Natalie Green

Natalie Green

Natalie GreenSpace Grant (2017/2018) Natalie Green is a professional dancer, yoga and pilates teacher based in Brooklyn. Her teaching style is fluid and light-hearted with an emphasis on spinal health, proper anatomical alignment, efficiency of movement, core...
Nia & Ness

Nia & Ness

Nia & NessSpace Grant (2017/2018) We are Nia & Ness, a Black, out-lesbian couple and performance art duo, whose work serves as a visual-auditory diary of our daily lives. We believe that it’s necessary for our specific stories, as Black Lesbian Women, to be...
Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Johnnie Cruise MercerSpace Grant (2017/2018)Artist in Residence (2019-2020) Recently acknowledged as a 2021 Princess Grace Award Recipent in Choreography, Johnnie Cruise Mercer is a queer black thinker, maker, performer, educator and social entrepreneur born in...
Ita Segev

Ita Segev

Ita SegevSpace Grant (2017-2018) Ita Segev makes performance, writes, performs, acts and does advocacy & community building work, mainly around the intersection of her personal and sociopolitical contexts as an anti-Zionist Israeli trans woman. Ita was a 2019...
Dane Terry

Dane Terry

Dane TerrySpace Grant (2017/2018) I am a storyteller, composer, pianist and singer from Ohio now anchored in New York City. I have been playing piano for 22 years and am completely self-taught. At first I played exclusively boogie-woogie for 6 hours a day in my...
Claro de los Reyes

Claro de los Reyes

Claro de los ReyesSpace Grant (2017/2018) Claro de los Reyes (he/him/his) is NYC-based playwright, actor, educator, and a social practice theatre artist. His theatre works aim to raise questions about transnational histories and its intimate influence on the present....