Amy Love Beasley (co-director and choreographer) earned her B.A. in Studio Art from the College of Charleston and her M.F.A in Choreography from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has had the good fortune of performing across the country for many influential choreographers, including John Gamble, Susan Haines, Gerri Houlihan, BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Talani Torres, and Jan Van Dyke. Her own work has been performed at several universities, the North Carolina Dance Festival, UNC School of the Arts, Art-o-Matic in Washington, DC and through Triskelion Art’s Waxworks and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. Beasley’s research in dance making and education merges her studies and considers how visual art making and processes intersect with dance making, training, and performance. Inspired by her Yoga practice and teaching, her research in each classroom looks at how mindfulness intersects with learning, moving, and self agency. Before joining the faculty at North Carolina State University, she was on faculty at Elon University, UNC Greensboro, Wake Forest University, and the UNC School of the Arts’ Summer Intensive.

Autumn Mist Belk (co-director and choreographer) earned her B.A. in studio art and dance from the University of Alabama and her M.F.A. in dance choreography from the University of Maryland. She also has over 600 hours of yoga pedagogy training and has been on the NC State faculty teaching dance and yoga for over 18 years. Autumn founded and served as artistic director of the multimedia dance group Code f.a.d. Company from 2008-2020, collaborating with a strong core of dancers, musicians, and artists for over 50 performances across those 12 years. Autumn’s choreography has been presented throughout the United States and in Hallein, Austria, as part of the international artist festival Schmiede. Autumn also directs FAD: Film-Art-Dance Festival, which includes curating Screendance in Schools – educational programs of dance films complete with lesson plans and learning objective-driven activities for K-12 classrooms. Her own dance films have been screened in festivals around the world, and she has been chosen to participate in artist residencies (making dance films) in Scotland, Italy, Iceland, and Austria. Autumn was honored to be selected as the 2016 winner of the National Dance Society’s Dance Promotion in the Community Award, as an inductee into NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers in 2015, and as a Distinguished Undergraduate Professor by NC State in 2023.

Jill Guyton Nee (guest choreographer) is a North Carolina-based choreographer and dance teaching artist. Her work has been presented in Thailand and throughout the United States. Creatively, she has worked with several distinguished choreographers including Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Susan Hadley, Gaspard Louis, Shane O’Hara, Erin Carlisle Norton, and Carol Finley. She earned her BA in dance and BS in business management from Meredith College. After graduating, she joined the full-time staff at American Dance Festival, was a collaborative member of the former company Even Exchange Dance Theatre and served on the Board of Directors for Code f.a.d. Company before attending The Ohio State University Department of Dance for her MFA. As a teaching artist, Jill served as the Head of Dance and an Associate Professor for the University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance for ten years, taught at several college dance festivals, and choreographed in the private studio sector for more than two decades.

Harper Piver (guest choreographer), BFA, MFA, was raised as an only child by a band of characters that escaped from an epic Southern novel. She is a choreographer and movement educator who has created choreography for stage, screen, immersive environments, music videos, and outdoor sites, including three evening length compositions. Her screendance works have been shown in international film festivals and her choreography has been commissioned and presented by companies, festivals, and academic institutions around the US. Harper is a co-founder of The Dance Cooperative, a not-for-profit organization serving the underserved population of Wilmington, NC for almost 25 years. Harper stays inspired by reading voraciously, traveling often, and swimming in the ocean. In her free time, she is slowly writing her family back into the novel they abandoned.

Arynn Baginski (costume designer) is a Junior pursuing a B.S. in Fashion and Textile Design: Fashion Concentration and a minor in International Studies. She has a dance background that includes over 10 years of competition dance experience and brief training at the UNC School of the Arts. She has been designing costumes for theatre and dance since high school and currently works in the University Theatre Costume Shop. She is excited to bring her expertise to the Terrain Dance Project.