Mary Fogarty is a lifelong B-Girl and Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the co-editor of Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films (with Mark Evans) and has contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music Style and Identity, among other publications.
Imani Kai Johnson is an interdisciplinary-trained Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. She is also founder and chair of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference series and author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop (OUP, 2022). She currently resides in Long Beach, CA.