Andrew Cribbett, originally from Thomasboro, Illinois, received a full scholarship to The Washington Ballet in Washington D.C. He then attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts to finish his senior year of high school. He joined Eisenhower Dance Detroit in 2011 and retired as a company dancer and Rehearsal Director in 2021. While dancing with the company, Mr. Cribbett toured nationally and internationally both teaching and performing in venues as far as Tel Aviv, Israel. He also had the great pleasure of performing original works by Nicolo Fonte, Gina Patterson, Darrell Grand Moutrie, Edgar Zendejas, Joshua Peugh, Ron De Jesus, among many others. His choreography has received recognition for Top 12 placement at YAGP for solos, small groups, and ensembles. Over the years, Mr. Cribbett has taught and choreographed for several local studios including The School of Eisenhower Dance Detroit and also trains elite level figure skaters in Junior Ice Dance. He is also pursuing a degree in Nursing concurrent with his role of Assistant Artistic Director. 

Kelsey Paschich is a versatile dance artist whose work integrates traditional dance with emerging technologies, blending physicality with digital innovation to explore new performance modes. Holding an MFA from the University of New Mexico and a BFA from Point Park University, Paschich is also a certified Countertechnique® teacher and serves as Assistant Professor of Innovation in Dance at Western Michigan University. Her 20-year international performance career spans collaborations with The Moscow State Classical Ballet, DCDC2, Thodos Dance Chicago, River North Chicago Dance Company, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a choreographer, she delves into the synergy of dance with AI, motion capture, and film, presenting her interdisciplinary works globally at festivals in Asia, Canada, Europe, and the U.S. Her innovative contributions have earned her the WMU Presidential Innovation Professorship Award, invitations to the Choreographic Coding Lab in Cologne and as an international “Distant Digital Dance Maker” for Tanz mit dem Tiger in Ulm, Germany, as well as the Creative Living for Dancers Award in Brussels and the Dancing Lab: Art Speaks 2.0 Residency in Akron. Her multimedia live solo “Trio of Duality” premiered at the Seoul International Dance Festival in Tank in Seoul, Korea. Additionally, she has received the National Dizzy Feet Foundation Gene Kelly Legacy Scholarship and shared her insights at conferences in Bandung, Indonesia, and Seoul, Korea.

Ms. Chirio-Humenay graduated with a BA in Dance from Oakland University and joined EDD as a company dancer in 2012. From 2012-2020, she had the pleasure of touring, teaching, and performing with EDD. In 2018, through EDD’s Beyond the Stage Initiative, she was promoted to Company Manager and currently serves as EDD’s Director of Operations. Wearing several hats within the organization, Ms. Chirio-Humenay teaches at The School of EDD and directs several of the projects and programming EDD offers including the annual intensives: NewDANCEfest, U.P.rootEDD, and the EDD Winter Intensive. She is responsible for national booking and coordination of in-studio workshops, known as The EDD Experience, as well as educational and choreographic residency programs for school systems from elementary to college level. Ms. Chirio-Humenay also manages EDD’s EducatEDD programs which provide high quality educational materials and resources from knowledgeable and experienced professionals to the public and the dance community. A few of these programs include EDD’s monthly Pro-Tips, High School Dance Table Talks, An Insider’s Guide to Contemporary Dance online course, and EDD's annual “See and Be Seen” event. 

Christa Smutek is the Artistic Director of Artistic Edge Dance Centre, Director of The Collective Movement, and Founder of her project based dance company, Smutek Dance.  Christa studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and received her B.S. in Movement Science from the School of Kinesiology graduating with distinction and University Honors.  Christa continued on to perform professionally with various companies throughout the midwest and has been teaching and choreographing for the past 16 years.  Her choreography has been showcased at numerous festivals and events including Spring To Dance, Indiana Dance Festival, Columbus Arts Festival, RADFest Midwest, and Dance Canvas.  Christa established Smutek Dance in 2019.  They have performed at WhiteWave SoloDuo Festival, CDCFest Orlando, World of Dance, Dumbo Dance, and Detroit Dance City Festival where she was the Best Choreography winner 2021.  Her film, Unchained, was awarded Festival Favorite, Newbie Filmmaker, in Opine Dance Film Festival 2020.  She has also presented films at Screendance International, Dancentric, and Cinedanza Italy.

Christa was honored to be selected for the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship 2023 at Jacob’s Pillow, under the direction of Risa Steinberg and Dianne McIntyre.  She recently completed her residency with Western Michigan University after winning their National Choreography Competition 2024.  She was also the winner of the International Dance Exchange Award at Detroit Dance City Festival 2024 and has been invited to present work in Daejeon, South Korea in 2025.  Christa continues to set award winning competitive dance pieces as well as teach masterclasses across the country.  She is the proud mother of Eli Smutek, born January 27, 2018.