Lucy Kerr

Lucy Kerr is a choreographer, writer, dancer, and interdisciplinary artist. Lucy received a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin. Her undergraduate thesis garnered her the grand prize of the 2014 Co-op/George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence, which is the highest honor awarded to an undergraduate at UT. Lucy’s artistic work is inspired by the wonder, tragedy, and difficulties of being a person in the world, constantly dealing with the tensions of being a part of time-existing in a social situation and approaching decay, while also having freedom and imagination. Lucy … Continued

Kate Ladenheim

Kate Ladenheim (B.F.A.,The Boston Conservatory) is the Creative Director/ Choreographer of The People Movers Contemporary Dance. Her choreog- raphy has been presented at several notable festivals and venues across the Northeast. Ladenheim is a 2013: Breaking Glass: Emerging Female Choreogra- pher and a 2014-2015 Leimay Fellow. Ladenheim and her company have enjoyed residencies at The Ballet and Dance Center in Syracuse, New York,The Field (New York, NY), and through the White Wave Rising Choreographer Residency Program, and have been commissioned by the Juventas New Music Ensemble. Ladenheim is also the founder of CRAWL, a presenting series which brings art- ists … Continued

Paul Peers

Paul Peers is part of of a collaborative dance duo with Tina Mitchell

Tina Mitchell

Tina Mitchell is a New York based actor, director, teaching artist and theatre maker. Hailing from Australia,Tina is a graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts and holds a Masters of Arts Practice specializing in Performance.A 2015 resident Fellow at LEIMAY,Tina is co-Artistic Director of Chopt Logic, a company dedicated to producing inter-disciplinary live performances that respond to women’s role in contemporary culture. Her latest project Miss Julia, a bi-lingual adaptation of Strindberg’s classic play, has been performed in the prestigious Iberoamericano Festival de Bogotá and Festivals across Colombia and Spain. Tina works internationally as an actor, director and … Continued

Hee Ran Lee

Hee Ran Lee is a performance artist working as a performer and director. Her recent grants have included the ARKO Young Art Frontier from Arts Council Korea (2013), Semi-finalist prize for emerging artist from The Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation (2012) and The Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship (2012). Her work has been shown at Culture Station Seoul 284(Korea 2014), Grace Exhibition Space (New York 2013),The Watermill Center (New York 2012), Defibrillator Gallery(Chicago 2012), and Rockbund Art Museum(Shanghai 2011). She holds an MFA specializing in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently is a fellow … Continued

Laura Peterson

Laura Peterson is a NYC based choreographer. She is deeply influenced by visual art and her work explores unfixed relationship we have to the body’s limits and the limitlessness of human imagination. Laura has had choreographic residencies and commissions throughout NewYork and other cities including HERE Arts Center, Queens Museum with Topaz Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and others. Her dances have been presented by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow Out-of-Doors, Lincoln Center Out-of- Doors among many festivals in the US, and in Argentina, Germany and Poland. She is a 2014 recipient of a fellowship from … Continued

Luigi Repetto

Luigi Repetto began his classical ballet training in Milan at the Official Ballet School of La Scala with Isabela Glowacka and Gabriel Popescu. While still studying at the Ballet School, he started to perform as a soloist with the Company of La Scala appearing on the stage together with Rudolf Nure- yev in his choreographies and also performed Maurice Béjart’s ‘Bolero’ with Luciana Savignano. In addition to traditional La Scala repertory, he worked with contemporary choreographers such as Glen Tetley, Roland Petit, Joseph Russil- lo. Simultaneously, he continued to study with renowned teachers such as Erik Bruhn e Azari Plisetski. … Continued

Yael Gaathon

Yael Gaathon is an Israeli – Danish actress and butoh dancer. She completed her acting studies in Israel in ’93, after which she joined the internationally acclaimed Itim Theater Ensemble. During her work with the Ensemble Yael was introduced to butoh and received regular butoh training. In 2002 Yael moved to Denmark, where she established her comapany Blue Cliff and began to choreograph and direct solo and group pieces.Throughout the years she has been giving butoh workshops, as well as training and teaching actors and dancers in film, the state theater schools in Denmark, private theater schools, the Danish Actors … Continued

Thea Little  

Born and bred in NYC, is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She performs solo works that are influenced by performance art and music, and she choreographs collaborative group dance-theater works. She has presented her music compositions and choreography throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Thea has been composing music since she was 5 years old and she has made music for her own choreography as well as for Joya Powell: Movement of the People Dance Company, Gerard and Kelly, Karen Harvey Dances, and LEIMAY. In 2005 Thea was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance … Continued