Yamini Kalluri is a world-class professional Kuchipudi dancer based in New York City where she teaches, performs and trains full time. She founded the Kritya School of Dance in 2020. Through the Kitrya Foundation she offers performances, workshops, intensives and production direction internationally with an aim to bring a new face and a bigger representation to Kuchipudi globally. Raised in Hyderabad, India, Yamini Kalluri has been celebrated by the New York Times and BBC as being a Kuchipudi sensation. A disciple of legendary guru, Padmasri Dr. Sobha Naidu, Yamini began exhibiting signs of her extraordinary talent and dedication to dance at a very early age. At the age of 12 she not only began performing throughout India but also began teaching at Dr. Sobha Naidu's School. She went on to complete a certification course in Kuchipudi from Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad with distinctions in 2013 and further refined her style under the mentorship of the renowned Kuchipudi guru Vempati Ravi Shankar. At 18 she began performing internationally at various prestigious festivals, offering workshops in the UK, the US, Russia, Argentina and Canada. A world-class dancer, Yamini is known for her grace, agility and uncompromising perfection. Aiming to bring a new face to Kuchipudi, her ambition and passion led her to move to New York where she now teaches, performs and trains in ballet and modern dance at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary dance full time. In exploring various disciplines of dance and music in the west Yamini has not only developed her own unique style and technique but has also expanded and diversified her dance repertoire by collaborating with many talented musicians.

Adrienne Chan is a Chinese-Filipino American student and choreographer at Harvard College studying Sociology and Theater, Dance, & Media. In her work as a choreographer, Adrienne explores dance as a narrative medium in theater, concert dance, and site-specific works. She choreographed several productions across Harvard’s venues, including Footloose, Spring Awakening, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. In her repertoire, Adrienne explores themes of interiority, connection, identity sense-making, and ephemerality, and she employs qualitative and collaborative methods in building movement with and for performers. Adrienne served as Board Secretary for the Harvard Ballet Company and acts currently as the Campus Liaison on the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club Board (2024). Out of Harvard, Chan was a summer trainee at Ohio Contemporary Ballet, a past recipient of the E. John Busser scholarship, and works as a freelance choreographer in the Greater Boston area.

A recent graduate from Vassar College, Zoe Mueller (she/her) is a Berkeley transplant (and freelance dancer) absorbing the rays of Bay Area sun. As a former AABP intern, Zoe has sought community and comfort amongst Asian American artists. Fortified by a liberal arts degree, her [performance-based] senior thesis explored how creative expression and critical inquiry re-narrativized Asian American identity. As a Chinese adoptee, she was homegrown in Santa Fe, New Mexico - a small town that cultivated her desire to dance and dance and dance. She is excited to return to AABP as an emerging choreographer and share a collaborative, artistic vision that reflects the company's celebration of diversity, representation, and visibility.