Dohee Lee

Dohee Lee weaves drumming, dancing, and singing into immersive ritualized theatrical creations. Born on Jeju Island, Korea, she trained in traditional music and dance rooted in Korean indigenous practice (shamanism). Lee founded Puri Arts to create a new art form, contributing to traditional and contemporary arts. She emphasizes the mythical, experimental, ritualistic, historical, and healing aspects of art, catalyzing new relationships between identity, nature, spirituality, and the political. Lee is artistic director of Dohee Lee Puri Arts; director of Art and Healing with Asian Refugees United, and is faculty at Tamalpa Institute.

Cuauh​témoc Peranda

​Cuauhtémoc Peranda (Mescalero Apache, Mexika-Chichimeca/Cano, and cihuaiolo butch queen) is a doctoral candidate in Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. Their research focuses on the history of the House Ballroom scene and how Queer, Transgender, Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere have deployed vogue as a praxis of decolonization, voguing critique, and transformational resistance. They walk and raise children in the West Coast Ballscenes as "Don'Té Peaches 007." They hold degrees in dance and comparative studies, and lecture in the Dance Studies program at CSU San Marcos.​

Rashad Pr​idgen

Rashad Pridgen is a performance artist, creative director, and health and wellness practitioner. He is the conceptual creator and artistic director of The Black Lives Masquerade, an ongoing street procession and short film that has had showings at the San Francisco Public Library, Berkeley Art Museum, Duke University, and Portland Art Museum. He is director and choreographer of Ethos de Masquerade, a theatrical version of The Global Street Dance Masquerade produced by Campo Santo Strand/A.C.T. theatre, collaborating with Sadie Barnett’s Eagle Creek Saloon on presentations at the SF LAB San Francisco, the Institute Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and SF MOMA.