Hilary Grumman (Director and Co-Founder of Undercurrent)

Hilary is an artist, educator, and community organizer. Drawing on her persistent floorwork research since 2011, she is the Director and Co-Founder of undercurrent, through which she hosts floorwork classes, international workshops, research labs, social gatherings, and collaborative performance projects. She is on faculty at Cornish College and an Artist in Residence at the University of Washington and Abbey Arts. Her work has been supported by Velocity Dance Center, Actualize, westFEST, Mosswood Hollow, 4Culture, Artist Trust, Alia Swersky, Douglas Pearce, the Undercurrent community, and her unwavering respect for and commitment to service as a holistic way to gather and care for others.

Alethea Alexander (Artistic Co-Director with Undercurrent)

Alethea is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator, and is the Artistic Co-Director with Undercurrent. Community, sensuality, care, effort, and collaboration are central tenets of her work with dance partners human, objects, and sonic. She performs her own improvised, choreographed, and installation-based works in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists in Seattle and nationally. Her recent works have been supported by 4Culture, City of Seattle, the Kreielsheimer Foundation, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Cornish College of the Arts, and Sam Houston State University. Alethea is Co-Founder and Teaching Artist for Ballet Rituals, a Seattle-based community practice initiative.