Sophie Ortiz

Sophie Ortiz works together with Taylor Jones in WillCheer4Beer. They met through a New York City queer non-profit adult charitable cheerleading organization. As ‘main’ and ‘side’ bases, they’ve performed in queer nightlife, honing skills in tumbling, stunting, dance, parkour, and virtual design. With infectious glee and iconic wit, they’ve built a community, exploring cheer’s ties to drag, performance art, dance, martial arts, gymnastics, and sex work. Their collaborative, DIY performances offer an ethnographic view of cheerleading, challenging media stereotypes, gender perceptions, national identity, and the sport’s kinesthetics.

Sarazina Stein

Sarazina Joy Stein works together with Emily LaRochelle. Both are NYC-based dancers who met at Bates Dance Festival summer of 2017 and have been collaborating ever since. They’ve performed their work at PSNY, Triskelion Arts, Theater for the New City, Wild Project, TADA, New Dance Alliance, HONK! Open Streets, and in community gardens. The two have performed with Žilvinas Jonušas, Mindy Toro, and Kathleen Clark. They curated and performed an evening of dance and music at Spoke the Hub with Toro and Clark. They’re also in the Brazilian samba reggae-style drumline, Fogo Azul, and work as freelance theater electricians.

Hannah Wagner

Hannah Wagner, a dancer, and Joey Rosin, a musician, began collaborating in 2022. Their first work IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… is a duet between dancer and solo saxophonist that explores how our shared experiences, feelings, and relationships transcend time. They premiered IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… at the Perpetuum Mobile Dance Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Hannah and Joey have continued to work together and are currently assembling a new show that expands their original vision of their piece.

Elya Osmanova

Elya Osmanova is an Azerbaijani dancer, actor and a writer based in New York. She is a versatile artist, who has a background in Latin dance, Afro Cuban dance, House, Contemporary and Physical Theatre. Elya’s first narrative film acting debut ‘My Heart Is My Only Country’ directed by Iva Gocheva, was screened as part of Rooftop Film Series in Central Park as well in New Orleans Film Festival, summer of 2022. As a dancer & an actor she has worked with artists such as Tim Young, Sun Kim, Iva Gocheva, Najla Gilliam, J9 Dance, Elsa Nilsson, Deepak Chopra, and many … Continued

Ching-I Chang

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

Rebecca Pappas

Rebecca is a choreographer who makes projects that address the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her choreography has toured nationally and internationally and she has received residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi, and funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Clorox Foundation, and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME).  She has served on the faculties of Pasadena City College, Ball State University, Trinity College, and University of Indianapolis as well as conducting master classes and workshops across the United States. She is a 2021 … Continued

Muyassar Kurdi

Muyassar Kurdi (b. 1989 in Chicago) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, painting, analog photography, and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She currently focuses on interweaving homemade electronic instruments into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements. Kurdi was a finalist in the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship for Combined Disciplines 2023, she was awarded a Roulette Intermedium 2020 commission and artist residency in 2022 (with support from … Continued

Wldflwr Dance Collective

Nikki Theroux, Tamara Leigh, Kimie Parker, Hillary Bonhomme. Wldflwr Dance Collective, directed by Tamara Leigh and Nikki Theroux, works towards multidisciplinary and inclusive art-making. Wldflwr has been in residence at Dragon’s Egg in CT, beginning the creative process for “the last to bloom,” the collective’s debut evening-length which premiered at The Tank NYC in 2021. In 2022, they were Artists in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where they began creating “Permanence.” They have performed throughout NYC at venues including Arts on Site, Dixon Place, Local Produce Festival, Living Gallery, Emerging Artists Theater, and Onderbleek Collective, and recently shared an excerpt of … Continued

Dorchel Haqq

Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration and object investigations. Dorchel builds worlds that reflect her community and immerse viewers energetically and holistically. Through collaboration, Dorchel leads with curiosity and care. Dorchel is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, performed with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and resided in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in Shanghai. Dorchel is now a freelance artist. As a freelancer, working with artists like Johannes Wieland, Stephanie Batten Bland, Loni Landon, Sidra Bell and Kayla Farrish has unleashed her curiosity in … Continued

Shiloh Hodges

Shiloh Hodges is a dancer and zinemaker who has worked with Earl Mosley, Sidra Bell/SBDNY, André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Monstah Black, and Third Rail Projects, among others. She is in ongoing improvisational practice across forms with Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson. Shiloh’s work has been shown at Green Space, The Space Upstairs, and the 2020 EstroGenius Festival (in collaboration with Kim Savarino). Also a matchbox, a phone, a park, and a window.

Zack Fuller

Zack Fuller is a DIY dancer/choreographer and self-taught musician. From 1985-1986 he was the lead singer for the Washington DC post-punk psychedelic metal band Scythian, sharing stages with groups such as Bad Brains, Black Market Baby, and Pussy Galore. He has performed in many dances under the direction of Min Tanaka, including Poe Project in 1997. He co-headlined the 2019 Boston Butoh Festival with Yuko Kaseki, and his dances have been presented at Leimay/CAVE, Movement Research at Judson Church, Plan B in Tokyo, Mobius in Boston, The Dance Hakushu Festival, The New England Conservatory of Music, and elsewhere.