BAX Space Grant Alumni

Symara Johnson Space Grant (Fall 2022)Symara Johnson, a Portland Oregon native, currently residing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has immersed herself in interdisciplinary and choreographic studies globally. Her work varies due to the different influences she’s embraced...

Kelsey Rondeau Space Grant (Fall 2022)Kelsey Rondeau (they/them) is a freelance performer, drag artist, wig stylist, gogo dancer, filmmaker and all-around International Womxn of Mystery. Raised in the wilds of Northern California, they graduated with a BFA in Dance...

Kimiko Tanabe Space Grant (Fall 2022)Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a dance artist hosted on Lenape Land, currently known as Brooklyn. She graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Creative Writing and Dance. She explores the mediums of performance art, dance,...

Nehemoyia YoungSpace Grant (Spring 2022)Nehemoyia Young is a movement artist working at the intersection of art, spirituality and social impact. She is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary with a Masters in Theology, Performance Art & Ritual. Nehemoyia has...

Joy HavensSpace Grant (Spring 2022)Joy Havens is a co-founder of In Liberated Company (ILC), a dance-based initiative to build community and support healing for ex-evangelicals and other ex-fundamentalists recovering from abuse in religious and spiritual contexts. ILC...

Jovon Outlaw Space Grant (Spring 2022)Jovon Outlaw, they/he,  is a Bronx-born and raised, Interdisciplinary Artist. They specialize in Cinematography, Performance Art, and Writing. Jovon is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase College Film Conservatory and works looks to...

Ambika Rania Space Grant (Spring 2022)Ambika Raina is a choreographer, dancer, and film maker in Lenape territory / New York City. Ambika makes cinematic fantasies that flirt with pop sensibility rooted in an experimental foundation. Viscerally influenced by her 10...

Olaiya OlayemiSpace Grant (2020/2021)olaiya olayemi is a blk/trans/femme/womxn/artist/educator/and activist who centers womxn of the african diaspora in her performative/literary/cinematic/and sonic works of art that explore...

Malcolm-x BettsSpace Grant (2020/2021)Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based curator, visual, and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for...

Marla Nicole RobertsonSpace Grant (2020/2021)Native Memphian,  Marla Nicole Robertson moved to the northeast in 2009 as an Americorps VISTA volunteer in Pittsfield, MA. She holds a Master's degree in Anthropology with a certificate in Museum Studies from The...

Lily GoldSpace Grant (2020/2021)Lily Gold is a white, queer, fourth generation New Yorker. She is a choreographer, performer and visual artist, working in modes of movement, sound, painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work has been presented by Danspace Project,...

Kristel BaldozSpace Grant (2020/2021)Kristel Baldoz is a Filipina-American artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape Strike. She was a 2019 EmergeNYC fellow at the Hemispheric Institute and artist-in-residence at the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation. As a...

Anh VoSpace Grant (2020/2021) Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer, dancer, theorist, and activist. They create dances and produce texts about pornography and queer relations, about being and form, about identity and abstraction, about history and its colonial...

Kayla Farrish/ Decent Structure ArtsSpace Grant (2019/2020)Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance Inc (2020-2021),...

Catie LeascaSpace Grant (2019/2020)Catie Leasca is a dance artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY.With roots in Massachusetts, she has traveled and danced abroad in Israel, France, Belgium, and Germany. Catie has worked professionally with Netta Yerushalmy, Helen...

Nami YamamotoSpace Grant (2019/2020)Artist in Residence (2003-2005)Parent Artist Space Grant (2012/2013)Nami Yamamoto, from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Her work has...

Jeremy TiangSpace Grant (2019/2020)Jeremy Tiang (he/ they) is a novelist, playwright and literary translator. He has translated over twenty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang...

Ogemdi UdeSpace Grant (2019/2020)I am a Brooklyn-based dance and interdisciplinary artist creating performances, texts, installation, and media that focus on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. I use movement and voice as a tool for digging up...

