Choreographer, playwright and social practice artist Eryn Rosenthal (US) investigates questions of democracy and social fabric, dreams and meaning-making based on 20 years of ongoing oral history research and collaboration with artists and activists in South Africa, Chile, Spain, and the US. She is also an active member of international Contact Improvisation (CI) research and teacher exchange networks, teaching, performing and facilitating at the Market Theatre Lab (South Africa), Teatro Montealegre (Chile), Freiburg Festival (Germany), ECITE (Hungary), Gravity Tank (US) and elsewhere since 2003. Her ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions—political, social, intimate—through place-based performance in different doorways around the world. Eryn has worked with Chilean playwright and psychiatrist Dr. Marco Antonio de la Parra; dance artists Sello Pesa, Rocío Rivera Marchevsky, Thomas F. DeFrantz, and Sol Picó; inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander; and documentary theater pioneer Anna Deavere Smith. Her trauma-informed work in performance and other media also comes out of formative research, interview and performance projects with anti-Apartheid activists from South Africa and genocide survivors from Bosnia, as well as the testimony of Shoah (Holocaust) survivors with Dr. Dori Laub (z”l), co-founder of the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimony and the Genocide Studies program at Yale.  Eryn’s research and performance have been recognized with awards from the Center for Artistic Activism for work on US voting rights, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain and an Open Society Institute President’s Grant to South Africa, among elsewhere. She was recently a King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor and the inaugural Artist in Residence for Dialogue-Building, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the University of Michigan. Eryn teaches Making Performance on Socio-Political Questions, and Dance and Democracy: Movement Improvisation and Liberation Pedagogies at Yale University. She has recently returned from Chile, where she is collaborating with artists and activists on performances connected with the estallido social and their recently proposed Constitution. She is also currently teaching Contact Improvisation in New York City, and developing a new dance theater work on the January 6 hearings in the US.  www.erynrosenthal.com