Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to watch”, Li Chiao-Ping has been praised by critics in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Bay Guardian, calling her work “...marvelously imaginative...engrossing, intelligently put-together.” Dance Magazine says “Li Chiao-Ping in performance is a case of the dancer transcending the dance…When Li’s onstage, you don’t want to blink.” Li is a multi-hyphenate artist, a 9-time NEA grant awardee, and a MAP Fund grant recipient, who creates layered works that combine multiple art forms to explore themes of culture and identity. Li Chiao-Ping is honored to be a Vilas Research Professor and the Sally Banes Professor of Dance; she is also the creator of The Extreme Moves Training MethodSM/TM.  She earned her graduate degree from UCLA, was Director of the Hollins College Dance Program, and Chair of the UW-Madison Dance Department. She formed Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 1990 and co-directed the SF-based Dziga Vertov Performance Group with Douglas Rosenberg (1992-94). She has directed/choreographed in musical theater, opera, and ballet, for stage, screen, and other sites; she receives commissions from dance companies, colleges/universities, and individuals around the country. Her work has been shown in major venues/festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including Jacob’s Pillow, Bates, ADF, Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center, Dance Place, Danspace Project, DTW, Theater Artaud, CounterPulse, and in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Argentina, and more. She was a Guest artist/Special Advisor to the Festival Internacional de VideoDanzaBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina); recently won the Audience Choice Award from the 2025 Asian American Dance Festival Dance Film Screening and an Honorable Mention for Direction from the 10,000 Dreams Film Festival, for her dance film “Never Lost (결코 잃지 않았다)”; also recently won Best Picture, Best Experimental Film, and Best Dance Film from the 2024 Los Angeles Chinatown International Film Festival for her screendance “in silence is the offering presented”. Current projects include “DIRTY LAUNDRY”, which begins touring in 2026 and a new documentary dance film project. www.lcpdance.com

Katelyn Altmann (she/her) is a Milwaukee-based movement artist, choreographer, and educator. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from UW–Milwaukee (Peck School of the Arts). Altmann has served on faculty in UWM’s Dance Department, guest taught at UW–Madison, and leads masterclasses across the Midwest specializing in site-specific work, Contact Improvisation, and improvisation for performance. As a performer, she has appeared in works by Larry Keigwin, Joe Goode, Daniel Burkholder, Li Chiao-Ping, Maria Gillespie, Simone Ferro, Holly Johnston, and Debra Loewen, and has collaborated with artists including Shura Baryshnikov, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Ishmael Houston-Jones. She is a company member and collaborator with Wild Space Dance Company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and Danceworks Performance MKE, and has performed with The Seldoms, Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, Milwaukee Opera Theater, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Her choreographic work has been presented at Gibney (NY), Velocity (WA), RAD Fest (MI), Milwaukee Fringe Festival, and she was a selected choreographic winner for the Wisconsin Dance Council’s Dance Festival (2022–24). In 2025, she choreographed and directed the evening-length work IN WAKE with live music by Allen Russell. Her practice centers embodied research, improvisational inquiry, and radical attunement.

Gelline Guevarra is an artist, choreographer, and massage therapist currently based in Las Vegas, NV. Originally from Sacramento, CA, she has danced professionally with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2 (DCDC2), BBmoves, and TwoPoint4 Dance Theatre. Gelline began her professional dance journey in the Fall of 2015, discovering a passion for Modern dance. She holds a BA in Dance and Deaf Studies/American Sign Language from Sacramento State University, a dual foundation that enriches her connection to movement and community engagement. She has trained extensively with Diavolo, Elisa Monte Dance, the Bates Dance Festival, Visceral Dance Chicago, and Raja Feather Kelly, performing works by acclaimed choreographers such as Lula Washington, Gary Masters, and Maurice Watson. Gelline’s movement style emphasizes the seamless connection of phrases and the storytelling power of contact improvisation. In 2018, she founded GGProjects, presenting her original works at venues including the Austin Dance Festival, MODArts, and Dance Bloc NYC. Gelline is honored to be making her debut performance with Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, bringing her passion for meaningful movement and connection to this new chapter.

