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Artists

 
Billy Gerard Frank
 
BIO . PERSONAL STATEMENT Billy Gerard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is a Multi-Media Artist, Filmmaker, Production Designer, and founder of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab, showcasing and incubating the works of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, The Middle East, Latin America....

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BIRDHOUSE
 
Artist Statement/Bio: BIRDHOUSE is a New York City based artist collective that creates site-specific and intensely physical performance and installation works that confront cultural ideas of humanity, love, violence, and community. The collective was born in 2018 out of director RavenTaisce White’s desire to bring people together with art, and thus...

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Bjorn Amelan
 
Bjorn G. Amelan was the partner of the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Mr. Kelly passed away on January 1, 1990. Mr. Amelan moved to the United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. Jones in 1993. He has designed sets for the following works by...

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Bjorn G. Amelan
 
Bjorn G. Amelan was the partner of the later fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Mr. Kelly passed away on January 1, 1990. Mr. Amelan moved to the United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. Jones in 1993. He has designed sets for the following works by...

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BLACK SPECULATIVE ARTS MOVEMENT
 
“There was a restlessness in the creative community at the beginning this decade, a dissatisfaction with a certain aspect with politics going on, and a desire to get the art and political ideas a platform. That lead to us forming, putting together the exhibition and then me subsequently writing the...

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BLACKFISH
 
James Everest is based in Minneapolis and has worked on a variety of musical projects, including Lateduster, Neotropic (UK), Sans Le Systeme, Roma Di Luna, Vicious Vicious, with collaborators Walter Kitundu and Eduard Nesterenko (RUS), and as a solo artist. Since 2002 Everest has been a close collaborator with...

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Born Dancing, Inc.
 
Born Dancing, Inc. is founded on the belief that dance education and performance can be inclusive and be better for it. Our mission is to produce inclusive professional quality dance performances that bring together a broad range of differently abled dancers. Born Dancing additionally creates dance education programs that provide...

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Bouchra Ouizguen
 
Born in 1980 in Ouarzazate, Morocco, Bouchra Ouizguen studied in France and was an Eastern dance soloist in Morroco between 1995 and 2000. She taught herself alongside three choreographers who would be decisive in her career: Bernardo Montet, Mathilde Monnier and Boris Charmatz. In 2002, she created the dance company...

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Boyzie Cekwana and Panaibra Canda
 
Boyzie Cekwana Soweto born Boyzie lives and works in South Africa. Along with some of his peers, he is part of an artistitic noise for developing a voice for contemporary dance practice and scholarship in Africa. For two editions, he was Artistic Director of the Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival in Durban,...

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Brandon Powers Projects
 
Led by creative director + choreographer Brandon Powers, Brandon Powers Projects creates experiences across physical and virtual space. Our vision is to work across forms, platforms, and technologies and create a more embodied future. Brandon Powers Projects values a multidisciplinary approach and seeks to create multiplatform experiences that center...

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Brendan Drake
 
Brendan Drake is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist who uses theatricality and disparate dance forms to create performance spectacles. His work has been presented at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, HERE, Abrons Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, Gowanus Loft, the CURRENT SESSIONS, Industry City Distillery, Joe’s Pub and he was the proud...

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Broadway Workshop
 
Broadway Workshop gives young actors of all skill levels the opportunity to explore their creativity through acting, singing and dance. Our programs are taught by working professionals, from Broadway stars to casting directors and agents. Our Students not only learn about and experience all aspects of the theatre through our workshops,...

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Brontez Purnell Dance Company
 
Since 2010, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company has been presenting experimental dance and movement theatre works with a radically open understanding of the forms, bodies, and idioms of dance. Brontez Purnell, author of the cult zine Fag School and frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, along with founding company...

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Burr Johnson
 
I make dances that I...

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Burr Johnson
 
Burr Johnson holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked with Shen Wei since 2009 and John Jasperse since 2010. With Jasperse, he originated a new role in Canyon(2011) and expanded a role in Fort Blossom: Revisited(2000/2012). On occasion, he works with Walter Dundervill,...

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Cain Coleman, Jr
 
After training at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, Cain Coleman began his professional career with Philadanco under the direction of Joan Myers brown and Debora Chase. He later joined The Martha Graham Dance Company. Mr. Coleman has performed works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Talley Beatty, George Faison,...

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Carla Peterson
 
Carla Peterson (Artistic Director, New York Live Arts) has provided overall direction for the artistic mission of Dance Theater Workshop since October 2006 and continues as Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, a new model of artist-led, producing/presenting/touring arts organization unique in the United States that was formed between...

