Azaria Hogans is a freelance dancer, choreographer, artist scholar, and educator. She holds a M.F.A. in dance from Texas Woman’s University where she expanded her research on black modern dance. Azaria serves as the Manger of Resources and Archives for kNOwBOX Dance. Currently, Azaria is a professor at Missouri State University and covers an array of classes including contemporary, jazz, contact improvisation, dance history, composition, and West African dance forms.  She has presented and performed works both nationally and internationally including Women in Dance Leadership Conference, American College Dance Association conferences, World Dance Alliance Puebla, Mexico, to name a few.