Claudia La Rocco’s work explores hybridity and improvisation, moving between criticism, poetry, fiction, and performance. Her books include the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited) and the sf novel petit cadeau (The Chocolate Factory Theater).She has bylines in numerous publications, including Artforum, BOMB, East of Borneo, and The New York Times, where she was a dance and theater critic and reporter from 2005 to 2015; and has taught and lectured widely, including at Stanford University, Princeton University, the School of Visual Arts, San Francisco Ballet, and Tokyo’s Dance New Air festival. La Rocco founded the social and online criticism collective The Performance Club, and from 2016 to 2021 was editorial director of the arts and culture platform Open Space. She currently edits The Back Room, a Small Press Traffic publishing program.

Bojana Cvejić's work spans philosophy, theater and performance education. She is author of several books in performance theory and philosophy (Choreographing Problems, Palgrave 2015, Public Sphere by Performance, with A. Vujanović, books 2012 etc. Drumming&Rain: A Choreographer's Score (co-authored with A. T. De Keersmaeker, Mercatorfonds 2013.). She has collaborated as a dramaturg in a number of choreographies by X. Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, C. De Smedt). As a co-founding member of TkH/Walking Theory editorial collective and performing arts theory magazine (2000-2017), Cvejić has engaged in theoretical-artistic research projects, currently an investigation of performances of the self and transindividuality together with Ana Vujanović and Marta Popivoda. In 2013, Cvejić curated the exhibition Danse-Guerre at Musée de la danse, Rennes. In 2014, she devised a choreography and lecture program titled Spatial Confessions for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Cvejić is Associated Professor of Dance and Dance Theory in KHIO Oslo and Professor of Philosophy of Art at FMK, Singidunum University in Belgrade.

Deborah Jowitt is arguably one of the most world-renowned dance critics and authors. For years, she has been the voice of NY dance criticism with regular columns in the Village Voice (since 1967), New York Times and the Arts Journal. She was also a faculty member at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). She was awarded a "Bessie" in 1985 for her contributions to dance criticism, and the American Dance Guild honored her in 1991. In 1998, she received an "Ernie" - an award reserved for dance's "unsung heroes" - from Dance/USA. The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) made her its 2001 honoree for her “Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research.” She was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.