Tiger Balm #10

Michelle Boulé

Michelle Boulé is an internationally recognized transformational guide, embodiment teacher, and award-winning dance artist whose work explores the intersection of creativity, consciousness, leadership, and human potential.

For nearly three decades, she has guided thousands of artists, entrepreneurs, and high-performing leaders through profound personal and professional transformation — helping them move beyond fear, conditioning, and self-abandonment into deeper alignment, creative power, visibility, intimacy, and prosperity.

Blending somatic and embodiment practices, Human Design, quantum energy healing, intuitive insight, and transformational coaching, Michelle’s work is known for its depth, precision, and ability to catalyze lasting change at both the energetic and practical level. Her approach helps people access breakthrough insight, strengthen self-trust, and embody a more authentic expression of their leadership and life.

A Bessie Award–winning performer, Michelle has performed, taught, and presented work in more than 25 countries at internationally respected venues and institutions including The Met Breuer, Museum of Modern Art, Danspace Project, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Yale, Princeton, RISD, P.A.R.T.S., and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Dance Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The Today Show.

Khetasar Menheer

Khetasar is a dancer, choreographer, writer, singer, drummer, and storyteller based in Minneapolis, MN. She finds her deepest truths to be most accessible through artistic expression. Khetasar has 20 years of experience in practicing and studying traditional West African dance, which has served as both an artistic and spiritual practice, allowing her an avenue to reconnect to her Black, African heritage and culture. Upon this rich foundation, Khetasar has expanded her dance practice to include additional styles such as afrobeats, house, hip hop, and contemporary dance. Khetasar continually aims to get to know herself more deeply through her connection to her body, her past, her culture, and her community.

Over 18 years, Khetasar has been a member of Voice of Culture drum + dance, BLAQ, and Tropical Riddimz, and has worked with additional companies + artists including TU Dance, Lundstrum Performing Arts, Al Taw’am, and AfroContIgbo. Khetasar has also had the opportunity to teach afro-diasporic dance to youth and adults across the Twin Cities and Washington, D.C., to promote joy and enhance cultural pride.

Long recognizing dance as a vehicle to access joy, Khetasar has been diving deeper into connecting with and expressing deep longing, grief, despair, and love through movement. Most recently, she has found curiosity and fulfillment in the process of creating her own unique movement that, while rooted in traditional West African dance, reaches across multiple styles to find language to express the multi-dimensionality of her inner world.

Erica Josefina Vibar Sherwood

Erica Josefina Vibar Sherwood (they/them) is a queer mixed Mexican, Sicilian, Irish, German American with several generations of connection to Mni Sota Makoce. A community trained dance artist, their movement and philosophies are shaped by the teachings of Mexica-Nahuatl Danza (Kalpulli Huitzillin), Street and Club Dance/Culture (House, Breaking) and Ananya Dance Theatre. They are also influenced by the improvisational investigations of ‘body as homeland’ with Body Watani Dance Project. Erica Jo’s dance research is rooted in their culturally mixed body and homelands, inherited/(re)imagined ancestral knowledge and their lifelong relationship with MniSota Makoce. More recently, their research has led them to consistent dancing with Land, and building freestyle/improvisational practices as an entrance into ritual and a channel for Spirit. Always, their practice is one of deep listening, queerness, relationship and steadfastness.

Carol Trindade

Carol Trindade is a Brazilian-born performance artist whose work blends Butoh, contemporary dance, physical theater, and embodied research. Emerging from Curitiba, Carol began performing as a clown at a young age while living in a favela. She studied technical theater at Colégio Estadual do Paraná and contemporary dance at Casa Hoffmann, later co-founding Arcology Zero, an experimental arts organization in Brazil that combined housing, studio space, and artistic residencies for emerging creatives.

Carol’s work is rooted in the body as a place of memory, transformation, and reclamation. Drawing from Butoh, contemporary dance, and her lived experiences, she creates performances that move between the strange, the vulnerable, the absurd, and the spiritual. Her practice is often improvisational and deeply physical, using movement to explore identity, control, and how the body creates its own language for what cannot be spoken.

Her work has been presented across the United States, Europe, and South America. In 2026, Carol was selected for Naked Stages at Pillsbury House + Theatre, a fellowship supporting emerging artists in developing their own performance work.