Faces — Co-created by Elise Knudson & Adrian Montufar

Elise Knudson is currently under deconstruction. This will be the site of a more harmonious, aware, and productive identity in the near future.

Adrian Montufar is a composer and sound artist. He thinks of sounds as a kind of trace: of movement, of matter, of different physical bodies interacting, and of the forces that give shape to those interactions. He currently resides in Berkeley, CA. More on him at https://adrianmontufar.com/

Pandemic — Created by Regina Nejman

Regina Nejman grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is based in New York City where she has been creating her own choreography since 1993 and founded Regina Nejman & Company in 1997. She has performed extensively both here in the United States and abroad. Regina is a recipient of a 2020 Creative Engagement grant from LMCC for her new project Bubble, and has received support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Greenwall Foundation, LMCC/MCAF, Puffin Foundation, Meet the Composer. She received commissions from Joyce Theater Residency space grant, The Yard, Princeton University, New Jersey City University and Dixon Place, and her work has also been presented by LaMama, Joyce Soho, Symphony Space, DTW, Queens Museum and others. Regina received her BA from SUNY/Empire State College. She has taught dance at Princeton University, Wesleyan University, Harvard Summer Dance, NYU Common Hour Class, LaGuardia Performing Arts High School, HAI and Center for Arts Education. Regina is a per-diem dance teacher at NYCDOE and is an MFA in Dance candidate at Hunter College. More on her and her company at http://reginanejmancompany.blogspot.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/reginanejmancompany/

4:44 — Created by Lindon Shimizu

Lindon Shimizu, a Japanese Brazilian born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and raised in Japan, currently based in Joensuu, Finland. He works as a dance artist in theatre, dance and video field and as somatic movement educator. He holds a theatre license degree from UERGS, Brazil. He has worked for many years with the Brazilian dance director Dani Lima, being part of research projects with dance pieces as 100 gesture and little collection of everything presented around Brazil and Japan between 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is creating his own solo performance in collaboration with the dance artist Dasha Lavrennikov supported by Zodiak and directing the dancer Tuija Lappalainen in EARTHQUAKE: moving on a shaking land project in collaboration with ITAK. He is interested in the dialogue of an ethical-aesthetical-political-body as a strategy of being and creating, playing between liquids and membrane, contents and container, creating in between. He is interested in what he refers to as a “migratory body”, a perspective of creating from the place of an immigrant artist.

Recall — Created by Marila Velloso

Marila Velloso is a dance artist that creates and produces her own solos and group works. She teaches in the Dance Department at the University of the State of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil, since 1991. She is a Body-Mind Centering™ teacher and articulate in her practices of BMC, Dance, and her political statements.

Bharat Natyan — Indian Classical Dance

Jakkini dharu, in praise of Maheshwara — Created by Dr. Sucheta Chapekar, Performed by Sarah Magalhães

Sarah Magalhães is a graduate in Performing Arts at C.A.L. from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008 she settled down in India to study Indian philosophy and Bharat Natyam classical dance under the guidance of the renowned Dr. Sucheta Chapekar. She has completed a Diploma in Nritya Shastra at Nalanda Dance Research Centre in Mumbai and a Master in Philosophy at Pune University. She is currently a research scholar at Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune working on her thesis: “The Sacred Dance of Ancient India and its relevance to Hindu Iconography”.