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Ashley Pierre-Louis (she, her) is originally from Miami, FL. With education from New World School of the Arts and later from Florida State University, Pierre-Louis began to discover her passion for movement, the human form, and arts administration. Pierre-Louis is currently an artist and creator freelancing and exploring choreography in New York City. Her work invites folks (specifically black femmes) to take up space and feel empowered to discover the pleasures that exist in their bodies. She works with Shamel Pitts’ multidisciplinary performance collective TRIBE as performer, maker, and dramaturg, with Indigenous choreographer Emily Johnson in her newest multi-scalar creation, Being Future Being, and with Edisa Weeks’ DELIRIOUS Dances as performer in 3 RITES: Life & Happiness. Pierre-Louis is also the Dream Partner/ Program Manager for Florida State University’s study domestic program, Arts in NYC.
Brittany Grier (she/her/they) is an interdisciplinary teaching artist, performer, educator, as well as a cultural arts organizer. She began at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Dance Theater and continued her training, leading to a B.A. in dance, at CUNY Lehman College. Further education has emerged as 2018-2020 Community Actionist with Gibney Dance, a recipient of Sydnie L. Mosley Dances' PD for The People, as well as hyperlocal community engagement liaison in Brooklyn and Harlem. Some of her lineage includes Youssouf Koumbassa, Marie Brooks, Esther Grant, Michael Manswell, Nicholas Leichter, Adia Whitaker, as well as Kim Holmes to name a few. Current collaborations are with Movement of The People Dance Company, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances and periodically as a guest artist with Ebony Noelle Golden. Brittany’s focus is to utilize embodied storytelling practices, as tools, to uplift communities who want their stories heard, and build sustainable places of care that honor our humanity.
Devin Oshiro (she, her) earned a BA in Dance from California State University of Fullerton. Her artistry is expressed through dancing, performing, teaching, creating, arts administration, and advocacy. Since residing in NYC, she has had the pleasure of moving with Edisa Weeks, Joanna Kotze, Sumi Clements, Mike Esperanza, Reggie Wilson, Maija Garcia, Patrick Corbin, Keely Garfield, and more. Devin danced with Gibney Dance Company before transitioning into working with Gibney Community, which utilizes the arts for social action, specifically gender-based violence. She teaches movement workshops that promote self-care and creativity and engages young people in conversations around healthy relationships. @devinoshiro
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EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (she/they) is a Brooklyn born and based artist, improviser, and educator. Her performance work weaves movement, sound, text, and installation, and has been shared throughout NYC and the tri-state area. She is currently a 2023 resident artist at MOtiVE Brooklyn, where she is building a movement and video installation that investigates shapeshifting within dynamic disability, and calling on slow time and sensuous absurdity as forms of tending to relationship and cultivating care. EmmaGrace has worked as a collaborating performer with Edisa Weeks since 2016, and has performed in the work of many other choreographers. They teach improvisation, movement technique, and somatics and have a practice in the MELT Method- a myofascial release technique geared towards people navigating pain, injury, immobility, and hypermobility. They are a new member of Bodies for Bodies, a collective of queer and trans bodyworkers who offer sliding-scale and free sessions to queer and trans clients. www.emmagraceskove-epes.com
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Johnnie Cruise Mercer currently collaborates/performs with Antonio Brown, Monstah Black, yon Tande, Andre Zachery, Edisa Weeks, Charles O. Andeson (Dance Theater X) and is currently on tour with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez’s Bessie winning reconstruction/reimaging; Variations on Themes of Lost and Found; Scene from a Life and other works by John Bernd. A native of Richmond, VA, and a BFA graduate from Virginia Commonwealth Univ Dance and Choreography Dept., Mr. Mercer is the artistic director/choreographer of Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC based in Brooklyn, NY. www.trnyc.com
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J'nae Simmons (she, her) is a movement based artist, personal trainer and fiber artist who believes movement, of many types, is the foundation of communication and connection. Graduating summa cum laude with honors from LIU Brooklyn (BFA in Dance and minor in personal trainer), J’nae trained under Dana Hash-Campbell, Donna Uchizono, and Alenka Cizmesija. She is currently working with Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dances, Emily Berry and is an apprentice with Urban Bush Women (UBW). Diving into her own solo practice, J’nae is developing work involving fibers, exploring the task of archiving with future generations in mind. jnaesimmons.com
Mars Garcia (they/them) is a Mexican-American dancer, movement director and teacher based in Lenapehoking. Through improvisation, worldbuilding, drawing and rasquachismo, Mars explores queerness, embodiment, failure, and social/spacial patternings. With a Bachelor in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Mars has performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Barcelona, France and Berlin, and has collaborated with many talented playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, choreographers, dancers and actors. Mars co-founded/produced Harvesting(2020-2022), an outdoor performance festival featuring artists in the pandemic. A certified GYROTONIC ® trainer, Mars cherishes helping others and working as a Project Manager for 7NMS|Marjani Forté-Saunders + Everett Saunders, and coordinator for PracticeProgress | Kai Hazelwood + Sarah Ashkin. Mars is excited to dance with Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS DANCES, and is creating a performance installation (and Gender Archive zine!) surrounding gender, perspective and the body.
Uila Marx (they/she/her) is a nonbinary movement artist from O’ahu, Hawai’i. Their movement work is informed by a lifelong education in hula and traditional practices of land and body care. Uila is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University in Harlem, New York. They have performed works by Okwui Okpokwasili, David Thomson, Mark Morris, David Dorfman, Colleen Thomas, and Davalois Fearon, among others. Currently Uila creates, performs, and engages in research with interdisciplinary movement artists including Edisa Weeks (DELIRIOUS Dances) and Will A. Ervin Jr, and formerly The Why Collective and Lucia Gagliardone. As a dance maker, Uila's work centers tenderness, community care, play, and silliness via improvisation and collaborative physical theater. Uila is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands Are for Holding program, which uses dance to have conversations with youth in New York City public schools about healthy relationships, consent, boundaries, and choice making.
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