MBMI TEAM Gabri Christa (Festival Director, Producer & Curator) hails from Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean and lives in New York. She makes original works for stage and screen that have received numerous prizes. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography, an ABC television award for creative excellence for her short film High School and Pangea Day Festival’s One World’s 100 Most Promising Filmmakers distinction. At Barnard College, she is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at the Department of Dance and directs the Movement Lab. For more about her work visit: www.gabrichrista.com Allison Costa (Associate Producer, Website Designer & Developer) is a recent graduate of Barnard College with a dual degree in Dance and Computer Science. She joined the Barnard Movement Lab Team as Post- Baccalaureate Fellow, excited to foster her exploration of human-computer interaction. Continually fascinated with finding ways to visualize the intangible, Allie is focusing her current research on the theme of time/timing: trying to understand our felt experience of time and tie that into discussions around productivity and presence, which are recurring themes both in Movement Lab discussions and her own work. MBMI TEAM - 28