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Artists

 
Prime Time
 
the TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble dedicated to creating new work about the experience of living in America today. The Guardian once described us as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams and the American psyche.” Combining aggressive athleticism with emotional performances, our work crashes characters from American history and mythology into modern...

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Prime Time
 
Ah Mer Ah Su is the music project of interdisciplinary artist Star Amerasu, whose music and art is based upon her experiences living loud and proud as a queer black trans woman. While her early work was influenced primarily by folk and choral music, she now experiments with electronic indie...

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Prime Time
 
Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans-genre artist living in New York City.  As a performer both on and Off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), the Ethyl EichelbergerAward (2007), The Peter Reed Foundaton Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for...

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Prime Time
 
Biography Trajal Harrell’s work has been presented at many venues including The Kitchen, Danspace Project, The New Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Boston, The Margulies Art Warehouse (Miami), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Art Basel Miami Beach, Dance Mission (San Francisco, CA), Cornell University’s...

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Purchase Dance Company
 
CONSERVATORY OF DANCE AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY The Purchase Dance Company is thrilled to debut the next generation of leading dance artists during their fourth New York City season at NYLA. Cast members are selected from the highly competitive Conservatory of Dance BFA program at Purchase College, SUNY, which, according...

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Rabbi Mark Sameth
 
A New York Times Op-Ed by Rabbi Mark Sameth Is God Transgender? went viral last summer. In his forthcoming book, Rabbi Sameth traces the history of the dual-gendered god of Ancient Israel, whose unpronounceable four-letter name scholars refer to as the Tetragrammaton. Rabbi Sameth’s series on gender-bending in the...

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Rachid Ouramdane
 
Biography Prior to founding the L’A. company in 2007 – a site for artistic exploration of contemporary identity – choreographer Rachid Ouramdane had collaborated with artists such as Emmanuelle Huynh, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Meg Stuart, Catherine Contour, Christian Rizzo, Jeremy Nelson, Alain Buffard, and choreographer Julie Nioche, with whom he...

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Radouan Mriziga (Morocco)
 

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Raimund Hoghe
 
Raimund Hoghe was born in Wuppertal and began his career by writing portraits of outsiders and celebrities for the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". These were later compiled in several books. From 1980 – 90 he worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal which also became the subject matter...

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Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory
 
the feath3r theory (TF3T) is a New York City-based dance-theatre-media company that produces the work of Artistic Director and Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. As a collaboration of dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, photographers and designers, TF3T explores pop-culture and current cultural phenomena, building original performances that skillfully combine, deconstruct, and reimagine elements...

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Ralph Lemon
 
Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, director, writer, artist  and curator who is artistic director of Cross Performance, Inc. He develops intellectually rigorous and experimental performances that are as socially and politically resonant as they are personal, including the multimedia collaborations Scaffold Room (2014); and How Can You Stay in the...

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Randy Cohen
 
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for...

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Raphael Xavier
 
Raphael Xavier is an award winning artist from Wilmington, Delaware. Now living in Philadelphia, he is a self taught Breaking practitioner since 1983. Raphael has forged an exceptional approach to improvisation. Brenda Dixon Gottschild deemed Xavier, ‘A fine movement technician’. Searching for a fresh new approach to expand...

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Rashaad Newsome
 
Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including collage, sculpture, film, music, computer programming, and performance, to form an altogether new field. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic works that use the diasporic traditions...

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Rashaun Mitchell
 
Rashaun Mitchell started his dance training at Concord Academy and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2000. Since then, he has worked with many dance artists including: Chantal Yzermans, Donna Uchizono, Pam Tanowitz, Risa Jaroslow, Sara Rudner, Jonah Bokaer, Richard Colton, Deborah Hay, Rebecca Lazier and Silas Riener. He has...

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Rebecca Carroll, Farai Chideya, Bret Stephens, & Roger Berkowitz
 
Rebecca Carroll is Editor of Special Projects at WNYC, where she develops, hosts, and produces podcasts, live events, and culture stories. She is a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times and the author of several interview-based books on race including Sugar in the Raw and Saving the Race. Her essays, cultural criticism, and opinion pieces have...

