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Artists

 
Olivia Jane Smith
 
Olivia Jane Smith is a New York-based writer and editor with a focus on the performing arts. She hopes her work will make people want to know more, and hopefully see for themselves, the artists and performances she writes about. She is thrilled to be part of the Context Notes...

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Open Spectrum
 
An intimate conversational platform founded on the belief that cultural institutions can and should be a catalyst for societal transformation by participating in a world of ideas. Open Spectrum provides a space for community dialogue on the most vital issues facing our community today, engaging participants in active listening, constructive...

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Opera Dolce, Inc.
 
Opera Dolce was founded in 2009 with a mission to produce operatic performances of the highest artistic quality.  We aspire to exceed the expectations of demanding opera fans as well as engage potential converts.   Our objectives are:

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Orlando Hernández
 
Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer who has performed around the US and abroad, including at On the Boards, the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Guggenheim, Joe’s Pub, A.R.T. Oberon, the Royal Theater Carré (Amsterdam), and La Casa Ruth (Puerto...

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Ostara Ball
 
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer and musician who’s been supplying creativity for punk rock, publishing, & social justice movements since she was a teenager in Miami, circa 1997. Road self-published Green’zine for ten years, and has since released three illustrated novels which tackle gender, sexuality, mental health...

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OUI DANSE/Brice Mousset
 
Brice Mousset is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of OUI DANSE, a project based dance company created in 2013 in New York City. Born and raised in Paris, France, Mousset studied Biology and Human Sciences at Nanterre University before falling into the world of dance. After an eclectic performing...

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OUR NEED FOR CONSOLATION
 
In 1947, the young and wildly successful Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (http://www.dagerman.us/) meets Viennese-Jewish intellectual Etta Federn in her hotel room in Paris. They become friends. Or do they? Federn worships her dead son, a hero in the French Resistance. But how does she treat the son who’s still alive?...

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Over The Rainbow
Marlowe Scott  
Marlowe Scott, Visionary, of the award winning musical Over The Rainbow: The Rock Ballet and upcoming Docuseries Over The Rainbow presents “Let it Rock” in which both formats feature an all youth multicultural LGBTQ+ and Allies pre-professional cast. Marlowe began his dance training with Joanne Costa Kennedy in his hometown Elizabeth,...

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Paige Martin
 
Biography Paige Martin has been making her own brand of dance while also making performance that operates outside the confines of dance since the early 90’s. Her movement focuses on a quality of being that, although recognizable when framed in ‘performance’, is otherwise overlooked. She is inclined to use mundane events...

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Pam Tanowitz
 
Biography Pam Tanowitz has been making dances since 1992. Tanowitz holds a BFA in Dance from the Ohio State University and an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was mentored by former Merce Cunningham principal dancer Viola Farber-Slayton. She founded Pam Tanowitz Dance in 2000, and has received...

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Passion Fruit Dance Company - Tatiana Desardouin
 
Performance Update June 2nd to June 5th 2022 (Ontario/Canada) at the Guelph Festival 2022 “Dance Within Your Dance” excerpt: https://guelphdance.ca/2022-guelph-dance-festival/ Wednesday JUNE 8th 2022, 5.30PM – 7PM at 92NY: DISCOVER “DIMENSIONS” WIP IN A SHORT DOCUMENTARY SCREENING CALLED “Into The Process” part 1.

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Patricia Hoffbauer, Sam Kim, Pam Tanowitz, Colleen Thomas
 
Patricia Hoffbauer is a Brazilian-born choreographer, director, performer and educator. In addition to  creating her own work, she has developed a 10-year artistic collaboration with writer/performer George Emilio Sanchez with whom she has toured throughout the United States and Latin America. In 2002-03 Ms. Hoffbauer and Mr. Sanchez were the...

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Patricia Noworol Dance Theater
 
Patricia Noworol directs her company, which is based in New York City, in the creation of evocative Dance and Physical Theater performances. Since its inception in 2008, PNDT has been presented at The Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Danspace Project, 92nd Street Y, Manhattan Movement Arts Center, Duo Theater, Atlas Theater, Fete de...

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Patricia Noworol Dance Theater (PNDT)
 
Based...

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Pauline Oliveros, IONE and John Cage
 
Pauline Oliveros (1932) is a composer and improviser. She plays a custom Titano acoustic accordion and the Roland V Accordion FR7X in her solo and ensemble improvisations as well as Expanded Instrument System (EIS), an ever-evolving electroacoustic processing unit of her design. She performs extensively locally and in many parts...

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Pavel Zuštiak and Palissimo Company
 
Born in the communist Czechoslovakia, Pavel Zuštiak is a NYC-based director, choreographer, and performer who trained at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. His work, described as both human and humane, merges the abstract aspects of dance with nonlinear qualities of theatre of images into multidisciplinary works that...

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Pearlyn Lii
 

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Penda N’diaye
 
Penda N’diaye, a native of Denver, CO, ignited her love for dance at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater. She has danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. Penda received her BFA in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts which led her to...

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People Get Ready/Steven Reker
 
People Get Ready – is Steven Reker, Luke Fasano, James Rickman, and Jen Goma. Steven moved to New York in 2006 from Arizona working mainly as a dancer or musician for folks such as Yasuko Yokoshi, David Byrne, Miguel Gutierrez, Miranda July, John Jesurun, Jodi Melnick, Robert Wilson, Yoshiko Chuma,...

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Peter Bouteneff
 
Peter Bouteneff teaches courses in theology, patristics and spirituality at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, where he is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology and Director of Institutional Assessment. After completing a degree in music in 1983 he lived and worked in Japan, and traveled widely in Asia and Greece. He has an...

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Peter Nigrini
 
Peter Nigrini has designed on Broadway for Beetlejuice, Ain’t Too Proud, The SpongeBob Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Amlié, An Act of God, The Heidi Chronicles, The Best Man, Fela!, 9 to 5 and Say Goodnight Gracie. Other designs include: Grounded (The Public Theater), Here Lies...

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Poppy DeltaDawn
 
Poppy DeltaDawn is trans interdisciplinary artist and curator who makes work about the landscape of queerness and how we perceive it through disseminating information like diagrams and tutorials. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, both in fiber, and...

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Porshia Derival
 
Ms. Derival is the Executive Director of H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory. Growing up in Long Island, her journey in Hip-Hop dance started as a teenager at her local dance studio. Given the tremendous potential her dance instructor saw in her, she was single-handedly chosen out of...

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Preeti Vasudevan
 
Preeti Vasudevan is an award-winning choreographer and performer creating provocative contemporary works from her Indian tradition. Founder and Artistic Director of Thresh Performing Arts Collaborative, her mission is to create experimental productions that foster a provocative dialogue with identity, and our relationship with heritage...

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Premiere Division
 
Founded by Nadege Hottier, former soloist with Berlin Opera, Premiere Division brings classical ballet traditions to a contemporary setting. Drawing inspiration from current artists and timeless works by classical masters, this elite young group welcomes you to enjoy original ballet creations.

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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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REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS
 
In October 2018, The New York Times Magazine published Reginald Dwayne Betts’ long essay “Getting Out.” Several months later, the piece was awarded a National Magazine Award. The publication was another example of Betts entering into a new genre and bringing the same depth and richness of self-reflection and exploration of the central...

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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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