Zhixuan (Miki) Zhu is an artist, movement explorer and spirituality devotee. Born in a traditional Buddhist family, she was fascinated by the occult since an early age, and her dance is inspired by it. Her thesis project Infinite Infant is a forty-minute live performance situated in a cosmic underworld. Through dual movements, two entangled feminine spirits share and unveil the infinite reincarnations that elevate love.

Leo Ryan is an interdisciplinary movement-based performance and video artist. Their thesis project for public view (twenty-four) is a solo installation performance that explored queer and transcorporealities in the American South by combining movement, video art and speaking segments derived from memory work-based interviews with another queertrans collaborator from Alabama.

Marika Niko is a choreographer, mover and thinker from Japan. They choreograph immersive, multi-sensorial, embodied gatherings and experiences for audiences to explore different ways of relating relationships to space, to time, to other humansand to other non-humans. Her thesis project Meshroom creates a performance environment that forms an intellectual/intentional community around an open dancefloor.

Brooks pursued his M.F.A. to find the most effective ways for him to combine his dual backgrounds in dance and social justice work. For his thesis research, Brooks developed the Moving New Futures workshop, which uses improvisatory movement to help social justice practitioners imagine new possibilities for a just society.

John Felix Arnold + Michelle Dorrance + Byron Tittle Echoes: From Here WORLD PREMIERE: JUNE 2022 A multidisciplinary collaboration between visual artist John Felix Arnold, MacArthur fellow Michelle Dorrance and …

This dystopian dark comedy, “Pin Drop Silence,” follows the story of a school teacher who quits his job to start a private academy.

Exploring motifs in Saba Taj’s “There are Gardens at the Margins” as part of an honors thesis with the Duke International Comparative Studies Department on queer Muslim environmentalisms in the United States.

Pursue an acting curriculum full-time for the first time at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City.