David Guzman

Is a cross-disciplinary performer who loves and honors lichens. His durational installation “Treeing” invites passers-by to greet urban ecologies through contemplative walks and paper-making from trash. David is a Headlong Performance Institute fellow and a Circus Amok and Ukrainian Village Voices member. He is currently touring in Faye Driscoll’s Obie-award-winning “Weathering”. Credits include Eli Nixon’s “Wrack Zone” at The Public, Mina Nishimura’s “Mapping a Forest…” at Jacob’s Pillow and Danspace Project, and Aaron Landsman’s “Night Keeper” at The Chocolate Factory. David is the Russian-English translator of Isadorino Gore’s “Experiments in Choreology…”, a kaleidoscopic dance manual that excavates the legacy of … Continued

Juan José Escalante

Juan José Escalante worked with MCB early in his career when the organization was operating at store front on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. For the past twenty years, he has served as Executive Director for Ballet Florida, Orlando Ballet, and the José Limón Dance Foundation. In each of these roles, Juan José partnered with artistic and community leaders in management of daily operations including fundraising, financial, and marketing oversight. Juan José holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from the Herbert H. Lehman College City University of New York and a Master of Business Administration from the … Continued

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

Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y los Saberes de la República de Colombia

Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Los Saberes, responde a una visión muy diferente de la que se ha concebido la cultura, pues entiende las dinámicas de una nación multicultural, pluriétnica y multilingual, que está en constante cambio por las subculturas minoritarias y los movimientos migracionales actuales.​ Por esto, una de las premisas de esta cartera es reformular no solo su nombre sino también el concepto de cultura, a la luz de que toda identidad es única en la diversidad. De las miles formulaciones de las culturas, este ministerio asume el concepto de que la cultura es  el aprovechamiento … Continued

Hugo Daniel Plazas Merchan

Hugo Daniel Plazas Merchan, interpreter and environmental educator of Water and Nature Spaces. Director of GESTA Colombia, Environmental Tourism Management Colombia. Volunteer in Environmental Foundations of Bogotá.

Armando Palau Aldana

Armando Palau Aldana, lawyer with specialized studies in Environmental Legislation, Environmental Management, and Environmental Law; founder of the Biodiversity Foundation, where he has successfully litigated environmental cases in favor of victims and the natural environment.

Ever Ledesma Caicedo

Ever Ledesma Caicedo, pianguero and Legal Representative of the organization ASOFUTURO; environmental activist dedicated to the conservation and preservation of mangrove ecosystems and the rescue of water resources.

Aura González Sevillano

Aura González Sevillano, consultant, advisor, and facilitator of sustainable development and leadership processes with community organizations of women and youth, promoting people’s permanence in their territories, fostering collective work, reaffirmation of ethnic and cultural identity, sustainable use of natural resources in the Colombian Pacific and in other countries of Afro-descendant communities.

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.

Huda Asfour

Huda Asfour

Huda embodies a rare fusion of musical artistry and cutting-edge biomedical engineering expertise. Her musical journey embarked at the tender age of 13, enrolling in conservatories in Tunisia and Palestine. These formative years paved the way for international collaborations that have defied geographical boundaries. Her albums, “Mars… Back and Forth” and “Kouni,” serve as testimonies to her ability to transcend genres, fearlessly delving into explorations of identity. They stand as a testament to her artistry, each track a mosaic of influences and experiences. Yet, Huda’s pursuits extend beyond performance and recording. She is a dedicated advocate for the advancement of … Continued

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Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel’s work as a vocalist, composer, percussionist and artistic director focuses on the function of art to address Relation. With sound, she intends to lay common grounds for utopian futures. Connecting intimacy and subconscious narratives with collective and large-scale principles, Anaïs navigates song, choral, instrumental music and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. With traditional and experimental approaches, she investigates the power of sound to shape reality. Anaïs cares for the stakes of hybridity in culture, working towards opening up the interstices between genres, … Continued

Santiago Cárdenas

Art explorer, cultural manager, producer, director, and workshop facilitator since 2021 with Contraindustria Corporación Cultural (Colombia) and since 2023 with the organization Leimay (New York/Colombia). He has experience as a music producer, DJ (Selector), and performer of string and percussion instruments. Dancer in Latin rhythms (Salsa-Bachata) in Street Dance genres (Lockin, Whacking, House, Hip-Hop), the heritage of Afro-diasporic dances, and Tap Dance in Dromós Project.

