Ivy Baldwin is a NYC-based choreographer, performer, teacher, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Baldwin is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and 2014 BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residence. Since 1999, Baldwin has received commissions from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, The Wooden Floor, Barnard College, Dixon Place, and Dance New Amsterdam. Her work has also been presented by Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New Museum, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Church, Symphony Space, and La MaMa E.T.C and has toured nationally and internationally including: Tanz im August (Germany), Dans Contemporan Festival (Romania), American Dance Institute, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Appel Farm Arts and Music Center. Baldwin has been recognized with various awards including: The Jerome Foundation, William and Karen Tell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Trust for Mutual Understanding, and fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), ArtistNe(s)t (Romania), Sugar Salon (NYC), and the Bessie Schönberg Fellowship at The Yard. Baldwin is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and NYU Tisch School of the Arts MFA program. Upcoming events include the NY premiere of Oxbow in BAM's 2014 Next Wave Festival November 13-16, 2014. Oxbow was made possible, in part, thru Baldwin's 2013 Movement Research AIR residency and creative residencies at MASS MoCA and Abrons Arts Center. Please visit ivybaldwindance.org.

Jeanine Durning is a dance artist working broadly in the fields of choreography and performance. A native New Yorker, Durning has been based in Brooklyn for the past 15 years. She began performing her solo works in 1998. Her evening length group choreographies include A Good Man Falls (2002), half URGE (2004), out of the kennel into a home (2006), and Ex-Memory: waywewere (2009). Since 2002, she has created 15 original works, commissioned by companies, independent performers and Universities, in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Washington, DC, Maryland, California, The Netherlands, and the UK. In 2006, Durning was the recipient of The NYFA Award for Choreography and in 2007, The Alpert Award for Choreography. Jeanine’s current solo performance, inging, was first presented in 2010 in Amsterdam and has since been invited to theaters, studios, museums, galleries and rooms in Berlin, Amsterdam, Leuven/Belgium (Playground Festival/Museum M), Chambersburg/PA, Minneapolis/MN and NYC (American Realness Festival), with forthcoming performances in 2014 in Milwaukee (Alverno Presents), Cincinnati (Contemporary Arts Center) and Willamstown (Williams College). Jeanine has performed in several choreographed ensemble works by Deborah Hay since 2005. She is currently involved in Hay’s work with Motion Bank, an interactive web-based archival project of the Forsythe Company, which includes her adaptation of the solo No Time to Fly, the trio As Holy Sites Go, and more recently, As Holy Sites Go/duet with Ros Warby. She also works as consultant to the Motion Bank team on Deborah Hay’s choreographic work. Over the years, Jeanine has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers, among them, including David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Lance Gries, Chris Yon, Bebe Miller, Martha Clarke, Jon Kinzel and Zvi Gotheiner. Jeanine has an ongoing teaching practice, facilitating classes in movement and choreographic practices, and is regularly invited to advise the work of other makers. More recently, she has been on faculty at SNDO and MTD (Amsterdam Theaterschool), HZT (Inter-University Centre for Dance- Berlin), Laboratory for Contemporary Dance Practice (Vaganova Academy, St. Petersburg), NYU Tisch School of the Arts (NYC), and at the German Dance Biennale in Frankfurt. Jeanine has been on the Artist’s Advisory Board of Danspace Project since 2003. She holds a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Choreography from Amsterdam School of the Arts.

Whitney V. Hunter is a NY-based interdisciplinary performance artist and independent curator from Chicago, IL. He creates and curates work for the stage, gallery, and alternative spaces, and directs his performance collective Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM]. He has worked in the companies of Martha Graham, Martha Clarke, Pearl Lang, Rod Rodgers, Pascal Rioult, Reggie Wilson, Dagmar Spain, and Kankouran West African Dance Company. Whitney has received numerous choreographic grants including, but not limited to, Puffin Foundation Grant (2011), Harlem Stages - Fund for New Work Grant ('09), and a new work(s) commission from Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center ('08 & '11). Whitney holds a BFA in Theatre Arts/Dance from Howard University, an MFA in New Media Arts and Performance from Long Island University where he is an adjunct professor in the dance program, and is presently a David Driskell Ph.D. Fellow in Philosophy, Art Theory and Aesthetics at Institute for the Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA).

