About Katy • (she/her): 
Katy Dammers is the Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts at REDCAT, CalArts’ center for the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. Her curatorial practice presents, organizes, and contextualizes contemporary art in performance commissions, exhibitions, festivals, site-specific installations, and publications. She has held past leadership positions at The Kitchen, FringeArts, and Jacob’s Pillow. Dammers has also worked as a creative administrator, and was the General Manager for choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener from 2014-2022, in addition to organizing projects with Jennifer Monson, Donna Uchizono, and Tere O’Connor. A writing fellow at the US National Center for Choreography, her essays about dance have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Motor Dance Journal, and MOLD as well as edited volumes by University of Akron Press and Princeton University Press. Dammers was a member of the Inland Academy and holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and Princeton University. Further details can also be found here: https://www.redcat.org/chiefcurator2024 https://www.katydammers.com/about

About REDCAT:
REDCAT, CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, is a multidisciplinary center for the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings, and events, REDCAT presents new and innovative work across the arts, both from Los Angeles and around the world.

About Edgar • (he/him): 
Edgar Miramontes is an arts leader with broad experience as a curator of contemporary performance, producer, lecturer, administrator, fundraiser and festival organizer. He is the current Executive and Artistic Director of CAP UCLA. He previously served as the Deputy Executive Director and Curator of REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), a multidisciplinary center for innovative visual, performing and media arts founded by California Institute of the Arts in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in Downtown Los Angeles. In this role, he was responsible for the international, national, and regional programming and management with an emphasis in dance, theater, and performance. During this time, he also served as co-curator and co-producer of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA, an international celebration of art and performance, with more than 200 Latin American and Latinx artists supported by a major grant from the Getty Foundation.

About UCLA (CAP UCLA):
UCLA (CAP UCLA) is an internationally recognized public arts organization dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts by leading artists from around the world in all disciplines—dance, music, spoken word and theater, as well as emerging digital, collaborative and cross-platforms.