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Carla Peterson and Annie-B Parson
 
ANNIE-B PARSON founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 with Paul Lazar. She has choreographed and co-created over 15 works for the company, ranging from pure dance pieces, to adaptations of plays and literature, to original works combining wildly disparate and imaginative materials. Her awards include a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography,...

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Carlo Antonio Villanueva
 
Carlo Antonio Villanueva was born and raised in Wallington, NJ. He received his primary movement training from Scott Chandler and TJ Doucette while touring with the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps of Concord, CA. He received his BFA summa cum laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts, studied...

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Carlos J. Soto
 
Carlos J Soto (b. 1980) is a director and designer based in New York City, where he studied Art History and Literature at the Pratt Institute. His GIRLMACHINE, created in collaboration with Charles Chemin, premiered at Performa 09 and was subsequently presented in Paris by the American University of Paris....

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Casa Cruz de la Luna Theater Company
 
Considered one of the most vital experimental theatre companies on the Island, Casa...

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Cassie Peterson
 
Cassie Peterson is a New York-based writer, thinker, and lavender menace. She works as a psychotherapist by day, and moonlights as a dramaturge, essayist, & performing arts critic. Her extemporaneous musings and critical inqueeries can be found on her art & theory blog, Self & Other, as well as being featured in...

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Catherine Cabeen - Hyphen
 
Catherine Cabeen (Choreographer, Director, Performer) has received choreographic commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Alsarab Dance Troupe and the Lebanese American University in Byblos Lebanon, Moving People Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater Company, Arc Dance Company, Lehua Dance Company,...

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Catherine Gallant/DANCE
 
At the core of our work lies a deep interest in the expressive power of human movement. Our process is a collaborative searching, by choreographer and dancers, for moments of off balance and discomfort …searching for questions that lead to new ways of moving and listening. We often use found...

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Cecilia Bengolea
 
Cecilia Bengolea was born in Argentina. She studied modern-jazz, classical and anthropological dance and Art History in Buenos Aires, and attended ex.er.ce- Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier. She works in Europe as a dancer, writer, choreographer and singer. She has worked as an interpreter or in collaboration with Joao Fiadeiro, Claudia...

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chameckilerner in collaboration with Phil Harder
 
Biography Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, aka chameckilerner, choreographers and filmmakers During their 15 year collaboration between 1992 and 2007, Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner created more than 10 evening length dances that toured internationally to much critical acclaim. In 2007, they premiered EXIT at The Kitchen in New York City. EXIT was...

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Champagne Jerry
 
Neal Medlyn is a performance artist and musician living in New York whose most well-known work is his seven show Pop Star Series and Champagne Jerry, the subsequent iteration of his work with popular music. His work as Champagne Jerry has appeared at Joe’s Pub, Brooklyn Academy of Music, on tour...

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Chanel Howard
 
Originally from Georgia, Chanel Howard began her dance training with DanceMakers of Atlanta, under the direction of Lynise and Denise Heard. While attending Dekalb School of the Arts, Chanel participated in the National High School Dance Festival where she received the 2014 young choreographer award. Thereafter, she moved to Philadelphia...

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Charlotte Brathwaite
 
Charlotte Brathwaite’s genre-defying works illuminate the realities and the dreams of the marginalized and center unheard, unseen, and overlooked stories. Dealing with subject matter from the historical past to the present and the distant future, her work brings to light issues of social justice, race, sex, power and...

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Chaz Guest
 
Chaz Guest (born May 2, 1961, Niagara Falls, NY) is an American painter and sculptor of profound inventiveness for capturing the raw essence reflection of the universal human spirit. Blessed with gifts of realizing his richly textured visions and tapping into their vibrant essence, Guest leaves those who encounter his...

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Chia Ying Kao
 
Chia Ying Kao, originally from Taiwan, is an independent dance artist based in New York City since 2004. She recently received her MFA degree in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College where she earned the Bessie Schonberg Award in 2012. Her work has been presented at the Center for Performance Research, Chen...

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Chris Marker and Robert Milazzo
 
French filmmaker Chris Marker was one of the world's most highly regarded and experimental figures in cinema. Marker's classic fiction film and best known work, La Jetée, was made in 1962; his first feature-length documentary was produced a decade before. His documentary work includes profiles of the artists Matta and...

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Christiana Axelsen
 
My choreographic interest lies in the possible intersections between...