Nile HarrisSpace Grant (2019/2020)Nile Harris is a performer and a director of live works of art. His work has been presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Under the Radar Festival (Public Theater), The Watermill Center, Volksbühne Berlin, Prelude Festival, Bronx Academy of...

Alicia Bauman MoralesSpace Grant (2018/2019) I am a dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. My aesthetic is quirky, queer, “spanglish,” Boricua, urban, nerdy and working class. I grew up building altars, listening to and making up stories that...

Bex Kwan Artist in Residence (2018-2020)Fall Space Grant (2018/209)Upstart Program (2017)Bex Kwan is a multimedia artist, organizer, social worker, and athlete who was born and raised in Singapore. Engaged in a lifelong process of undoing the effects of growing up in...

J. BoueySpace Grant (2018/2019) J. is the founder of The Dance Union Podcast, initiating the NYC Dancers COVID-19 Relief Fund and The Dance Union Town Hall For Collective Action to support the dance community through numerous world-changing events. As a creator, J. is...

Nico BrownSpace Grant (2018/2019)Nico Brown is a dance artist originally from rural Illinois. His work is often described as minimal, formal, and irrevocably queer. Brown's dances have been presented at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out, New York Live Arts, La...

lily bo shapiroSpace Grant (2018/2019) lily bo shapiro is a dance artist from New York City. Bo’s current projects take up residence in the shifting constellations of archive, elision, pleasure and the strangely intimate (intimately strange). Bo’s choreographic work...

Elisabeth MotleyParent Artist Space Grant (2018/2019)I am a disabled choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work is concerned with disability as a framework for choreography and creative practice. Departing from my experiences of neurodivergence, physical...

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 & 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 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 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 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 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....

Abigail LevineSpace Grant (2016-2017)Abigail Levine is an artist working between New York and Los Angeles. Rooted in dance but moving across media—performance, text, drawing, sound—Levine focuses on the poetics of our bodies’ work, how we record and value it. Levine’s...

Alex RomaniaSpace Grant (2016-2017)Alex Romania (NYC) makes multidisciplinary work at the crux of expansive task and deteriorating form, investigating bodies of cultural debris amidst the invisible everyday and toxic ingestions, consuming, purging, and breaking apart....

Ashley BrockingtonSpace Grant (2016-2017) Ashley Brockington has been trolling around the downtown theater scene since 2001.  She has toured the parks of New York City with Circus Amok for over a decade.  Circus Amok is a politically-minded queer circus that provides...

Beto O'Bryne (Radical Evolution)Space Grant (2016-2017) Beto O’Byrne (co-founder) hails from East Texas and is the co-founder of Radical Evolution. As a theatre artist, his plays have been produced and supported throughout the U.S.  He is the former Artistic Director...

Meropi Peponides (Radical Evolution)Space Grant (2016-2017) Meropi Peponides (co-founder) Meropi Peponides is a theater maker, dramaturg, podcast producer, writer and co-founder of Radical Evolution. She has been collaboratively creating and producing theatre for the...

Kristopher K.Q. PourzalSpace Grant (2016-2017) Kristopher Kareem Quarles Pourzal is a USA-based choreographer, performer, dramaturgical consultant, and teacher. He is a 2020 Dance and Process participant (The Kitchen), a 2018 danceWEB scholarship recipient (Impulstanz...

Brittany WilliamsSpace Grant (2016-2017) Brittany Williams is an international artist originally from Florida City who has worked and traveled in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. Brittany was a part of Dancing While Black: On Fertile Ground in New Orleans...

Jules SklootSpace Grant (2015/2016) ​​Jules Skloot is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher raised in Wisconsin and now working and living in Cummington, MA, and New York, NY. Jules has performed with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, Tatyana...

Mieke D.Space Grant (2015/2016) MIEKE D (she/they) is a mixed-race genderqueer femme of Asian and European descent. She is an experimental dance, theater, and performance artist committed to making work that is personal, political, and playful. As an educator and...

Mina NishimuraSpace Grant (2015/2016)Artist in Residence (2010-2011)Nishimura is a dance artist from Tokyo whose practice and research focus on ever-changing relationships between internal landscapes and external forms, as well as images and movements....

