MX Oops is a multimedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Their vision is of a world where we can each be held in the fullness of our complexity. The party is the point of departure, a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. Their hair-whipping street styles of dance are interwoven with threads of media studies and gender studies. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Dance, Multimedia Performance, and Somatic Studies, in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance at Lehman College, CUNY. Their multisensory work questions whether consciousness itself is the primary medium. [www.mxoops.com]

Ariel Osterweis (she/they) is a scholar-practitioner of dance and performance. Osterweis has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and is on faculty at CalArts, teaching courses in Performance Studies and Critical Dance Studies. Their book, Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity, is published with Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series, 2024), and current book projects include Prophylactic Aesthetics: Latex, Spandex, and Sexual Anxieties Performed (University of Michigan Press, Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series), Disavowing Virtuosity, Performing Aspiration: Dance and Performance Interviews (Routledge), and Prince Moves (Oxford). Osterweis has danced and performed professionally with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Mia Michaels R.A.W., Heidi Latsky, and Julie Tolentino. They were also a dramaturg for John Jasperse, Narcissister, and a.k. payne, and directed evening-length performances, Jérôme Bel and Talent Show at REDCAT. Upcoming projects working toward an ongoing performance concept called BODY SHOP include Bad Korean (LA Phil/GYOPO), curation with BOFFO, and a collaboration with Julie Mehretu. Osterweis is a queer, mixed-race, Korean-American parent of two teens and a tween.