Hadar Ahuvia moves between identities, reverberating from ruptures enacted within three generations of diaspora from Europe, to Israel/Palestine and the US. A white Jewish Ashkenazi artist, her work reshapes Israeli folk and traditional liturgy, proposing embodied repair, through choreographic and vocal practice. As such it is an homage and break from a lineage of Zionist cultural workers. www.hadarahuvia.com |
Born and Raised in Coast Salish Territories of Washington State, Dåkot-ta Alcantara-camacho descends from Ilokano and Matao lineage from Ilokas Philippines and Guåhan Marianas Islands.They travel the world sharing multi-disciplinary New Chamorro Performance and workshops to empower creativity, community activation, and inter-cultural solidarity. An advocate of Hinasson Matao, a firm philosophy rooted in harmony and balance with all of creation, Dåkot-ta’s research supports the development of deeper connections and relationships to enhance collective and individual kåna (spiritual authority). www.infinitedakota.com |
Esther Baker-Tarpaga is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist. She is co-founder of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project and co-founder of Propelled Animals, an interdisciplinary arts and social justice collective and recipients of a MAP Grant. She recently performed at ArtYard New Jersey, No New Idols Festival in Riga, Latvia, The Englert Theatre Iowa City, InsideOut Festival, Burkina Faso, and Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Pittsburgh. She currently teaches at Temple University and has an M.F.A. in Dance from UCLA and B.A. from Bowdoin College.She grew up in the foothills of Fort Collins, Colorado and lives in Philadelphia with her family. www.btdanceproject.com |
Margot Bassett Silver is a vocalist, mover, and performance-maker based in Minneapolis, MN. She received her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, her BA in Dance from Wesleyan University, and has studied at The Juilliard School and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris. www.margotbassett.com |
Maximilian Balduzzi is an Italian performer, director and teacher who moved to NYC in 2008 after almost 15 years of rigorous study around a physical and vocal research for performance. In 2006 he spent six months in Bali studying Balinese dance and voice work. Since 2000, Maximilian has led intensive workshops in Europe and the U.S. In NYC, he was a Movement Research AIR (2010-2011) and is currently one of the artists of the FRESH TRACKS Program at New York Live Arts. www.massimilianobalduzzi.com |
Malcolm-x Betts is a Bronx-based curator, visual, and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. The frame of his artistic work is around using embodiment for finding liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. Betts recently developed and presented excerpts of Black Bodies Gone Down at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts has also been involved with HIV Stops With Me, Edgar Allen Poe Visitor Center (Bronx) and many other projects all around New York City. Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram |
Nicholson (Nic) Billey is of the Chahta and Mvskoke People of Oklahoma and is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. His performance work utilizes fundamentals from everyday Native relational practices with aspects from drama therapy to create Native-specific performance work. He is also a “retired” NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in drama therapy. Nic is a founding, team, and performance member of Safe Harbors NYC; was an artist-in-residence with the American Indian Community House’s Indian Summer Artists Residency Program for the summers of 2022 and 2023; and will consult with Robleswrites Productions Inc. and the Bronx Council on the Arts for the presentation of Live Big Girl: A Chair That Fits. www.nicholsonbilley.com | Instagram
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Deborah Black is a dancer, theatre maker, writer, and teacher. She has performed in the work of Deborah Hay, Mary Overlie, Susan Rethorst, and Ann Hamilton. While living in Rotterdam (NL) from 2013-16, she created and toured with the Tuning People (BE) and Ymist Company (NO). She is currently researching the space between the body and language with poet Alyson Hallett (UK) while writing her first book. Deborah has taught physical theatre and dance at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg (NL) for three years. She has led guest and master classes at numerous universities as well as private workshops in New York City and all across Europe. She currently teaches Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints on-line. www.deborahblack.net |
Will Bond is a founding member of SITI Company; his performance tours include The Medium, Bob (Drama Desk Nomination), bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Radio MacBeth, Antigone, and Persian. He has performed Tadashi Suzuki’s Dionysus, and Tale of Lear, Robert Wilson’s Persephone, and A Rite – after Stravinsky with Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. Original works include: I’ll Crane For You, a solo dance commissioned from Deborah Hay, and The Perfect Human V.1, Option Delete, and an EMPAC DANCE MOViEs commission Lost & Found all with Marianne M. Kim. |
Cândida Borges (Brazil) is a transmedia artist, musician, educator and researcher based in NYC (US). Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Plymouth University (UK) in Arts, she has been developing works on sound art and emerging technologies/new media. Her recent works have been published and presented internationally, to mention the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC/2020) and Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (London/2019). www.candidaborges.com |
Michelle Boulé is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and BodyTalk Practitioner. Her choreography has been presented recently at Danspace Project, American Realness, ISSUE Project Room, Mount Tremper Arts, and The Kitchen. She has danced with Miguel Gutierrez (since 2001), John Scott, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, and Donna Uchizono, among others. Choreographic residencies include eLMCC’s Extended Life, Movement Research, Dance Ireland, and SKITE. She was a 2010 “Bessie” awardee and a 2002 DanceWEB recipient. www.michelleboule.com |
Lacina Coulibaly was born in Burkina Faso. His professional dance career, deeply rooted in African traditional dances, later merged with European contemporary influences to create a uniquely African choreographic expression. In 1995, Lacina created the award-winning Cie Kongo Bâ Teria with Souleymane Badolo and Ousseni Sako, which toured extensively in Europe and the U.S. He has also danced and choreographed with several international dance companies (Salia ni Seydou, Faso Danse Theatre, TchéTché, Urban Bush Women), and collaborated artistically with such artists as Emily Coates, Amy Sullivan, Wendy Jehlen, Kota Yamakazi and Seydou Coulibaly. He also served as Associate Choreographer to the project Engagement Feminin, initiated by August Ouedroago and Bienvenue Bazié, and is currently Artistic Director of Compagnie Artistique Hakili Sigi. As an experienced educator, Lacina has taught at numerous universities and is currently guest lecturer at Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College.