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Rebecca Lazier with Dan Trueman & Mobius Percussion
 
Rebecca Lazier is a New York-based choreographer dedicated to creating work that examines the tensions between abstraction and sensory states, formalism and spontaneity, and the pursuit of individual agency while creating community. Lazier has collaborated with new music composers and ensembles including Shane Shanahan, Jody Elff, Fred Ho, Dan Trueman,...

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Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group
 
Biography Reggie Wilson (Artistic Director, choreographer and performer) founded his company, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the movement languages of the blues, slave and spiritual cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create...

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Regie Cabico
 
Regie Cabico is one of the country's leading innovators and pioneers of poetry and spoken word, having won 3 top prizes in the 1993, 1994 & 1997 National Poetry Slams and winning The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. Bust Magazine ranked him in the 100 Men We Love & The...

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Regina Nejman/Regina Nejman & Company
 
Regina Nejman is a New York City-based choreographer who creates works of contemporary modern dance that blend theater, installation, video projection, inventive sets and spoken word. Since 1993, Regina has been choreographing dances for presentation at numerous New York City venues and international locations. In 1997, she founded Regina Nejman...

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Ren Guang-Yi (Master Ren)
 
As a senior student of Chen Xiao-Wang, Ren Guang-Yi (Master Ren) teaches and promotes the classical Chen family forms as taught by Chen Xiao-Wang. The forms include the 19 and 38 Movement Short Forms created by Chen Xiao-Wang; Lao Jia Yi Lu and Er Lu; Xin Jia Yi Lu and...

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Rena Butler
 
Rena Butler is a native of Chicago, IL. She has danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance, Mettin Movement, as a guest artist with Luna Negra Dance Theater, and for Manuel Vignoulle-M/Motions. She has been featured in FORMA magazine, Refinery29.com, The Dance Enthusiast, Jordan Matter’s Dancers Among Us and Dance Magazine. She...

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Renegade Performance Group
 
Renegade Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company creating innovative artistic work from Black and African Diaspora aesthetics and expressions through contemporary dance, site-specific performance and technology. Renegade Performance Group collaborates with artists of all genres on projects that stretch performance presentation. Renegade Performance Group was founded in...

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Renegade Performance Group
 
André M. Zachery (b. 1981) is the artistic director of Renegade Performanc Group and an interdisciplinary artist who creates performances, interactive media installations, film, and sound art. He earned a BFA from the Ailey/Fordham program in 2005 and a MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College...

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Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir, Chloe Webb and Hal Willner
 
Reverend Billy has won an OBIE Award, the Alpert Award, The Dramalogue Award and The Historic Districts Council's Preservation Award and has been jailed more than 50 times. He was a central figure of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and toured 25 OWS tent communities from Zurich to Oakland, CA with...

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Rhizomatiks Research x ELEVENPLAY x Kyle McDonald
 
Rhizomatiks Research Rhizomatiks Research mainly takes up projects focusing on the field of research and development, and sets priority in opening a new expression for the future. The team which is leading Rhizomatiks Research, has produced projects with artists such as Perfume and ELEVENPLAY...

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Richard Move and MoveOpolis!
 
Richard Move is Artistic Director of the transdisciplinary collective MoveOpolis! He is a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow, Ph.D. (ABD) in Performance Studies at New York University and Assistant Professor of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Queens College, CUNY. Move’s commissions include productions for Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project,...

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Richard Move and MoveOpolis!
 
Under the Direction of Richard Move, along with a dynamic Advisory Board, MoveOpolis! serves as the umbrella organization for a range of multi-disciplinary projects with the mission to provide a supportive, nurturing infrastructure for the collective’s ventures, collaborators and artistic goals. The works of Richard Move and MoveOpolis! include live...

