Marissa Molinar is a contemporary dancer, arts administrative activist, and Founder/Director of MIDDAY Movement Series, a grassroots initiative cultivating a new generation of dance leaders. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Brown University, a certificate in Contemporary Dance from the Professional Training Program at Gibney Dance in New York, NY, and holds a business certificate from Uptima Entrepreneurship Cooperative, where she was also a 2020 Impact Fellow. 

Marissa has worked as a consultant with Urbanity Dance, Global Arts Live, and more. She currently performs for Laila Franklin, Grisha Coleman, and Mira Goksel. Marissa was a 2022 MASSCreative Create The Vote Fellow, was named a 2025 Maker by WBUR, and she is currently the Culture Creates Cambridge Fellow with Cambridge Community Foundation. 

Founded in 2015, MIDDAY Movement Series (“MIDDAY”) is a BIPOC-led grassroots initiative cultivating a new generation of antioppression dance leaders through professional development, mentorship, and advocacy.  By providing focused support to emerging contemporary dance teachers, MIDDAY is creating a leadership pipeline, improving talent retention, and increasing workforce readiness in Metro Boston. 

Using principles of eco-conservation, MIDDAY regards teacher-choreographers as “keystone artists” in the dance ecosystem, impacting professional dancers, artistic collaborators, studios and performance venues, funding institutions, audiences, and more through the nature of their work. By helping emerging artists to thrive, MIDDAY is creating far-reaching and long-lasting change in the professional dance sector by harnessing the power of movement to spark individual passion, ignite community spirit, and create cultural transformation.

Callie Chapman is a experience creator, projection and media designer, dancer, teacher, arts administrator (although she hates that term) and founder/director of Studio at 550 / Zero Point Arts.

Callie is a choreographer, producer, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, media, and performance. With over 20 years of experience in contemporary and modern dance, her work integrates choreography, projection design, and systems-based thinking to create immersive, concept-driven performances. Her recent projects, including Δ (2026), TRIPTYCH (2025) and O (2025), investigate perception, narrative, and the layering of information through collaborative, multimedia frameworks. Chapman has presented work in venues ranging from black box theaters to the Charles Hayden Planetarium, and has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Boston Foundation, and the Somerville Arts Council.

In addition to her creative practice, Chapman is an educator and facilitator, teaching contemporary dance and production design while leading workshops and cohorts for artists integrating technology into performance. She has served as a guest lecturer at institutions including Harvard University and Boston Conservatory, and is the founder of SomArt Space, a city-led initiative providing accessible rehearsal and performance infrastructure for artists for the City of Somerville.

Chapman is the founder and director of Studio at 550, a multidisciplinary arts space established in 2016 in Cambridge, MA. Created as a responsive environment for artists, Studio at 550 supported the development and presentation of new work across dance, performance, and digital media. The space hosted classes, residencies, workshops, and performances, producing programs such as artist residencies, professional training series, and multidisciplinary labs. Studio at 550 closed its physical doors in 2020 during the pandemic, but continued to offer fiscal sponsorship and programs to artists. The organization recently birthed Zero Point Arts, a platform providing community and presentation opportunities for experimental work centered in dance.