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Sahar Damoni is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Shafa-amer in the Galilee whose body of work deals with the challenges she faces as a woman in an Arab and Palestinian society. Prior to making her own work, she danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and received a Bachelor of Dance and Movement for Practicing Teachers from Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts. Sahar’s work has been presented in various festivals and platforms in Palestine/Israel and abroad, including Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama in New York, in North Africa, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Morocco. She has also participated in programs supported by NYU, Jacob’s Pillow and the Goethe Institute, and lectured about her work at the Tel Aviv University, Sapir College, Kibbutzim College, and Ben Gurion University. Most recently Sahar was commissioned to create a new work for the Staatstheater Kassel, and will perform her work internationally as part of the Tanztage Potsdam Festival in Germany and the Hangar festival in Pesaro, Italy.
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Daniel Bear Davis is an interdisciplinary performance maker and movement educator. He has taught Improvisation and Composition internationally since 2007 and has been teaching Axis Syllabus since 2013. Recently, his work focuses on collaboration with marginalized populations around personal stories. He has worked with veterans and non-veterans in collaboration with Krista DeNio and EchoTheaterSuitcase project, with inmates in San Quentin with Amie Dowling and The Artistic Ensemble. His most recent work explored intersections between the experiences of his students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and the experiences of oppression expressed in interviews he conducted with Palestinians in the West Bank. www.danielbeardavis.com |
Abner Torres Delina Jr. is a Filipino artist-cultural weaver, arts educator and founder-leader of BLACK CANVAS, a post-disciplinary collective nurturing care culture, ecological healing and global justice through creative collaborations, embodiment practices, community engagements and intercultural work empowering women, queers, children and marginalized communities. He is a speaker-facilitator for Cultural Center of the Philippines, National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Department of Education’s arts therapy, arts education and climate action programs. Abner has performed at Kuandu Arts Fest (Taiwan), collaborated at Asian Performing Arts Forum (Japan) and recently finished his Asian Cultural Council Grant (USA) focusing on post-dramatic, posthuman, intercultural, ecological and regenerative practices through performance research, training and network during the pandemic. As a multi-perspectival artivist-theatre maker, Abner explores the intersections of values, interconnectedness, rights, power, liberation, eco-justice and cosmic consciousness. www.abnerdelina.wixsite.com/abnerdelina |
Krista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator, based in the Bay Area, California. Artistic Director of KD>>Moving Ground, she is committed to developing new forms of performance work that engage interdisciplinary research between theater, dance, anthropology, ecology, social services, community engagement and more. Her employment in social services, practices in the field as an artist and white person engaging anti-racism, necessarily demand a deep commitment toward undoing systemic oppression. As project director of EchoTheaterSuitcase project, she works with military veterans and civilian non-veteran theater artists to make original performance work resulting in audience-interactive, site-responsive experiences. Current work includes NETWORK, a project inspired by Tree communities and what human communities can learn from them, is a collaboration between artists, scientists, foresters, trees, land, designers and more; a site-specific experience premiering in Summer 2022.
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Debra Disbrow creates, performs, and directs ensemble and solo works that cross disciplines of music, dance, and theater. Recently she co-created the comedic Ease and Flow ZoomCruise with Krista DeNio and fellow collaborators Jon and Larissa Velez-Jackson for New Dance Alliance. She performs and records vocals and synth with her band Swaaah, her own solo work and has co- directed and produced voiceovers for Voice of O Productions/Gameloft. She teaches embodied voice, physical and devised theater, movement improvisation and the intersection between them. Founding member of Workshop for Potential Movement (dance theater), Convergences Theater Collective, and IIAC. MFA in Theater- Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.
