Erika received her MFA in dance from George Mason University and a BA in dance from the University of Maryland, College Park as a Creative and Performing Arts full scholarship recipient. She has also trained in New York City at the Merce Cunningham Studio as part of the Professional Training Program, as well as at the Jose Limon Institute, Steps on Broadway, and the Dance Space Center. As a performer, Erika has had the pleasure of working with artists and companies which include Terry Creach, Christalyn Wright, Scott Rink, Jessica Chisam Goulding, Cirque Le Masque, Tommy Parlon Dance Projects, Jeslyn Dance Gallery, and Jane Franklin Dance. Her performing has taken her all over the US and abroad to Cergy-Pontoise, France and Athens and Volos, Greece. Her choreography has been presented in many venues throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and West Virginia. Most notable include Washington DC based venues such as Joy of Motion and Dance Place, and the DC Dance Festival; The Goose Route Dance Festival in Shepardstown, WV; Brooklyn, NY-based One Arm Red's Red Shoes performance series, and The 2007 DUMBO Dance Festival. She has created works for The Morton Street Dance Center in Baltimore, CrossCurrents Dance Company, The DC Improvisation Festival 2006, Jane Franklin's Dance Sampler; and she has showcased work at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American Art as part of DC Dances; a Performing Arts Exchange (PAE) Independent Showcase in 2006. In addition to directing Next Reflex Dance Collective, Erika is also an Adjunct Professor at Marymount University and is a certified Method Pilates mat instructor.

Roxann Morgan Rowley completed her MFA at George Mason University and her BA in dance at George Washington University. An artist and performer in the DC Metro area, she has worked with local artists and companies including Sharon Mansur (MansurDance), Adrienne Clancy (Clancy Works), Steven Mazolla (American Century Theater), Anomosmotion, and currently dances with Jane Franklin Dance Company. She has choreographed for The American Century Theater, contributing to productions such as The Picnic, A Flag is Born and In the Summer House. Her choreography has also been performed at George Mason University in The George Mason University Dance Concerts and The Vagina Monologues. She has also presented work at James Madison University in their Virginia Repertory Dance Company concert, JMU Student Dance Concerts and New Dance Festival (2006.) Her work has been showcased in productions at Dance Place and Joy of Motion in Washington, DC, Dancing Across the Virginias at the Court Square Theatre in Harrisonburg, VA, the Charlotte Dance Festival in NC, Arts for Change, Mount Rainer, MD, Dance Sampler, presented by Jane Franklin in Arlington, VA and The Goose Route Dance Festival in Sheperdstown, WV. Roxann was on part-time dance faculty at James Madison University for the last two years teaching a variety of classes to majors and minors in the dance program. She has also taught for Fairfax County Public Schools Institute for the Arts, George Mason University dance department and helped contribute movement workshops to INOVA Hospital's Life with Cancer program.

Joy DiLillo is a 2007 graduate of George Mason University with a BFA in Dance. Joy has studied with David Parsons in New York, The Bates Summer Dance Festival with Bebe Miller, David Dorfman, Jane Comfort, and at Chautauqua Dance Festival. She is currently performing with Mayzsoul Dance Company and Next Reflex Dance Collective. Her choreographic works have been presented at George Mason University's Harris Theatre and Black Box Theatre Space.

Jennifer Michaels is a Chicago native who holds a B.F.A. in Dance performance from Northern Illinois University. She studied on full scholarship at the Ruth Page School of Dance under the tutelage of Larry Long, as well as with Anna Paskevska at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She danced with the Chattanooga Ballet as a principal dancer for 5 years, and held the position of resident choreographer at the Center for Creative Arts in Tennessee, a performing arts magnet school. Her performance experience includes classical ballet, modern, opera, and musical theater.

*Nellie Rainwater received her B.A. degree in Dance and English from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. In 2002, her choreography won the Viola Rossings Prize in Women's Studies and was presented at the American College Dance Festival in Tempe, Arizona . Locally, Nellie has danced with Jane Franklin Dance, Next Reflex Dance Collective, Jessica Marchant (MM-PSE) and Jeslyn Dance Gallery. She also teaches dance and creative movement at various locations in the DC metro area.

Ilana Silverstein graduated from Denison University with a B.A. degree in Dance and Environmental Studies in May 2002 and has studied and performed modern dance and improvisation in Ohio, India, Illinois, Massachusetts, and the DC area. She currently fundraises for Step Afrika!, and assists local D.C. artists including Holly Bass and Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp. In addition to Next Reflex Dance Collective, Ilana dances with Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround and creates work through The Field.