Sarita CovingtonSpace Grant (2015-2016) SARITA COVINGTON holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Her work has received support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Open Meadows Foundation, The Puffin Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. She has been an...

Taja LindleySpace Grant (2015-2016) An 80s baby born in New York and raised in the South, Taja Lindley currently lives in Tennessee working as the Founder of Colored Girls Hustle®️ - a shelter and sanctuary for her self-expression, a sacred portal and platform for her...

Tamara WilliamsSpace Grant (2015-2016) Ms. Williams is a native of Augusta, GA where she began her dance training at Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. Tamara participated in Georgia’s Governor’s Honors Program for dance during the summer of 2001, attended Philadanco’s...

Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith Space Grant (2014/2015) Todd Shalom works with text, sound and image to re-contextualize the body in space using vocabulary of the everyday. He is the founder and director of Elastic City. In this role, Todd leads his own walks,...

Tei Blow and Sean McElroy / Royal Osiris Karaoke EnsembleSpace Grant (2014/2015) Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (Tei Blow and Sean McElroy) [ROKE] is a musical priesthood that explores the metaphysics and mythologies of love, desire, and courtship at the end of the...

Shelley SenterSpace Grant (2014/2015) Shelley Senter is an independent and collaborative dance artist and long-time Movement Research faculty member whose work has been presented throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia. She danced with...

Rebecca PatekSpace Grant (2014/2015) Rebecca Patek has created over twenty original performances. Patek was an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts and New York Live Arts. Work was presented at MoMa PS1, The Kitchen, Impulstanz Vienna...

Kirya Taber Space Grant (2014/2015) ​​Kirya Traber is a nationally awarded writer, performer, and cultural worker. She is a collaborating artist with Ping Chong + Company, and is Curator-in-Residence with Hi-ARTS. She was New York Stage and Film’s 2020 Founders Award...

Ani Taj/ Dance Cartel Space Grant (2014/2015) ​​A native New Yorker, ANI TAJ is a choreographer, performer, and the founder and artistic director of The Dance Cartel. She choreographs contemporary musicals, plays, concerts, music videos, art parties, and she loves to...

Amanda VillalobosSpace Grant (2014/2015) ​​Amanda creates puppets and specialty props for both stage and television and has performed on and off-Broadway as an actor and puppeteer. Her puppetry designs have been presented on Broadway at the Walter Kerr and...

Donovan & CalderonSpace Grant (2013/2014)Donovan & Calderón have been in collaboration for the past thirteen years.  Previous works include Not Unclear at New York University (2003), Sublimate at the Galapagos Art Space (2006), their improvisational...

Jess BarbagalloSpace Grant (2013/2014)Artist in Residence (2012-2013)Jess Barbagallo is a writer and performer and has performed with Big Dance Theater (The Other Here), Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf (Panic, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, It Cannot Be Called Our Mother...

Jenn McGinnSpace Grant (2013/2014)Jen McGinn received her B.A. and M.F.A in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the ADF. She currently teaches at the University of the Arts and co-directs their Summer Institute in Dance; is a Dance Specialist for "Life...

iele paloumpisSpace Grant (2013/2014)iele paloumpis is a choreographer, textile artist, herbalist, astrologer and end of life doula living in Canarsie/Munsee territory in Lenapehoking. iele’s work is rooted in kinesthetic awareness, trauma-informed griefwork, and...

Shaun Irons & Lauren PettySpace Grant (2012/2013)Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty are multi-platform artists (regularly collaborating under the name AutomaticRelease) working at the intersection of interdisciplinary performance, multimedia installation, documentary,...

Pele BauchSpace Grant (2012/2013)Pele Bauch is an interdisciplinary choreographer who weaves dance, theater, and installation design into unique performances.  Bauch’s performance works have been selected for presentation at many New York venues.  She has received...

Morgan GouldSpace Grant (2012/2013)Artist in Residence (2010-2012)Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play Development Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, where...

