Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau are life partners and choreographic collaborators living in Lenapehoking // Brooklyn, NY. ​Sofia + Em’s first collaborative project was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while they were students at Smith College. Since then, they have held choreographic residencies at The Croft, Mana Contemporary, The Living Room, Ponderosa, The Dance Complex, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Sky Hill Farm Studio, The Floor on Atlantic, College of the Atlantic, and School for Contemporary Dance & Thought. In addition to presenting their work at these residency spaces, the pair have performed at festivals including FRESH Festival, EstroGenius … Continued

Maho Ogawa is a Japanese-born multidisciplinary movement artist working in NYC. Her work has delved into building a choreographic language based on nuances and isolated body movements, and she has built a database, “Minimum Movement Catalog” (https://minimum-movement-demo.web.app/movements). Maho Ogawa uses body, video, text, computer programming, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously. Her recent works partly decontextualize and research the minimum movement in Japanese tea culture and cinema. She’s working on public events inspired by Japanese tea rituals to build new thinking methods about “silence,” providing a quiet but active mindset … Continued

Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist, director, experimental archivist and organizer who places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of their practice. Blending performance with practice-based and studio research and engaging ensembles in facilitated processes, they create fleeting performance works that examine perception in shared experiences. Acosta has presented her works with and for Museum of Art and Design, MCA Chicago, Chocolate Factory Theatre, Knockdown Center, the Current Sessions, Miami Performance International Festival, IN>Time Symposium, Abrons Arts Center, and the Performance Philosophy conference. As dramaturg Acosta has collaborated with artist Miguel Gutierrez, on multiple projects including Cela nous … Continued

Ash Rucker received a bachelor’s in Fashion Merchandising from Buffalo State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. After graduating, Ash moved to New York and interned for Betsy Johnson, W magazine, and designer Mara Hoffman after shortly settling at Loreal. Since then Ash has shifted careers and is the founder of a non-profit organization Therapart. Working with youth has been impacted by the criminal justice system. Ash has recently completed a fellowship at the New School and Columbia University with her work centered around healing through modalities such as somatic-based movement, meditation, and art therapy practices. Aside from working … Continued