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Artists

 
Sarah Dahnke/Round Tuit Dance Project
 
Sarah Dahnke is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, multimedia artist, and arts educator. She has earned a bachelors in dance performance from Oklahoma City University, a masters in interactive telecommunications from New York University. She began her professional career as a dancer touring the U.S. and Europe, performing everywhere from City Center...

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SARAH HORNE / RAHDANCEWORKS
 
Sarah Horne grew up in St. Croix, USVI and founded RahDanceWorks in 2011 so that she could combine her artistic passions with her interest in community development. Considering herself a “Third Culture Kid,” someone who was raised in a culture outside of their parents’ culture, her education came in many...

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Sarah Horne / SoHa Dance
 
Sarah Horne is a choreographer, arts administrator, and performing artist based in New York City. She grew up on the island of St. Croix (USVI) and around the world in places like Rome, Italy, and Bangkok, Thailand. Sarah received her BFA in Dance from SUNY Brockport, where her passion for choreography...

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Sarah Jones
 
 Called “a master of the genre” by The New York Times, Sarah Jones is a Tony® and Obie Award-winning performer and writer known for the multi-character, one-person Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, originally produced by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, and her current, critically-acclaimed show Sell/Buy/Date. Renowned as “a one-woman global village”,...

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Sarah Mettin / Mettin Movement
 
About Mettin Movement   Described by Karen Shapiro of the Wet Paint Journal as “one to watch", Mettin Movement is a contemporary dance company based out of New York City. Founded in 2011 by Artistic Director, Sarah Mettin, Mettin Movement exposes the versatility, strength and physicality of aspiring dancers while compromising the...

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Sasha Velour
 
Sasha Velour is a gender-fluid drag queen, known for winning season 9 of the Emmy-winning reality TV competition, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and as the creator and director of the acclaimed drag show Nightgowns, which she has produced in theatres in New York, London, and Los Angeles. Velour’s live performances have...

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Satore Studio, a_bahn, Satore Tech
 
Satore Studio is an international, multi-disciplinary creative studio with offices in London, Paris and New York. In collaboration with experts ranging from artists to architects, the studio uses its expertise in storytelling, lighting and technology to take projects from concept to activation. Satore Studio has worked with many of the biggest...

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Sean Dorsey
 
Sean Dorsey is an award-winning San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the U.S.’ first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has toured his work to 30 cities. Dorsey has been named “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly) and named in Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch....

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Shane Larson
 
Shane Larson was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in...

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Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre/ Billy Blanken
 
Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre was created in 2016 by Billy Blanken as a launchpad for exploring performance. The project aims to create works of dance and physical theatre. Repertoire ranges from the Avant-Guard to Classical Ballet to reflect the human condition at it’s core. Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre is a...

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Sherrilyn Ifill, Lawrence Lessig, Bill T. Jones, Alicia Hall Moran, & Matt Acheson
 
Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Ms. Ifill is a long-time member of the LDF family. After graduating law school, Ifill served first as a fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union and then for five years...

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Sidra Bell Dance New York
 
SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK, is an award winning boutique brand of prolific movement illustrators based in New York City that presents and fosters innovative and progressive dance theater in a world of ideas and (im)possibilities. SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK is rapidly gaining an international profile for work that reveals aspects...

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SITI Company
 
SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theater artists, and a commitment to international collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through...

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Slain in the Spirit/Lisa Milinazzo
 
I am excited by material which teeters on the edge of comedy and tragedy.  I like depicting extreme worlds.  My vision is to create a cauldron of peculiar, lively and desperate personalities and circumstances that I want to bring to vibrant life. I often like characters that are dark and...

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Solomon Weisbard
 
Weisbard is Brooklyn-based and Oregon-born. Since 2006, he’s created various projects with Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, most recently Story/Time, Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray, and 100 Migrations. Other lighting designs: Rite of Spring(Martha Graham); The Soldier’s Tale (with Michael Cerveris at Yale / Carnegie Hall);Stones in his Pockets (Yale Rep); Macbeth (Arden); Luis...

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Soomi Kim
 
As a Korea born, NYC based actor/movement artist/choreographer/theatre maker, I am passionate about telling stories that lend to the American Theater landscape, expressed through a female Asian American lens. I am interested in breaking boundaries in creative practice as well as form. My work has taken shape in...

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Sophia Cleary / REHEARSAL
 
Sophia Cleary is a performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder and coordinator of the works-in-progress series REHEARSAL and is co-editor for Ugly Duckling Presse's performance annual Emergency INDEX....

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Sophie Sotsky
 
Sophie Sotsky is a Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer. Sotsky has recently received support from GO!: An Emerging Artist Commissioing Program at the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics, Work Up at Gibney Dance and Salem Art Works. Sotsky has also shown work at Movement Research at the Judson Church, The...

