Michael Bodel
Michael Bodel is a choreographer, performer and dance writer whose current interests include alphabetically: affordances, Bread and Puppet Theater, dance film, embodied cognition, pageantry, place, religion, Ralph Lemon, scent, semiot- ics, smuggling and speech. Michael developes dance in the frosty hills of Putney Vermont. He is the founder and curator of the briefly dormant FRAMEWORKS dance film series, and his new website on dance ideas and action launches this Summer at www.movemargin.org
Kota Yamazaki
Kota Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh in 1977 through the teaching of Akira Kasai and began ballet training under the late Hirofumi Inoue in 1981. He was an artistic director of Tokyo-based rosy co. from 1995 until its close in 2001. Following an invitation in 2001 from Germaine Acogny,Yamazaki created the work FAGAA- LA in collaboration with her Senegal-based company, for which he received a NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award) in 2007 and nominated for Alpert Award. Since 2002,Yamazaki with his NY-based Fluid hug-hug, presents works nationally and inter- nationally and teaches at many universities. In 2013, … Continued
Julia Crockett
Julia Crockett and Colin Self have been creative partners since the summer of 2012.Their work together explores imitation, icons, emotional gesture, and the cultivation of identity (personal, cultural, and gender). Packed with emotional variance, humor, extremity, and pop-culture nods, their collaborations guide both the performers and viewers through diverse, rich, human experiences.
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
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
Mario Biagini
Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. He is an actor, teacher and director. For more than twenty years he has been a central contributor to practical research in the domain of Art as Vehicle.
Denisa Musilova
Denisa Musilova (born: Czech Republic), is dancer and certified as: Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis teacher. Currently dancer in Deganit Shemy company and Garnica LEIMAY.