In collaboration with National Choreographic Center at University of Akron’s Dancing Labs Program and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Amy O is bringing together a cohort of street dance practitioners from the East and West coasts who have been making performance work in theater spaces in different ways for a decade or longer. Invited artists will share about their work and dance lives, rest, eat, explore, and connect. This first cohort is comprised of Nicole Klaymoon of Embodiment Project, d. Sabela Grimes, dani tirrell, Tatiana Desardouin of Passionfruit Dance, Raphael Xavier of Olive Dance Theater, Michel Byrd -McPhee of Ladies of Hip Hop, and Ephrat Asherie of Ephrat Asherie Dance.