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Veronica is a professional aerialist with 15 years of performing and teaching experience. She is currently Aerial Director for Celebrity Cruises. In 2010, Veronica founded the “Uncle Junior Project”, a project created to protect the legacies of Black performers in the American Circus. In 2013, the project presented “Entrapment to Entertainment: A Celebration of Blacks in American […]
Born and raised in Sapporo, Japan, Ayana Yonesaka moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue her career in dance. Since graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University in 2013, she has worked in the Bay Area as a dance instructor, performer, and choreographer. In addition to teaching […]
Photo by Andrew Weeks. Nominated as a 2016 “New Names to Watch” by Dance Europe Magazine, Milissa Payne Bradley is a San Francisco based choreographer and dance educator. Branded the “e.e. cummings of ballet” by The Huffington Post, Payne Bradley began choreographing in 2010 and founded the San Francisco based The Milissa Payne Project the […]
Lins Derry is an artist and designer working in the domains of human-computer interaction, data visualization, and choreography. The body is often her site for investigation and intervention in the realms of design and performance. Presently, she is a Principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard, an experimental arts and humanities lab and design studio. With metaLAB, Lins researches how […]
Photo by David Papas Sebastian’s choreography is conceptual, theatrical and athletic, drawing from a broad aesthetic background but rooted in “contemporary dance”. His training in musical theater and his second career as a fitness trainer both play heavy hands in his creative endeavors. He is interested in building dances around contrasting dynamics: Ability and disability, […]
Yayoi Kambara believes the movement of dance grounds us to the reality of the human condition. It can elevate both the dancer and the audience to a state of hopefulness where society’s ills seem surmountable. Kambara was born in Tokyo, Japan and was raised in the Bay Area and Surrey, England. She holds a B.A. […]
Natasha Adorlee was born in Huntington Beach, CA and raised in Overland Park, Kansas. She is the founder and artistic director of Concept o4. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English. Natasha received a 2014 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for her performance with Jeremy Smith in “Two if by Sea”, choreographed by […]
I admire artists who are able to create a world revolving around a concept and vocabulary unique to themselves. I always strive to reroute a specific moment in time; a moment that sticks with me as something that I need to continue further exploring. I am quite taken with pop culture and pull a lot […]
