Yamini Kalluri is a world-class professional Kuchipudi dancer based in New York City where she teaches, performs and trains full time. Raised in Hyderabad, India, Yamini began exhibiting signs of her extraordinary talent and dedication to dance at a very early age. A disciple of legendary guru, Padmasri Dr. Sobha Naidu, she began performing throughout India at the age of 12 as well as 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. Yamini has been celebrated by the New York Times and BBC as being a Kuchipudi sensation. 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.

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.

Zhanat Baidaralin was born in Kazakhstan. After graduating from the State Ballet School, he worked in a ballet company, then he enrolled in the Moscow University of the Theatrical Arts, and received a diploma as a choreographer and ballet teacher. After graduating he worked in Kazakhstan where he created numerous ballets and outdoor productions, including the Opening Ceremony of Olympic Games in Moscow. In 2001 he was invited to take part in ADF at Duke University in NC. He immigrated to the USA 2001. In America he worked for ballet organizations in MA, CT, RI, and NY including Festival Ballet of RI and Dance Theater of Harlem. He opened his own ballet studio, Ballet Prestige, and created The Nutcracker among many other pieces.