Derion started dancing at the age of 19. He graduated with a B.A. and B.F.A. In Psychology and Dance, respectively, from the University of California Santa Barbara. He began his career in Ballet Hispanico’s Second Company, where he performed at a variety of different events. Most notably the 2013 Presidential Inauguration. He went on to join Pilobolus Dance Theatre from 2013-2017. In his time with Pilobolus he performed works created in collaboration with artists such as:  Sidi Larbi, Avshalom Poluk and Imbal Pinto, OKGO, Javier De Frutos, and Penn and Teller.  He later went on to tour with Diavolo Architecture in motion, as well as placing in the finals of America’s Got Talent with the company. Most recently Derion is most recently known for being a Divisional Finalist on NBC’s World of Dance Season 3, and the 2019 Emmy Awards. Currently he works as a freelance choreographer with an array of organizations including Google, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and The Los Angeles Dance Film Festival. Derion finds himself to be drawn to projects centered around connectivity, collaboration, and human moments.

 DAVID VAN TIEGHEM is the recipient of the 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. He first remembers making music with pots and pans on the kitchen floor when he was about five years old, growing up in Ridgewood, NJ. As a teenager, he taught himself to play drums, and then studied percussion with Justin DiCioccio, of NYC's LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. He later attended Manhattan School of Music as a student of modern percussion pioneer Paul Price. He is currently based in the New York City and Hudson Valley areas with his wife, abstract photographer/painter/writer Cate Woodruff. Their daughter is actor/singer/dancer/ writer/activist Zoë Van Tieghem.

     As a free-lance drummer/percussionist, he has worked with Steve Reich & Musicians, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Arthur Russell, Flying Hearts, Peter Gordon's Love of Life Orchestra, Robert Ashley, Mimi Goese and Ben Neill, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Stevie Nicks, Howard Shore, Jon Gibson, Talking Heads, Robert Fripp, Scott Johnson, Robert Gordon, Arcadia (the Duran Duran spin-off), Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sergei Kuryokhin, Pink Floyd, Michael Oldfield, John Cale, Chris Spedding, Richard Peaslee, Twyla Tharp, Elliott Murphy, Nona Hendryx, Arto Lindsay, Bob Clearmountain, Jerry Harrison, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Adrian Belew, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Julius Eastman, Shelley Hirsch, Graciela Daniele, Anna Halprin, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Big Apple Circus with Philippe Petit, Bill Laswell, Ned Sublette, Tony Williams, David Cunningham, Lenny Pickett, Michael Nyman, David Moss, John Zorn, Anton Fier, the Golden Palominos, Eric Salzman and Quog Music Theater, Happy Traum, Tracy Bonham, Blondie, Dickie Landry, Charlie Sexton and Nexus Percussion, among others.

     Since 1977 he has been presenting his solo percussion-theater performances in venues throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Composers Showcase series and the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave Festival, Central Park SummerStage, New Sounds Live with John Schaefer, Town Hall, the Bottom Line, the Kitchen, Celebrate Brooklyn, the Knitting Factory, the Palladium, the Beacon Theater, P. S. 122, the Guggenheim Museum, Studio 54, the Whitney Museum, Danceteria, the Performing Garage, Issue Project Room, the Peppermint Lounge, and the Mudd Club in NYC, "Late Night with David Letterman," Nickelodeon, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Wiltern Theater in LA, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Maine Festival, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the NY State Performing Arts Center in Albany, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, the New Music America Festivals in Washington, DC, Miami and New York, the NY State Council on the Arts New Music Network tour, the "Good Morning America" and "Ripley's Believe It or Not" TV shows, Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, the Ambient Music Festival in Rome, the Herbst Festival in Austria, the Festival D'Automne in Paris, the Venice Biennale, and several solo concert tours of Japan and Italy.