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Ursula Eagly is a choreographer based in New York City. Her works are characterized by a “rabbit-hole logic” (New York Times), and her research considers the potential of porosity. Works have been commissioned throughout New York City, and her interest in different artistic contexts has drawn her to sustained multi-year international projects—including with fellow IIACers Martín Lanz Landázuri, Arely Landeros, Kohji Setoh, and Iskra Sukarova. Ursula premiered a piece for psychosocial motor systems commissioned by Danspace Project last year, and her previous project, an iterative work performed in multiple mediums that was commissioned by The Chocolate Factory, is still available as a vinyl LP. www.ursulaeagly.org |
Conrado Falbo is an interdisciplinary artist working with movement, sound and drawing through the perspective of improvisation both as a creative and interactive approach to performance, teaching / researching and healing. Since 2011, as a member of Coletivo Lugar Comum (independent artist collective based in Recife, Brazil), he´s been experimenting with interdisciplinary performance in public spaces and collaborative creative practices. For the past eight years he´s also been intensely committed to the discipline of Authentic Movement (under the supervision of Soraya Jorge, who introduced the discipline in Brazil) and Contact Improvisation (having studied with teachers from various nationalities/backgrounds and organized workshops and festivals throughout Brazil).
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Ellen Fisher’s movement performance work incorporates visual and sound elements to create a landscape that challenges the audience through perceptual scale change and kinetic empathy. Ellen’s performance work and teaching is informed by ethnographic studies in South Asian culture. She is a recipient of a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship continuing her research and documenting Sri Lankan dance rituals. Ellen began performing with Meredith Monk/The House in the '70s, and continues today. |
Guillaumarc Froidevaux graduated from movement theater school Dimitri and has worked for various independent companies in Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Poland, and Slovakia. Beginning in 2007, he worked mainly in tandem with Z. Kakalikova as artistic director and performer in Compagnie T-d'U. Since 2011 he has been working as a performer in Studio Matejka and leads workshops that include body awareness, body rhythm and partner work. |
Jonathan Gonzalez is an artist and native New Yorker based between the United States and Berlin. He has been a Bessie Schonberg and POSSE scholar, Diebold Award recipient for Distinction in Performance & Choreography, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist, Brooklyn Arts Exchange/Dancing While Black Fellow, and New Voice in Live Performance/Center for Performance Research. His work engages the nature of abundance and dimensionality in interdisciplinary performance as they relate to his history of training in multiple disciplines of artistic practice, and continued interest in collaborative processes. He has had the pleasure to work with artists such as Jomama Jones, Ligia Lewis, Cynthia Oliver, and Alex Baczyinski-Jenkins.
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Jack Gray (Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngati Kahungunu) is an acclaimed dancer, choreographer, and scholar. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Gray first connected to his cultural roots through traditional Māori dance, Kapa Haka, and later discovered contemporary dance. In 2000, he founded the Atamira Dance Company, an all Māori contemporary dance theatre, which has since become one of the nation’s premiere dance companies. Most recently, Atamira premiered Mitimiti, a full-length performance work for which Gray conducted five years of research. It featured First Nation dancers from New Zealand, Australia, Guåhan (Guam), and the Kiowa People (Oklahoma). His previous performance highlights include: Ten Days on the Island (Australia), Festival of Pacific Arts (Solomon Islands), Asia-Pacific Dance Festival (Hawai‘i), and the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
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Daniel Han is a performer and musician, whose eclectic practice explores the spaces between movement, voice, and sound, searching for a human language within theatre. He has collaborated with Studio Matejka, The Grotowski Institute, and Song of the Goat Theatre and is Project Leader of Jubilo, an artistic expedition against social exile. He is a 2011 recipient of the Fulbright Grant. |
Federico Hewson is based in Berlin. Originally from California, with an Italian and British background, he calls himself an “Internationalist” having lived and worked in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York. He received his Master’s degree in Art Education at New York University. He is currently working on an illustrated book of flowers as tools of persuasion in revolutions and current political movements and art actions. His photo essay Teaching Flowers was published in Routledge's Teaching Artist Journal. Having been a performance artist, social entrepreneur, and art activist Federico is interested in how art and social evolution intersect including strategies of socially purposed business.
