People

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, co-artistic director of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, is a choreographer and performance artist. She is a Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa and taught at Ohio State. An AIR Headlands and Suitcase Fund recipient, she was also a Cultural Envoy throughout Africa. She co-directs a dance workshop in Burkina Faso, curates www.shiftafrica.wordpress.com, and has an MFA from UCLA. She toured with David Rousseve/REALITY and is an Associate of La Pocha Nostra. www.btdanceproject.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

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

Deborah Black was based for the last several years in Europe teaching physical theater and dance, and collaborating with two interdisciplinary companies: the Tuning People (Belgium) and YMIST Company (Norway). While previously living in New York City for nearly 15 years and working with Deborah Hay, Siobhán K Cronin, and the SITI Company, she began her current research of collective and individual daily practices, conflict management, and ecology. She grew up in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania.

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 is a contemporary musician, composer, performer, educator and writer from Brazil. Afro-European descending, she inherits the musical traditions from Bahia and Rio de Janeiro through her strong family influences. With a Bachelors (2000) and Masters (2005) in Piano Performance from Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), her career also explores her abilities as a singer and songwriter. Cândida is an Assistant Professor of Music for the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) since 2009, and a guest Professor for international universities, such as Montclair State University (US). With her classical background, she has been making music for films, ballet, theater, collaborations with DJ and producers, and especially for her own projects. She curates events and programs to promote and exchange Art, Education and Culture throughout Brazil and the world. She also writes articles for blogs and magazines about international art, as well as starring in film shoots and urban performances. 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

Krista DeNio is a choreographer, director, performer, writer, and educator, committed to developing new forms of performance work and evolving interdisciplinary thinking and creation between the fields of dance and theater (in particular). She collaborates with artists, educators, and activists across disciplines toward a creatively engaged and socially just world. www.kristadenio.com

Debra Disbrow creates, performs and directs ensemble theater and solo works that cross disciplines of dance, theater, and music. Based in Brooklyn, she has taught for The Center for Arts Education, Community Works, Wilma Theater, Mumpuppet Theater, University of Colorado, Naropa University, Earthdance, Spoke the Hub, and others. Founding member of Workshop for Potential Movement (dance theater). MFA - Theater - Naropa University.

Ursula Eagly is a New York-based choreographer who has developed long-term exchanges with artists in Macedonia, Japan, and Mexico. She is currently working with porous approaches to authorship and audience, bleeding out the boundaries a dance through permeable orientations in both process and performance. Eagly's work has been presented by The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, and The New Museum, among others. She is a 2015 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. www.ursulaeagly.org

Conrado Falbo is a performance artist, voice practitioner, Contact Improvisation dancer and musician based in Recife, Brazil. He is a core member of Coletivo Lugar Comum, an artist collective which investigates sustainable creative practices involving interdisciplinary performance. He’s also an independent researcher and holds a PhD in literary theory. Conrado’s artistic work is focused on the possibilities of voice in performance, using technology, improvisation, and dance both as creative and interactive strategies.

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.

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.

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 a teacher, performer, curator and world citizen. He's lived in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and is originally from San Francisco. A current grad student at NYU Steinhardt in a new Art Education/Activism program, he founded two non-profits and is interested in the nexus of art, performance and community engagement.

Maré Hieronimus is a Brooklyn-based 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). She is currently dance faculty at LIU/Brooklyn. 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

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. www.mariannekim.com

Martín Lanz Landázuri is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Mexico City. He feeds his work through research opportunities, which he has conducted in México, New York, Cuba, Denmark, Uruguay, and Austria. He has considered New York City a primary peer since 2006 and was a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Lanz Landázuri instigated the process-based festival Laboratorio Condensacion, which has taken place in Mexico, Brazil, and Uruguay and is now in its fourth year. www.laboratoriocondensacion.tumblr.com

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.

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

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.
www.hud.ac.uk | www.deborahtempleton.wordpress.com

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 currently working on a book on rhythm in acting and performance for Methuen Drama to be published in 2016.

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles-based experimental vocalist, mover, and contemporary composer of works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrete. As a vocalist she is devoted to redefining vocal interpretation and song through an exploration of extended vocal techniques and the physical body's language. Odeya’s work has been presented at venues and festivals around the US and internationally from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Canada, Odessa, Mongolia, and Vietnam. www.odeyanini.com

Mina Nishimura, originally from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and improvisational dance through Kota Yamazaki. She has been dancing and making works in New York since 2003. She has also been a guest faculty member at Bennington College and Ferris University (Japan), and is currently a Movement Research Artist-In-Residence in New York City.

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 Unité Parker creates (experimental, place-based) dances, videos, installations, and scores. Terre has performed with Anna Halprin (2003-2010) and directs the Movement Arts Ensemble (Mae) – an intergenerational company committed to creativity in service of the common good. Terre performs and teaches nationally, internationally, and locally at Studio Helix, Laurel Park, area colleges in Western Massachusetts, and with Enchanted Circle Theater. www.terreparkerdance.net

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.

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 New York-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music (voice and violin), and theater. He has performed and taught his workshop Voice as Movement nationally and internationally in countries from Mexico to 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. www.petersciscioli.com

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

Ana Sofrenovic is an award-winning 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. Her experience in concert performance ranges from rock and jazz to music-theater and contemporary music.

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

Iskra Sukarova 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.

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/

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

Petra van Noort, NYC-based, is originally from The Netherlands. She is grateful for having had the privilege of co-creating, teaching and performing dance theater works with multiple companies over the last 20 years (currently Jane Comfort and Company). Her body’s intelligence encourages her to continue to become more gentle, aware and joyously embodied, expanding the range of emotional authenticity. This inspires her practice, teaching, performance and work as an integrative, somatic practitioner. www.petranyc.com

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NYC-based choreographer/multi-platform artist. She was a Movement Research AIR '12-'13, a boo-koo resident ’14 at Gibney Dance Center, and an El Museo del Barrio AIR ‘14. Her last evening-length work “Star Crap Method” premiered at the Chocolate Factory Theater in 2014. She will premiere an evening-length work of her song and dance collaboration, YACKEZ at New York Live Arts in 2016.

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

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 currently the Executive Director at Earthdance.