Rujeko Dumbutshena

She is passionate about teaching the rhythmic intricacies embedded in Zimbabwean dance traditions in a manner that is accessible to people regardless of their previous dance experience. Students will have the opportunity to internalize the movements and rhythms of a dance form that is rarely performed or taught.

Mar Galeano

Mar Galeano is a visual and performance artist from Paraguay. They instill elements of photography, dance, and theater to create visual koans. For 8 years, Mar’s been part of Teatro Studio Sur Repertoire, where they studied acting and performed numerous plays. Mar performed in the LEIMAY’s garden series In Illo Tempore Vignettes. They’ve danced in Lucy Kerr’s while you were away, The World of Wrestling, and I Feel The Earth Move, presented at The Brooklyn Museum, LEIMAY’s Cave, IDIO Gallery, The MATCH (Houston), and MILK+Cereal (Austin). Recently, Mar acted in the original productions of Fairy/Tale and a man ought to … Continued

Omer Ephron

Omer Ephron is an Israeli professional dance artist, choreographer, and performer. Omer is dancing for LEIMAY, Coopdanza Inc., and Cullen & Them. She has presented her work at Tisch NYU, Triskelion Arts, Salvatore Capezio Theater, STH, and the Open Source Gallery. Omer Ephron is originally from Israel. She started her dance training in Greece with Ioanna Chatziathanasiou, and studied in Israel at Lidia Fingreish Dance Center and Bat-Dor Conservatory in Tel-Aviv. Omer graduated with excellence in 2010 from Thelma-Yellin Art Academy where she majored in dance. She is a certificate holder of Peridance Capezio Center in New York City. Among … Continued

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

Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen has been choreographing and performing in New York City since 1997, and created Racoco Productions in 2003. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Performance as Communication, a self-designed major; she studied dance and choreography with Claire Mallardi. Ms. Cohen currently studies action theater with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman and ballet with Carolyn Lord; other influential teachers include Mary Anthony and Bertram Ross (modern dance), Heather Cornell (tap), Rafael Bianciotto (mask and clown), Patricia Cross (ballet), and Joanne Conroy and Olga Baigas (jazz). She has performed with Olek, Julie Atlas Muz, SHUA Group, Ariane Anthony … Continued

Elke Luyten

Elke Luyten, originally from Belgium, lives and works in New York City. In 2010, Luyten re-performed several of Abramović’s pieces at the exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” at the MoMA. She is currently performing in Robert Wilson’s “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović”, which has toured internationally since 2011. Luyten’s own work has been presented by the RED- CAT in Los Angeles, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Hooyong Performing Art Centre in South Korea, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and Dance New Amsterdam in New York. Her most recent collaboration with Kira Alker called … Continued

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

Mina Nishimura

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and impro- visational dance through Kota Yamazaki’s teaching.While perform- ing nationally and internationally with many inspirational chore- ographers, her own works have been presented by DTW,The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Roulette among other venues. Nishimura was the danceWeb scholar at Impuls Tanz (Vienna) in 2009, and was a curator for MR Spring Festival 2013. She was on AIR program at Brooklyn Art Exchange in 2010-2011, at Chez Bushwick in 2013 and is a current AIR (2013-2014) at Movement Research. Nishimura has been teaching at Bennington College and Ferris University (Japan).

Sophia Treanor

Sophia Treanor is a Brooklyn based performance artist, actor, dancer, and director. Sophia studied acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and when introduced to movement training was immediately shocked by the enormous expressive potential of the body.This began a more spiritual relationship to dance and music, and led her to study meditation, improvisation, and the Six Viewpoints with Mary Overlie. Sophia has been investigating presence (((now))) with collaborator Sebastiani Romagnolo and musician Adam Gundersheimer for the last two years, and the performance possibilities between poetry and movement with poet Rachel Broderick. Snow flakes, sand dunes, and turbulent vortices … Continued

Kika Espejo

Kika Espejo is New York based artist born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1982. Espejo’s holds a Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited at art spaces such as Centro de Historia (Zaragoza, Spain), DMY Festival (Berlin,Germany), Anthology Film Archives (New York,USA) and Dimensions Variable (Miami, USA). She also collaborated for the Guggenheim “Stillspotting NYC” project in 2011.

