Anne E. Delaney founded the Starry Night Fund, which has been grant-making in the arts and social justice since 2002. She has deepened her philanthropic efforts through the creation of Lambent Foundation. Anne is an artist and a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York. She has been recognized for her philanthropic excellence by Ms. Foundation with the Gloria Award for philanthropic vision, the Lower East Side Girls Club and the LEAD Award from the Women’s Funding Network. In addition, she serves on the board of the New York Women's Foundation and is a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and Little Red, Elizabeth Irwin School.
Ishmael Houston-Jones is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, curator, and arts consultant. Houston-Jones’ improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. His Nowhere, Now Here was commissioned for Mordine and Company in Chicago in spring 2001 and Specimens was commissioned for Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia in 1998. In 1997 he was the choreographer for Nayland Blake’s Hare Follies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 1995-2000 he was part of the improvised trio “Unsafe/ Unsuited” with Keith Hennessy and Patrick Scully. In 1990 he and writer Dennis Cooper presented The Undead at the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts. In 1989 he collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which was aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Off-Center (Alive TV). In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for their Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders. Houston-Jones’ THEM received the “Bessie” Award for best performance of the year in 2011. He is longtime curator of Danspace Project's DraftWork series, and currently the curator for Danspace Project's PLATFORM 2012: Parallels, revisiting his groundbreaking project Parallels, which took place at Danspace Project in 1982 and toured internationally in 1987. He has been a Movement Research board member since 2004.
