Dance: Related Content
Bessie and Guggenheim award-winning dancer, choreographer, and videographer, and the artistic director of Cathy Weis Projects
Photograph © Richard Termine
Oguri is an internationally acclaimed dancer who has been described as a master at redirecting the way one sees and encounters the physical environment, his dance emphasizing the unpredictable. He produces full-evening solo and ensemble work, improvising and collaborating with musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, and literature.
A former principal dancer at Twyla Tharp Dance, choreographer, and Guggenheim winner
Curator, producer, poet, choreographer, and performance artist whose works #negrophobia (nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award) and Séancers have toured throughout Europe, appearing in major festivals. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.
Photograph © Umi Akiyoshi
Dancer, choreographer, and founder of Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, who is dedicated to including diverse communities as participants and audiences, developing teaching techniques to engage dancers of all levels and people of all ages and abilities
Dancer and choreographer Yanan Yu combines her experience in contemporary technique and Chinese traditional dance with interests in visual art, fine art, and mathematics.
Choreographer and visual artist whose recent show at The Chocolate Factory, Someone Once Called Me a Sound Man (2013), was named a Best of 2013 by Artforum magazine
Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NYC-based choreographer, movement educator, the Artistic Director of LVJ Performance Co. and a multi-platform artist who blends dance, healing modalities, sound, humor, strategies of self-compassion and intergenerational community practice.
Brian Lambert is the Technical Instructor in Lighting & Dance Production whose work in sound, lighting, and audio has taken him from the Big Apple Circus to the Dorset Theatre Festival, among many other places.
Londs Reuter is a dancer and choreographer who makes dances to examine her material—its inheritances, its possibilities, and its eventualities.
Former principal dancer and current artistic director of the Limón Dance Company
Photograph © Martha Swope
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou (known as ‘Bougobali’) is a dancer, choreographer, musician, storyteller, and Director of the In-Out Dance Festival in Burkina Faso. His work is a mix of West African Mandingo traditional dances, Brazilian capoeira, and theater expressions drawn from his work with influential European stage directors. His training in sacred and profane African traditional dance in his native country combines with other forms of expression to create a unique theatrical statement.
Leader in the field of explorative methods of dance-making whose career spans creating original roles for the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the 1980s to recent collaborative, durational performance installations that have been staged in the United States and Europe
Russell Stuart Lilie was a member in Shen Wei Dance Arts which is known for its large scale and immersive productions. His own work and teaching focuses on pattern and performance.
Michael Giannitti has extensive professional experience as a lighting designer and educator. He has designed lighting at many of the most prestigious venues around the country and has taught abroad as a two-time Fulbright Specialist Grant recipient.
Rebecca Brooks serves serves on the faculty at Movement Research and is an expert in the Alexander Technique.
Born in Niigata, Japan, Kota Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh under the teaching of Akira Kasai, then graduated from Bunka Fashion College (Tokyo) with BA in Fashion Design. He is a recipient of Bessie Award 2007, FCA Award 2013, NYFA Fellowship 2016, and Guggenheim Fellowship 2018.
Emmy, Tony, and Drama Desk Award-winning choreographer and director of musical theatre, film, and television whose work runs the gamut from performing in West Side Story on Broadway, directing Cindy Lauper and Rolling Stones videos, and choreographing numbers for Saturday Night Live
Choreographer whose work has been seen at venues including Danspace Project, REDCAT, and The Getty Center and who has danced in the companies of Trisha Brown, Terry Creach, and Stephanie Skura
Former principal dancer for the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company and Bessie award winner
Photograph © Philip Habib
2017 Guggenheim Fellow and creator of dances, video installations, and performance for The Kitchen, the Whitney Museum, and others. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.
Erin Ellen Kelly is a body based artist that creates performances and ephemeral collages for on-site presentation, the stage, installations, photographs and video. Her aim is for the body and its dance to explore nuanced relationships to environments and society.
Dancer who has performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, choreographed for her own company and independently, taught at universities and arts centers, and written reviews, features, and essays on dance for a variety of publications
Hilary Clark is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, performing in pivotal experimental dance and theater based work, touring nationally and internationally.
Davison Scandrett is a production manager and lighting designer specializing in experimental performance collaborations across dance, architecture, visual art, poetry, music, information science, criticism, theater, and responsive media.
Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and founder of the Next Wave Festival, which gave artists like Merce Cunningham and Twyla Tharp audiences long before they became American icons