Beau Coleman is Associate Professor (Theatre and Performance) in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta (Treaty 6 Territory). Her multidisciplinary artistic practice includes performance art, interdisciplinary creation, theatre, site-specific and participatory performance practices, video and installation. Her work has been performed and/or exhibited in festivals, theatres, and galleries in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Morocco, The Netherlands, Tunisia, United Kingdom and United States. She serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Studies international (PSi).

Bruce Barton is a performance maker, scholar and Director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. He is the author or editor/contributor of seven books, including Performance as Research: Methods, Knowledge, Impact (Routledge 2018), Mediating Practice(s): Performance as Research and/in/through Mediation (U of Winchester P, 2013), and At the Intersection Between Art and Research (NSU 2010). Bruce is the co-convenor of the Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi) and the Performance as Research Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR). Bruce works extensively as a professional director, playwright, dramaturg, and designer, and is the Co-Artistic Director of Vertical City Performance. 

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Selena Couture is a settler scholar and Associate Professor (Drama) at U of A in Treaty 6 territory / Métis Region No.4. Her research deconstructs conceptions of settler colonial white possession while foregrounding the maintenance of Indigenous places through performance. Publications include: Against the Current and Into the Light(2020) and On this Patch of Grass (2018). She is a co-director of the Ecologies research cluster with Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices (2020-2027) and a Kule scholar cohort member focusing on Climate Resilience in the 21st Century. Her research responds to the crisis of global warming, aiming to create responsible relations with Indigenous peoples, lands, waters and all other-than-human beings.

Carron Little creates solo and ensemble interactive experiences that fuse poetry and performance. She is the founder & organizer of Out of Site (OoS), a public performance program dedicated to working in Chicago since 2011. During the pandemic this has expanded into a network and a platform to sharing public performance from around the world. More recently, Carron has presented her performances in Chicago, Detroit, Maryland, Michigan in the USA, Lucerne, Switzerland, Ireland, Riga, Latvia, Liverpool, U.K. Girona, Spain, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sofia, Bulgaria and was author of the 50 | 50 Initiative, a cultural policy initiative on equity for CAA and sits on a Public Arts Committee in Chicago since 2010. 

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Lin Snelling’s performance, writing and teaching is based in the qualities improvisation can offer as it applies to dance, theatre, visual art and somatic practice. She toured the world extensively as a performer with Carbone 14 and worked with many improvisation ensembles. She is presently teaching dance, experiential anatomy and composition and is Coordinator of the MFA in Theatre Practice program. She received a McCalla Professorship in 2019 from the University of Alberta for creating A Sounding Line. Her recent collaborations are far off & personal a site-specific dance film in collaboration with musician Michael Reinhart and The Liminal with Brian Webb. She works with Montreal choreographer Tedi Tafel and was part of Crying in Public, Life World, Calendar and Everyday. She continues with Rewriting Distance; a workshop and performance with the dance dramaturge Guy Cools. www.rewritingdistance.com