Anabella Lenzu

Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama is a provoking and historically conscious dance-theater company, breaking down the wall separating artist from audience. Originally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer and teacher with 24 years experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy and the USA. As Artistic Director of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama Currently, Lenzu conducts classes at Peridance Capezio Center,Wagner College and Lehman College. Lenzu is also a published author for various dance and arts magazines, and plans to debut her first book in March 2013, entitled “Unveiling Motion and Emotion”.

Jeremy Goren

Jeremy Goren, Stephanie Eiss, Jenna Kirk, and Tommy Schell have been working together since the beginning of 2013. They have performed Wistaria at several locations in New York, in collaboration with a changing cadre of artists.

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.

Carlye Eckert

Carlye Eckert is a choreographer and performer based in New York and a graduate of the Juilliard School (Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, 2009). Ms. Eckert has worked and collaborated with Tino Sehgal, Jonah Bokaer, Jack Ferver, Luke Murphy Dance, Yara Travieso, Lucie Baker, The Equus Projects, Boris Charmatz/ Musee de la Danse and appeared as a guest dance artist with Aszure Barton & Artists and Keigwin+Company. Ms. Eckert is a member of the Brian Brooks Dance Company. In addition to her solo choreographic work, Ms. Eckert has an ongoing collaboration with John Sorensen-Jolink under the moniker, Eckert+So-rensen Jolink. She, … Continued

Rebecca Brooks

Rebecca Brooks is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her performance works have been presented in theaters, galleries, art fairs, community centers, living rooms, offices, churches, bars, and parks. Her most recent work, Still Left On This Rock, was presented at Danspace Project in April 2014. She has worked as a performer with Marina Abramović, luciana achugar, Maria Hassabi, Susan Rethorst, robbinschilds, Kathy Westwater, and many others. She works in an advisory role with Heather Kravas and Milka Djordjevich.An AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher, Rebecca is currently on faculty at Balance Arts Center and Movement Research, and she also teaches … Continued

Lou Mandolini

Lou (Lindsey) Mandolini is nonbinary professional dancer, choreographer, and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. They began their formal training in Chicago at the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance and graduated from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts High School Program. Mandolini went on to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where they graduated with high honors receiving a BFA in Dance and a minor in Art History. They have been a company member and dancer for New York-based choreographers Hee Ra Yoo (Yoo & Dancers), Regina Nejman (Regina Nejman & Company), … Continued

Lucy Kerr

Lucy Kerr is a choreographer, writer, dancer, and interdisciplinary artist. Lucy received a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin. Her undergraduate thesis garnered her the grand prize of the 2014 Co-op/George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence, which is the highest honor awarded to an undergraduate at UT. Lucy’s artistic work is inspired by the wonder, tragedy, and difficulties of being a person in the world, constantly dealing with the tensions of being a part of time-existing in a social situation and approaching decay, while also having freedom and imagination. Lucy … Continued

Kate Ladenheim

Kate Ladenheim (B.F.A.,The Boston Conservatory) is the Creative Director/ Choreographer of The People Movers Contemporary Dance. Her choreog- raphy has been presented at several notable festivals and venues across the Northeast. Ladenheim is a 2013: Breaking Glass: Emerging Female Choreogra- pher and a 2014-2015 Leimay Fellow. Ladenheim and her company have enjoyed residencies at The Ballet and Dance Center in Syracuse, New York,The Field (New York, NY), and through the White Wave Rising Choreographer Residency Program, and have been commissioned by the Juventas New Music Ensemble. Ladenheim is also the founder of CRAWL, a presenting series which brings art- ists … Continued

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 bilingual 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

Hee Ran Lee

Hee Ran Lee is a performance artist working as a performer and director. Her recent grants have included the ARKO Young Art Frontier from Arts Council Korea (2013), Semi-finalist prize for emerging artist from The Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation (2012) and The Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship (2012). Her work has been shown at Culture Station Seoul 284(Korea 2014), Grace Exhibition Space (New York 2013),The Watermill Center (New York 2012), Defibrillator Gallery(Chicago 2012), and Rockbund Art Museum(Shanghai 2011). She holds an MFA specializing in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently is a fellow … 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

Sondra Fraleigh

Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus of Dance and Somatic Studies at the State University of New York at Brockport. She is the co-author of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Karwo (2006) and author of Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan (1999). Her innovative choreography has been seen in theatres in New York, Germany, and Japan. She si the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of movement therapy and dance.

