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  • Yolette is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. A lifelong New Yorker, they received their MA in Dance Performance with honors from the London Contemporary Dance School. They’ve danced with Johannes Wieland, Laja Field, Johnny Cruise Mercer, Kayla Farrish, J. Bouey, Andre Tyson, Sara Hook, Camilo Godoy, and more. Her choreography has premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Here Arts, NDA’s Performance Mix:38, DanceNow Festival, and Movement Research. For Yolette, dance is rooted in the idea that movement is an act of healing, resistance, and self-care. Through dance, they believe we can all find moments of liberation.

  • Storm is a performance, choreographic, and visual artist whose transdisciplinary works combine movement, videodance, and installation to explore themes of liberation and Afrofuturism. Her work has been shown at Triskelion Arts, Cori Terry Theater, Stephan Friedman Gallery, Princeton University’s Hearst Theater, Sidewalk Festival Detroit, more. Storm has trained and performed for Shamel Pitts, Jacob Jonas the Company, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, Kyle Marshall, Chrysanthi Badeka, Turning Tables, more; and is currently a Misty Copeland Foundation BE BOLD Teaching Artist. Storm earned her B.A. and competitive ‘Toni Morrison,’ ‘Alex Adam 07,’ and ‘Badi Foster Distinguished Senior’ Awards from Princeton University … Continued

  • Quashiera Muhammad is a freelance dancer, model, and creator, bi-coastal in New York City and Los Angeles. She holds a B.F.A in Dance and has been awarded by the New York Foundation of the Arts, Foot Locker, The Congressional Black Caucus, and more for her academic and artistic pursuits in the field. She has held residencies and performances at Bridge for Dance, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Nimbus Arts Center, Monira Foundation based in Mana Contemporary, Mignolo Arts Center, Smush Gallery, Mark Morris Dance Center, Gibney Dance, The KNJ Theater, Ailey Citi Group Theater, The Mark O’Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community … Continued

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April 4 – May 2, 1998

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  • The LEIMAY Community: A Vital Part of Artistic Growth

    “The LEIMAY community has become a cherished part of my life as a working artist and educator in NYC, where I’ve been situated for over forty years.  There is an admirable understanding of the delicate relationships between art-making and living here, with enormous investment in both individual and collective development…” - Peggy Gould

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    “She is simply breathtaking, possessing a supple body that seems to have no spine, yet is anchored on a steel spike of consummate control. She is inspired by the natural elements, and her slow, methodical, yet radiantly beautiful explorations of physicality take her dance to a higher plane” Dance International

  • 4 NEW FILMS DEBUT IN 2023ALL ARTS

    The 2023 installment of the “ALL ARTS Artist in Residence” series, presented this year in collaboration with Obie Award-winning New York City performance space HERE, features four new films from artists Diana Oh, James Whiteside, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, and Kameron Neal and Paul Pinto.

  • From: Village Voice – 7 March 2000 – by Jason Gross
    From: Village Voice - 7 March 2000 - by Jason Gross “-- none of these match the Cave, a Williamsburg venue that aggressively combines all manner of media. It’s one thing to buy an abandoned garage and turn it into a gallery/performance space, but Shige Moriya, along with a group of other artists, also decided to call it home.” “-- Breaking free from the worn-out models of conventional galleries and spaces, the Cave proves that different arts and media can not only coexist but enhance each other.”
  • From: NY Arts Magazine – The Scene – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – by Yuko Nii
    From: NY Arts Magazine – The Scene – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – by Yuko Nii “In 1996 the CAVE Galley opened the first recognized art gallery on the Southside, run by Shige Moriya and Naoki Iwakawa, which is considered by many to be the foremost avant garde fine art and performing space.”
  • From: NY ARTS – vol 4 no 10 – by Sean Bosker
    From: NY ARTS – vol 4 no 10 – by Sean Bosker “A gallery where people still look at art? Of course it's underground. It's The CAVE, a Brooklyn gallery/performance space guaranteed to attack your senses Godzilla-style.

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