Building an international network for virtual dance collaboration
Meet our artists in residence
Sumedha Bhattacharyya
Sumedha Bhattacharyya is an India-based interdisciplinary dance artist, researcher, educator, dance filmmaker and a primary caregiver, expanding the potential of camera, traditional dance, mythology and gender. Her practice is formulated in a quest to understand what happens in the in-betweens, in the happening, unfolding of a choreographic process.
Pursuing her doctoral studies in Spatial Arts at Jindal School of Art and Architecture, her research focuses on understanding the relationship between woman and the machine (camera), incorporating surveillance, memory, space and spectatorship.
Joaquina Salgado
A new media artist from La Plata, Argentina, Joaquina Salgado combines emerging technologies to create otherworldly and abstract images, XR experiences, interactive virtual worlds and A/V performances.
Her explorations between the physical and oneiric worlds converge in the creation of synthetic environments using real-time technologies, digital sculpting and photo-scan.
Her work reflects on internal programming and the relationship we generate with machines as an interactive mirror.
Samwel Japhet
Samwel Japhet is a Tanzanian dance artist, choreographer and curator and uses dance as artistic expression for story-telling. Samwel has always been fascinated with human relationships and human relation to the world. In his works he reflects on social issues and human experiences and creates a space for reflection, awareness and discussion. In 2015, he co-founded Tanzanian non-profit dance company Nantea Dance Company with Tadhi.
Tadhi Alawi
Tadhi Alawi is a Tanzanian Performing Artist, community leader, choreographer, yoga-instructor, Co-founder – creative director of Nantea Dance Company and Co - Managing director of Contemporary Dance Night event happening twice a year in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Tadhi’s vision is to portray different forms of beauty through arts as a mean of creating a positive impact and contributing to the development of Tanzania's arts scene and communities.
Emelia Koberg
Emelia Koberg (SWE/CAD) is a dancer, choreographer and movement teacher based in Malmö, Sweden. Emelia’s artistic practice is focused on creating entries into listening, play, folktales, decoloniality and interconnectedness with the Earth. She is a founder of the feminist dance collective Effrontery Movement with Aurora Westfelt and Dina Matskevitch. Emelia is studying at the Dance Institute at the Stockholm University of the Arts and has an Education in Dance and Somatics from Itä-Suomen Liikuntaopisto in Joensuu, Finland
Letta Shtohryn
Letta Shtohryn investigates the entangled relationship between the physical and digital realm. She explores human-nonhuman collaborations and embodiment through a posthumanist lens, considering non-human life forms, machines, avatars, aliens, monsters, ghosts. As a method, Letta employs speculative investigations, world building and storytelling. Her tools range between virtual reality, augmented reality, textile, sculpture, video, machinima and imagery.
Letta is the founder of digital platform Whatdowedonow.xyz and is Research Excellence Award Fellow at The Immersion Lab, University of Malta.
Sufee Yama
Sufee Yama is a Creative Technologist and a VR/AR experience designer from Thailand, her works span across Interactive AR, Interactive VR film and animation, 360 video, Mixed Reality Performance and Mixed Reality video. Her personal R&D experiments are brought to use for brand commercials, documentaries, movies, events and exhibitions for companies and organizations like The Guardian US, The Japan Foundation, Goethe-Institut, FABLAB , Thailand Government Agencies and more.
Pichet Klunchun Dance Company
Pichet Klunchun Dance Company was founded by Pichet Klunchun, an independent solo dance artist and Choreographer who specialized in Thai classical dance and contemporary choreography. His vision is to introduce Thai classical dance to the world, to preserve and maintain the charm of Thai classical dance to new generations. Pichet connects ancient philosophy and beliefs to the modern world by his mind-body bridging systematic training, and his contemporary practice has earned recognition internationally.
Ânima Dance Company & Afro-Sul Dance
Ânima Dance Company and Afro-Sul Dance are led by two of the most important choreographers in southern Brazil, both currently engaged in research with UFRGS, Porto Alegre to developing digital choreographic resources to document and preserve Brazilian dance culture.
Since 1974 Iara Deodoro of Afro-Sul has addressed issues of black diaspora, gender and age through her choreographies, developing her own dance technique: dança afro-gaúcha.
Also since the 70s, Eva Schul of Ânima has based her practice in the embodiment of non-effort, movement flow and the use of improvisation.
Ainslee Robson
LA-based, Cleveland native Ainslee Alem Robson is an award-winning Ethiopian-American director, writer and media artist, currently a Sundance Interdisciplinary 'Art of Practice' Fellow. She pushes beyond monolithic narratives of Africa and Blackness and instead places emphasis on the continent as a site of knowledge-generation and complexity. Her backgrounds in philosophy and new media render a critical and multifaceted approach to her emancipatory narrative strategies. She crafts worlds focusing on decolonial narratives of resistance that deconstruct identity, race, gender, perception, hierarchy and colonial legacies using film and emerging technologies in digital art.
Katie Dale-Everett
Katie Dale-Everett is Artistic Director of Katie Dale-Everett Dance, Sussex Dance Network and Co-Artistic Director of Kabecca Films. Since graduating in 2014 with a 1st class degree in Choreography from Falmouth University she has been supported by organisations including Arts Council England, The Point's Associate Artist Programme, Screen South, Channel 4, The Barbican, Studio Wayne McGregor's QuestLab Network, and Dance Woking's Associate Artist Scheme. Across her work is a desire to use creativity as a way to create kinder, more interconnected and better-considered communities.
Erin Cuevas
Erin Cuevas is an architect and creative director. She leads Project XYZ, a collaboration between architects, choreographers, and film-makers, and previously co-founded and led her own architecture practice at Curious Minds Los Angeles. Her work has been showcased through venues including the LA Dance Project Studios, the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, and various academic conferences. Erin holds a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and teaches digital media and design courses at the University of Southern California.
Matt Conway
Matt Conway is a Computational Design Leader working with a focus on parametric design, geometric approaches, interactive and immersive technologies, and integrated practice. He is co-founder of HomeMakeLabs, a video game, interactive installation and visualization studio. He received a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I) from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and lectures at USC and UCLA in coding, computational design, and geometry. His research work focuses on programming literacy and exploring architectural design through contemporary digital methods