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Tiana Rainford

TIANA RAINFORD is Co-Project Director at East NY Farms! She is a CUNY Brooklyn College graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition Studies. Her interests in food sustainability and how food politics and culture affect one’s access to preventative health care grew during her academic studies....Continued

22. Apr

Yolanda Tianyi-Shao

Yolanda Tianyi Shao is a Chinese creator and choreographer. She works interdisciplinary with animators, composers, theater directors, actors, film makers, sound designers and photographers. Yolanda has her own specific standpoint of art making. With her background of years of dance training, she lost her interest in pursuing simply beautiful...Continued

21. Apr

Paige Cowen

PAIGE COWEN is a gender-fluid, Brooklyn-based movement & research artist. They began training in Oklahoma under the direction of Kristin McQuaid, Joshua Stayton and José Antonio Checa. Paige continued their training in New York at Marymount Manhattan College, where they graduated with a degree in Dance Studies and a...Continued

21. Apr

Nixon Beltran

NIXON J. BELTRAN is a Colombian, born movement-based performer, gardener, passionate cook and becoming a book-object maker, moved to the U.S. 35 years ago after growing up in several countries throughout South America. His early education, using yoga, Montessori and Piaget educational methods, inspired him to study dance and...Continued

21. Apr

John Cuttle

21. Apr

Fidel Brito

FIDEL BRITO is an Ixil and Achi Maya artist, from Naab’a’ (Nebaj), El Quiché (Tu Tx’ich), Iximulew (Guatemala), currently living on Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano land (California). He studied archaeology at the University of San Carlos, in Guatemala, and visual art in Guatemala, México, and Cuba. Tohil considers...Continued

21. Apr

Hector Porras

HECTOR PORRAS is an agricultural engineer and water specialist by trade. Hector is performing for the first time in his life. He grew up in a small village in northern Mexico by his late teens. He had managed to travel to far places, like the Soviet Union where he...Continued

21. Apr

Stephen Crawford

Stephen Crawford is a dancer/ visual artist. He was teaching contact improvisation in many countries for many years. For over 20 years he was building art chairs designed by theater director Robert Wilson for museum and gallery exhibitions, and is presently the personal art restorer for Robert Wilson’s ancient...Continued

21. Apr

Cora Laszlo

21. Apr