Born of compulsion and curiosity, Sam Kim's dances inquire into the very nature of what dance is. They often focus on the margins of culture and behavior, valuing the edges, while courting the danger inherent in rejecting dance's heavy legacies. At heart, Sam considers herself an outsider working in an outsider's form--her choreographic practice is a means of deeply engaging in a personal game of brinkmanship. Since 2002, Sam has created several works: "Darling" (Performance Space 122, 2009), " dumb dumb bunny" (The Kitchen, 2007), "Cult" (Dance Theater Workshop, 2007), "AVATAR" (Mulberry St Theater, 2006), "Nobody Understands Me" (Dance Theater Workshop, 2004), "Placid Baby" (Performance Space 122, 2003) and "Valentine" (Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, 2002). All of the above works were commissioned and presented by the premiere venues. Sam’s work has also been presented by other progressive venues such as Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), Studio 303 (Montréal), the Unknown Theater (Los Angeles), Bryant Lake Bowl Theater (Minneapolis), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Galapagos Art and Performance Space and Movement Research, among many others. Sam's work has been supported by awards from organizations such as the Lucky Star Foundation, the MAP Fund and the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation. Sam was a Spring 2010 Dance Theater Workshop Outer/Space Creative Resident, a 2007-09 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Dance Artist-in-Residence and a 2004-05 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Sam is the creator of "Real Feedback," a workshop devoted to looking at choreography through a contemporary, critical lens, and was a member of the Board at Dance Theater Workshop from 2006-2010. Sam has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony (2012), Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2013), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2013) and NYLA's Studio Series (2013) to develop her latest evening-length work, “Sister to a Fiend” (working title). “Sister to a Fiend” will be a ritualistic work that reveals the secret and magic rites of liminal creatures in exile, obliquely inspired by Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the work of conceptual clothing designer Martin Margiela.

Joanna Kotze's choreography has been presented at Danspace Project, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, New York Live Arts Studio Series, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Roulette, Dixon Place, 92nd Street Y, WAXworks, Lu Magnus Gallery in collaboration with visual artist Jonathan Allen and Soho20 Gallery with installation artist Asuka Goto. Joanna is a fall 2013 Djerassi Resident Artist, a spring 2013 Bogliasco Foundation Fellow and was recently awarded the 2013 Yellowhouse Educational Stipend. She was the fall 2012 boo-koo space grant recipient at Gibney Dance Center and has participated in Sarah Maxfield’s One-Shot, a web-based solo performance relay. Joanna was a 2011-2012 Fellow for Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab, a 2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space resident and has worked in residence at Mount Tremper Arts. She was a 2010 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and a 2010 Choreographers' Project Fellow at Summer Stages Dance. She has also choreographed several works for Miami University's Dance Theatre. She danced with Wally Cardona from 2000-2010 and currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik/daela and Netta Yerushalmy. Joanna is on faculty at Movement Research and has studied Klein technique with Barbara Mahler since 2003. She is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University ('98).

Stanley Love was born in Iowa. When he was 18 years old he came to New York City to attend The Juilliard School and follow his dream of furthering his life as a creative performing artist. Upon his graduation in 1992 Stanley Love Performance Group was founded. Mr. Love works with performing artists through a dance basis. His aesthetic is based in schizophrenic-like structure and eclecticism. He utilizes different musical, dance, and choreographic styles. Much of the inspiration comes from the soul of the music- whether it be more emotional, theatrical, rhythmic, funky or whatever. SLPG has performed in many, many NYC venues, some being The Kitchen, PS122, PS1, The Whitney Biennial, Paula Cooper Gallery, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, DTW, Dixon Place, Cooper Union, NYU, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Limelight, The Tunnel, The Pyramid Club and in Central Park for a 9/11 remembrance.

Juliette Mapp is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. As a dancer, Juliette has performed with Jennifer Monson, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Vicky Shick, Stephanie Skura, Orjan Andersson, and Pat Graney among many others. Juliette has toured throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America as both a performer and teacher. She has received two New York City Dance and Performance awards ("Bessies"). The first, in 2002, was for outstanding artistic achievement in the work of John Jasperse and the second, in 2008, was for her evening-length piece, Anna, Ikea and I, presented at Danspace Project. Her writings have appeared in the Movement Research Performance Journal and Performing Arts Journal.

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and improvisational dance through Kota Yamazaki, then has danced with Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug, Neil Greenburg, David Gordon, RoseAnne Spradlin, DD Dorvillier, Cori Olinghouse, Daria Fain, Yoshiko Chuma/The School of Hard Knocks, Trajal Harrel, Moriah Evans among others while making her own choreography that has been presented by places such as DTW, Danspace Project, The Kitchen/Dance and Process, Movement Research, Roulette, Bennington College, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (through AIR program) and Whenever Wherever Festival

