Conspirators

B Dean (they/he) is an earthbound and airborne dancer, queer world-builder, and white transboy who has lived on unceded Ohlone territory, the Bay Area, for fifteen years. Rooted in site-specific vertical dance, B has created and performed large-scale work on iconic structures across six continents, from St. Paul's Cathedral to Lincoln Center to skyscrapers, cliffs, and cranes. As a core artist and former Associate Artistic Director with BANDALOOP, B has performed alongside P!NK at the American Music Awards, appeared in a music video with Pattie Gonia and Imogen Heap, and directed productions for major festivals and collaborations with Grammy-winning artists including Roomful of Teeth. They also perform with Flyaway Productions, Zaccho Dance Theater, Sean Dorsey Dance, Joe Goode Performance Group, Megan Lowe Dances, gizeh muñiz vengal, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Circo Zero. B is an Artist in Residence at Zaccho Dance Theater and Bridge Live Arts, and serves as President of the Board for GRAVITY.

Drawing influence from contemporary dance theater and high-velocity acrobatic disciplines, B makes work that shifts perspectives on the body's limits and interrupts the sociopolitical forces that dictate our relationships to bodies and space. Their site-specific performances and workshops consider the histories and ecologies of each site, loosen the patterns that keep bodies fixed or tamed, and invite multiple dimensions into how we see a space.

A 2-decade history in dance, theater, and circus scaffolds Deville's TRANSMARSH approach. Honoring performance, wellness, and sport - credits include Super Bowl LX: Studio 60, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: Golden Gate Park, Sites of Memory Amsterdam, Chase Center's Dinner on the Court NBA immersive garden experience, and RAWdance PORTAL: TJPA Salesforce Park. They are the founder of OPENHAUS ATHLETICS.

Pangaea is a multifaceted Bay Area artist. As a mixed Black trans woman, she infuses her lived experiences into her singing, writing, costuming and set design, drag, and activism. Her work works to uplift Black and Brown, trans, and queer artists, by helping to build vibrant, inclusive creative spaces. She's also one-fourth of the Bay Area collective The House of Perception.

Lawrence Tome (they/them) approaches music as a practice of deep listening, stewardship, and spiritual care, arriving ready to use (or learn) whatever methods the moment calls for to create potent, sensitive sonic worlds. They live on unceded Muwekma Ohlone land, were raised on Coast Miwok land, and their ancestral roots are in Okinawa, England, and Wales. Find them online at www.lawrenceto.me, or practicing trumpet in Bushrod Park.

Matt has worked at the intersections of event production and social justice for over 25 years. From touring with international musical artists as a sound engineer and rigging for aerial dance companies; to organizing political marches of 100,000+ people - Matt believes in the power of bringing community together through shared experiences.

Anderson's high-altitude operations as a professional rigger equip her photojournalism with a unique perspective-bending characteristic. Featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, PBS, Democracy Now!, Mother Jones and more - she covers movements for social, economic, racial, and climate justice.

Mama Celeste is the co-founder and Executive Director of Oaklash, a queer arts nonprofit that hosts large scale events, facilitates mutual aid, and provides mentorship for emerging queer and trans leaders in nightlife. Often regarded as a cheesy hot mess, they have performed in drag and DJed nationally.

Writer, choreographer, performance artist, and community collaborator dedicated to cultivating spaces of healing, storytelling, and transformation. Their interdisciplinary practice weaves together dance, performance art, poetry, media, ritual, and ancestral traditions, centering Black, Indigenous, and queer narratives. With a background in Theater (Dance emphasis) and History (Education emphasis) from Santa Clara University, Janesta's work challenges colonial and patriarchal constraints, creating pathways for liberation and embodiment. Their work has been featured in Big Mouth Slam Poetry, Failed Films Festival, Robert Moses Kin, and KPFA Law & Disorder. They continue to be committed to envisioning a world where BIPOC and queer individuals can fully inhabit their truths.

brooke became fully immersed in the San Francisco Bay Area dance community in 2022. They have since collaborated with dawsondancesf, REYES Dance, Xochipilli Dance Company, Audrey Johnson, David Herrera Performance Co, Joe Goode Performance Group, UNA Productions, as a movement consultant and Deviser/Performer with DETOUR Productions, and as faculty with TEENS at LINES. brooke has been exploring the intersections of their love of performance and their ever evolving queerness, as Bobby, since 2023 and is grateful to indulge in the playful joys of Drag.

An interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Zeph's participatory projects, drawings, objects and interventions cultivate social and ideological mutations in urgent times. Zeph's work and projects have appeared at BAMPFA, Manifesta, MassArt, SOMArts, American University Museum, Five Oaks Museum, the Village Building Convergence, a freeway underpass, an off-duty train tunnel, and a variety of public spaces around the US. They have been supported by Banff Centre for the Arts, SF Queer Cultural Center, Provisions Library, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen, and Blue Mountain Center. Zeph is a serial collaborator with groups taking creative action on economic and racial justice, climate change and LGBTQ liberation—including Unlock the Box, Beehive Design Collective, Greenpeace, the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. zephrocious.com

(Piru & Tigua, two-spirit, mix-raced, Xicanx from El Paso, Texas) tours a multimedia performance called Mother / Forgotten Blaze. She serves Indigenous communities of the Bay, as a Board Member of Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS), and as co-Producer of Weaving Spirits Festival.

A radical, cross-cultural, intergenerational, mixed-ability community arts collaboration in San Francisco's Tenderloin (TL) Neighborhood. In the streets, in urban plazas, and on the stage of theaters large and small, we co-create rigorous works of art that emerge from circles of trust and belonging, centering the life stories, concerns, and boldest dreams of TL artists. Our durational, relationship-driven work—of, by, and for Tenderloin residents with histories of housing insecurity and generational disenfranchisement—transforms all of us involved, from participant to witness, fostering solidarity across difference. We are committed to calling for justice and equity, embodying our belief that all our destinies are inextricably linked.

is a Black Transfeminine artist, a 007 in the Bay Area Ballroom scene, and a resident artist for 5 finger disco.

