, Ginger Wagg and Laura Quatrocci. Tzveta has created costumes for 'Grid', 'Unfolding', 'Seanara Dear' and 'Locus'. As UMBC's visiting artist in Fall 2010, she taught Advanced Modern Technique, Improvisation, Dance Workshop and Repertory.