Maria Bacardi

Maria Bacardi, (Emeritus) (7 years) Maria Bacardi is a singer, actor, director and philanthropist. She was the Founder and Artistic Director of Oddfellows Playhouse, a not-for-profit artist’s theater company in East Hampton. Through Oddfellows, she spearheaded a multitude of theatrical workshops involving the East End youth. From 1999 to 2015, Maria was the founder and co-chair of the Community Board of Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, now the Community Fellows. Currently, Maria serves on the board of Fundación Amistad and LEIMAY.  

Amaru Zárate

Master in Dance Art with emphasis in Dance Theater from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. With experience in the field of the arts from the interpretation, direction, research, creation and training, feeding his search for the expansion of the limits of art in relation to being, with stage experience in contemporary dance, physical theater, post-dramatic theater and performance, also focusing his personal concerns around the ritual and art as a sensitive encounter, thus generating research questions about interdisciplinarity and the place of the arts in community building. Maestro en Arte Danzario con énfasis en Danza Teatro de la … Continued

Sergio Santana Enrique

Dancer, actor, videographer, and anthropologist with training in interdisciplinary research methods, business management, forum theater methodologies, documentary cinematography, scriptwriting, collective creation in theater and literature, contemporary dance, classical ballet, and acting techniques. Experience as a dance and theater performer in different works and projects with the following groups: Elfo Azul Teatro (San Gil), Monte Brujas Teatro (San Gil), Pájara Pinta Danza (Medellín), Compañía “Sin Nombre” Teatro (Mexico), Cámara de Danza Comunidad (Bogotá-Medellín), Coopdanza, Inc (Bogotá-Medellín), LEIMAY (Bogotá-New York), and Contraindustria Colectivo Itinerante (Medellín-Bogotá-Mexico). He worked as a dancer-creator in the play “Invocación” (Artistic Residence of Orbitante Plataforma Danza Bogotá 2022). … Continued

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David Suárez

Movement artist, creator, researcher, teacher, manager, and founder of the Multipurpose Project TerSer Cuerpo. As an independent creator and researcher, he has stood out since 2011. His teaching career spans around 14 years of experience. His contribution to the local context has been significant in terms of training processes, laboratories, research-creation proposals and for his insistence on consolidating an independent project. He has shared his work in various regions of the country and in Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador.

Maitlin Jordan

Maitlin Jordan is a New York City based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. A graduate of the University of South Florida and rigorous Limon Professional Studies program in New York City. Maitlin was hand-picked by the artistic director, Colin Connor, of the Limon Dance Company to perform during their 2019 season. Maitlin has since worked as a contemporary dance artist and performed/worked at venues such as: The Joyce Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Stanford University among many others. Her improv and choreographic works have been performed in numerous countries including in the United States, Italy, and Spain.

Jeff Beal

Jeff Beal is an American composer with a genre-defying musical fluidity.  His work has been nominated for nineteen, and won five Primetime Emmy awards for scores for House of Cards (Netflix), Rome (HBO), Carnivale (HBO) Nightmares and Dreamscapes (TNT), Monk (USA) and Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews (Showtime). Noted film scores include the documentaries The Biggest Little Farm and Blackfish, and dramas Pollock (dir. Ed Harris) and Shock and Awe (dir. Rob Reiner), and Raymond & Ray (dir. Rodrigo Garcia) on Apple TV+. Beal composes, orchestrates, conducts, mixes and often performs on his own scores. An accomplished and recorded jazz … Continued

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gamin is a Korean born multi-instrumentalist specialized for traditional Korean wind. She tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. She is a scholar and designated Yisuja, official holder of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46. Piri court music and Daechita(royal military music). From 2000 to 2010, gamin was the principal player at National Gugak Orchestra. gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence at the Asian Cultural Council, and has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the … Continued

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Izya Baird

Izya Baird

Izya Baird (they/them) is an interdisciplinary movement artist and student. Their work comes from a practice of imporvisation rooted in their experiences in ballet, contemporary, capoeira angola, international folk dances, and vogue. Their work shifts and evolves as it finds a focus but primarily engages with questions relating to queerness, gender, ecology, and healing. Izya was an intern with LEIMAY in the fall/winter of 2023 and worked to help activate the archive.

Kelsey Rondeau

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.

Jenna Taus

Jenna Taus is a choreographer, dancer, visual artist and Restorative Justice practitioner living in New York City. Programs and Development Associate for LEIMAY.

Synead Cidney Nichols

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

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

Nicole Goodwyn

Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. is the author of Warcries, and the poetic sequel Warcrimes as well as the photographic essay book Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): I Give of Myself  based on the five year iterations of Ain’t I a Woman (?/!).  They are a finalist for the CUE Foundation’s 2022 Public Programs Fellowship, as well as the 2020 Pushcart Nominee, 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow and the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow.

