Jax Blaska (they/them) is a San Francisco-born creative collaborator. Jax works in production and arts administration across theatre, dance, performance art, and installation, with Bay Area organizations including FACT/SF, Detour Dance, EyeZen Presents, and Cutting Ball Theater. They hold a BA with honors from Yale University, and can occasionally be found performing in alien drag (Nasturtium!). As a theatremaker, they create work that is collaborative & curious, queer & feminist, and balances ritual & spectacle. For the 2023-24 season, Jax is the inaugural Directing Apprentice at Cutting Ball Theater.

Keanu Forrest Brady (he/they) is a San Francisco-based dance artist working at the intersection of contemporary improvisation, hip-hop, and post-modern movement forms. In 2020, Keanu received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Modern Dance at the University of Utah. He has been a company member of FACT/SF since 2018, and began serving on the Board of Directors as a Dancer Liaison in 2022. Over the years, he has worked closely as a performer and creative collaborator with various San Francisco-based companies and arts nonprofits, such as LEVYdance (2017-2021), AXIS dance company, ODC, Kinetech, and Sarah Shelton-Mann, alongside other local choreographers and drag performers. Within the United States, he has worked on stage and screen with Carl Flink, Eric Handman, Satu Hummasti and Scotty Hardwig, among others. His performance work has allowed him to tour within the United States and Internationally. If you are unable to find him dancing in the studios, stages and streets of San Francisco, you can find him on Instagram, @keanu.dance.

Elle Hong (she/her) is an antidisciplinary artist currently based in Cheyenne/Ute/Arapaho Territories (Denver, CO). She holds an MFA in Choreography with a Graduate Certificate in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Dance & Sociology from Wesleyan University. Elle’s work spans across dance, media arts, text, sound, and pedagogy. She provides dramaturgical support for artists Helanius J. Wilkins (“The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging”) and LA Samuelson (“Telegraph Valley”), and tours as a performer for Michelle Ellsworth (“Evidence of Labor”; “Post-Verbal Social Network”).

Héctor Jaime (They/She/He) was born and raised in Mexicali, Baja California, México. They began their training with Manuel Torres in El Centro Estatal de las Artes (CEART). Héctor graduated from the Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet BFA Program in San Francisco affiliated with Dominican University of California. He is the artistic director of “Xochipilli Dance Company'' based in the Bay Area where he builds his vision through dance for audiences to experience healing art.

Katherine Neumann is a San Francisco based dance artist. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Katherine received her early dance training at Danspace in Oakland, under the guidance of Beth Hoge. She holds a BFA in contemporary dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Katherine has worked with Robert Moses’ Kin, the Mari Meade Dance Collective, ka·nei·see | collective, and Stephanie Unger & Artists. She is currently a company member of both FACT/SF and Liss Fain Dance.

As a first-generation born Indian-American, Amit Patel strives to fuse his Eastern culture with his Western training to create an idiom of Indian contemporary dance. He has a significant digital presence, extensive stage performance experience and has toured all over the world teaching classes and creating safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community. Amit is equally notable for his rebellious pieces in heels, which challenge the norms of sexual identity in dance. His goal as an artist is to create work and community that has the potential to unite, inspire, and empower people across generations and cultures.

LizAnne Roman Roberts fell in love with dance at age four after seeing Giselle on TV in her hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Honored and humbled to have been working in the profession of her dreams for over twenty years, LizAnne began her career with Tulsa Ballet while finishing high school and while earning a BFA at the University of Oklahoma. She has worked with various artists throughout the Bay Area, including collaborating with FACT/SF since 2012. LizAnne has appeared internationally as well as across the United States. LizAnne lives with her husband and two daughters in El Sobrante, CA. She is also a certified Pilates instructor.

Charlie Slender-White (he/any) is a queer, San Francisco-based contemporary dance artist of mixed European and Roma descent. He is an instigator, organizer, dad, husband, and the Artistic Director of FACT/SF. Charlie is one of 50 Countertechnique Teachers worldwide, and he has taught, performed, and made choreography across North America, Europe, Russia, and in Hong Kong and Australia.