Ni'Ja Whitson is an interdisciplinary artist, independent choreographer, and writer based in New York who engages a nexus of postmodern and African diasporic performance practices. Her choreographic and performance works include collaborating with theater, dance, and performance artists such as Dianne McIntyre, Regina Taylor, Allison Knowles, La Pocha Nostra, April Berry, and Darrell Jones. Her current work-in-progress Babanla Ayaba was marked as a Creative Capital “On Our Radar” project to watch. Whitson is a noted innovating practitioner of the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic and enjoys ongoing collaboration with award-winning artist Sharon Bridgforth, including co-facilitation during Bridgforth’s Theatrical Jazz Institute. Her solo, root shock, developed in the aesthetic and grounded in Yoruba mythology, toured internationally with invitations in New York, Chicago, and Canada. She has conducted research, performances, residencies and master classes in Africa, Brazil and across the United States including ACDF, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the Apollo Theater, Roulette, and The Art Institute of Chicago Museum. Awards include an Allgo Artist Residency with collaborator Oluseyi Adebanjo, Lake Forest College Visiting Artist Residency, Illinois Arts Council grant, LinkUI residency award, Mellon Research Fellowship, a 3Arts Visual Artist Award nomination, and a Fellowship Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her MFA. She is featured in Living Thinkers: Black Women and the Ivory Tower, and has published creative and academic writing in print and online journals. Whitson is an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College and full-time lecturer at Lehman College in New York. She is a proud 2013/2014 Movement Research Artist in Residence.

Cristiane Bouger is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in the fields of performance, video, installation, contemporary dance, experimental theater, text, poetry and critical writing. Through her interdisciplinary practice, she aims to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning and context to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. The imagery of her works reveals existential examinations or responses that reflects upon the female body, desire, cultural conducts, behavior and symbols, political mechanisms, biography and fiction. Her performances have been presented in Brazil, the United States and Romania. Bouger’s videoperformances and the documentary Community, Activism and the Downtown Scene were screened in independent and institutional circuits in the major Brazilian cities and in the 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents (Paris), In-Presentable 08 (Madrid), Montage Video Dance Festival (Johannesburg), ACE Film Festival (New York), The New Filmmakers Series – Latino/Anthology Film Archives (New York) and TVR Cultural, in Romania. In New York, she collaborated with chameckilerner. She was a contributing writer for the Movement Research’s Moving Dialogue: A Bucharest/New York Dance Exchange (2010-2011) and a collaborating writer for PERFORMA 09 – The Third New Visual Art Performance Biennial. She has been a contributing editor for the MR Performance Journal since 2007 and a collaborating writer for the Critical Correspondence since 2008. In 2012 she was a nominee for the Alice Award – Artistic Landmarks in Contemporary Experience (Belgium), in the category Emerging Critic Award. She was a participant at The Kitchen's Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn 2004 Summer Institute (The Kitchen/Sarah Lawrence College) and a 2003 Artist-in-Residence at Casa Hoffmann, in Brazil. www.cristianebouger.com www.cristianebouger.wordpress.com

Michelle Boulé is a performer, choreographer, teacher, and BodyTalk practitioner based in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with MGPP since 2001 and received a Bessie Award for her performance as James Dean and collaboration in the creation of Last Meadow. Her choreography has been shown at ISSUE Project Room, Mount Tremper Arts, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, Center for Performance Research, CATCH! Series, and Movement Research at Judson Church. Other artists she has worked with include Deborah Hay (for the William Forsythe commission If I Sing to You), John Scott, David Wampach, John Jas¬perse, Neal Medlyn, Neal Beasley, Donna Uchizono, Christine Elmo, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropoli¬tan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), and Gabriel Masson. She collaborates with cellist and composer Okkyung Lee and has also worked with playwright/director Rosie Goldensohn. She is part of the teaching faculty at Movement Research and The New School and has been faculty at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at other institutions in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She is currently a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and has previously received residencies at SKITE (France) and DanceHouse (Ireland). She was a 2002 DanceWeb scholarship recipient at Impulstanz in Vienna. michelleboule.wordpress.com/

Katia Castañeda is a director, performer and teacher. She currently lives in NY where she is an Artist-in-Residence in Movement Research. Her work recently has been shown in Judson Church and in CPR Center for Performance Research in New York, and also in Colombia and Mexico. She works independently, acting and directing her own projects and in collaboration with diverse disciplines. She was worked with Allora&Calzadilla, Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, Quiatora Monorriel, Nadia Lartigue, Abraham Oceranski, Jean Marie Binoche among others. As a director she was the recipient of the Young Artists fellowship from the National Endowment of Arts, in Mexico in 2009-2010. She also received this distinction as a performer in 2001-2002.