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Souleymane Badolo
 
Souleymane ‘Solo’ Badolo was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He started his professional career as a dancer for the DAMA, a traditional African dance company, and in 1993, he founded his own Burkina Faso-based troupe, Kongo Ba Téria, fusing traditional African and western contemporary dance aesthetics. Solo has danced with...

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Souleymane Badolo with Cynthia Oliver
 
Souleymane ‘Solo’ Badolo was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He started his professional career as a dancer for the DAMA, a traditional African dance company, and in 1993, he founded his own Burkina Faso-based troupe, Kongo Ba Téria, fusing traditional African and western contemporary dance aesthetics. Solo has danced with...

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Stacy Spence
 
Biography Stacy Matthew Spence is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer based in New York City. Stacy’s work has been commissioned by Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, EDge at London Contemporary Dance School, The University of New Mexico, and the OtherShore Dance Company in New York. In addition he has...

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Steps Beyond Foundation presents
 
The Steps Beyond Foundation is dedicated to developing and sustaining dance artists and to the cultivation of the dance community.  Specifically, the Foundation supports excellence in the field by (1) providing collaborative opportunities among established and emerging artists through new work presentations, (2) encouraging dialogue on specific issues that educate,...

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Steps Conservatory
 
The Steps Conservatory Program, a 2-year multidisciplinary program, provides intermediate and advanced dancers ages 17 – 24, intensive training with Steps world renowned faculty and guest artists, performance opportunities, and mentoring and career guidance. The program creates polished, versatile dancers, brimming with the confidence and enthusiasm to enter the competitive...

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Stewart Hurwood
 
Originally from the UK, Stewart Hurwood grew up in a town near Cambridge, the same neck of the woods as Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. Hurwood was a guitarist in school which led to forming a band and joining the local music scene. At that time, live music was thriving....

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Stuart B Meyers
 
Stuart B Meyers (@stuartbmeyers) is a Queer, Jewish artist and performer. Stuart’s worked alongside Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, A.R.M. and Tino Sehgal, and has performed internationally in venues including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), The Stedelijk...

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Suitcase Fund Partners
 
Mojca Jug finished her primary and secondary education in Ptuj and from 1995 – 2000 studied Special Education at Faculty of Education in Ljubljana. In 1998 she began to work for Bunker as coordinator and administrator of the first edition of international festival of theatre and dance Mladi Levi. Since joining...

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Susan Marshall & Company
 

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Susan Rethorst
 
Biography Choreographer Susan Rethorst punctuates her 100-hour creative residency with two work-in-process conversations with Melinda Ring. Rethorst and Ring will discuss the creation of 208 East Broadway Exploded and 208 East Broadway SOLD as well as Rethorst’s ideas of collaborating with circumstances and physical surroundings, and her past and future experiences...

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Susan Tenney
 
Director-Choreographer Susan Tenney has forged a unique fusion of interdisciplinary work – combining dance, theater, and spoken text. Her repertoire, in addition, contains a great many pure dance pieces ranging from the lyric to the elegiac, from pop culture to the austerely classic.

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Tabula Rasa Dance Theater
 
Tabula Rasa Dance Theater was founded in 2018 by choreographer Felipe Escalante. To ignite an explosion of artistic productivity and social awakening, the company that believes choreography must elicit powerful and sometimes disturbing emotions. Even when the work calls attention to the social problems of our day, it transcends time...

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TAKE Dance
 
Takehiro “Take” Ueyama was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the United States in 1991 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. Upon graduation, Take was invited to join the Paul Taylor Dance Company. In 2003, he made his choreographic debut “Tsubasa” which...

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Talli Jackson
 
Talli Jackson was born and raised in Liberty, NY. He received his first training with Livia Vanaver at the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in upstate New York. He has been a recipient of full scholarships from the American Dance Festival in ‘06 and ’08, the Bates Dance Festival, and the...

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Tara O' Con
 
Tara O’Con’s work has been presented consistently since 2005 in showcases around NYC, including Dancenow | NYC, and Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks Residency Series (2007). Her work has also been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project and twice at The Chocolate Factory Theater. Her lates work created for the...

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Taylor Mac
 
Taylor Mac is a theater artist (who uses the gender pronoun, judy) which means judy’s a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, performance artist, director and producer. TimeOut New York has called Mac “One of the most exciting theater artists of our time” (naming judy the best cabaret performer in New York in...

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Ted Coffey
 
Ted Coffey makes acoustic and electronic chamber music, interactive installations, and songs. His work has been presented in concerts and festivals across North America, Europe and Asia, at such venues as Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Roulette, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center (NYC), The Lab, New Langton Arts, Zellerbach Hall,...