Michelle BouleSpace Grant (2012/2013) Michelle Boulé is a “Bessie” Award-winning dance artist, teacher, transformational coach, and healer who explores the connections between movement, consciousness, human potential, and creativity. She has received commissions and...

Kim BrandtSpace Grant (2012/2013)Kim Brandt has presented her work at MoMA/PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, SculptureCenter, The Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, Pioneer Works, Bric, The Shed, Artists Space, Ceysson & Benetiere, Klaus Von Nichtssagend and AVA...

Benjamin Aiko KimitchSpace Grant (2012/2013)Benjamin Akio Kimitch is a dance artist and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. His artistic work is deeply influenced by his mixed-race Japanese American heritage and childhood training in Chinese dance. In August 2022,...

Heather OlsenSpace Grant (2011/2012)Heather Olson is a dancer, choreographer, and mom working in New York City since 1997. As a performer, she has received Bessie Awards for sustained achievement with Tere O’Connor (2010) and for her performance in Yanira Castro’s...

Vanessa AnspaughSpace Grant 2010/2011 Vanessa Anspaugh, is a choreographer/performance based artist. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA amongst an eclectic family of artists, affected by the vast urban landscape and Pacific Ocean. The numerous paradigms of...

Tara OconSpace Grant 2010/2011 I am a 41-yr old white, cis, woman. My passions evolve and manifest as a dancer/choreographer/actor/ immersive theater performer/collaborator/consultant and a transformation coach. Sometimes even a filmmaker. Yes that’s a lot of (/’s)...

Studio Six TheaterSpace Grant 2010/2011The Studio Six Theater Company is a New York-based acting company, founded in 2006. Its members were all trained in the classical Stanislavsky method at the School of the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT), and they are the first group...

Amber SloanSpace Grant 2009/2010 AMBER SLOAN is a choreographer, performer, teacher, producer, and curator based in Jersey City and New York City. She is a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow. Her work has been presented by Dixon Place,...

Tiffany MillsSpace Grant 2009/2010 Tiffany Mills is a choreographer and artistic director of the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company. Mills moved to NYC in 1995, and formed Tiffany Mills Company in 2000, earning praise from The New York Times: “Mills is making a name for...

Peter SciscioliSpace Grant 2009/2010Peter Sciscioli (pronounced sh-SHOL-ee, he/him/his) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. Since 1997 he has been creating performance...

Draw CampbellSpace Grant 2009/2010 Drae has an eclectic career as an EMCEE, comedian, director, actor, storyteller and all around entertainer. Drae received a BFA in Theater from the University of The Arts in Philadelphia. Drae has appeared on many stages and screens...

Catherine Dill/ Exploding MomentSpace Grant 2009/2010 My name is Catharine Dill, and I’m a theater artist working under the company name Exploding Moment. I’ve produced and directed six projects as Exploding Moment--Date:Time, What I Like About Breasts, Can I Help...

Kevin AugustineSpace Grant 2009/2010 Forever INSPIRED by a hand-stitched sock puppet from my grandma, my life’s work rests on discovering that I too could make my own toys. Forming Lone Wolf Tribe in 1997, my mission remains: create intelligent, physical & highly...

Levi GonzalezSpace Grant 2009/2010Artist in Residence (2010-2012)Gonzalez is a dance artist and native Angeleno, who was based in New York City from 1998-2016, and is currently on faculty at Bennington College in Vermont. He collaborates regularly with luciana...

Ivy BaldwinSpace Grant 2009/2010 Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer, performer, teacher, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, her work has been commissioned in the U.S. by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Next Wave Festival), The Philip Johnson Glass...

Miriam WolfSpace Grant 2007/2008 Miriam Wolf leads yoga classes designed to create a channel between the physical body and emotional wellbeing. Her classes have been described as sweat-, joy-, laughter-, and scream-inducing. They are masterfully creative and aim to...

Kriota WillbergSpace Grant 2007/2008Kriota Willberg is a cartoonist and visual artist who draws from decades of experience as a massage therapist and educator in health sciences and the arts. She is the author of Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists & Other...

