Elizabeth Corbett A former Joffrey Ballet dancer, Elizabeth Corbett joined the Frankfurt Ballet in the eighties, played a major role in many of Forsythe's most well known works and performed internationally with the company for over ten years in works such as; Gange, Artifact, In The Middle Somewhat Elevated/Impressing the Czar, Enemy in the Figure/Limb's Theorem, Behind the China Dogs, Vile Parody of Address, Die Befragung des Robert Scott, Steptext, Same Old Story, Skinny, Love Songs, Loss of Small Detail and many others. Since then she has been teaching Ballet, Forsythe Repertory and Improvisation Technologies workshops internationally for The American Dance Festival, Impulstanz Vienna, PARTS/Rosas, Dance Ireland, Paris Opera Ballet, Cullberg Ballet, Dance Platform Istanbul, Ekoda de Dance Tokyo, and Bucknell Dance Company, among others. Elizabeth was the dance coordinator for the program at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, Belgium from 1999-2005. De Keersmaeker created a duo for herself and Ms. Corbett called "For" in 1999 which premiered at the SpringDance Festival in Holland and was performed internationally. She assisted William Forsythe in the making of Pas/Parts for the Paris Opera Ballet and Ms, De Keersmaeker in the making of Bitches Brew/Tacoma Narrows for Rosas. Most recently Ms. Corbett taught a workshop for Movement Research/International Dance Dialogues. She will be in residence at the Beijing Dance Academy this Fall. ADF faculty since 2006.

Teena Custer is a b-girl and hip hop dance theatre artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Teena Marie battles and performs internationally with her all female street dance group, Venus Fly Trap Crew, as well as her local Pittsburgh crew, Get Down Gang. Her solo "The Be-Girl Diaries" was selected to be performed at the Breakin' Convention in London, England, and in addition to theatrical works, she has won underground freestyle dance battles such as Underground Movement 5, Enter the Cypha I, and was also seen on an episode of MTV's MADE. Teena was recently invited to compete at the Queen Sweet 16, where she was one of the top 16 b-girls in the country invited to compete against one another in Seattle. She was also a featured dancer and assistant choreographer for the feature film "Leading Ladies" directed by Erika Randall Beahm and starring Melanie LaPatin and Benji Schwimmer from "So You Think You Can Dance." In addition to being a part of hip hop culture, Teena has an extensive background in contemporary dance. She earned a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University and an MFA in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University. She has been on faculty at both schools where she taught hip hop styles and contemporary dance. She has choreographed hip hop dance theatre pieces for various university dance programs and companies, and has performed with Dance Alloy, Attack Theatre, and Ursula Payne. She also represented CM² (Columbus Movement Movement) in Dance Magazine's "Top 25 to Watch" in 2007.

Ursula Payne (3WS Co-Director) is the Chairperson and Professor of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Payne has received four choreographic fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts from 2000-2006. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally in the Monaco Danses Dances Forum (Monaco), Freed Voices Project: Exploring Race and Gender Through Dance (TN), American Dance Guild Performance Festival (NYC), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), This Woman's Work (NYC), LABCO Dance Company (PA), Dance Alloy (PA), Project Motion Dance (Memphis,TN), Taiwan College Dance Festival (Taipei, Taiwan), and the African Center for Peace and Conflict Awards Ceremony in (Sacramento, CA). Payne received her MFA from The Ohio State University with a concentration in Direction from Labanotation Score and CMA certification from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC. She reconstructed from labanotation Donald McKayle's masterwork Rainbow Round My Shoulder for her MFA project. Since then she has directed from labanotation score Scenes from the Music of Charles Ives by Anna Sokolow and Air for a G String by Doris Humphrey. ADF faculty since 2002.

Pamela Pietro (3WS Co-Director) has equally combined careers on stage and in academic fields of dance successfully. She has performed professionally with Houlihan and Dancers, Anthony Morgan Dance Company, Michael Foley Dance, RaceDance and bopi's black sheep/dances and Jennifer Nugent. Pamela served as rehearsal director for Houlihan and Dancers, as well as for New World Dance Ensemble. She collaborated with choreographer Mark Haim for several projects at The Wooden Floor, formerly Saint Joseph Ballet. Pamela has been on the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 1997 and taught for the Festival's linkage programs to Guangdong Dance Company in Guangzhou (China) and the Dance Library Summer Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel and Henan Normal University in Henan, China and Internationally Pamela has taught at Newtown High School for the Performing Arts in Sydney, Australia, Momentum Danza in Panama, LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, Singapore, Tsekh Festival in Moscow, Russia and Ekoda de Dance at Nippon University in Tokyo, Japan. Nationally, she has been on faculty at Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Dance New Amsterdam and Dancewave Center. Pamela's choreography has been presented in NY by Dancespace Draftworks and Dance New Amsterdam, BAX, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancespace in Miami, Booker School for the Arts in Sarasota, Florida, Fuzion Dance Artists in Sarasota, Florida, Momentum Danza Company/Panama, Meredith College/Raleigh, NC, University of Wisconsin Madison, and La Salle Academy/Singapore. She has presented and taught at and at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Santa Barbara. Pamela received the first place award for academics and performance from the National Society of Arts and Letters, a gold medal winner at the Asiagraph Video/Choreography competition in Shanghai, China and her latest research was presented at the Hawaiian Arts and Humanities Conference in Waikiki. Pamela is currently based in New York City, where she is an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts. She is a certified personal trainer and Pilates instructor, as well as the assistant to pioneering bodywork expert Irene Dowd. Pamela received a BFA/Dance from Florida State University and her MFA/Dance from University of Washington.

Sherone Price Dancer, teacher, choreographer; currently Assistant Professor of Dance at Appalachian State University, Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; dancer and choreographer, Visiting Instructor of dance, Florida International University in Miami, Fl; artist in residence/Henry Bascom Professor of dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Principal with Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, Durham, NC; Guest Performer, Gamble Dance Theater and Jan Van Dyke Dance Group, Greensboro, NC 2000-2002 Regional touring modern dance companies; BFA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro and MFA, Hollins University in Roanoke Va.; Performed Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench at the 1993 Scripps/ADF Award Ceremony (Durham, NC); Study West African Dance and Drumming in Guinea, West Africa; ADF faculty since 1995, Guest instructor for NFAA in Miami and The McIntyre Institute in Miami Lakes, FL.

Sara Procopio is a founding member of Shen Wei Dance Arts and the company's former Artistic Associate. From 2001-2011 she was a full-time member of the company, performing at renowned venues and festivals throughout the world. As both an independent teaching artist, as well as for Shen Wei Dance Arts, Sara has taught master classes and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the U.S. She co-taught an 8-week practice and performance project in Italy at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan and Fabbrica Europa in Florence. Recent teaching engagements include The University of the Arts, the ADF/NYC Winter Intensive, Hollins University, the Peridance Capezio Center, Marymount Manhattan College. Sara earned both her undergraduate and master's degrees from Hollins University. ADF faculty since '08.