Katrina Elizabeth Bastian (she/they) is a choreographer and dancer engaged with endurance dance praxis that reflects and problematizes contemporary themes of consumerism, productivity, and binary conditioning. Leveraging her US-American upbringing through a deliberately hyperbolic aesthetic, she critically examines hyper-capitalist tendencies in the digital age. Katrina's innovative ROBOFLOW training technique, developed for her choreographic works, uses the body to understand and unpack AI's impact on modern life by deconstructing established movement patterns to create tension between technical precision and authentic response. With degrees from Reed College (BA Dance/Literature) and HZT-Berlin (MA Choreography), her work spans repertory companies, durational performance, dance-theatre, and professional voice acting. Her award-winning pieces include "Soliloquy in Sweat" and "CARDIAC; the heart is a muscle," supported by the Berliner Senat. Katrinafinds greatest joy in collaborative settings, devising embodied praxis that offers alternatives to neoliberal systems of value—positioning the body in a state of being as the ultimate form of resistance.

Soroa Lear (she/her) is a queer Cuban-American dancer, performer, and writer based in Berlin. She studied dance and comparative literature at Reed College, sparking her interest in the intersections of movement and critical theory. Influenced by physical theater, drag, Gaga, and nightclub culture, she sees performance as a way to break hearts and make people laugh—connecting the dramatic and subtle, ugly and beautiful. She has worked with Staatsoper Berlin, Deva Schubert, Rebecca Howell, Sebastian Abarbanell, and Aru Ray Tormann, and performed at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlinische Galerie, Sophiensaele, KINDL, Ballhaus Ost, Uferstudios, and in many nightclubs with drag artists. She has created and performed works including Look! Lilies, Limerence (2024) and THIS IS A LOVE STORY(2025), and is part of the collective RAYNE & CEREMONY. She also teaches the improvisation class VIBRANT BODY at Tanzfabrik Berlin, and her writing has been published by Penny Press and Confluence Journal.