Doug HoweSpace Grant 2007/2008DOUG HOWE is an American theatre maker who has directed over thirty productions in five countries. He graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1997 where he directed his first original piece, The Helpless Spectator: Dance of...

David Vinning & Karen GrenkeSpace Grant 2007/2008Parent Artist Space Grant (2014/2015)Cagey Productions is Karen Grenke and David Vining and was founded in 2001 to create opportunities for emerging theatre artists. Cagey received a 2014 Parent/Artist Grant from...

Chris YonSpace Grant 2007/2008 Chris Yon is a performer, choreographer and teacher. He mostly performs, choreographs, and sometimes curates, with and for Taryn Griggs. As a performer, he has worked with and for Yoshiko Chuma, Justin Jones, Karinne Keithley, David...

Carrie AhernSpace Grant 2007/2008 Carrie Ahern : Since 2005, choreographer Carrie has used the medium of the body to investigate spaces of taboo. She has a reputation for extensive research combined with an ability to make viewers deeply uncomfortable and comfortable...

Natalie GreenSpace Grant (2006/2007)Space 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...

Michael HellandSpace Grant (2006/2007) Michael Helland is a Brussels-based dance artist and bodyworker from Seattle, Washington, USA. He completed the 2019 Yyoga Conscious Living teacher training program and 2022 Ayurvedic Yoga Massage certification in Brussels, where...

Julia May JonasSpace Grant (2006/2007) I am a writer, director and teacher of theater, and make multidisciplinary work under the auspices of my company Nellie Tinder—some favorites being EVELYN, EMILY CLIMBS (MACHINE MÉCHANT), and FOR ARTISTS ONLY. I have also written...

Christopher EavesSpace Grant (2006/2007) Christopher Eaves is the artistic director of eavesdrop®, a New York City theatre and arts education collective dedicated to producing new American theatre and to the instruction of the arts and arts-integrated experiences for...

Aya OgawaSpace Grant (2006/2007)Parent Artist Space Grant (2016/2017)Artist in Residence (2017-2019)Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and translator whose work reflects an international viewpoint and utilizes the stage as a...

Abby BrowdeSpace Grant 2007/2008Artist in Residence (2008-2010)BAX Artist Advisor (2016-Present) Abigail Browde is a theater artist working with Michael Silverstone under the name 600 HIGHWAYMEN. 600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary...

Victoria LibertoreSpace Grant (2005/2006)Artist in Residence (2008-2010)VICTORIA LIBERTORE is a performer, writer, actress, improv artist,  curator, emcee and teacher. She is the creator of eight solo shows: "Camille: The Forgotten Artist", "stalk(her)", "The Should...

Jen AbramsSpace Grant (2005/2006) I have been making body-based multi-disciplinary performance since 1994. I have been presented at Dixon Place, LaMama, BAX, HERE, and WOW Café Theater, where I was a member for twelve years. I have had residencies at BAX, Movement...

Daniel LinehanSpace Grant (2005/2006) Hiatus is the production company of choreographer and dancer Daniel Linehan. The word “hiatus” implies a space of possibility, an opening. Each project of Hiatus aims to create an opening that fosters human-human connections in...

Christopher MorganSpace Grant (2005/2006)   Christopher Kaui Morgan (he/him) is a choreographer, educator, facilitator, curator, and arts administrator whose Native Hawaiian ancestry and wide-ranging international performance career influence all aspects of his...

Yasuko Yokoshi Space Grant (2004/2005) Artist in Residence (1998-2000) Yasuko Yokoshi is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. Her work entwines cultures and personal insights to create radical performances through the melding of dance, video and storytelling as...

Catherine Dill/ Exploding MomentSpace Grant 2004/2005 Sigal  Bergman was born in Israel, where she studied dance at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance. From 1995-2009 she lived in NYC working professionally as a choreographer and freelance dancer. In NYC she...

Catherine Dill/ Exploding MomentSpace Grant (2004/2005)Space Grant (2009/2010) My name is Catharine Dill, and I’m a theater artist working under the company name Exploding Moment. I’ve produced and directed six projects as Exploding Moment--Date:Time, What I Like...