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Maré Hieronimus is an interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher who works across media, including video, photography, voice, as well as sound-scoring, all towards the creation of her body and site based work. Drawing from her interests in memory, mythology, sensory perception, embodiment, and the interface between body and landscape, she creates ritually based performance using the shifting field of the body as point of origin. Her work has been presented widely in NYC and beyond. She is a 2016 Playa Summer Lake Fellow (OR), a 2015 Djerassi Resident Artist (CA), and a 2014/2015 E|MERGE Resident Artist (MA). www.marehieronimus.com |
Sean Hudson is a visual artist based in Colorado. An exploration of communication and connection currently embodies his artistic practice. More specifically, the energetic & physical exchange that happens in interpersonal relationships. He is passionate about social harmony and creates imagery that expresses this ideal. www.seanhudsonart.com |
yaTande Whitney V. Hunter, Chicago-born, Philadelphia-based artist committed to #cultureascatalyst. With his co-created, NEA supported Denizen Arts, his work centers around cultivating individual and communal spirit through dance-performance, education and curation. yaTande has performed with world-renowned artists, and his choreographic and performance work has been presented nationally and internationally for which he has received several grants and commissions. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Art Theory and Aesthetics (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2013 David Driskell Fellow), and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Dance and Coordinator of the African Diaspora Dance Series at Temple University. www.whitneyhunter.com | Video | Facebook | Instagram
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Ivana Ivković is a dramaturg whose interests lay on the intersections of theater, contemporary dance, new media technologies, sound art, and radiophony. Either on her own or as a member of Zagreb-based performance collective BADco. she has co-authored a series of artistic projects for the stage, gallery, screen, radiowaves and page since 2004 that have been presented internationally, including at the Steirischer Herbst Festival, Berlin’s Volksbühne and the Venice Biennale. She regularly holds workshops and presents at international festivals, symposia and conferences. http://badco.hr/en/about/
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Marianne M. Kim is a Korean American artist working in screendance, video art, and multimedia installation. Her most recent video screenings include Athens Video Dance Project, Dance Film Association/Film Society of Lincoln Center, International Screendance Festival at American Dance Festival, MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, Agite y Sirva Festival Itinerante de Videodanza, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Ciné-Corps Festival de Films Sur La Danse. Kim’s short film Martiality, Not Fighting was awarded a Dioraphte Jury Award at Cinedans 2016 in Amsterdam, Best Performance Award at the Voarte – InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies in 2014, and Best Short Film at Dance Camera West 2015 in Los Angeles. She is currently Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance and Arizona State University.
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Takemi Kitamura was born and raised in Japan, and she is living in NY working as an energy healing practitioner and performing artist. She is a certified Reiki Master and Advanced IET practitioner, and a member practitioner at MINKA, Brooklyn NY. She is also a performing artist based in New York, and has worked with numerous companies and individual artists. She feels both performing art and energy work integrate herself and necessary parts of her life.
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eddy kwon (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. She is a United States Artists Fellow, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, and Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. She collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, Senga Nengudi, and Degenerate Art Ensemble, and is a guest curator & artist with International Contemporary Ensemble. www.eddykwon.net |
Pauline Lampton is an Australian First Nations descendant of both the Bundjalung tribe and of the Wiangumban tribe of North Tanna Island, Vanuatu. She is an alumna of NAISDA and has since worked with many Indigenous and non-Indigenous choreographers and independent artists within Australia for more than 25 years. Pauline has been a trainer and facilitator of the Indigenous Sports and Recreations Programs, working with many Indigenous communities across the region to deliver carnivals, healthy active weekly programs and cultural awareness training packages. Through her work, Pauline has developed a methodology, process and approach that is both culturally safe and engages the performing arts as a powerful platform which can bring healing to the voiceless and can both inform and be used as an action toward reconciliation. Her arts practice is driven by both past and current First Nations affairs. |
Martín Lanz Landázuri is an interdisciplinary artist based in Mexico City. He usually creates work for specific sites, bringing together ensembles of interdisciplinary artists, with the goal to integrate sound, movement, architecture, science and audience experience. Martín also collaborates, generating international exchange projects with different collectives, projects or organizations, focusing on mobility, geopolitics and creative process. Currently he is teaching at the National Center for Arts in Mexico City. Martín’s work is supported by the National Fund for Arts and Culture in México (FONCA) to do an exchange between México, Brazil, Japan and the E.U. through Laboratorio: Condensación, a project co-lead with Arely Landeros. www.laboratoriocondensacion.tumblr.com
