Rose Baz, performer: Rose takes modern dance, yoga, improvisation, and dabbles in other styles at the Contemporary Dance Theater (C.D.T.). She has performed at the Performance and Time Arts in C.D.T. and Choreographers without Companies. She is also a Spanish interpreter.

Vickie Fairchild, performer: Vickie has been active in the dance community for many years having studied a variety of styles. She has performed in Fanchon Shur’s, Tallit, in Dan Dutton’s Love and Time Opera and other local dance performances. She is the co-owner of Essence in Movement Studio for Yoga, Pilates & Dance in Blue Ash. She is certified in Laban Movement Analysis, BodyMind Centering and uses these skills in her yoga teaching, healing, dance and physical therapy work.

Linda Kean, performer: Linda has performed with Cheryl Wallace, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Z Jazz and Judy Gregg Dance Company. She has taught ballet and modern dance in many locations around Cincinnati. She has also done in-service training for school-teachers to help them incorporate the arts into everyday learning experiences. Linda has a MA in Arts Administration from CCM and has worked in development for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Ohio Ballet. She is currently the Director of Family Life Education for Jewish Family Service and the Mack Parents Center.

Betsy Lippitt, singer/musician: A longtime musician and performer, Betsy is conservatory trained, a street theatre enthusiast, has played in bars as well as orchestras, and appeared in concert nationally and internationally. You might remember her duo with Therese Edell or the eclectic band Elberon or as a member of the cast of Jesus Christ Super Star, Godspell, or Tommy. Betsy has composed and arranged commissioned works for various venues. As a lifestyle, Betsy pursues the expressive arts and employs them in a therapeutic setting with individuals and groups. In recent years, she rekindled her interest in the performing arts and appeared in the C.D.T. PTA series performing a solo violin piece and in collaboration with Bill Donnelly (2001) and poet Pauletta Hansell (2002). Her self-titled album, Betsy Lippitt, is available on cassette, LP and CD. The music for "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" is an original violin and vocal piece reflecting Betsy’s interpretation of the mood and content of the dance movements choreographed by Ms. Bump and performed by the group.

Colleen McCarty, performer: Colleen received her BA in Dance/Theater from Antioch College in 2000. Currently, she creates Mokshayoho in collaboration with Rebecca Vie Parker, and is performing their latest piece, Silencio, also in conjunction with the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Colleen can also be seen in Jeri Gatch’s Peleton in the Choreographers without Companies concert, June 11-12. In addition, she has been the Administrator of Growth in Motion, Inc. since 2001 and a part of the FLIGHT, FIGHT, FREEZE! Ensemble under the direction of Fanchon Shur since 2002.

Julie Mullins, performer: After some years of classical ballet training, Julie discovered modern dance at the University of Kentucky (of all places!) where she choreographed and performed with the U.K. Dance Ensemble for four years, including some time spent in Rennes, France in a study abroad program. Recently, she has performed in various modern dance works by Diane Germaine in the last two Choreographers Without Companies shows and for the 2003 Ohio Dance Festival. A big fan of dance of all kinds, she has also studied West Aftrican and Afro-Caribbean Dance, Lindy Hop (original Harlem Swing), among other modern and ballroom styles. She works in package design by day and moonlights as a contributing editor for dance for City Beat. She is thrilled to be working with Michelle Bump for Fringe!

Isabelle Provosty, performer: Isabelle is a native of Cincinnati and currently teaches Ballet, Modern and Creative dance in the Cincinnati Public School's system and locally. She attended North Carolina School of the Arts and received her BFA in Contemporary Dance in 2002. She has enjoyed working with Michelle Bump on Untold Stories immensely and looks forward to dancing in CDT's Choreographers Without Companies Concert showing at the Aronoff in June of this summer. She plans to teach English in Europe next school year as well as pursue her professional dance career.

Roesing Ape, video imagery: Ape is from Kentucky, has two BAs (French & Theatre), and has been/is a poet, a musician, an artist, an actor, a performance artist, a bartender, a webmaster, a videographer, a composer, a waiter, a copy boy, a designer, a novelist, a director, a playwright, an organizer, a promoter, a jerk, a light and sound technician, a developer, an audio technician, a programmer, a (bad) cook, a busboy, a student, a booking agent, a radio DJ, etcetera. www.roesingape.org, www.artdamage.org