7 Stages Theatre was founded in 1979 by Del Hamilton and Faye Allen in a store front on Moreland Avenue as a home for emerging artists seeking to create innovative, intellectually stimulating work. Their legacy lives on in 7 Stages’ current practices, including providing affordable space for local performance companies, touring productions, and community-oriented organizations. Since 1979, 7 Stages Theatre has brought local, national, and international emerging artwork of social, political, and spiritual importance to Atlanta audiences. For over 40 years, artists of all kinds have found 7 Stages to be a haven in the support and development of new works … Continued
Miho Ryu
Miho Ryu is a New York based dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, originally from Tokyo, Japan. She has created and performed over 100 works across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Since returning to New York in 2024, her work has been presented at The 92nd Street Y, Peridance Presents, WestFest, Dixon Place, Arts On Site, Chez Bushwick, BAX, and international festivals including Asia Tri Jogja in Indonesia. She is a faculty member at Peridance Center, Ballet Hispánico School, and Steps on Broadway. Currently undergoing breast cancer treatment, she continues to expand her artistic practice through performance, choreography, and curatorial work.
alyxåndra ciale
alyxåndra ciale (they/them) is a Trans-Indigenous CHamoru yan Pinoy cultural worker residing within Lenapehoking, between New York City and Upstate Millerton. Since graduating from the University of Michigan’s BFA Acting Conservatory in 2021, they have been reinvigorating their arts practice through popular education, political organizing, and indie production working as a freelance choreopoet, performer, and somatic facilitator. Their original performance work has shown at SoMad, Brick Theater, Soho Playhouse, Wax Works at Triskelion, TV EYE, Red Pavillion, and Cave in Williamsburg. As a lifelong student, cia has been formally trained in Fitzmaurice and Stage Combat (Unarmed, Rapier, Sword, & Dagger) … Continued
sweat variant
sweat variant is the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born. Since 1996, they have been working at the intersection of dance, theater, and visual art to make challenging and rigorous work that reaffirms that which has been deemed marginal as the true center through the exploration of Black interiority. Okpokwasili and Born are interested in building a spectacle of radical intimacy, in which both performers and audience are acknowledged as being locked in a mutual gaze. They hope to activate a space that allows the audience to question who they are looking at, and how they are looking. … Continued