Is a performer and choreographer; a 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2022 Watermill Center Alumni Mini-Retreat, having performed at the Watermill Gala in 2019. Her newest work, POOL, was commissioned and presented at the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival and the Voices International Theater Festival in June 2023. She has also presented works at The Tank, Dixon Place, La MaMa, NY Butoh Festival, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Next@Graham, Czech Center NY, Triskelion Arts, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater, and Theater Akropolis Prague. As a performer, … Continued
Thea Little
Born and bred in NYC, is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She performs solo works that are influenced by performance art and music, and she choreographs collaborative group dance-theater works. She has presented her music compositions and choreography throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Thea has been composing music since she was 5 years old and she has made music for her own choreography as well as for Joya Powell: Movement of the People Dance Company, Gerard and Kelly, Karen Harvey Dances, and LEIMAY. In 2005 Thea was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance … Continued
Derek DiMartini
Derek DiMartini hails from Oakland, California. He likes to view dance as an extension of his passion as a creator and a performer. He has been an ensemble member in since January 2015, and has been teaching The Leimay Ludus Community Class since Summer 2016. In New York, his work has been performed with Mare Nostrum Elements, as well as at LEIMAY SOAK, WAXworks and Marie-Christine Giordano Salon. He has also worked with SumBones Collective and has had the opportunity to perform the works of Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Akram Khan, Reggie Wilson, and Trisha Brown. Derek graduated from Yale … Continued
Georgia b. Smith
Georgia b. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily creates sculptural and dance/performance art work. Georgia b. was a member of the LEIMAY ensemble as they premiered “Borders” at BAM Fisher in 2016. She has a MFA from the University of Michigan where she launched her series Plastic Abodes and Cavernous Bodies. Georgia b. was the artistic director of NOT for reTALE which showed work at CAVE. Georgia’s work in NOT for reTALE exemplifies how her work incorporates sculpture as an extension of the bodies on stage.