ZAK RYAN SCHLEGEL is a rehearsal director, choreographer, curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges performance, film, experiential environments, and cultural organizing. His practice explores embodiment, lineage, collective creation, and the evolving relationships between artists, institutions, and communities. Through choreography, curation, creative direction, and collaborative research, he develops projects that move fluidly between artistic creation and the cultural ecosystems that support it. He serves as Rehearsal Director of Shen Wei Dance Arts, where he has performed and toured internationally for more than a decade as a company member and soloist. He is the founder and Creative Director of CONGRESS, a cross-disciplinary salon and performance platform, and has served as the inaugural dance curator and producer for Ryan Heffington’s DESERTRADE residency. He is also an educator at The Joffrey Ballet School and CLI Conservatory. His solo choreographic work has been presented from The Juilliard School in New York to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and has earned recognition including three Outstanding Choreographer awards from Youth America Grand Prix and the New Century Dance Project Choreography Award Grand Prize. His film collaborations have been selected by the Athens International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Miami Film Festival. Schlegel has contributed to Emmy Award–winning choreographic projects for HBO, including Euphoria and The Idol, where he served as associate choreographer and performer. His interdisciplinary projects include LIMINAL, a touring performance installation developed in collaboration with Jónsi and Alex Somers of Sigur Rós. As a performer, he has appeared internationally with Shen Wei Dance Arts, Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Yin Yue Dance Company, and Backhausdance at venues and festivals including BAM, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art Basel, Asia Society, FORM Arcosanti, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Pocantico Center, American Dance Festival (ADF), the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The New York Times has called him “a star,” and The Wall Street Journal “eye-catching and effortless.” He holds a BFA from Chapman University.
JORDAN POWELL is a New York City based, dance artist. Born and raised in New Jersey, she honed her skills in various genres including contemporary, ballet, modern, jazz, tap and hip hop. Jordan continued her training at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and received her BFA in dance in 2022. Upon graduating, Jordan joined the Gibney Company for two seasons. She has internationally performed repertoire by choreographers including Johan Inger, Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Jermaine Spivey & Spenser Theberge, Sonya Tayeh and Mthuthuzeli November. As a freelance dancer, Jordan has performed with (All)Ways Dance Company, the New Jack Cole Dancers and has appeared in television performances such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She performed in the Metropolitan Opera’s productions of Aida and Ainadamar. Jordan recently completed her first season as a Radio City Rockette, performing in The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. Jordan is honored to join Shen Wei Dance Arts in the collaboration and world premier of “Mindscape”. Jordan is also the new Social Media Manager for Shen Wei Dance Arts.
HARLIE YAHN is a dance artist and performer with a focus on contemporary and modern forms based in New York City. She expanded her training beyond classical ballet at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, receiving her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in dance in May, 2023. While at university, Yahn enriched her technique practices with jazz, contemporary and modern, house, and improv forms. She has performed works by Mark Haim, Sheer Spectacle, Connie Shiau, Keelan Whitemore, Ohad Naharin, Lila Kushner, Gary Jeter, José Limón, Martha Graham, Rena Butler, and Shen Wei.
Currently, Harlie is working with Shen Wei Dance Arts on the newest creation, Mindscape in Guangzhou, China with Guangdong Modern Dance Company. She continues to work as a freelance movement director, dancer and performer in New York City. Yahn is a returning collaborator with Lila Kushner, recently helping to develop and perform Kushner’s newest work, “Between Certainties” which premiered June 2025 in Philadelphia and New York City. Yahn is eager to pursue performance and artistic collaboration of all kinds. She has directed movement and walked in shows for up and coming fashion brand Most Hated, based in Philadelphia, as well as directing movement for photoshoots for local New York City photographers such as InGamba.
PETER MAZUROWSKI is a freelance artist based in New York. At age 13, he made his Broadway debut as Billy in Billy Elliot: the Musical. He played the title role in over 140 performances and was part of the closing cast. Peter later danced as a junior apprentice for Urbanity Dance and was a trainee with Boston Ballet. He joined Charlotte Ballet as a first company member in 2016, where he danced for five seasons. Under the direction of Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Hope Muir, he performed principal and soloist roles, including Peter in Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Peter Pan, and Valerio in Christian Spuck’s Leonce & Lena. He also danced in works by Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Helen Pickett, Alonzo King, Medhi Waterski and Stephanie Martinez, among others. In 2021,
Peter joined LA Dance Project as a company member, where he danced for three seasons, performing on stages from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, to the Festival in Motion in Doha, Qatar. He portrayed the roles of Romeo and Mercutio in the world-premiere run of Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite at La Seine Musicale in Paris. He also performed work by Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber, Pam Tanowitz, Jamar Roberts, Dimitri Chamblas, Salia Sanou, Janie Taylor, and Madeline Hollander. Most recently, Peter has danced for PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, kNonname Artist / Roderick George, Hélène Simoneau Danse, Chamber Dance Project, Pony Box Dance Theatre, and TAKE Dance.
TREA DIPKIN is a 26-year-old artist and dancer from San Francisco, California. She trained at the ODC School of Dance and Alonzo King LINES Ballet from ages fourteen to eighteen, learning from renowned artists including Brenda Way, D. Montalvo, Kimi Okada, KT Nelson, Maurya Kerr, and Carmen Rozestraten. In 2023, Trea earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Boston Conservatory, where she had the opportunity to perform works by Doug Varone, RUBBERBAND Dance Company, Bradley Shelver, Jamila Glass, Mike Tyus, and many others. Since graduating, she has worked as a teaching artist and program assistant for The Boston Conservatory’s Summer Dance Programs. Currently based in New York City, Trea continues her artistic practice as a project-based artist, performing and creating new works in both immersive and proscenium spaces while collaborating with a diverse community of multidisciplinary artists, dance companies, and peers.
张雨婷 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
方苏颖 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
陈白宇 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
BELINDA - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
李思雨 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
徐祥 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
郭凡 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company
CHELSEA RETZLOFF (Company Manager & Comptroller) is originally from Eureka, CA. She holds degrees in dance and chemistry from UC Santa Barbara, where she received the Daniel G. Aldrich Outstanding Senior Award for the Class of 2007. Chelsea danced with Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2010-2025. She’s performed Shen Wei's seminal works in over 17 countries, 65 cities and at every major venue in the United States, China, Europe and South America. Chelsea became the company manager, a rehearsal assistant and the education director in 2016 and continues as the company comptroller and advisor today. Outside of her work with SWDA she's performed and collaborated in projects with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, David Dorfman Dance, MacArthur Dance Project, Christopher Williams, the Anata Project, Tonia Shimin and Glitter Kitty Productions. Chelsea is a founding member of the Round Table, a collaborative group of women artists and producer of the musical Gunfighter Meets His Match. She recently joined Holdtight Company as a part of the Mother: Untethered film. In addition to her dance work, she tutors math and chemistry for public and private school students throughout the world. Chelsea also developed Multidimensional Dance, currently in its 5th year, which teaches math and science through movement and art for K-5th graders.