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Arely Landeros is dedicated to performatic art and research in psycho-corporal therapy. She has studied psychology and has experience in social research and community interventions. She has coordinated Invisible Market within Laboratorio Condensacion, a meeting designed for the creation and interdisciplinary experimentation within the field of art and its social contexts. She has also participated in projects at the Institute for Research and Cultural Studies Museum (UABC), "Running into political ecuator” at PRISMA FORUM, Summer Scientific Research of the Pacific (UDG), KinoKabaret Cinema Lab Mexico City, "Foco al Aire” (dirs. Marcela Sánchez Mota and Octavio Zeivy), "Máquina de Teatro” (dir. Juliana Fraesler), and “Escandalizer” (dir. Martin Lanz). |
Under the name of LEIMAY, the artistic duo of Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya create individual and collaborative works ranging from sculptural, video, and light installations to photography, training projects, and contemporary performances. LEIMAY is based in Brooklyn, New York at their home, CAVE, where they develop and and share their work and the work of other artists. LEIMAY work has been presented in intimate settings and in houses of over 1500 spectators, as well as in visual art galleries, museums, and public places. LEIMAY creates work that confronts the veils that society has taken as facts, digging into humanity’s ambivalence through the creation of contemporary ceremonies and artifacts that aim to uncover the sources of life within us. www.leimay.org |
Abigail Levine is a New York-based choreographer and performer. Her works have been presented in the US, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and Taiwan, at venues including the Movement Research Festival, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Center for Performance Research, Roulette, Art in Odd Places, Judson Church, Foro Performática, and SESC São Paulo. Abigail was a reperformer in Marina Abramović's MoMA retrospective and has also performed recently with Carolee Schneemann, Clarinda Mac Low, Mark Dendy, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Will Rawls. www.abigaillevine.com
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Thea Little investigates the hybrid of performance art, dance-theater and experimental music through creating and performing solos and directing group works. Thea received her MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF and her BA from Columbia University. She has done choreographic residencies throughout Europe, The Lanchonete Residency in São Paolo, Brazil, the LEIMAY Fellowship, the LiftOff New Dance Alliance Residency, and the 100 Bogart Residency with Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation. Thea is proud to be on the Advisory Board of New Dance Alliance. She is also excited to be a National Sawdust Artist-in-Residence in 2018-2019 in Brooklyn, NY. www.thealittle.com
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Cosmin Manolescu is a dance maker, community builder and curator, independent cultural expert and artistic director of Serial Paradise Company/Gabriela Tudor Foundation based in Bucharest (Romania). He is currently interested in cross-border cultural exchange, experiments and artistic innovation, leading a series of international projects taking place across world, teaching and coaching young people and artists across borders and creating projects that challenge the audience in Romania and beyond. His works and projects have successfully been presented in important festivals and venues in Europe, USA and Asia. His recent artistic projects include "Dance-Wanderer", a tree-artistic project for urban and natural landscapes. Currently, Cosmin is the co-founder of the AREAL collective and administrator of AREAL, a new space for choreographic development in Bucharest, and organiser of the annual Gabriela Tudor residency program in Portugal and Bucharest. |
Jeanine McCain is a dancer, choreographer, cinematographer, and teaching artist. Her current research explores a sense of place within physical landscapes and how this shapes us as humans. She is excited by improvisation, site-specific work, and projection technology. McCain’s recent work has been performed in Colorado, Philadelphia, New York City, and at the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema and the World Dance Alliance Americas Assembly. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in Dance and Theatre from the University of Montana. McCain is an Associate Professor of Dance at Ursinus College. www.jeaninemccain.com
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Agnieszka Mendel is a vocalist, actress, and coach of voice and stage presence. She graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Gardzienice Theater Practices Academy. She is particularly fascinated by the possibilities of the human voice, which is why she has been collecting songs from various parts of the world and exploring various vocal techniques. For 15 years, she was closely associated with the European Center for Theater Practices Gardzienice, where she created leading acting and vocal roles in performances by Włodzimierz Staniewski. As part of her own artistic activity, she composes, writes texts and performs concerts. She is the leader of several music groups, including Tara Gayan and Yaron Trio. She has received numerous awards and scholarships in the field of culture.
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Deborah Middleton is a co-director of the Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research at the University of Huddersfield. She has a particular interest in relationships between mindfulness practices and psychophysical performance training. Deb's research influences include Nicolás Núñez of the Taller de Investigacion Teatral (Mexico), the Interactive Teaching Method of the Alexander Technque (Bristol, UK), and her trainings in shamatha-vipashyana meditation and Kripalu Yoga. Deb also writes and performs creative short fiction under a pen-name, Deborah Templeton, and as one half of the duo Bespoken. She teaches yoga-based and contemplative approaches to creative process.
