I will vacillate between free-form movement exploration and structured sequence building for the sake of environmental art-ivism. What does incubation mean to you? Pressurized containment for the sake of creativity.

I will be working to reinvigorate my practice and hopefully develop more consistency and uninhibited creativity. What does incubation mean to you? Incubation to me is the time prior to insight. It’s getting ready, it’s patience.

Alongside my fellow artists, I seize LEMAY residency opportunity to start crafting an immersive and multi-faceted performance on the theme of environment. What does incubation mean to you? Dedicated time for exploration, craft and growth.

Kelsey Rondeau is Brooklyn-based queer, non binary dancer, drag performer, and choreographer. Their work draws on diverse elements of pop culture which are collaged, blended, and distilled into fantastic narratives. Coming from a background of concert dance, immersive theater, burlesque and drag, they make work that honors these disciplines to challenge and explore my conceptions of self/hood unique to my voice. With their company, Hard/Femme Dances, they have shown work at Spoke The Hub, Triskelion Arts, BAX and Gibney Dance Center. Outside the studio, they are a member of the Core Creative Team at the House of Yes.

A queer poly-disciplinary performance artist and expressionist, synead’s inspiration and motivation is deeply rooted in her quest for collective healing, self-awareness, and the freedom and advancement of queer, black and indigenous people of color. through her interdisciplinary studies of black radical feminist theories, experimental theater-making, movement-based healing practices, and sonic exploration, she strives towards dismantling fear-based thinking to help self-actualize one’s deepest creative desires. synead’s artistry is not bound by medium, but bound to the varied expressions of living a full and ever-present life. be sure to check her website out at [http://www.synead.com] to get acquainted with her work and … Continued

Rachel Calabrese & Sawyer Newsome of NewBrese Dance Project We will be working on creating a piece that has to do with the passage of time & our distortion of time when it comes to memory  – inspired by Salvadore Dali’s painting ‘The Persistence of Memory’. We love physical dance theatre, the art of partnering, and getting into and out of the floor. We are influenced and inspired by Laja Martin, Vim Vigor, and HumanHood. These companies and all the artists involved in them don’t just create beautiful movement but beautiful narrative and environments as well which is something we aspire to do. … Continued

Dominica Greene (she.her) is a Black woman who cherishes and channels her Caribbean heritage and Queerness into an art-based existence. Based on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people, now known as Brooklyn, New York, Greene creates conceptual, body-based art rooted in her belief that dance is not something to be learned, but an innate entity that we all have access to and are perpetually engaging with. Her work aims to reflect nature, human and otherwise, as a way of highlighting humanity and the stark sameness and differences and sameness in the differences within all of us.