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Christina Robson
 
Christina Robson originally from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, received her early dance training from Tammy Ivers Aspell and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Roger Williams University in 2009 under the direction of mentor Kelli Wicke Davis. Since relocating to New York City, she has had the opportunity to perform with The Sean...

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Christopher Williams
 

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Clare Cook Dance Theater
 
CLARE COOK DANCE THEATER is committed to creating and producing original dance theater projects that merge multiple art forms through artistic collaboration, as well as fostering the aspirations and talent of young performers committed to pursuing a life in the arts by facilitating educational workshops and mentoring opportunities. Since it's...

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CO/LAB Theater Group
 
CO/LAB (Creative Opportunities without Limits And Boundaries) Theater Group is a non-profit organization that has been providing individuals with developmental disabilities a creative and social outlet through theater arts since 2011. At CO/LAB, our Teaching and Supporting Artists work together to facilitate a positive, safe and fun environment for our...

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Codarts
 
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Codice Rosso Theatre
 
A chance encounter in the chaos of New York has led us to the creation of Codice Rosso (Code Red). Coming from similar backgrounds, we realized a strong connection between our vision and approach to movement. We believe that dance is more than technique.  It is a pure, creative and personal...

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Colette Krogol
 
Colette Krogol is a Cuban-American artist originally from Miami, Florida. She is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, teacher, and yoga practitioner. She holds a Master in Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Florida. Colette is the...

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Colin Self
 
Colin Self is an artist currently based in New York and Berlin. Self composes and choreographs music, performance, and environments for expanding consciousness, troubling binaries and boundaries of perception and communication. Self works with communities across disciplines and practices, using voices, bodies, and computers as tools to interface with biological and technological...

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Colleen Thomas
 
Colleen Thomas is a New York based choreographer and performing artist.  She began her professional career with the Miami Ballet and went on to work with renowned contemporary choreographers such as The Kevin Wynn Collection,  Nina Wiener Dance Company, Donald Byrd/The Group, Bebe Miller Dance Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane...

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Collin Ranf
 
Collin Ranf is a 6th generation Montanan, Brooklyn-based dance artist, 500 hour registered yoga teacher, Pilates instructor, and home-cook (@bobbys_cooking_adventures). At 13 he dropped out of middle school to become a ballerina, later going on to study at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. After attaining a B.F.A. from The University...

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Commons Choir/Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik
 
Biography The Prosodic Body is a new field of research that explores language as sound, embodiment and utmost expression: tone, intention, rhythm, gesture, the tacit and evocation are all acts of prosody. The Prosodic Body is a practice that manifests in various areas: principally performance, architecture, health, education and socioeconomic...

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Compagnie Artistique Hakilisi Sigi
 
Lacina Coulibaly was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His professional dance career, deeply rooted in traditional dance, later merged with contemporary influences to create a uniquely choreographic expression. Lacina began his studies of contemporary conception with the choreographer Lassann Congo ( studied at the acclaimed Mudras-Afrique, Senegal). In 1995, Lacina...

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cullen+them
 
cullen+them is an inter-generational performing arts organization making socially-conscious work and building empathetic community. Led by artistic director Hannah Cullen, cullen+them houses both an adult performing company and a professional company of young artists, young dance collective (YDC). YDC was founded in 2001 as a collaborative choreographic company for young...

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Cynthia Hopkins
 
Cynthia Hopkins is a writer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and internationally acclaimed musical performance artist: she writes and sings songs, records albums, and creates groundbreaking multi-media performance works that intertwine truth and fiction, blurring the lines between edification and entertainment. Through the process of making performances, she attempts to alchemize disturbance into...

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Cynthia Oliver
 
Cynthia Oliver is a Bronx born, Virgin Island reared, award winning choreographer and performance artist. Her ongoing research is in the areas of intersection between contemporary dance, feminism, black popular culture and the expressive performances of Africans in the diaspora, with an emphasis on...

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Cynthia Oliver Company Dance Theatre (COCo Dance)
 
I am interested in secrets, in the spaces between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. Intrigued by women’s worlds and the ways we negotiate complicated lives, I investigate these interests physically through movement that explores gesture and the transitory spaces between departure and arrival.  My movement is vigorous, sometimes quirky, yet always...

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d. Sabela grimes
 
d. Sabela grimes, 2017 County of Los Angeles Performing Arts Fellow and 2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, is a trans-media storyteller, sonic ARKivist, movement composer cultivating a devoted interest in Afrobiquitous life practices.  Sabela has conceived, written, scored, choreographed and produced several dance theater works...

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