Steadily greying female choreographer with film works seen internationally and nationally, Xaviera Vandermay is a Seattle based mover and shaker. Whether via her day job working as the Volunteer Manager for Seattle Theatre Group, through her productions via her dance company 3rd Shift Dance, or through her independent ventures through her role as Artist-in-Residence for the city of Redmond; the mission at the forefront is to connect community through every project and program. Her partnership with Pacific Science Center in 2019 changed the way she worked both in thinking ecologically in how work is produced and presented, but also to integrate input from communities outside of her field of dance to create works that better speak to a wider audience.