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Tere O'Connor Dance
 
Tere O'Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 35 works for his company. He is recognized as one of our nation's most influential contemporary choreographers. The company has performed his works throughout the US, Europe, South America, and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works for...

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Tess Dworman
 
In my choreography and performance, I attempt to evoke landscapes of action and character where familiarity is conjured and bent. There are never stories or messages in my dances, but I work with the assumption that there could be. The way that I improvise and pin together choreographic structures is...

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Thami Manekehla and Thabiso Pule
 
Hector Thami Manekehla was born in Soweto South Africa; he started dancing after leaving his favorite sport, cricket. In 1998 he joined Soweto Dance Project under the directorship of Carly Dibakwane, were he met other choreographers. He was involved in various projects and collaborations with different choreographers and dancers from...

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The Bang Group
 
Biography THE BANG GROUP is a contemporary theatrical dance troupe which is devoted to choreographer David Parker’s fascination with the rhythmic potential of the dancing body.  At the center of his work is an abiding love of rhythmic form and the intensity of communication it allows between audiences and performers.  Among...

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The Canales Project
 

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the CURRENT SESSIONS/Alexis Convento
 
"…a true breeding ground for artists." -Matthew O'Donnell, DIY Dancer, July 2012 The CURRENT SESSIONS is a contemporary dance series which showcases works from choreographers in NYC + beyond. The CURRENT SESSIONS was conceived in July 2011 to bring like-minded contemporary choreographers together and present work that is in-the-moment and reflective of...

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The D.R.E.A.M. Ring
 
Led by Flex pioneer Reggie 'Regg Roc' Grey, The D.R.E.A.M. Ring (Dance Rules Everything Around Me) strives to provide quality competitions that honors the culture of the Brooklyn community, encourages artistic and character development, provides youth with a safe environment to express their artistry, ensures a wealth of opportunities such...

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The Dance Cartel // Choreographer Ani Taj
 
The Dance Cartel is after a new brand of dance experience.  Taking note of a dance community that often serves a niche audience, the Cartel creates dances that are vibrant, immersive, and often participatory.  Without sacrificing technical rigor or artistic ambition as a dance company, we endeavor to employ the...

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The Dancing Mania I Jessie Winograd
 
Chapter 1, Section 1 of The Dancing Mania   Jessie Winograd, concept & direction Sydney Maresca, co-creator & costume design Ira Joan Macner, co-creator Kym Bernazky, deviser/performer Jamie Graham, deviser/performer   Chapter 1, Section 1 of The Dancing Mania is an evening-length devised dance theater piece based on the true...

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The Eagle Project
 
Exploring American identity through performing arts and our Native American heritage Ryan Victor Pierce is Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, originally from Southern New Jersey and Delaware. While he grew up around various US cities (Cincinnati, Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area), he had the privilege and the honor of receiving his...

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The House Party
 
Bubble_T is a community of collaborative and creative minds continuing the conversation of visibility, inclusiveness, diversity and love. An Asian/Pacific/Queer collective focused on supporting and lifting the community we share.   Switch n’ Play (SnP) is a Brooklyn drag collective established in 2006. Queer in every sense of the word, SnP spans...

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The Jinah Parker Project
 
Jinah Parker is a multi­faceted creative force from Buffalo, NY. She was a member of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II (DCDC2), Lehrerdance, Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company and Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater, where she soon became a commissioned choreographer. Jinah has also worked as a full­time dance educator in both the Buffalo and New York City Board of Education.  Her specialties lie in modern technique, dance composition, and curriculum writing.  Jinah recently resigned from the Department of Education and started “The Jinah Parker Project,”  an arts organization created to inspire people of all backgrounds through dance, choreography, and education. Tackling major social issues in America and globally Jinah views dance as a transformative tool to encourage cultural exchange, courageous conversations, and individual and community action. In short Jinah’s art is for ‘the people” and is inspired by everyday people. Her newest major effort in that regard is SHE, a multimedia suite on sexual violence against women and girls, Sandra Bland, and healing.

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The Mill/Michou Szabo
 
I create dance works that present the human spirit as unadorned as possible. Raw, exposed and dynamic – the physical language reflects the intimacy of life and the power of shared and individual experiences, exposing vulnerability, human fragility and the vast emotional terrain of the human soul.  The work exists...

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The Next Stage Project (TNSP)
 
Founded in 2002 by Artistic Directors Marijke Eliasberg and Jana Hicks, The Next Stage Project (TNSP) is a dance collective, which creates performance opportunities and experiences to help dancers further their careers and realize their dreams. By forming partnerships between artists from around the globe, creating and seeking national and...

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THE PROSODIC BODY for The Commons Choir
 
THE COMMONS CHOIR, a core and variable cast of roughly 30 international and diverse singers, actors, composers and people, is the performative aspect of the Prosodic Body, a new field of research founded...

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