Born and raised in New York City Gregory received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey School, then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase dance conservatory. He debuted his own company, The DASH Ensemble, in December 2010 at The JOYCE SoHo. DASH Ensemble performance credits include The JOYCE Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYLA, Guggenheim Works and Process Series, Kaatsbaan and Jacob’s Pillow as well as domestic touring all over the U.S. including venues located in Dallas, L.A., and North Carolina.

Commission credits include festivals, companies and artists such as American Dance Festival, Northwest Dance Project, Ballet Austin Cirio Collective, Daniil Smikin’s INTENSIO, Atlanta Ballet, Central Park Summer Stage, and Hubbard Street 2 among many others. He in tandem with Director of Education Lindsey Pettus is also the co- founder of The DASH Academy, a dance and education program for developing artists ages 10-18. His collegiate and training program commissions include Juilliard, Point Park, LINES Ballet, NYU Tisch, Princeton University, Troy University, MOVENYC, and SUNY Purchase among others. Faculty positions have included Broadway Dance Center, Gibney Dance Center, The Martha Graham School, The Joffrey School, Limon 2, and Peridance. He has conducted multiple masterclasses around the country including Ballet Hispanico, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, UNCSA, UC Irvine, Mid- Pacific Institute, SUNY Purchase, The Hartt School, and Booker T Washington HSPVA. In addition, Gregory, alongside fellow choreographer Loni Landon, is the co-founder of The PlaygroundNYC, a choreographic initiative that was voted 25 to Watch in 2013 by Dance Magazine.

Norbert De La Cruz III is a Filipino-American dance artist and freelance choreographer. He was born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles. With a BFA in Dance from Juilliard and an MFA in dance from Hollins, his choreographic and teaching career has earned him a Princess Grace Award under the choreography fellowship, a Jerome Robbins Foundation N.E.W. grant, a Winning Works recognition form the Joffrey Academy of Dance, the Youth America Grand Prix’s Outstanding Choreographer Award, and was featured as Dance Magazine’s top 25 to watch. 

His extensive performance career includes dancing soloist positions for the Metropolitan Opera, Aszure Barton & Artists in Germany, Balletto Teatro di Torino of Italy, Santa Clarita Ballet, Lustig Dance Theatre, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Boca Tuya, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He was the representative for Juilliard at the first annual Dizzy Feet Foundation Gala and was recently casted in the film adaptation of Tony-winning musical In The Heights. Since then, Norbert has been commissioned for new works from The Juilliard School, Hubbard Street 2, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Ballet X, Joffrey Academy of Dance, Tulsa Ballet II,  Olympic Ballet Theatre, and Grand Rapids Ballet, among others. www.NorbertDeLaCruziii.com @Norbert.DeLaCruz.iii

Jess Hendricks graduated from the University of Colorado with a BFA in Dance. Her training consisted of summers at Perry Mansfield School of the Performing Arts, American Dance Festival, Harvard Dance Festival, EDGE Scholarship, Gus Giordano and Hubbard Dance Street. Her credits include commercials and industrials for Godiva, Loreal, Reebok, Toys R Us, Universal Studios, Volkswagon and Warner Brothers.

Jess has worked on the European tours of Hair, Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar as Dance Captain, performed for the opening premiers of Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby and can be seen in such movies as Living Out Loud and Between The Sheets. She has performed and assisted in the Elan Awards, Bob Fosse Awards, Ms. America Pageant, Carnival, Dance Break and Broadway Bares.

Jess has choreographed the New York musicals “The Shaggs”, “The Book Of The Dun Cow” and “Dead City” as well as the movie musical “Free Fall” and the music video “Just A Dress” for the Berlin Film Festival. Jess choreographed European artist Sofia Strati’s music video “This Cant Be Love” in New York for Eurovision.

Jess has taught at Universities and Festivals throughout Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway and the United States. She has danced with “The Wes Veldink Movement”, co-created her own company “Two Peas & A Pod” and created work with A Great Big World and Alicia Keys.

She has presented work for METDance, Wanderlust, Point Park University, Marymount Manhattan College and PACE University. Jess is currently an Adjunct Professor at PACE University in NYC, on the faculty of 24 Seven Dance Convention and Co- Founder of Dancers Give Back Dallas.

Carlos dos Santos, Jr. is a recognized dancer, choreographer and teacher. He has performed as a principal dancer with major Brazilian and U.S. dance companies, including the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Complexions, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (US); Grupo Salto, Bale Folclorico da Bahia, Bale Teatro Castro Alves, and DanceBrazil (Brazil), where he also served as a rehearsal director. Mr. Dos Santos' choreographic credits include works for Colorado Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, American Dance Festival, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and DanceBrazil, as well as his own solo performances around the world.

Autumn Eckman (MFA Choreography, University of Iowa) received her classical training from the Houston Ballet Academy and from Tom Pazik and Susan Banks Beebee of the Atlanta Ballet. In her performance career, Autumn had the privilege to dance with Giordano Dance Chicago where she also served as Assistant Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer, and Director (Giordano II), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Theatre, Lucky Plush Productions, Ron De Jesus Dance, State Street Ballet, and The Cambrians. Her choreographic commissions include works for State Street Ballet, DanceWorks Chicago, Kit Modus, Big Muddy Dance Co., Wylliams-Henry Dance Company, Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Washington & Lee University, Stephens College, and several other universities. Her choreography has been presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Performática (Mexico), Solo Duo Dance Festival (NYC), Detroit Dance City Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival, Blackbox International Theatre & Dance Festival (Bulgaria), Dance Gallery Festival (TX), Men In Dance Festival (WA), the McCallum Choreography Competition (CA), and with JUNTOS Collective (Guatemala) where she served as the outreach choreographer in the summer of 2019. Autumn taught as an Instructor of Dance at Northern Illinois University from 2009–2015 and teaches for schools including Vitacca Dance Project’s Fusion Intensive, State Street Ballet Summer Intensive, Open Doors Dance Festival, and the Bates Dance Festival. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Arizona.