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Image of Kumi Ishizawa
Instructor/Technician

Kumi Ishizawa is a sound engineer/designer. 

Image of Terry Creach
Former Faculty

Terry Creach directed Creach/Company, which tours throughout the United States and Europe, and his work as a choreographer was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.

Stuart Shugg
Former Faculty

Dancer and choreographer Stuart Shugg has been described by the New York Times as "lucid... with a scrupulous technique."

Photo of Michael Nordine
Alumni

Senior Writer and Editor at Optimism and previous Weekend Editor at IndieWire, whose work has also appeared in the LA TimesSalonVice, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Image of Souleymane Badolo
Alumni

Bessie award-winning choreographer and dancer who, in 1993, founded his own Burkina Faso-based troupe, Kongo Ba Téria, which fuses traditional African dances with Western contemporary dance and is a central figure in the contemporary, emergent, experimental dance scene in Africa

Image of Cathy Weis
Alumni

Bessie and Guggenheim award-winning dancer, choreographer, and videographer, and the artistic director of Cathy Weis Projects

Photograph © Richard Termine

Image of Oguri
Former Faculty

Oguri is an internationally acclaimed dancer who has been described as a master at redirecting the way one sees and encounters the physical environment, his dance emphasizing the unpredictable. He produces full-evening solo and ensemble work, improvising and collaborating with musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, and literature.

Image of Ros Warby
Visiting Faculty

Ros Warby is an Australian/US dance artist, choreographer, and Alexander Technique Teacher. She is recognized for her unique solo performances, invoking characters that often transcend archetypes by sliding between iconic figures & ideas, allowing the body to embrace the complex experience of a human being at any given moment. Warby has collaborated/danced with Deborah Hay Dance Co. since 1998.

Image of Sara Rudner
Alumni

A former principal dancer at Twyla Tharp Dance, choreographer, and Guggenheim winner

Image of Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Alumni

Curator, producer, poet, choreographer, and performance artist whose works #negrophobia (nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award) and Séancers have toured throughout Europe, appearing in major festivals. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.

Photograph © Umi Akiyoshi

Image of Risa Jaroslow
Alumni

Dancer, choreographer, and founder of Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, who is dedicated to including diverse communities as participants and audiences, developing teaching techniques to engage dancers of all levels and people of all ages and abilities

 

Image of Elena Demyanenko
Faculty
Elena Demyanenko is a Russian/American dance artist, choreographer, improviser, maker of dance films, and educator who lives and works between New York City, Vermont, and Moscow, Russia. Demyanenko has extensive professional performance and choreographic experience in a multicultural context from 30 years of touring around the world and is a former member of Stephen Petronio Company and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Yanan Yu
Former Faculty

Dancer and choreographer Yanan Yu combines her experience in contemporary technique and Chinese traditional dance with interests in visual art, fine art, and mathematics.

Image of Myrna Packer
Alumni

Co-artistic director of Bridgman | Packer Dance and 2008 Guggenheim Award winner

Image of Jon Kinzel
Alumni

Choreographer and visual artist whose recent show at The Chocolate Factory, Someone Once Called Me a Sound Man (2013), was named a Best of 2013 by Artforum magazine

 

Image of Larissa Velez-Jackson
Former Faculty

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NYC-based choreographer, movement educator, the Artistic Director of LVJ Performance Co. and a multi-platform artist who blends dance, healing modalities, sound, humor, strategies of self-compassion and intergenerational community practice. 

Former Faculty

Brian Lambert is the Technical Instructor in Lighting & Dance Production whose work in sound, lighting, and audio has taken him from the Big Apple Circus to the Dorset Theatre Festival, among many other places.