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Artists

 
John Kelly
 
Biography John Kelly is a performance and visual artist. He is also, depending on–the climate, the opportunity, or his mood–a choreographer, actor, singer, dancer, director, writer, and video artist. Performance works range from solo to group, from autobiography to history—generally as seen through the eyes of a specific character. His ‘Pass...

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John Maria Gutierrez
 
John Maria Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary actor, dancer, creator, and educator who performs on screen and stage, nationally and internationally. Originally from the small island of Manhattan, John was raised in a hood commonly known as “Little Dominican Republic,” or Washington Heights, and has spent most of their...

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John Zorn
 
Born and raised in New York City, composer/performer John Zorn has been a central figure in the Downtown Scene since 1975, incorporating a wide variety of creative musicians into various compositional formats. His work is remarkably diverse and draws inspiration from Art, Literature, Film, Theatre, Philosophy, Alchemy and Mysticism as...

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Jonathan Allen
 
On view in the Live Gallery March 7–18 | March 26–April 13 KNOWING THAT YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE: New large-scale mixed-media works on denim inspired by and responding to the physical processes of making dance, and collaborating across disciplines. Jonathan Allen works in painting, collage, video, and performance and frequently collaborates...

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Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
 
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Albany, NY, Lloyd graduated from The College at Brockport where he performed works by Maura Keefe and Alexandra Beller. He has collaborated with and performed for Karl Rogers/Red Dirt Dance, Netta Yerushalmy, Monica Bill Barnes,...

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Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
 
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Albany, NY, Lloyd graduated from The College at Brockport where he performed works by Maura Keefe and Alexandra Beller. He has collaborated with and performed for Karl Rogers/Red Dirt Dance, Netta Yerushalmy, Monica Bill Barnes,...

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Joseph Mills for Modern American Dance Company (MADCO)
 
  Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) currently under the Executive and Artistic Directorship of  Stacy West, was founded in 1976 by Alcine Wiltz and Ross Winter as a vehicle to provide an opportunity for  professional dancers to live and work in the Midwest while also providing dance performances by local  artists and educational programs...

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Julian Schnabel
 
Julian Schnabel was born in New York City in 1951.  In 1965 he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969-73, receiving a B.F.A., and returned to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1978 Schnabel travelled throughout Europe, and...

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Juliana F. May/MAYDANCE
 
Juliana F. May, a New York City native, graduated from Oberlin College in 2002 with a dual degree in Dance and Art History.  Recently commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop to create Gutter Gate (February 2011), their newest evening length work, May has also been produced by Dance New Amsterdam, The...

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Julie Mayo
 
Julie Mayo Artist Statement I make dances with an interest in the mutability of movement, sound and language with the goal of creating a palpable experience that is evocative, rather than informative. My choreography is rooted in a perceptual inquiry inside conditions that are constructed, as well as happenstance. I hone a delicate circuitry...

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Juliette Mapp
 
Biography Juliette Mapp is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in New York City. She has presented her work throughout New York City since 2001. She has performed in the work of many other choreographers, most notably John Jasperse, Vicky Shick and Deborah Hay. Juliette has taught throughout the world...

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jumatatu m. poe
 

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Jumatatu Poe and Jesse Zaritt
 
Jesse Zaritt Jesse Zaritt has performed his solo work in Russia, Korea, Germany, New York, Japan, Mexico and Israel. His solo ‘Binding’ is the recipient of three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Solo Performance, and Outstanding Performance Art Production. From September 2008 through June 2011, he was an...

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Juniper Shuey
 
Biography Juniper Shuey is a video installation, sculptural performance artist and photographer based in Seattle. Since 1999 he has been working professionally, exhibiting his work both locally and abroad. His work has been featured in many exhibitions including the Arts Center SOFA Gallery (2009), Body Festival (2009), Solo Exhibition at the...

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Kal Mansoor
 
Kal Mansoor Writer, producer, and star of A Brief History of Colonization.   Artist Statement and/or Bio A Brief History of Colonization was written in reaction to Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, where he erased 2.5 million Indian soldiers from this historic event. Media...

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Kamilah Forbes
 
Kamilah Forbes is an esteemed award-winning director and producer for theater and television. She currently serves as the Executive Producer at the World-Famous Apollo Theater in Harlem. In her diverse body of work, Kamilah is noted for having a strong commitment to the development of creative works by, for, and...