Rebecca Lazier/ TerrainSpace Grant (2003/2004) Rebecca Lazier is a choreographer and educator based in New York City and Nova Scotia. She has choreographed more than eighty works presented in six countries. Recognized as an audacious experimenter, Rebecca creates...

Matt ChapmanSpace Grant (2003/2004) Matt Chapman is a performer, director, and teacher of physical theatre and clown. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Brooklyn’s Under the Table, collaborating on each of the company’s 13 works produced since its...

Gina YoungSpace Grant (2003/2004) gina young (she/they) is an award-winning writer, director, songwriter, performer, and curator based in los angeles. they have worked nationally and internationally, from The Hammer Museum and REDCAT to punk clubs and gay bars across...

Antonio RamosSpace Grant (2003/2004)Artist in Residence (2018-2020)Antonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he trained in jazz, salsa, and African dance. He later received a B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Purchase. Antonio began his career performing with...

Chris ElamSpace Grant (2002/2003) Chris Elam, Founding Artistic Director of Misnomer.org, is a critically-acclaimed choreographer and arts technology entrepreneur. Heralded as “a true original” (The New York Times), whose “clarity of vision delights the soul” (The...

Thi BuiSpace Grant (2002/2003)Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017)...

Penelope MccourtySpace Grant (2002/2003) Penelope McCourty is an arts administrator, educator and interdisciplinary performing artist who uses movement as her base. She has worked with several locally and nationally known dance performance companies and community arts...

Sam KimSpace Grant (2002/2003)Artist in Residence (2007-2009)In 1991 Kim moved to NYC to attend Barnard College, Columbia University where she earned a B.A. in English summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1995.  Kim began making dances at 19.  She has been committed...

Marisa SullivanSpace Grant (2002/2003) Marisa Sullivan is a writer, journalist, performer and producer living in New York City.  Since her 2021 NYC move, she launched her own media company, Marisa Media, LLC, and began writing full-time for PEOPLE.com, also covering...

Joyce LimSpace Grant (2002/2003) Born and raised in Malaysia, Joyce S. Lim divides her time between Asia and the USA. She has been privileged to witness healing performances in remote villages, study with Masters of traditional dance forms, and perform in a range of...

Deke WeaverSpace Grant (2002/2003) Deke Weaver is a writer-performer, designer, and video/media artist. He graduated from Bowdoin College and earned an M.F.A. in photography from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  His interdisciplinary performances and videos have...

Homer Avila & Edisa WeeksSpace Grant (2001/2002)Homer Avila was active as a choreographer since 1982. As co-artistic director of Avila/Weeks Dance, his work was presented in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the Joyce SoHo, Pace University and other venues....

Mollie O'BrienSpace Grant (2001/2002)Mollie O'Brien is an Americana, bluegrass, R&B, and folk singer from Wheeling, West Virginia.[1] She has released a number of Americana albums with her brother, Grammy-winner Tim O'Brien. She has also released five positively...

Melissa BriggsSpace Grant (2001/2002)Artist in Residence (2003-2005)Melissa Briggs is a choreographer and dance educator with over 25 years of experience, in New York City, across New England, and in New Mexico. Melissa’s choreography has been presented at venues...

Julia MandleSpace Grant (2001/2002) Julia Mandle currently resides in Amsterdam after being based in NYC for over a decade where she founded and ran a non-profit organization devoted to performance and installation art. Her work has been shown internationally and...

Tory VazquezSpace Grant (2000/2001) Tory Vazquez is a writer, director, and actor. She has created her own and collaborative theater work since 1994 in New York City. Vazquez has presented two original full-length dance theater works both commissioned by Performance...

Satoshi HagaSpace Grant (2000/2001) Satoshi Haga grew up in Fukushima, Japan where he never thought he would ever become interested in dance. He has started his career as a performing artist since the 1980s in New York. As a choreographer and a dancer, his works have...

Jean VitranoSpace Grant (2000/2001) JEAN VITRANO draws on her training in mindfulness practices, meditation and body therapies to assist her clients in living with greater peace, ease, and awareness. With an emphasis on assisting clients in discovering their own...

