kNOwBOX dance is a female-founded digital dance company co-created in 2018 by Martheya Nygaard and YeaJean Choi and launched officially in 2021 as 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization . YeaJean originally from Seoul, South Korea and Martheya from Dallas, Texas, USA met at Texas Woman’s University while earning their MFA in Dance. Their interests in making art that challenged contemporary/modern dance aesthetics overlapped. While YeaJean was the digital media coordinator and Martheya was the publicity coordinator the intersection of using technology, specifically social media, became a unique way to generate new possibilities for art-making and sharing. Not knowing where in the world they would be after graduate school they began to brainstorm… "How can artists have access to stay connected, make new work, and share work globally?" kNOwBOX dance was born. Recognizing the need for more digital dance exposure, kNOwBOX dance facilitated social-media Evolving Laboratories,  hosted Exposure: a dance film workshop, and partnered with the Dance Council of North Texas to create and produce the Dallas Dance Film Festival in 2018. Later, the kNOwBOX Film Festival (NBFF) was founded in 2019. Centering the value of technology, Martheya & YeaJean, sought to expand the vision to unite and empower dancers and creators across the digital space. To do so, Martheya and YeaJean asked Azaria Hogans & Reyna Mondragon to join kNOwBOX dance in 2019 first as co-hosts on Dance Behind the Screen Podcast and later as kNOwBOX dance leadership.