K.J. Holmes is a dance artist, actor, singer and teacher who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She has been fortunate to collaborate extensively with forerunners of dance improvisation Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson and Steve Paxton, as well as with poet Julie Carr, performer Keith Biesack, and trumpeters Roy Campbell Jr. and Dave Douglas, among many other outstanding artists. Instrumental in developing methods of inquiry into performance, the body and the mind through her experience with BMC (r), Ideokinesis (with Andre Bernard), Contact/Improvisations and Release techniques, K.J. is a graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering (1999), Satya Yoga (certified, 2007) and the William Esper Studio (Meisner acting, 2009), of which the play between is essential to her current practices. She is based in Brooklyn NY and her work has been presented in NYC at Danspace Project, DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dance Works in Progress at The Kitchen, PS122, among many other venues. Her dance piece This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, March 2011, and she is currently developing a new piece HIC SVNT DRACONES as a 2012-14 Movement Research Artist in Residence. It was performed recently as a works in progress at Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Hanna Barn on Vashon Island Washington and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. She recently performed with dancer David Zambrano and violinist/vocalist Iva Bittova at Studio Alta in Prague, the Czech Republic and will be performing in Mark Dendy's new piece celebrating the Kronos Quartet and the American Dance Festival at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. K.J. teaches at NYU/Experimental Theatre Wing, Eugene Lang/New School for Social Research and Movement Research in NYC, as well as traveling nationally and internationally conducting workshops and performing. She currently is an actor in The Veterans Project directed by Fay Simpson, and sings with The Secret City Singers as well as with Songbirds coached by Richard Armstrong.

Courtney Krantz was born in Bermuda and raised in Colorado and Northern Michigan. She has been based in New York City since 2003 and currently lives in Brooklyn where she makes work within the realms of the still and moving image as well as installation and performance-based pieces/documents. Recent projects explore encounters between fiction and documentary genres, built spaces and natural environments and various considerations of the body originating from investigations of dance and improvisational movement practices. Recently, her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Millenium Film Workshop (NYC) and Festival Novog Filma i Videa (Serbia). For high school, she attended Interlochen Arts Academy (1993-1997). She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College (2001) and an MA in Media Studies from The New School (2012). She is currently a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (2012-2014).

Tara O’Con’s work has been presented consistently since 2005 in showcases around NYC, including Dancenow | NYC, and Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks series. Her work has also been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project,The Chocolate Factory Theater, and most recently as part of the River To River Festival produced by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. As a performer, she is a long-time contributing member of Third Rail Projects, and also performs regularly for mvworks/Megan Sprenger. taraocon.wordpress.com

RoseAnne Spradlin’s installations and mixed-media performance works reveal the individual dancer and investigate the phenomenon of embodiment within the context of contemporary performance. Spradlin’s work focuses intently on the body in moments of transition and transformation - form and purpose disintegrating and reintegrating - to uncover the performer’s capacity for creativity, adaptation and change. Spradlin’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including a BESSIE Award for Choreography in 2003, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, the three-year Lambent Fellowship in Performing Arts in 2006-08, NYFA Fellowships in Choreography in 1998 and 2006, an Artist Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and an Artist Grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Exploration Fund in 2009. Her company has been supported by four NYFA BUILD grants, multi-year support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and production grants from the Multi-Arts Production Fund in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Spradlin has shown her work at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, at Chisenhale in London and has taught at the TanzImAugust Festival in Berlin, at Winlab in London, SOMA in Paris, Contredanse in Brussels, on the island of Tinos in Greece, at the American Dance Festival and in Body-Mind Centering programs on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. For over twenty years Spradlin maintained two different studio businesses in Manhattan, Squid Performance Space in the Financial District and Studio 65 on lower West Broadway, near the World Trade Center. Spradlin currently teaches MELT and other classes through Movement Research; she was a 2012-13 Artist-In-Residence with Movement Research and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Spradlin’s most recent season was New York Live Arts’ 2012 remount of her acclaimed work “beginning of something” which premiered in 2011 at the Chocolate Factory in Queens. New York Times critic Brian Siebert called the remount “the continuation of something special,” characterizing the show as “feverishly exciting” and “a stunner.”

Saúl Ulerio is a dancemaker, musician and linguist from the Dominican Republic. After relocating to NYC in 2006 to pursue a dance-making and performance career, he initiate a 25-year exploratory process rooted through his deep passion for the art of music, cinematography and opera. Ulerio's interest in dance is to address the issues of self-expression and communication. In New York City his work has been presented at New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at Judson Church, Teatro IATI and BAAD. Ulerio was a New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist 2011-2012, as well as a 2010-2011 Rolex Mentor and Protégé nominee. Ulerio is currently a 2012-2013 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and multimedia artist. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Dixon Place, People's Improv Theatre, New Museum of Contemporary Art, (former) Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Fall Platform ‘10 and American Realness Festival ‘11 at Abrons Arts Center. In 2011, she launched a new musical collaboration with her husband Jon Velez-Jackson called Yackez, "The World's Most Loveable Hip Hop Duo." In 2012 she attended the danceWEB scholarship program at Impulstanz Vienna Int'l Dance Festival by way of the '12 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. Velez-Jackson currently is a Movement Research Artist in Residence '12-'13 and a SPARC resident '13 with the LMCC. She has taught yoga, dance, fitness and Pilates at 92 St Y and West Side Y in Manhattan (and more) for seven years.