Director	Kendra Kimbrough Barnes
Dancers	Kendra Kimbrough Barnes Shelley Davis Clairemonica Figueroa Lavinia Mitchell	Kelly Kennard Phylicia Stroud Latanya Tigner Erika Wright
Dancers Returning for KKDE's Reunion of Dancers	Maija Garcia Jade Itiene Wendy Jones	Valrie Sanders Elize Selvarajah Shelby Williams

Director Kendra Kimbrough Barnes holds a BA in Dance, from San Francisco State University and an MA in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University. She graduated with honors and is a recipient of the "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" award. She has studied and performed with such notables as the late Malonga Casquelord's Fua Dia Congo, and Carlos Aceituno's Fogo Na Roupa as well as Chitresh Das' Chaandam School of Kathak Dance, Donald Byrd, Robert Moses, Robert Henry Johnson, Bebe Miller, and Rosangela Silvestre. She has been guest choreographer for San Francisco State University's Dance Department, Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble, and Move Dance Theater of Oakland and participated as a 2007 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

In 1996 she founded K*Star*Productions home of the Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble (KKDE) and co-producer of the Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now. In 2002 she co-founded the Black Performing Artists Network (B-PAN) (since resolved in 2005) which co-presented the 2005 Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now and produced an open forum 2002 and Beyond, discussing opportunities & challenges facing Black dance in the Bay Area. KKDE has presented work at the WestWave Dance Festival, Brady Street's and Dance Mission's Choreographers Showcases, East Bay Dance Festival, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts Theater, Dance Mosaic and most recently the Black Choreographers Festival. KKDE has toured throughout the Bay Area, Southern California and internationally to Bahia, Salvador Brazil.

Kendra currently teaches dance to children ages 7-18 through Dimension's Rites of Passage program in Oakland, holds Contemporary Blend workshops, and teaches Yoga, Pilates, Jazz, Modern, African-Haitian, and Dance Fitness at City College of San Mateo and City College of San Francisco. She aspires to open a performing arts center for youth.