"Piper" Morgan Hayes has danced with LCPD since 2019 and is grateful to have met many new faces and toured to California, Hawaii, Virginia, Arizona, and New York with the company. She holds a BFA from the prestigious UNC School of the Arts and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University. Hayes has served as Dance Faculty at Carthage College, UW-Madison and currently as an Academic Staff Lecturer in the Theatre/Dance department at UW-Whitewater. She has been a Guest Artist at Beloit College and instructor at several American College Dance Association Festivals throughout the Midwest. Piper’s solo works have been selected for SoloDuo Dance Festival (NY) and Breaking Ground Dance Festival (Tempe, AZ). Her teaching and practice are led by inclusion and engaging with students in welcoming tough conversations in the intersectionality of race and erasure of influential non-Eurocentric dance practices in mainstream culture, dance practices, and media. Piper stays engaged in teaching community recreational dance classes and attending Tap, West African, and Jazz workshops/intensives to further the offering of non-Eurocentric dance practices throughout higher education. Of late, she is navigating the first-year adventures of parenthood and hopes to begin offering community movement classes for parents and babies.  Piper is grateful for her family who offers constant support. Love to SAW & WJH-W.

Elisa Hildner, originally from Naperville, IL, is a movement instructor and dance artist based in Madison, WI. She practices and teaches Pilates, strength training, and dance to educate and empower the unique bodies of all individuals. Her practice emphasizes the exploration of anatomy and the utilization of embodied information to develop functional and powerful movement. She strongly believes that Pilates and mixed movement practices benefit physical, mental, and emotional health—she advocates for movement for all. Elisa is a graduate from the UW-Madison, where she received her BS in Dance and a certificate in Pilates. While in undergrad, Elisa was awarded the Buff Brennan Senior Honors Award supporting choreographic research in the form of an evening-length concert. Upon graduation, Elisa was awarded the Anna R. Nassif Dance Award for her choreographic works. She is currently a company dancer with Li Chiao-Ping Dance, as well as working on independent choreographic projects.

Kaori Kenmotsu is a former Senior Lecturer of Dance at Hamline University. She is currently Assistant Professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in the Dispute Resolution Institute. Her Theater/Dance credits include company member of Black Label Movement, TimeTrack Productions, Mu Performing Arts, Pangea World Theater, Offleash Area Productions, 10,000 Dances, and Gomez Dance. In 2000, she completed a two-year teacher training program with senior Iyengar yoga teacher, Patricia Walden.  Her studies have included Laban Movement Analysis, aerial arts, Feldenkrais and Global Somatics. She received her M.F.A. from UW-Milwaukee and J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law focusing on alternative dispute resolution. Her current work focuses on the intersectionality of art, community and law with a focus on embodied forms of conflict negotiation.

Cassie Last is a Madison, WI based dance artist. She values an athletic foundation in her dance work and supports this through her career in fitness and strength training. Cassie joined Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 2019 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from UW-Madison in 2020.  Her dancing endeavors have allowed her performance and learning opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally.  Through her dance career she has also worked with Scott Ewen, Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Brooke Smiley, Carol Teitelbaum, Christian von Howard, Chris Walker, and Jin Wen-Yu. Cassie is grateful for the continued learning and challenges that each new choreographic process brings..

Mayu Nakaya (she/her) is a professional contemporary dancer and choreographer originally from Japan based in New York. She has worked with Helen Simoneau Danse, Obremski/Works, SAXYN Dance Work, Rogue Wave with Catherine Messina, iKADA Contemporary Dance Company, sarAika Movement Collective, One Day Dance, Yoshito Sakuraba, and Faustine Lavie. As a choreographer, Mayu performed at several dance festivals in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Japan, also received awards as a dancer and choreographer in several competitions in Japan and South Korea. Mayu is an artist who always pursues physical expression and is interested in collaborating with artists of various genres. She founded the dance project "MNiverse", which expresses the possibilities of diversity through dance based on the concept of human connection and dance performance with collaborators.

Born in South Korea and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, Elisabeth Roskopf is a dancer, performer, choreographer, educator, pianist, and a mother to her daughter, Alina. She is a company member of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Danceworks Performance MKE, the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, and a performance collaborator with Wild Space Dance Company. Elisabeth co-produced and performed in “Provenance: A Letter to My Daughter”, an award-winning screendance work created with director/choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and cinematographer/editor Christal Wagner. Elisabeth teaches ballet and modern classes at UW-Milwaukee where she is earning her MFA in Dance. She is also the Founder and Creative Director of Dance For Diversity, an annual screendance project that is made explicitly for Artists of Color to share their unique voices and stories of identity through their dance-making and performance work.