Zena Bibler is a dancer and current faculty member at the University of Iowa Department of Dance. Her research uses methodologies from critical dance and performance studies to examine the connections between physical and ethical perspectives. She holds a PhD in culture and performance from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Her dissertation, “Attention Matters: Political Choreographies of Noticing in U.S. American Experimental Dance” considers attention as a source of choreography in both dance and everyday spaces. Her writing appears in Dance Research Journal, Imagined Theatres, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, Contact Quarterly, and the LA-based performance writing blog, Riting. As an educator, Zena invites students integrate critical moving as part of critical thinking. Her approach pedagogy has been recognized by the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and is outlined in a co-authored article “Ballet Pedagogy and a “Hard Re-Set”: Perspectives on equitable and inclusive teaching practices” (Dance Chronicle). Zena’s performance work has been presented at Pieter Performance Space, HomeLA, Highways Performance Space, the Domestic Performance Agency, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NADA Hudson, Lublin International Dance Theatres Festival (Poland), Cairo Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Egypt), and SESC Villa Mariana (Brazil). Performing in other artists’ work and in collaborative projects is also central to her practice, and she has been shaped by dancing with Darrian O’Reilly, Kathryn Baer Schetlick, Levi Gonzalez, Brandin Steffensen, Athena Kokoronis, devika wickremesinghe/Institut IDGAF, and Jeanine Durning.