Amy Gately founded RTMD in New York City in 1981 as a contemporary modern dance company. She brought RTMD to Atlanta in 1984 where she established the organization as an integral filament in the fiber of the Atlanta Arts community. RTMD turns the shapes and abstractions of our daily lives into choreographic motion. As artistic director, Ms. Gately collaborates with other artists and incorporates art forms into innovative dance works. This collaborative approach has been acknowledged by the High Museum of Art when they chose RTMD from 1999-2002 to highlight the museum's permanent collection with dance performances in the museum's galleries. RTMD began its Wing quartet" collaboration with the Penderecki String Quartet in the year 2000 in Atlanta at the Rialto Theater and in Canada in 2001 as part of the Guelph Spring Festival. RTMD artistic director Amy Gately, a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of contemporary modern dance, has taught at New York University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in Dance Education from that institution.

Ms. Gately also founded Callanwolde's dance program in 1985 and was Co-Director of the Callanwolde Dance Ensemble until 2005. She has been the Dance Curator for the Chastain Arts Center and is happy to be a First Grade Assistant at St. Martin's School. Amy Gately also heads an outreach program for the Atlanta Ballet at the West End Performing Arts Center. Ms. Gately received an Emmy Award for her role in creating an award-winning story - 'Two Left Feet," produced by TBS. She is grateful for being able to work with this special cast and crew of White Passion/Black Vision.

Susanna Green began studying dance at the age of nine at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta with an emphasis on both ballet and modern techniques. After graduating from high school in 2002, she continued her dance education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. in the Esther Boyer College of Music and Department of Dance, studying under a diligent program concerned with modern techniques, performance, and movement theory. Susanna has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia. This is Susanna's fourth season of dancing with RTMD.

Joseph Grice II comes to RTMD with his dance theatre background having recently perforrned Katherine Dunham's "Forbidden" at the Rialto Center for the Arts. Joseph is currently a dancer for local artist Cat Chang who will be performing in the Atlanta area. His stage performances include "School House Rocks Live" and excerpts from "Phantom of the Opera." He is also a choreographer in the Hip-Hop vernacular. Joseph is delighted to have discovered the beauty of Contemporary Modern Dance, and this is his second season with RTMD.

Gaelyn Hurd received her Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Georgia in 2005. While in Athens, she performed with the modern dance company Warehouse Collective as well-as with Andrea Trombetta,-in her multimedia fabric dances. She then joined the improvisational dance company Danza.Da in Fairfield, IA for the fall 2006 season. Since her return to Atlanta, she has performed with improvisational dance and theater troupe On The Fly, as well as in other Fly-By Theatre productions. She is overjoyed to be dancing for one of the women who made the world of dance real for her, over 17 years ago. By day she teaches mathematics, and often fields questions based on the idea that math isn't artistic, and art isn't mathematical. She heartily disagrees.

Elaine Ruscetta has been dancing under the instruction of Amy Gately for 19 years. She grew up learning modern, ballet, and jazz at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, where she danced for Callanwolde Dance Ensemble starting at the age of 8, the youngest member at that time. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where she studied under the instruction of teachers such as Sara Rudner, Emily Devine, and Rose Anne Thom. The college focuses primarily on producing student-choreographed works, and Elaine has danced in 12 formal student works, including a Master's thesis work, and has also choreographed four pieces for those same concerts. She also had the opportunity to perform in a recreation of Trisha Brown's "Line Up" in the fall of 2007, and in

the spring of 2008 she was part of a small group of students working on an educational project in underprivileged schools in New York based on this work. She currently lives in New York City and also dances for Sawtooth Dance. This is Elaine's second season with RTMD.