Pamela Vail, associate professor of dance at Franklin & Marshall College, is an improviser, choreographer, performer, and teacher.  She is a co-founding member of the Architects, a performance improvisation quartet, with whom she has been teaching, creating and performing for over 20 years. Vail is also a founding member of critically acclaimed New York City-based Yanira Castro | a canary torsi. Her screendance collaborations with filmmaker Jeremy Moss have screened at festivals around the world. (www.architectsdance.org)