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Deirdre Amirault Morris is a working member of Dancing Earth Indigenous Creations. She is also the founder/director of The Forgotten Body Remembers, a site for research and implementation of somatic practices, social justice ecologies, and community development through the arts. Her work has been most recently received at SITE Sweden, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, NM, Impulstanz/IDOCDE, & Artpolis/FemArt Festival (Pristina, Kosovo). Deirdre presented and published her research, Somatic Generosity: Cultivating Empathy in the Classroom and Beyond, at the Latin American Social Innovation Network, Panama City, Panama in September 2017. She earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Dramatic Arts and Performance Studies from UC Davis in 2014. theforgottenbody.com
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Eilon Morris is associate director of Duende and a member of OBRA theatre company and music groups Stems and Kelter. He is an associate artist of Whitestone Arts and research associate of the Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research. As a theatre practitioner and percussionist Eilon has also worked in recent years with companies including Dirty Laundry, Encounter Productions, Wild Goose, Unfinished Business, IOU and Chol, and recorded for BBC radio drama. In 2013 Eilon completed a PhD investigating the use of rhythm in psychophysical actor training at the University of Huddersfield and is recently released on a book on rhythm in acting and performance for Methuen Drama, published in 2017. |
Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary vocalist, composer and embodied voice teacher. Her artistic work ranges from orchestral music to sound installations and healing vocal sound baths. She leads workshops and retreats dedicated to the integration of mindfulness, communication, energy and play in releasing the resonant voice. As a solo performer her voice has been heard from Los Angeles to Australia, Madagascar, Mongolia and Vietnam. www.odeyanini.com
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Susan Oetgen creates and performs contemporary music theater, and facilitates workshops and teaching artist residencies that investigate the interrelationship between the performing arts and conflict resolution. Susan earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Catholic University of America and a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. www.susanoetgen.com |
Terre Parker is founding director of Mae/Movement Arts Ensemble and a former principal dancer of Anna Halprin’s Dance Company. Terre’s choreographic and video work has been presented by Videoholica Varna (Bulgaria), Université du Québec à Montréal, One People Voice Company (Java/Bali), Art in Nature Festival (CA), Sense of Place Dance Festival (WY), and Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Dance, among others. Terre’s artistic practice encompasses environmental and stage performance, dance video, visual scores, installation, participatory ritual, arts integrated curriculum, and teaching in a wide range of settings from museums to community centers to universities. With a certification in Halprin’s somatic approach and MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College, she teaches at Studio Firenze and for the University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Service.
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Isadora Paz Taboada is a Honduran-Argentinian dancer, choreographer, culture specialist and educator based in Tegucigalpa. She is co-founder of DA escenica and promotes intercultural dialogue, collective inquiry and experimentation through dance and movement. She has been a resident artist in the United States and France, and has attained a Masters in Politics and Development Studies in the Netherlands. She offers conferences and workshops on the political dimensions of the body, identity and performance. In 2016 she started a collaboration with IIAC founder Peter Sciscioli organizing in Tegucigalpa the Encounter ¨Resonancias del Cuerpo¨ as a learning space and collective exploration of voice, movement and site-specific work. https://www.facebook.com/daescenica/ |
Daniel Plá is a lecturer at Performing Arts department in the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – Brazil, where he is responsible for the subjects Classical Greek Theater (tragedy and comedy), acting techniques and directing. During his PhD he developed a research related to the intertwining of performance arts, meditation and mindfulness. As an actor and director he has worked in plays of different styles focusing in methodologies linked to the physical actions and different approaches of theatre pedagogy embracing psychophysical training and mindfulness cultivation. |
Paulina Ruiz Carballido is a choreographic artist interested in creating spaces of experimentation to reveal the interactions, confrontations and resonances of a body-voice in becoming, of a becoming world. She creates choreographic projects in which she investigates and co-creates links from ancestry and collective mythology trying to decolonize knowledge from the body in resonance with the community, the landscape and nature. She collaborates, resonates and intervenes as a choreographic artist, dancer and teacher in different projects, contexts and constellations of artists to sow other possibilities of cohabitation, peace, support and trust. Her choreographic, transmission, research and screendance work has been presented in festivals in Latin America, USA, Canada and Europe. www.paulinaruizcarballido.com | www.collectifvidda.com |
Tara Rynders is an international video dance artist who layers performance with intimate, interactive exploration and site-specific performance. Rynders is artistic director of “You & Me” and has performed at The Denver Art Museum, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Boulder Fringe Festival, The Atlas Black Box Theatre, On The Boards/Seattle, The Garage/San Francisco, Earthdance and The Nevada Art Museum. www.tararyndershouse.com |
Karoliina Sandström is a Finnish born actor, director, writer and researcher, currently based in Mexico City, where she is a founding member of Espacio Kuu, a performance training centre which is the base for her ongoing exploration of psychophysical training and performance. She has a Doctorate of Philosophy in Drama (2013) from the University of Huddersfield, which explored ideas of self and no-self within the process of actor training. She is also a member of the Theatre Research Workshop (TRW) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an associate of the Centre of Psychophysical Performance Research at the University of Huddersfield. www.facebook.com/espaciokuu |
Peter Sciscioli is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. He has performed and taught nationally and internationally since 1997 in countries from Mexico to North Macedonia, and has worked extensively with Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort, Daria Fain, and been in work by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Philip Glass, and Mary Zimmerman, among others. Peter began leading his workshops in Voice as Movement in 2009, and has since co-initiated The Sounding Body series at Movement Research in New York. He founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium in 2012, and continues his research at home and abroad.