Fernando ManecaSpace Grant (2000/2001)Artist in Residence (2004-2006)Fernando Maneca is an experienced designer, art director, arts administrator, and marketing & communications professional. Maneca was formerly the Marketing & Communications Director at BAX |...

Clare BryneSpace Grant (2000/2001)Clare Byrne is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Vermont. She is a choreographer, dancer, writer, and musician who explores junctures of movement, music and ritual through performance. Clare Byrne Dance has performed in...

Annie-B ParsonSpace Grant (2000/2001)Annie-B Parson co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 with Molly Hickok and Paul Lazar. She has choreographed and co-created over 20 works for the company, ranging from pure dance pieces to adaptations of found text, plays, and...

Andrea WoodsSpace Grant (2000/2001)Dancer/choreographer/video artist/musician Andrea E. Woods Valdés is Artistic Director of SOULOWORKS/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers.  Woods is also an associate professor at Duke University and a former director of Duke In Ghana...

Maureen HuskeySpace Grant (1999/2000) Maureen Huskey writes and directs for theater and performance. Her work has been presented in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Vienna, Austria, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. She has received a Robby Award for playwriting, a...

Johanna MeyerSpace Grant (1999/2000) Johanna S. Meyer is a Pilates teacher, choreographer and dancer. She has performed and made work since the 1990s in New York City and recently graduated with an MFA in Dance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)....

Joanna RotkinSpace Grant (1999/2000) I make dances and I teach dance classes. And these dances...they tend to go like this: Nothing, then momentum. Nothing, then something. Nothing, then clarity. Nothing, then spiral. Then sound in spiral. Then portal, open, and the...

Christalyn WrightSpace Grant (1999/2000)Artist in Residence (2000-2002)Christalyn Wright-Hampton is a casting director and producer who has been in the entertainment field in many capacities for a couple of decades. She has cast several series including, Cutting It In...

Aaron LandsmanSpace Grant (1999/2000) Landsman is a theater artist, researcher, and teacher based in New York City. He is an Abrons Arts Center Social Practice Artist-in-Residence, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and a Princeton Arts Fellow. His performance works have been...

Wally CardonaSpace Grant (1998/1999) Wally Cardona is a choreographer, dancer and educator. His current cycle of work actively creates space for his practice to mutate in collaborative processes that are both intimate and crowded. A select list includes TOOL IS...

Olase FreemanSpace Grant (1998/1999) Olase Freeman is a dancer/choreographer/scholar, who will be the 2011-2012Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.  A partial list of the companies he has worked with include Jane Comfort &...

Leigh FondakowskiSpace Grant (1998/1999) Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright, screenwriter, author and director.  She was the head writer of The Laramie Project, a co-writer of Laramie: Ten Years Later, and an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the film adaptation...

Cydney WilkesSpace Grant (1998/1999) Cydney Wilkes, choreographer and dancer, continues to make performance work after relocating to New Mexico.

Fernando ManecaSpace Grant (1996/1997)Space Grant (2000/2001)Artist in Residence (2004-2006)Fernando Maneca is an experienced designer, art director, arts administrator, and marketing & communications professional. Maneca was formerly the Marketing &...

Shannon HummelSpace Grant (1997/1998)Artist in Residence (2005-2007)Shannon Hummel is a choreographer, arts educator and Founding Artistic Director of Cora Dance. Driven to create access to the arts for all people, she opened the Cora Dance Studio in Red Hook,...

Peggy Peloquin Artist in Residence (1998-2000)Space Grant (1996/1997)During Peggy's time at LREI as dance, life skills and yoga teacher , she has coached the step team, created and run several choreographers workshops, and collaborated with her students on over 100...

Sarah SaffordSpace Grant (1996/1997)Sarah Safford, rhythm tap dancer, choreographer, and songwriter who was part of the tap revival in the 1980s which brought woman to the foreground, was born in Geneva Switzerland; to mother Florence Sher Safford, a social worker and...