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Brand New Knee
Andy Blankenbuehler is a proud recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Hamilton.
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Charlotte Bydwell and Diana Ly
Charlotte Bydwell is an artist who works primarily at the intersection between text and movement. Diana Ly is a Vietnamese-American screenwriter and playwright based in New York.
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Maya Ciarrocchi
Maya Ciarrocchi is a Canadian American interdisciplinary artist whose work excavates vanished and inaccessible histories through printmaking, textiles, video, and movement-based performance.
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Starla Edwards
Starla Edwards is a dancer and choreographer from Birmingham, Alabama who is drawn to the feeling of connection through expression.
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Kayla Farrish
Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score.
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Tyson Houseman
Tyson Houseman is a nehiyaw interdisciplinary video & performance artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker.
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Life Jacket Theater Company
Travis Lee Russ, Ph.D. (Book Writer) is a queer playwright and director from a small industrial town in rural Indiana.
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Suzzanne Ponomarenko
Suzzanne Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian American choreographer, performer, and educator based in Queens, NYC.
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Cecilia Whalen
Originally from North Carolina, Cecilia Whalen is an NYC-based dancer, choreographer, and writer.
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Samora la Perdida
Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a trans trilingual creator and performer. She is a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner and YoungArts Fellow.
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Elinor Kleber Diggs
Elinor Kleber Diggs, currently based in Harlem, New York, is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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ate9
Georgina Pazcoguin, “The Rogue Ballerina,” joined New York City Ballet in 2002 and became its first Asian American female soloist in 2013.











