NIC Kay is an artist who performs on screens, streets, stages, in corners, and on paper. Born in The Bronx, New York, NIC graduated from Professional Performing Arts School in 2007 and was a Hemispheric Institute EMERGENYC Fellow in 2009. NIC’s current transdisciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation of the body, history and identity. lil BLK tour has been documented in the web series The Bronx Cunt Tour for OpenTV premiered in April 2016.

Ashley R.T. Yergens made their debut with Is this more ladylike? at the Walker Art Center’s 2014 Choreographers’ Evening. Ashley is a byproduct of growing up on tater tots and WWE SmackDown, being queer in small town USA, and bonding with blue collars. Their choreography has been presented at venues such as the Wild Project Theater, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research, Annoyance Theatre, and the WOW Café Theatre. Recently, they received a 2016 boo-koo Space Grant from Gibney Dance. Additionally, you can catch them Ballez-ing with Katy Pyle, and Yackez-ing with Larissa Velez-Jackson.