originally from El Paso, TX, is a versatile artist immersed in durational performance, movement, and improvisation. Collaboration is integral to their work as they manifest sensory experiences, guiding viewers to where hyper-surreal and ordinary converge. Their work investigates themes of identity, failure, and intimacy.
I’m an artist who uses movement, poetics, and humor to invite focus into the ideologies that train bodies how to move. Creating across time-based media, performance, and writing, my practice encourages critical play in reframing genres of embodied instruction. My own body is imprinted by: American dance theater, Filipino karaoke parties, a Bolshoi ballerina, immigrant parents, suburban aspirations, Post-Modern chance forms, and slapstick comedy. Working in concert with performers and audiences alike, I’m invested in devising experimental spaces to test beliefs of authority, horizontal organization, and temporary utopias.
is a freelance dancer living in New York. A Dallas TX native, Maggie is an honors graduate of Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch, and also studied internationally at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Maggie is currently performing with Dual Rivet and cullen+them. Other recent credits include Kayla Farrish Decent Structures Arts showing at Triskelion Arts, Helen Simoneau Danse’s The Delicate Power Project Research Lab, participation as a dancer in Jacob’s Pillow, Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow Program, and participation … Continued
Shira Kagan-Shafman is a New York based dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. She has performed in works throughout theaters and museums in New York including, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Poster House museum, Arts on Site, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts and Green Space. She was a recipient of the 2023 B. Wilson Foundation grant for which she produced, choreographed and performed in a production at Baryshnikov Arts Center in the John Cage and Merce Cunningham studio and was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Mother’s Milk. Kagan-Shafman has had the pleasure of performing in works by Joanna Kotze, Mariana Valencia, Peggy … Continued
Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau are life partners and choreographic collaborators living in Lenapehoking // Brooklyn, NY. Sofia + Em’s first collaborative project was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while they were students at Smith College. Since then, they have held choreographic residencies at The Croft, Mana Contemporary, The Living Room, Ponderosa, The Dance Complex, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Sky Hill Farm Studio, The Floor on Atlantic, College of the Atlantic, and School for Contemporary Dance & Thought. In addition to presenting their work at these residency spaces, the pair have performed at festivals including FRESH Festival, EstroGenius … Continued
Maho Ogawa is a Japanese-born multidisciplinary movement artist working in NYC. Her work has delved into building a choreographic language based on nuances and isolated body movements, and she has built a database, “Minimum Movement Catalog” (https://minimum-movement-demo.web.app/movements). Maho Ogawa uses body, video, text, computer programming, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously. Her recent works partly decontextualize and research the minimum movement in Japanese tea culture and cinema. She’s working on public events inspired by Japanese tea rituals to build new thinking methods about “silence,” providing a quiet but active mindset … Continued
Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist, director, experimental archivist and organizer who places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of their practice. Blending performance with practice-based and studio research and engaging ensembles in facilitated processes, they create fleeting performance works that examine perception in shared experiences. Acosta has presented her works with and for Museum of Art and Design, MCA Chicago, Chocolate Factory Theatre, Knockdown Center, the Current Sessions, Miami Performance International Festival, IN>Time Symposium, Abrons Arts Center, and the Performance Philosophy conference. As dramaturg Acosta has collaborated with artist Miguel Gutierrez, on multiple projects including Cela nous … Continued
Ash Rucker received a bachelor’s in Fashion Merchandising from Buffalo State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. After graduating, Ash moved to New York and interned for Betsy Johnson, W magazine, and designer Mara Hoffman after shortly settling at Loreal. Since then Ash has shifted careers and is the founder of a non-profit organization Therapart. Working with youth has been impacted by the criminal justice system. Ash has recently completed a fellowship at the New School and Columbia University with her work centered around healing through modalities such as somatic-based movement, meditation, and art therapy practices. Aside from working … Continued
Made in Taiwan, active in America and quiet places. MFA. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has danced for Susan Marshall, Gesel Mason, Punchdrunk, and many brilliant artists. She was an original cast member of Sleep No More NYC; as well as a rehearsal director of SNM Shanghai. Most recently, she has toured with ANIKAYA to Palestine and African countries. She has bathed in contact improvisation, meditation and yoga since 2005 with occasional teaching and sharing with others. In her free time, she practices calligraphy, plays with voices, and makes bad arts. And she loves … Continued