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Kaneza Schaal
 
Kaneza Schaal is a New York City based theater artist. Her new work JACK&JILL is a comedy of errors that draws on social codes and trainings from prison re-entry programs to debutante balls. Her recent work GO FORTH premiered with Performance Space122 and was presented at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s...

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Karen Harvey
 
Karen Harvey is a dance artist originally from North Carolina whose choreography has been shown internationally.  She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from UNCSA where she was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence.  She currently collaborates with a wide range of artists, dances with Dai Jian, Jin Ju Song-Begin's...

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Kate Bornstein
 
Celebrated transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein has—with humor and spunk—ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Kate lives on the edge of paradox: she is not a man, and not a woman. She looks beyond the binary to...

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Kathy Westwater
 
Kathy Westwater, recipient of the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Her work, described in The Brooklyn Rail as “at the limits of the human,” responds to the societal landscape in which it manifests by reimagining the body’s movement potential. With an eye...

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Kathy Westwater
 
Kathy Westwater, 2017 recipient of the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Her work, described in The Brooklyn Rail as “at the limits of the human,” responds to the societal landscape in which it manifests by reimagining the body’s movement potential. With an...

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Katt Lissard/memory lab
 
memory lab is a loosely connected network of artists who’ve worked together on each other’s projects in a variety of capacities since the 90s – focused on experimenting with performance ideas we find compelling. Most recently, our development work on Outpost: an experimental conversation at Mabou Mines and IRT Theater...

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Katy Gero / Anastasia Voron
 
Katy Gero is a PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, working on models of poetic language, human-machine collaboration, and tools for artists. Katy is a published poet and essayist—her writing has been featured in Synaesthesia Magazine, the Blueshift Journal, Electric Literature, and more—and she is an alum of...

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Kayla Farrish
 
Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance Inc (2020-2021), Louis Armstrong House Museum (2020),  Danspace Project Inc (2019), Pepatian and BAAD! (2018), and beyond. Farrish has been supported by creative...

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Kayla Hamilton
 
Kayla Hamilton is an artist, producer, and educator originally from Texarkana, Texas and now reside in Bronx, NY. Kayla earned a BA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and an MS Ed in Special Education from Hunter College. She is a member of the 2017 Bessie-award winning collective...

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KDNY
 
KDNY was established in 1997 in New York City by choreographer Kathleen Dyer to explore her vision of a dance company dedicated to the passions and intricacies of the female spirit. Dyer’s inspiration draws from personal as well as universal experiences that may be based on historical figures, female archetypes,...

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Keely Garfield
 
Biography British-born choreographer Keely Garfield’s work has been presented at many theaters and festivals both nationally and internationally. Garfield has created work for ballet dancers (Dance Theatre of Harlem), antique puppets (Golem, Chechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre), musical theater (Gypsy, Sundance Theatre, Utah, Carnival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Yeast Nation, the triumph of...

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Keely Garfield / Cynthia X. Hua
 
Keely Garfield is a British choreographer, dancer, and educator. Her company, Keely Garfield Dance (KGD), which has been widely commissioned and presented at theaters and festivals nationally, and internationally. Alongside her work for KGD, Garfield has made work for other modern dance companies, theater, musicals, ballet, film, MTV, site-specific projects,...

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Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang / Nia Laureano
 
Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang was a triple-major in Ballet, Astrophysics, and Philosophy at the University of Utah before pursuing Cultural and Arts Management at American University. Chang worked at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and New York City Center Theater. She spent two years with a small venture capital firm...

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Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero
 
Instigated by Keith Hennessy in 2001, Circo Zero makes live performance sparked by current and historic social realities. The work is interdisciplinary and experimental, operating within the tensions between intimacy and spectacle, rhetoric and ritual, personal and social. Rooted in contemporary dance and performance we also engage circus, theatre, music, visual...

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Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
 
Biography KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a spoken word poet who has performed at over 450 venues across the continental US, Hawai’i, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, Netherlands, and Trinidad at venues like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, House of Blues, Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum...

