Emily Vescht

Butoh Dancer/Choreographer, LAND FES Director.
Graduated Sophia University, the Faculty of Comparative Culture.
Graduated Kuwasawa Design School.
Dai Matsuoka has been performing with Sankai Juku since 2005, and has appeared in some of their major works including Kinkan Shonen, Tobari, Unetsu and ARC.

Matsuoka is a founder and director of LAND FES since 2011, non-profit organization that has the purpose of connecting dance artists, local communities and social minorities.

He has been leading the Scramble Dance Project since 2017, in which both people with and without disabilities create dance together. This inclusive dance project initially instructed by Yoshito Ohno, a legendary figure of Butoh, has been continued by Dai Matsuoka and his organization LAND FES until now and presented its works in several opportunities such as Korea International Accessible Dance Festival 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.

He also runs BUTOH CHOREO LAB, an online platform with video lessons by high-profile Butoh dancers.

At Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025, Matsuoka co-choreographed the integrated dance piece “UNUM” with Adriaan Luteijn of INTRODANS(Netherlands).

He has collaborated globally with artists such as Phantom Limb Company(USA) for “Falling Out”, with Paola Prestini(USA) for “Houses of Zodiac”.
In 2021, curator of “Tokyo Real Underground”, the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special13 program.
Life Kinetik® certified trainer.

Kira Alker

Creation and performance of A Solo for Two.

Giovanni Battista

Music for The Perilous Chapel.

Vladimir Cosma

Music for The Perilous Chapel.

Angeli

Creation and performance of Homage to Yoko Ono.

David Fishel

Projections for Garden Box.

Molly Joyce

Music for Garden Box.

Raelene Eckert

Conception and performance for Garden Box.

Colin Self

Choreography and music for KID.

Lisa Granuzza Di Vita

Box office for an actual dance.

Michelle Cahn

SOAK Technical Assistant.

Stefan Martin

SOAK Technical Assistant.

Rebecca Wender

Performer for an actual dance.

Julia Kulakova

Julia Kulakova is a performing and teaching artist, choreographer, and artistic director of Bahar
Dance Ensemble and NY Persian Parade. Her varied dance and martial arts expertise, and
improvisational skills led to collaborations with such bands as the NY Gypsy All Stars, Romashka, Frank
London’s Klezmer Orchestra, and Mehrnam Rastegari’s Chogan, among others.

Lynn Wright

Original score for I Would.

Kira Flores

Keyboard and voice for Impossible Crush: It’s Elf Itself.

Stelios Mihas

Original music for What is home for a wanderlust?

Taylor Jones

Choreography and Performance for CIS BOOM BLAH.

Emily LaRochelle

Choreography and Performance for And Now This.

Nava Dunkelman

Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound pallet to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities. Nava’s current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman.
navadunkelman.com” @nldunk

Yoko Murakami

Yoko Murakami is a Tokyo-born, NYC-based movement artist. She creates movement-based work in forms of site-specific installations and experimental film. Finding the surreal in the mundane, she is constantly exploring ways to blur the boundaries of creative mediums and has worked closely with artists in the fields in audio-visual, film, set design, sculpture, millinery, hair art, and motion-capture technology. She is a contributing artist of Testu Collective since 2018. Yokoteki.com @yokoteki

Alia Scheirman

Alia Scheirman is a NYC-based violinist and teacher. She studied music at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Performances in NYC have included ‘Persou’ at the Cell Theater, Dance in Bushwick, and Queer Urban Orchestra concerts. Alia is currently a member of Litha Symphony Orchestra.

Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist, songwriter, and composer. Along with performing in rock bands such as Editrix and Birthing Hips, Eisenberg works solo as a songwriter and an improviser equally. Wendy released the songs albums Dehiscence (2020) and Auto in 2020 to acclaim in such legacy publications as the Wire and the Washington Post. They are also an active writer.

Taylor Zappone

Performance for My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again // Vol 1 (Land).

Ellen Smith Ahern

Performance for My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again // Vol 1 (Land).

Joy Havens

Costumes for My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again // Vol 1 (Land).

Meredith Bove

Dramaturgy for My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again // Vol 1 (Land).

Nicole Lane Fulmer

Costumes for Roping Me-You In.

Maya Steinbruner

Guest artist for Silent Beat.

Charly Wenzel

Charly Wenzel created and performed Continually Healing with Teresa Fellion and Nicole Kadar.

Nicole Kadar

Nicole Kadar created and performed Continually Healing with Teresa Fellion and Charly Wenzel.

Teresa Fellion

Teresa Fellion (she/they) founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after working as an
independent choreographer since 2004. Teresa was named Artistic Liaison between Cameroon & the U.S.
by President Paul Biya, while performing with the National Ballet du Cameroun and at the National Soccer
Cup Finals. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip
Costa, and Martha Bowers, and she has performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman,
and Megan Boyd, among others. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under the Bessie
Schonberg Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English
Literature with a minor in dance from NYU as a Merit Scholar. Since 2005, Fellion has employed dance,
live music, and theater with social justice at scores of NYC schools, organizations, and professional
performances as director of InterCATaction/Children’s Adaptive Theater and BodyStories: TFD, as
Teaching Artist for DreamYard, Marquis, Women’s Project, CWP.
@bodystories_tfd