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Robert Ashley
 
Robert Ashley (1930-2014) is particularly known for his work in new forms of opera. In Ann Arbor in the 1960s, Ashley organized the ONCE Festival and directed the legendary ONCE Group, with whom he developed his first operas. Throughout the 1970s, he directed the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills...

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Robert Wierzel
 
Robert Wierzel has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new music, opera and museums, on stages throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land,...

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RoseAnne Spradlin
 
Biography RoseAnne Spradlin, the 2017-2019 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, is an award-winning, New York City-based experimental artist whose choreographic works explore the body and its consciousness.  “X” unspools its scenes of discipline, threat and ritual in a raw terrain, open...

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Rude Mechs
 
Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created 21 original works and produced another handful of plays by other people. We tour our original work nationally and abroad whenever we can; maintain The Off Center, a performance venue in Austin for arts groups of every discipline; and run a year-round arts mentoring...

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Rude Mechs + Deborah Hay
 
Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created a mercurial slate of 25 theatrical productions that represent a genre-defying cocktail of big ideas, cheap laughs and dizzying spectacle. What these works hold in common is the use of play to make performance, the use of theaters as meeting places for audiences and...

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s. lumbert
 
s. lumbert is a transgender dance artist currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). s. is committed to a practice of navigating how to be in zis body as a person who experiences chronic illness, and is interested in cultivating accessible spaces in dance. s. collaborates in live performance...

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Saúl Ulerio
 
Saúl Ulerio is a classical artist from the Dominican Republic and has been making works and performing in the mediums of sound and dance performance in New York City since 2006. Ulerio has initiated a 25 year exploratory choreographic process rooted through his deep passion for the art of music,...

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Salvatore Larussa
 
Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre has been hailed as an extraordinary force in the local and national dance scene. Founded in 2004 by Queens, NY native choreographer and artistic director Salvatore LaRussa, this dance theater company presents its audiences with a dynamic and emotional blend of choreography that is theatrically explosive....

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Sam Crawford
 
Sam Crawford completed degrees in English and Audio Technology at Indiana University in 2003. A move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass and Björk. His recent sound designs and compositions have included works for the Bill T....

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Sam Kim
 
Since 2002, Sam Kim has created several, long works presented as seasons in NYC:  Darling (Performance Space 122, 2009), dumb dumb bunny (The Kitchen, 2007), Cult (Dance Theater Workshop, 2007), AVATAR (Mulberry St Theater, 2006), Nobody Understands Me (Dance Theater Workshop, 2004), Placid Baby (Performance Space 122, 2003) and Valentine...

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Sandhi Smalls Santini
 
The Last Chanteuse (A solo performance based on the life and times of entertainer Eartha Kitt) Sandhi Smalls Santini is a performer and playwright based in New York City. THE LAST CHANTEUSE is her first fulllength play. She (Sandra Smalls) received her B.A. in Journalism from the Howard University...

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Sarah Council Dance Projects
 
Artist Statement My name is Sarah Council; I create emotionally evocative and physically honest modern dance works for my Astoria, Queens-based dance company, Sarah Council Dance Projects (SCDP). SCDP was formed in 2007 as a platform for my choreographic investigations and the creation of new works. These works emerge from a...

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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 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 genderfluid drag queen and theater artist, who took home the crown on “RuPauls Drag Race” Season 9, where she was an advocate for more inclusive representations in drag, the activist reclamation of queer history, and fierce unforgetable lip-synching! As a live artist she may be best...

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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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Saul Williams
 
Saul Williams has been breaking ground since his debut album, Amethyst Rock Star, was released in 2001 and executive produced by Rick Rubin. After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings at the turn of the century, Williams has performed in over 30...

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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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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
 
TRIBE is a Brooklyn/NYC based arts collective dedicated to creating, developing and sharing original multidisciplinary art projects.  Understanding that performance art and live art are practices of human connection, TRIBE acts nationally and internationally by developing art exchanges and performances in collaboration with institutions and artists, with a focus...

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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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