Cara Hagan (She/They) is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. She believes in the power of art to upend the laws of time and physics, a necessary occurrence in pursuit of liberation. In their work, no object or outcome is sacred, but the ritual to get there is. Hagan’s adventures take place as live performance, on screen, as installation, on the page, and in collaboration with others in a multitude of contexts. Hagan is the author of the book, Screendance from Film to Festival: Celebration and Curatorial Practice, published in 2022 by McFarland. Her most recent scholarly article, Dancing For Laughs: Signifyin(g) Bodies and the Black American Sitcom was published in a special issue of the Cultural Studies Journal and was awarded the 2024 Gertrude Lippincott Award for best English-language article from the Dance Studies Association. Cara Joined the faculty of The New School in 2022 and works as Associate Professor and Program Director for the MFA in Contemporary Theatre Performance. Hagan also teaches the "Situating Screendance" unit for the MA Screendance at the London Contemporary Dance School/The pLace. Cara has worked for Dance on Camera, the world’s longest-running dance film festival, as its Executive Director since 2025. She was a co-curator for the festival for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.