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Kensaku Shinohara
 

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Kenyon Adams
 
Kenyon Victor Adams, a multi-media performance artist also known as little ray, has been the recipient of a Greer Garson Award, a National Young Arts Foundation Award, and was named a White House Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He studied religion and the arts at Yale Divinity School and at...

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Keynote Conversation
 
A vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. S/he has over 3,790 hits on Google.com. The founder and frontperson of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8, which has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility,...

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Kickstarter
 
Kickstarter is an enormous global community built around creativity and creative projects. Over 10 million people, from every continent on earth, have backed a Kickstarter project. Some of those projects come from influential artists like De La Soul or Marina Abramović. Most come from...

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Kiki Smith
 
Kiki Smith (1954- born in Nuremberg, Germany) is known for evocative sculptures, drawings and prints. The recurrent subject matter in Smith’s work has been the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief and storytelling. In the 1980s, Smith literally turned the figurative tradition in sculpture inside out, creating objects and...

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Kim Yaged
 
Kim Yaged is an award-winning writer. Her work frequently deals with identity and stereotyping with a focus on using art for social change. Kim’s operetta www.love was showcased by the New York City Opera and won Best Musical and Best Original Production, among other honors, when it premiered. Kim received...

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Kimberly Bartosik/daela
 
Choreographer, performer, educator Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative, ferociously intimate choreographic projects that are built upon the development of a virtuosic movement language, rigorous conceptual explorations, and the creation of highly theatricalized environments. Her work, which is deeply informed by literature and cinema, dramatically illuminates the...

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Kota Yamazaki/ Fluid hug-hug
 
Born in Niigata, Japan, Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh under the teaching of Akira Kasai, and graduated from Bunka Fashion College with BA in Fashion Design. With the invitation to make a new work with Senegal-based company Jant-bi, Yamazaki disbanded his Tokyo-based company rosy co. (1995-2001), and left Japan....

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Kristel Baldoz
 
Kristel Baldoz is a Filipina-American artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape Strike. As a choreographer who works with ceramics, sculpture, film, and story- telling, she develops an aesthetic grounded in the textuality of objects, experimenting with how bodily movements translate into objects and how they become a...

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KVS, les ballets C de la B & A.M. Qattan Foundation
 
Koen Augustijnen worked for years as a choreographer at Les Ballets C de la B when it was still a collective. He began as a performer in Alain Patel’s work and has been creating his own work for the past 15 years. His recent work includes the solo Gudirr Gudirr...

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Kyle Abraham + A.I.M
 
The mission of A.I.M is to create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work. Born into hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and grounded in Kyle Abraham’s artistic upbringing in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, the goal of the movement is to delve into identity in relation to a...

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Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion
 
Kyle Abraham, New York Live Arts’ 2012-2014 Resident Commissioned Artist and 2013 MacArthur Fellow, began his dance training at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He continued his dance studies in New York, receiving a B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase and an...

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Kyle Marshall Choreography
 

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Lacina Coulibaly
 

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Lakaï Dance Theatre
 
The brainchild of choreographer McKersin, Lakaï Dance Theatre (LDT) takes its name and driving purpose from the word for “home” in McKersin’s native tongue of Haitian Creole. LDT draws from jazz, hip-hop, and Afro-Diasporic styles while incorporating powerful spoken word and live music to paint complex stories that reflect the realities...

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Lance Gries
 
Lance Gries is an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher based in NYC. From 1985-1992, he was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company., receiving a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award and a Princess Grace Foundation Award. Since 1990, he has created and presented solo and group choreography in various...

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Lang Dance
 
Part of the Arts program at Eugene Lang College, the Dance major offers a unique undergraduate dance curriculum centered on recent developments in the field. The program offers students a hybrid experience that combines intensive practice and performance opportunities with a rigorous liberal arts education, all within a flexible curricular...

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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
 
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded by Lar Lubovitch in 1968 and is now celebrating its 40th anniversary with a national tour as well as a Fall season at the New York City Center. Over the years, the company has gained a reputation as one of the world’s foremost...

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Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre
 
Canadian born, New York City resident, Laura V. Ward founded Octavia Cup Dance Theatre, an expressionistic contemporary ballet company, in 1998. In recent years the company has been performing regularly in New York City and the Northeastern United States, Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Caribbean. The company has been onstage with...

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