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.

Dominica Greene

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.

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.

Santiago Alejandro Solorza Naranjo

24 años, ingeniero ambiental de la Universidad El Bosque, voluntario de la Red Nacional de Jóvenes de Ambiente (RNJA) y Coordinador General del Nodo Chupqua Noroccidente (Suba y Engativá), apasionado por el cuidado del ambiente y entusiasta por el baile. Hace parte del staff de la comunidad de Just Dance Bogotá y estará listo para cualquier reto que junte la danza con el ambiente.

Karen Xiomara Vargas Parrado

Mi nombre es Xiomara, amante de las artes en todas sus expresiones, payasa profesora y artista en formación en la Licenciatura en Artes Escénicas, parte de un grupo de batucada llamado Batucomparsa de Zhuba, directora y actriz de teatro desde hace más de cinco años, artista circense desde hace tres años aproximadamente, cuando hice parte de dos grupos de circo, y actualmente estoy en un grupo llamado Lex morrocoys cirqué, una pequeña gran historia de dos payasos y el amor que se forja en medio de un estallido social; mi juguete es el hula, me gusta mucho la fotografía y … Continued

Angie Lorena Herrera Valero

Angie Herrera (Ann) 23 años, actualmente estudiante de Licenciatura en artes escénicas de la universidad Antonio Nariño en Bogota, con una trayectoria de 11 años en el teatro y 2 años en la danza, apasionada por las historias y las posibilidades infinitas que permite el arte, busca hacer teatro toda su vida en Colombia, y espera en algún momento ser maestra de artes en comunidades que necesiten creer en lo imposible.

Andrés Felipe Rodríguez Camargo

Su nombre puede ser común, pero no igual al de los demás. Le encanta bailar, actuar y comunicar. En la danza libera energías, en la actuación se aleja de la realidad y en la comunicación se transforma en mejor persona.

Marlen Acevedo Castro

Marlen Acevedo Castro, 65 años, de profesión contadora y ambientalista, montañista y aficionada a la fotografía y a encuentros con la naturaleza.

María Alejandra Arenas

María Alejandra Arenas Herrera: human and traveler in constant exploration. She has studied tourism and hotel business administration, and has learned about bonds through clown, biodance, theater, meditation, ancestral ceremonies of indigenous communities, long walks and everything she has found that integrates body-mind-spirit. In the Pacific she learned about the unraveling (the rivers reaching the sea) and in Bogota she continues to learn about fluidity. María Alejandra Arenas Herrera: humana y viajera. En exploración constante. Ha estudiado administración de empresas turísticas y hoteleras, y ha aprendido de vínculos por medio de: el clown, la biodanza, el teatro, la meditación, las … Continued

Mónica Esperanza León Montaña

Mónica León. Maestra, alquimista, exploradora en constante reConocimiento del cuerpo y los territorios. Navegante de las aguas internas e hija de Gaia. Tejedora. Amante de la fotografía. Caminante de procesos sociales. Hermana de plantas y animales. Mujer en continua transformación.

David Plazas

Inició su formación artística en el año 2004 bajo la guía del Maestro Félix Báez y Martha Cecilia Restrepo en el programa de Tejedores de Sociedad. En el año 2009 opta al título Licenciado en Preescolar, en el 2012 al de Licenciado en Educación Artística de la Universidad Francisco José de Caldas y en el 2019 de Magíster en Danza de la Universidad de Artes de Nanjing. Dentro de su trabajo como docente en grados de preescolar a bachillerato dirigió ejercicios artísticos como “High Five Me” (2008) y “The Little Prince” (2009), sketches como “Aesop in the XIX Century” (2009), … Continued

Laura Ximena Montenegro Puentes

Laura es una persona que busca conservar la inocencia y curiosidad de la niñez. El arte le ha permitido reconocerse y la ha llevado a lugares y personas maravillosos. Día a día trabaja en convertirse en un ser amoroso y libre de prejuicios.

Evelin Lorein Ariza Cusva

Bailarina integral, apasionada por el movimiento, la naturaleza y sus diferentes formas de expresión, inició su proceso en la adolescencia participando en varios grupos locales. Además de participar y motivar el movimiento social y cultural con la ciudadanía. Se interesa por hobbies como el patinaje, la lectura, los idiomas, los oficios ancestrales y la creación con el medio que la rodea, siempre con la mejor actitud, dispuesta a recibir y dar lo mejor de sí misma.

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