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Kohji Setoh is a Japanese composer, a member of the artist collective flow, and a director of the artist collective ROOT CULTURE. Projects and pieces by flow have been introduced in many museums such as MoMA (NYC), Batofar (Paris), Art Sonje (Seoul), YCAM (Yamaguchi, Japan), and ICC (Tokyo). As a composer, his pieces have been published by Soup-Disk (Tokyo) and Sonore (France), as well as used for a television program of NHK, the Japanese national broadcasting company. He has also worked with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma on "Hold the Clock," which was produced by ROOT CULTURE. Kohji's works are highly renowned in Japan, and he holds a position as an associate professor for College of Music at Ferris University, Yokohama. |
Tal Shibi is a Jerusalem native, currently residing in the Earthdance habitat. Visual artist and stage/street performer, he is a student and teacher of Contact Improvisation, movement art and therapy. As a shiatsu and Watsu therapist, he appreciates the interplay between dance and bodywork, as well as art and therapy. Tal is curious about the exploration of the healing arts through movement and touch, and enjoys collaboration between different art forms. He draws inspiration from Authentic Movement, Invisible Theater, Playback, Contact, Music, and Dance. www.talshibi.com |
Born in Sapporo, Japan, Kensaku Shinohara is an artist who brings an education in anthropology to bear on his work as a choreographer/performer. He has presented his works in New York City, Tucson (AZ), Milwaukee (WI), Pittsburgh (PA), Toronto (Canada), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Tainan (Taiwan), Tokyo, Yokohama, Akita, Sapporo (Japan). Shinohara is a recipient of a Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant (2016), Japan Foundation Grant for Arts & Culture (2016), Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership (2015-16). www.kensakushinohara.com
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Iskra Shukarova is an established principal soloist and choreographer at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. She was a student of contemporary dance at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon, France, and in 2002 obtained her Master’s Degree at the Laban Center in London, UK. Iskra has collaborated with a number of U.S. and other international artists and is one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy project. Since 2010 she has been a professor at the department for ballet pedagogy as part of the state faculty of Music-Cyryl and Methodius in Skopje. |
Ana Sofrenovic is an award-winning international film and stage actress, vocalist, director and educator based in Belgrade, Serbia. She has played leading roles in some of the most significant film and theater productions in the former Yugoslavia and has appeared in several TV series for the BBC and ITV. Her experience in concert performance ranges from rock and jazz to music-theatre and contemporary music .She has been exploring voice through her own work and workshops as well as workshops by artists such as Meredith Monk, Shelley Hirsch, Jaap Blonk, Joan La Barbara, John Giorno, Maria Hussman, Morton Subotnik, David Moss, Sadeet Turkoz and many others. |
Ben Spatz is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, and a member of the Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research there. He is also a member of the International Federation for Theatre Research Working Group on Performance as Research, and an associate of the European Theatre Research Network. As performer and creator, his work has been seen at Abrons Arts Center, Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium, Centre for Performance Research, New York Live Arts, United Solo Festival, Cave Soak Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and elsewhere in New York City and beyond. Ben received his PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a former resident artist at Movement Research and Leimay/Cave, and his writing has been published in both academic and artistic journals. Ben’s book on embodied knowledge will be published by Routledge in 2015. www.urbanresearchtheater.com |
Zornitsa Stoyanova is an accomplished performance artist, writer, and designer whose work centers around exploring feminist ideas, power dynamics, and personal stories. Based between Bulgaria and the United States, Zornitsa founded BodyMeld, an organization that supports independent choreographers and showcases her own performances. Her stage, video, and photographic work use the female body as an abstract object, celebrating its strength and sensuality while conveying emotion and vulnerability. Zornitsa's performances have been featured in festivals across the US, Bulgaria, and France, earning her recognition and numerous awards. She is also committed to creating a sustainable dance community and has organized workshops and residencies in both her locales. Zornitsa teaches improvisation techniques for performance, dance on camera, and composition, both in-person and online. She is an editor for thinkingdance.net and as a mother of two continues to advocate for parents in the performance art field. www.bodymeld.org | Facebook | Instagram and Instagram |
Emily Sweeney is a dance-y performance artist and writer. She makes things out of improvisation, choreography, scores, poetry, installation, videos, time, Being Seen, sound, ecology, telepathy, touch, and other stuff. Originally from Vermont, but presently in California, Emily has led workshops, initiated laboratories, and created performances around Europe and North America. Emily is a bodyworker specializing in Acupressure. She is a proud performer of Deborah Hay’s “Dynamic” (2012), which she is constantly in the process of adapting, and has performed in the work of Claudia Bosse/theatercombinat at Impulstanz; with Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance; and Daria Faïn/PROSODIC BODY. www.emilysweeney.net |
Olivier Tarpaga is an award winning dancer-choreographer and musician, and the artistic director of Nomad Express International Multi-Arts Festival in Burkina. Olivier is the founder and artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Dafra Drum and co-founder of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project. Olivier’s music and dance have been acclaimed in over forty-five counties in Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. http://www.btdanceproject.com/
