BLAKELEY WHITE-McGUIRE is a South Louisiana native and New York-based creative artist, dancer, choreographer, repetiteur, educator, and writer. She has received international critical acclaim, including the prestigious Positano Premia La Danza Award for Contemporary Dance, as Principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company where her repertory included Lamentation, Rite of Spring and Errand into the Maze. Described in The New York Times as a dancer of “powerful technique, dramatic instinct and an appealing modern spunk,” Blakeley has also appeared in many works by international contemporary choreographers.

Blakeley has received commissions from The Museum of Arts and Design in NYC; Dancing Human Rights (Oxford University, U.K.); Danza en Arte Pietrasanta, Italy; Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/OUT Festival; The Ailey School; Movement Migration; and the Martha Graham Dance Company among others. Her collaboration C.A.V.E.S. with Daniel Fetecua has generated choreographic commissions from Buglisi Dance Theater (embodying the International Declaration of Human Rights), Ballet Metropolitano de Medellín and the University of Louisiana. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and is an official stager of Martha Graham’s masterworks internationally.

Her first book, The Martha Graham Dance Company: House of the Pelvic Truth, was released by Bloomsbury Publishing UK in 2022. Blakeley’s passion for collaboration through thoughtful and respectful cultural exchange with communities through NYC and abroad supports her work as facilitator of professional development for the Department of Education. She is currently a faculty member of The Ailey School/Fordham University, Hunter College, City College of New York, LaGuardia High School, and Lincoln Center/NYCDOE’s Audition Bootcamp. She was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Loyola University Chicago in the Fall of 2021. Upcoming in 2023, she will be Choreographer-In-Residence for Flightpath Dance Company and Movement Migration as well as Co-choreographer-In-Residence with Daniel Fetecua Soto for the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Arts and Special Projects.

Daniel Fetecua Soto is a New York-based dancer, choreographer, educator and producer. Daniel was a soloist member of the Limon Dance Company for ten years (2006–2016), dancing lead roles in José Limón’s masterpieces, and has appeared as guest artist in Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring and Tannhäuser. Mr. Fetecua is a master teacher of the Limón technique, reconstructor of Limón’s repertory, a faculty member of the Limón Institute and founding member of the Limón4Kids program.

Daniel Fetecua is the founder and artistic director of two dance companies: Pajarillo Pinta’o, a dance company that preserves and promotes Colombian traditional dances through performance, workshops and classes, and D-Moves, a contemporary dance project that combines Colombian traditions, Modern Dance and German Tanz-Theater.

Daniel is a longtime collaborator of Colombian composer and musician Pablo Mayor. Together, they have created Amalgama, El Barrio Project, Brave New Frogs, and Untold Tells, and the educational residency Cumbia For Kids/Cumbia For All. Since 2008, Daniel has worked with Native American choreographer Rosalie Jones/Daystar for her work Wolf: A Transformation. Daniel holds the rights to this piece for its performance, preservation and promotion.

Daniel is a member of Movement Migration, an international collective of seasoned dance artists directed by Kim Jones. He is the producer and artistic director of LATITUDES DANCE FESTIVAL, a NYC-based platform to promote and present Latin American and Indigenous companies and choreographers from around the world. Daniel has collaborated as a choreographer and guest teacher with REvolucionLatina and Salgado Productions, both under Luis Salgado’s direction since 2011.

His most recent project C.A.V.E.S., with world-renowned dancer Blakeley White-McGuire, tours both nationally and internationally in collaboration with local dance and theater companies. Daniel is currently resident choreographer and board member of ID Studio Theatre, a not-for-profit organization led by Colombian actor Germán Jaramillo. He is also a resident choreographer at Teatro SEA directed by Manuel Moran, for which he has choreographed Sueño—a Caribbean take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and La Gloria: A Latin Cabaret. For La Gloria, Fetecua won a HOLA award for Best Choreography. Daniel is adjunct professor of dance at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.