Since its inception in 2021, 7000COILS has evolved from a record label into a multifaceted creative force. Co-founded by Lalin St. Juste and Dan (aka KKINGBOO), 7000COILS is a home for genre-defying music, healing-centered creative expression, and spirit-led community care. In 2023, B Dukes joined the team, bringing additional depth and brilliance to the collective's vision. Together, we have cultivated 7000COILS into a multidimensional platform where sound, storytelling, and sanctuary converge. 7000coils.com

Mojo Carter is the self identified as the Drag Princess of San Francisco. Originally from New York, Her blend of east and west coast drag blends together with her visuals and high performance! It's always a treat when she gets on stage!

(Ben'Zaa (Zapotec) and Mexica) in ceremonial spaces known as Tlahuizpapalotl (Butterfly of Light) is the current Executive Director of @baaits_sf. They are a person in recovery, an immigrant, a curanderx, Two-Spirit/Queer, Ben'Zaa (Zapotecx) manager/administrator, clinician and cultural bearer. Their life experience has enabled them to connect, advocate with/for, uplift and celebrate community members from all walks of life.

San Francisco-based transgender organizer and troublemaker working at the intersection of abolition, environmental justice, and collective liberation. Through movement building, direct action, and political education, they organize alongside others to challenge systems of harm, build collective power, practice mutual aid, and imagine futures worth fighting for.

JaMali Andrews is a nationally recognized AIDS educator and advocate whose foundational work shaped San Francisco's response to the epidemic. He co-founded the Black Coalition on AIDS and the Multicultural AIDS Resource Center, directed the Youth Prevention Program at UCSF AIDS Health Project, and helped establish the clinic at Larkin Street Youth Services and Glide's AIDS education program. In the 1980s, he provided critical counseling to sex workers in the Tenderloin. The City of San Francisco honors his legacy with Earnest Andrews Day on June 22nd.

Ben composes original music for dance, film, theater, and museum installations. He has created scores for over 50 organizations and has had his music performed on four continents. Ben is the creator of Maestro Modern, an innovative music platform that offers original music tailored specifically for dance teachers and choreographers. Try it out at maestro-modern.com.

Originally from San Antonio, Texas, and an Oakland resident since 2014, Kevin is a Black, Deaf, Queer non-binary Deaf Interpreter, multidisciplinary artist, and activist. Kevin's work centers on accessibility, creativity, and community empowerment. As the creator of the Deaf Drag Residency Empowerment Showcase, Kevin is passionate about uplifting Deaf artists, fostering inclusive spaces, and using art and advocacy to celebrate Deaf, Black, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

House of Perception (HOP) is a San Francisco based multidisciplinary creative team founded in Chicago, born out of the historic club kid scene. An authentic Skidmark…, Bon Bon and Pangaea come together to create art that is accessible, with a mission to uplift marginalized communities. Fusing fashion and costume design with digital and performance art, House of Perception has collaborated with the Joe Goode Performance Group, pop star Isabella Love Story, and the creative team Oyster Knife among others. HOP's installations, showcased at venues like the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Harvey Milk Center, explore the dynamic interplay of balance, tension, and authenticity in transformative art.

Afro-Caribbean Filipinx interdisciplinary performance artist nesting in unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory (San Francisco). Their work is rooted in the embodied and sonic poetics of relations, collaboration, and improvisation, as tools of resistance and liberation across geopolitical borders. abad's work centers QT/BIPOC experimental collective process-based practices of re-membering and be-coming to highlight the most intelligent technologies that exist in this world—our bodies, ancestral wisdom, and the environment. Their practice is shaped by mentorship and communing with artists including Alleluia Panis, Ishmael Houston Jones, Anne Bluethenthal, Joanna Haigood, Keith Hennessy, Beatrice Thomas, Jess Curtis, Sherwood Chen, Sarah Shelton Mann, Meg Stuart, Florentina Holzinger, Brontez Purnell and others. They are currently the Co-Director of Bridge Live Arts, a core company member of Bandaloop, AD of fugitivity labs, and have engaged in creative and pedagogical exchanges nationally and internationally in the Philippines, Palestine, Chilé, Mexico, and Europe.

Black, Filipinx, Bay Area, Ohlone land, based movement artist, choreographer, and arts producer. Her artistic practice flows from the truthfulness of improvisation, is rooted in her communities, and centered around movement as a spiritual practice and a conduit of change. They are a member of Queering Dance Festival's Steering Committee and is a Co-Director of ROT Festival. They have been a company member of Zaccho Dance Theatre, Robert Moses' Kin, and Flyaway Productions and have performed with Keith Hennessy, Lenora Lee Dance, Megan Lowe Dances, OYSTERKNIFE, GRAVITY, Sarah Crowell, and many others. Clarissa is a co-conspirator with black, queer artists in RUPTURE (2021) who premiered DIASPORADICA at Fort Mason Center August 2025. She is currently in collaboration with Sara Shelton Mann (2020) and Embodiment Project (2023). They have presented work in REYES Dance, Dance Thrill Fest (2021), Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency (2022), Queering Dance Festival's FROLIC! (2023), KH FRESH Festival (2024), Dance Up Close East Bay (2025), and in the Black Choreographers Festival in 2020 and 2025. They were awarded Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2024.

Quinn Dior is an artist and activist who floats between Flyaway Productions, Dragons Dance, and Circo Zero.