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Tatyana Tenenbaum is a choreographer and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her research seeks to bring sensational practices of music and movement into the same phenomenal body. She has taught classes on movement and voice through Movement Research (NYC), Temple University (Philly), Espacio Abimental (Bogotá, Colombia), and CLASSCLASSCLASS (NYC), among others. She has been creating original work since 2008 and has also performed in the work of Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Fain, Jennifer Monson, and Levi Gonzalez. She received dual degrees in dance and music composition from Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music. www.tatyanatenenbaum.com |
Claire Turner Reid is a movement artist with a dance, theatre, and internal martial arts background. With a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Windsor, she also has extensive performance and research experience in dance, theatre, and movement arts. Her current focus is full-time study of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (OCTCM) as well as a passion for human design and movement facilitated by her engagement with the Axis Syllabus International Research Community (ASIRC). |
Petra van Noort is a co-creator in the arts and healing arts. During her 25+ year performing arts career in dance theater, mostly in NYC and mostly working with companies that utilize a collaboratively creative model, she helped herself and her clients stay balanced with the complementary wellness modalities of reflexology and yoga in parallel careers. She has taught all of the above internationally in a wide variety of settings. Her most recent creations have been: “Not Meant To Be/Solo (Twinless?)", about Vanishing Twin Syndrome and “OTITO”, a parallel practices performance and design collaboration with Sondra Graff. www.petranyc.com
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Larissa Velez-Jackson
(LVJ) is a NYC-based choreographer, movement educator and multi-platform artist who uses improvisation as a tool for research and creation; blending dance, healing modalities, sound, internet art, humor and strategies of self-compassion in her original performance practice called, Star Pû Method (f.k.a. Star Crap Method). LVJ was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer and was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grant to Artists, in 2016. www.larissavelez.com |
Sugar Vendil (she/they) is a composer, pianist, interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Her work spans acoustic and electronic music, and performances that integrates music and dance. A late bloomer, she began making work in her mid-30’s. Current projects include “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia,” a memoir of a Filipinx American childhood that weaves music and movement and COMING OF RAGE, a maximalist eruption of AAPI voices. Vendil is also part of Emily Johnson/Catalyst’s “Being Future Being.” Her album, “May We Know Our Own Strength,” which includes her score for collaborations with filmmaker Jih-E Peng and artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, is out on Gold Bolus Recordings. www.sugarvendil.com | Facebook | Instagram |
Choreographer Edisa Weeks is working on Three Rites: Life, Liberty, Happiness, which integrates live music, dance, text and a visual installation to examine how America has promoted, protected, personified and pursued life, liberty and happiness. She formed DELIRIOUS Dances in 2003 to empower people through the immediacy of dance. Weeks creates mixed media interactive work in intimate environments. Her work has been performed in a variety of venues including The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, chashama arts, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Emory University, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, Harlem Stage, The Kennedy Center, The Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, The Mermaid Parade, The National Black Arts Festival, and Summerstages Dance Festival, as well as in storefront windows, senior centers, sidewalks and living rooms, including living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration. www.deliriousdances.com |
Tray Wilson is an actor trainer, director and performer based in the UK. Her training is informed by the European Laboratory tradition and martial arts practices. She has trained extensively with Phillip Zarrilli, Nicolás Núñez, Dr Deborah Middleton, and John Britton. Tray’s martial arts experience covers a range of forms including t’ai chi ch’uan, capoeira, kalarippayattu and kung fu. Tray received her MA in Ensemble: Physical Theatre at the University of Huddersfield and she is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance at University Campus Oldham. |
Lisa Wymore is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. She teaches courses in choreography, contemporary dance technique, performance, movement improvisation, and dance/technology. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts with Sheldon B. Smith, a dance-theater-performance group based in the Bay area. smithwymore.org |
Kota Yamazaki, born in Niigata, Japan, was first introduced to butoh under the teaching of Akira Kasai. Kota with Fluid hug-hug has been presenting work nationally and internationally since 2003. Kota is a recipient of the Bessie Award 2007 and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant award 2013. www.kotayamazaki.com
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Sarah Young is curious about the body's capacity for learning and creativity. As a movement artist, Sarah has worked most closely with choreographers Hilary Easton, Steven Koplowitz, Jill Sigman, David Dorfman, and the Treehouse Shakers, and has researched Contact Improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith and Chris Aiken. She is a Wisconsin native, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign alum, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Feldenkrais Practitioner, and former Executive Director at Earthdance. |
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Liz Charky (videographer) is a dance-theater and video artist. Her work has been presented by Dixon Place, Chez Bushwick, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dance Complex, Triskelion Arts, YES NOISE at the High Line, YoungArts at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the American College Dance Festival. She currently performs/collaborates with Cortney Andrews, Kim Brandt, Ayano Elson, Alexandra Pinel, Yara Travieso, and the feath3r theory, with recent premieres at BRIC, Center for Performance Research, The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, and STREB. www.lizcharky.com
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Karl Cooney (videographer)
Anna M. Maynard (photographer) Leonina Korneti Pekevska (Skopje, North Macedonia) Elena Risteska (Skopje, North Macedonia) |