Polina Klimovitskaya

Polina Klimovitskaya has worked as a director and master teacher across Russia, Europe and the United States and holds an MFA and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She started her work as an actress and director in Moscow in the 1960s, studying acting with disciples of Stanislavsky and Vakhtangov and directing with the last assistant of the great stage-innovator Meyerhold. In the USA she performed at Yale Repertory Theater and in the Academy Award-winning short film Molly’s Pilgrim. Polina has directed at the Kennedy Center, among dozens of other places, and as an artist-in-residence at Mabou Mines, for whom she … Continued

Piotr Redlinski

Piotr Redlinski was born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland. He moved to New York City in 1987 where he currently resides. After graduating with a B.A. in ARCHITECTURE from COOPER UNION, a unique New York art school renowned for its synthesis of science and art, Redlinski pursued his growing interest in multiculturalism by moving to Asia. Upon his return to New York City, Redlinski has worked primarily as a photographer and a journalist. Redlinski’s work spans a variety of categories from portraiture and architecture to fine arts and reportage.

Maximilian Balduzzi

Maximilian Balduzzi is a performer and director born in a small village in the Italian Alps. Maximilian holds a degree in theatre from the University of Bologna. In 2003, he and director Anne Zenour founded the group Teatro della Pioggia in Siena. Maximilian also worked with Stefano Vercelli in Italy and with Mamadou Dioume, an actor with Peter Brook. He studied Balinese dance and song for six months with Guru I Made Bukel and Guru I Nyoman Tchandri in Bali. Maximilian’s unique approach to theatrical training and composition is indebted to his work with these teachers. Maximilian moved to New … 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.

Jen Kosky

Jen Kosky/Dance Projects is a contemporary dance company founded and directed by Jen Kosky. Jen Kosky is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance artist. Her work is largely inspired by the energetics of nature, urbanity and the body and is often portrayed with a fiery feminine point of view. Her movement style draws from release technique, improvisation and African dance forms. Jen has had the pleasure of dancing for numerous talented choreographers including Ellis Wood, Martha Williams, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Jody Oberfelder, Stephanie Sleeper and Shalewa Mackall. Jen’s choreography has been presented at various venues including ABC NoRio, the Hatch, the Chelsea Art … Continued

Johanna Kirk

Johanna Kirk (Performer) si originally from Boise, Idaho where she had the great fortune to study modern dance from akind of punk rock angel, Leah Clark. Johanna danced with Balance Dance Company for eight years before attending Barnard College, from which she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Dance Major and Art History Minor. While at Barnard, she had the chance to work with Robert Batle, Azure Barton, David Newmann, JeanineDurning,Ivy Baldwin, Mary Cochran and other fabulous mentors. Last year, she worked on a reconstruction of Twyla Tharp’s Eight Jely Rols, performed at the Joyce. She has choreographed for many … Continued

Vageline

Vangeline is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a postmodern Butoh dance company firmly rooted in the tradition ofJapanese B u t while carrying it into the 21st century. She joined the Butoh Ritual Mexicano with Master Diego Pinon in 2002,a n d is assistant Director to Butoh Master Tetsuro Fukuhara for the project TOKYO SPACE DANCE. www.vangeline.com

Amiti Perry

Amiti Perry received her BA in Dance from the University of North Texas and MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University. She co-founded DIPdance with collaborator Coco Loupe in 2001; presented and performed works in New York, Texas, Louisiana and Ohio; performed as a guest artist with Rachel Lampert and Dancers (Ithaca, NY, 1999); and performed, taught, assisted and designed, nationally and internationally, with Skip Costa/COREmovement Project-NYC (1999-2003). She was company in residence at Bridge for Dance for 5 years and most recently accepted a residency for 2011 at CAVEarts in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been presented at … Continued

Julie Rachel Spodek

Julie Rachel Spodek is an emerging dancer and performer. She was born into her current body on February 15th, 1964. She continues to be profoundly moved, awed and fascinated, wonderfully and horribly surprised, completely perplexed and confounded, continually and unceasingly confronted by the infinite enigmas, the painful and delightful challenges, the infinite equations and struggles, as well as the wonderful magical experience and sense of being in and of, and most certainly beyond a human body.

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