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. She wanted to find a way to use her knowledge of food and nutrition to directly benefit her community of East New York. With ENYF, she combines her devotion to food justice in her community with her extensive knowledge in nutrition sciences to encourage food security in East New York.

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 and identified dance movement, her work more deals with the extremes of human communication, physical theatrical performances where a literal dialogue occurs through movement and she also moved her steps into site-specific arts in recent years. She is interested in making work in the context of exploring the possibilities of the … Continued

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 minor in Environmental Studies. Paige has performed works by Celia Rowlson-Hall, Michael Thomas, Nancy Lushington and Andrea Markus. In addition to their studies at Marymount, Paige has expanded their movement practice under the instruction of artists such as Andrea Miller, Jennifer Monson, Alexandra Beller and Ximena Garnica, to name a few. … Continued

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 choreography composition at the Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance in New York City. After graduating from its professional program in 1995, he choreographed and presented his own work locally and internationally. He also participated and collaborated in other choreographers’ and artists’ works. In 2002, Nixon was invited to take part … Continued