Shawn T Bible, grew up in Roseville, Michigan and received a BA in Social Science and Dance from Michigan State University and an MFA in Dance Choreography and Performance from the University of Michigan. Shawn is the President of the Dance on Camera and an Executive Producer of the preeminent Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. He is also moderator for the Dance Film Labs providing education to dance film makers and the filmmaker Q&A panels during the festival.
Shawn has been a Professor of Dance at Idaho State University, TexasTech University, Grand Valley State University (as Head of Dance) and joined the faculty at Manhattanville College in 2016 as Director of Dance.
Bible is the artistic director of shawnbibledanceco. established in 2007. shawnbibledanceco. is a contemporary dance company that presents throughout New York City and Internationally at the International Choreographic Festival of Blois, France, Lourdes Dance Festival (Paris, France), Oaxaca Dance Festival (Oaxaca, Mexico), NYLA, Battery ParkDance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, and Joyce's DANY Studios, to name a few. Bible has also taught master classes and set work in dance and dance for camera at universities, colleges, and high schools across the U.S. and abroad.
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most luminous dancers,” MichaelTrusnovec was a Principal Dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1998-2019. Additionally, he was Associate Rehearsal Director and served as the Director of Worldwide Licensing.
Michael received a 2018 Dance Magazine Award, a 2006 Bessie Award, and was a 1992 YoungArts awardee and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He is co-founder of the Asbury Park Dance Festival, co-curator and producer of the Dance on Camera Festival and continues to stage Mr. Taylor’s dances, teach, and perform, most recently in the 2021 Joyce Theater presentation of Molissa Fenley’s State of Darkness and in New York City Ballet’s 2020 Lincoln Center performances of George Balanchine’s Episodes. Michael currently serves as the Dance Co-Director for The Metropolitan Opera.
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Donna Rubin, a member of Dance on Camera’s for more than 10 years, has worked in performance and entrepreneurship spanning the worlds of yoga, dance, theater, and filmmaking.
Donna’s career began in the performance. She soared as a professional dancer, gracing the stages of the National Ballet of Canada and portraying Meg Giry in the original Canadian company of Phantom of the Opera. She made her Broadway debut in Carousel. After which, opened the first Hot Yoga Studio in Manhattan, serving some of the world’s best dancers, actors, and athletes.
Her passion for storytelling continued with work as a producer on the award-winning documentary "An Improbable Dream," offering a glimpse into the world of the young dancers at Canada’s National Ballet School. Her commitment to amplifying voices and narratives extended to producing other projects, where she championed the arts and empowered communities.
An entrepreneur at heart, Donna eagerly explores new avenues to share her commitment to making a difference in the world, infusing every endeavor with the same passion and purpose that have defined her remarkable journey. She's currently producing a new Cabaret series at LTV studios in East Hampton and spends her time teaching yoga and training yoga instructors. Please visit her website: Donnarubin.com
Sonia Dawkins, founder and artistic director of SD/Prism Dance Theatre and the first African American female faculty member at Pacific Northwest Ballet, has choreographed and directed in the United States, Jamaica, Bulgaria, Spain. Mexico, France and served as a judge for the 2019 World Cup Dance Competition, Barcelona, Spain. Her selected choreography/directorial work includes Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, the Arena Stage, the Goodman Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and, at the Des Moines Performing Arts Center, “Pieces of My Heart,” based on August Wilson’s unpublished poetry. A recipient of the Gypsy Rose Lee Award, Dawkins was awarded in 2023 the Suzi Bass Award for her choreography for “The Boy Who Kissed the Sky.” Currently, Dawkins is choreographer at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre School/Fordham University and teaches at Baltimore School of the Arts.
David Ninh is a seasoned communications executive and journalist and lives in the NY/NJ area. He has worked with publicity and marketing teams for Netflix, Kino Lorber, Kickstarter, Film at Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival and PMK*BNC promoting movies, series and entertainment brands. He originally hails from Houston, Texas.
Virginia Brooks is Professor Emerita of Film at Brooklyn College/CUNY, where she taught film production for 26 years. She received an MFA in film directing and a PhD in Theater/Film from Columbia University. From 1978 to 1981, while coordinator of the Jerome Robbins Film Archive of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library, she wrote her dissertation, The Art and Craft of Filming Dance as Documentary. Dr. Brooks is the author and the author of reviews and reports for Ballet Review, Dance Research Journal, Dance Magazine, the Millenium Film Journal, and IRIS. Since 1980 she has produced video archive material for the School of American Ballet, and since 1995 she has been video editor for the George Balanchine Foundations Interpreters Archive and Archive of Lost Choreography. She has directed several documentaries on dance subjects including, most recently, The Nutcracker Family – Behind the Magic(2006),and Felia Doubrovska Remembered (2008). She has been on the Board of Directors of Dance Films Association since 1978.
Michele Thompson has more than 30 years of leadership experience at cultural and educational institutions including The 92nd Street Y, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Carnegie Hall, American Ballet Theater, and Vanderbilt University. She has consulted with The Jewish Museum, Urban Bush Women, The Kennedy Center, The Royal Court Theater, Jean Butler’s Our Steps Foundation and others. She trained as an Interim Executive Director through the Non-profit Support Center in New York and has served in that role with Doug Varone and Dancers and more recently with A.I.M, Abraham in Motion. She is an adjunct faculty member in Arts and Entertainment Management at Pace University, where she works with upper level undergraduates who are about to enter the field in diverse disciplines. She holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University.
Jamie Cristello’s passion for dance and film began when she attended Ithaca College, where she majored in Television-Radio and minored in Dance. She went on to receive her MA in Dance Education from NYU and her MFA in Television Production from Brooklyn College and is also a NYS certified teacher in both Dance and Visual Arts. She has worked in both the Los Angeles and New York film and television industries and has a production company, Rhythm & Grace Productions, which specializes in dance, music, and sport content. Currently, Jamie teaches visual art at a public middle school in the Bronx.
Francisco Graciano’s career began as a member of several NYC dance companies and most notably the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 2004 – 2017. After completing his MFA in Dance at Florida State University in 2020, he fulfilled the role of Social Media Coordinator and Program Coordinator for Dance on Camera. Upon joining the Dance on Camera team he has had the privilege to moderate and co-curate the #MyDanceFilm program in the annual Dance on Camera Festival. He established Graciano Dance Projects and has presented his work in theaters in NewYork City and nationally. In 2022 his collaborative work titled Bach Dance Project, premiered at the 50th Annual Festival Internacional Cervantino. His creative work explores themes of transformation of body and psychology. He serves as Assistant Professor of Dance at Sam Houston State University.