makers space experience
Keshet Makers Space Experience
The Keshet Makers Space Experience (MSE) is a cohort-based residency program in which choreographers / dancemakers have access to rehearsal space, peer movement classes, arts business workshops, and the New Mexico skies, as they explore their art form and their projects at whatever stage they might be – newly germinating ideas, final development of full productions, and/or anything in between.
Each MSE Cohort provides a unique opportunity for artists from across the country and world to gather at Keshet for a 10-day residency as they explore, move, share, and create. It is also a unique opportunity for the Albuquerque community to enjoy getting to know these amazing artists.
Applications for the 2025 Makers Space Experience are CLOSED.
2025 Makers Space Experience
January 16-26 & February 6-16, 2025
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
10-day choreographic residencies
Keshet’s cohort-based residencies provide:
studios / rehearsal space
peer-learning movement classes
business workshops for arts entrepreneurs
housing throughout residency period
sunshine and love
2024 Makers Space Experience Participants
Anna Bauer
Austin, TX
Anna Bauer is a dance artist living in Austin, Texas. Since graduating from Sam Houston State University with her BFA in Dance in 2021, she has danced for the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company and various project-based opportunities while producing her own choreography. Events across the country have been kind enough to include her pieces in their lineup: most recently Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Fest, White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival, and Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Anna has also had the honor of completing residencies with Bellingham Repertory Dance in Bellingham, Washington and Aimed Dance Company in Beaumont, Texas.
Anna’s collaborators joining for the 2024 Makers Space Experience include: Celeste Camfield, Jairus Carr, and J Obregon
Instagram: @anna_bauer151
Caroline Butcher
Boulder, CO
Caroline is a mover, thinker, maker, and collaborator with an intention to unearth the vulnerability of her whole self in the hopes of cultivating honest, messy, and radical relationships. She is committed to the seemingly impossible task of disrupting the perpetual effects of existing in colonized spaces in herself and in the systems in which she is implicated. Caroline is interested in embodied endurance practices that invoke discomfort, exhaustion, and strain as preparation for pursuing life’s complexities with joy and conviction. She uses the mediums of dance and movement to question hegemonic narratives and create an intentional awareness of the self in community. As a maker she is curious about how “performative” spaces can curate participation, reflection, and conversation. Ultimately, Caroline is passionate about fostering environments where individuals feel rooted in their humanness and connected to one another, recognizing their gifts, and leaning bravely into their growth edges.
Instagram: @_carolinebutcher
Shenandoah Harris
Burbank, CA
Shenandoah Harris is a dancer, choreographer, lighting designer and the director and founder of Psychopomp Dance Theater, an LA based movement company. Recently, Psychopomp’s work has been presented in Seattle for Coriolis Dance, at Lighting in a Bottle Music Festival, and at the Glendale Brand Library. Psychopomp’s most recent event was a self produced multidisciplinary festival, CHAOS! presented at Highways Performance Space in August 2023. Psychopomp’s work is grounded in viscerally athletic, high risk acrobatic and ritualistic movement exploring modern day social issues through the structure of Jewish culture and thought. Prior to founding Psychopomp Miss Harris danced throughout LA and across the country touring with Diavolo Architecture in Motion. Miss Harris is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara, has worked extensively as a theatrical and live music lighting designer throughout LA and is also certified Personal Trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist and Nutritionist.
Psychopomp Dance Theater Collaborators also attending the 2024 Makers Space Experience include: Abby Chuah, and Mizuki Sako.
Instagram: @psychopompdance @shenandoahharris
Réka Horváth
Budapest, Hungary
Réka Horváth is a multi-disciplinary performer and creative artist, specialising in contemporary dance and music. She has trained in different movement and music styles including folk dance, ballet, acrobatics, partnering, floor technique, classical and jazz singing, guitar, piano. In 2019 she graduated in Music Culture at the Eötvös Loránd University. In 2017 she completed the ZéróPlusz contemporary dance training. In 2023 she graduated in interdisciplinary art through Anfibia Art in Bologna. Among others, she has worked with the Living Picture Theatre, m.a.d.a.m., Dávid Somló, Janus University Theatre, Martina La Ragione, School of disobedience, Penuma Association, Ernő Rubik’s TÉRIDŐ jam. In August 2023 she has been on international performing arts research where she created a piece under the mentorship of renowned artists. In October 2023 she was a participant in the WhatIIIF instant composition festival. Currently she is an active member in Soharóza experimental choir, ArtMan inclusive dance company, m.a.d.a.m. collectiv.
Caitlin Javech
Los Angeles, CA
A native of Miami, FL, Caitlin Javech holds a BFA in Dance from the Juilliard School and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. Javech’s work has been recognized with a Juilliard Career Advancement Award, Orlando Ballet Dance Accelerator nomination, Distinguished Artist Fellowship at the Hambidge Center, and a ‘Dance in the Districts Awardee’ by LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Javech has most recently worked as a dancer and company manager for Tabula Rasa Dance Theater and currently dances with ZviDance. Javech is currently based in Los Angeles, where she is the artistic director of her own project-based company
T O R R E N T, creating multidisciplinary choreographic work for stage, film, and installation. Most recently, Javech’s choreographic work has been commissioned by Los Angeles DCA, Heidi Duckler’s ‘Ebb & Flow Festival, Stomping Ground LA’s VOICES: Latinx & Indigenous Artists showcase, CalArts Happenings 50th Anniversary, and Emotions Physical Theater.
Collaborators from T O R R E N T joining Caitlin during the 2024 Makers Space Experience include: Tetiana Sklyarova and AnnMarie Arcuri
Instagram: @caitlinjavech @t_o_r_r_e_n_t
Miranda Fern Katz
West Stockbridge, MA/Portugal
Miranda Fern Katz is a contemporary choreographer and performer working between the United States and Europe. Her choreography has been shown at various theaters and galleries in the US, including Jacob’s Pillow, TurnPark Art Space Gallery, The Foundry, and more. Her most recent work LIVING DOLLS was supported by the inaugural dance/performance residency at Adams Theater, and featured a cast of six performing artists including a live, original music composition. Her interests lie in surrealistic, physically explosive movement that confronts aspects of the human condition and interpersonal relationships. As a performer, she has had the pleasure of working with choreographers such as Sharon Fridman, Olga Rabetskaya, Rebecca Pappas, and many others. She is currently a touring member of contemporary dance-theater company Ordem do O under the direction of Pedro Ramos (Portugal).
Instagram: @thefernkatz
Kathy Luo
Fresno, CA
Kathy Luo is a dance artist based in Fresno, California. She works as an Assistant Professor of Dance at California State University, Fresno, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration in immersive theater and site-specific dance settings. She is passionate about Asian Diaspora Dance studies and promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the dance field. As a dedicated dancer and researcher, she has attended numerous conferences such as the American College Dance Association Conference (ACDA), National Dance Education Organization Conference (NDEO), Las Vegas Dance in the Desert Festival, L.A. Feedback Film Festival, Utah Dance Film Festival, Arizona Dance Festival, and Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC). Additionally, Kathy has been selected as a performing artist for the 2023 Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Transcultural and Trans-disciplinary Salon Performance in New York City.
www.kathyluo.net
Madrone Matysiak
Albuquerque, NM
Madrone Matysiak is an independent dance artist and choreographer currently working in Albuquerque, NM. She attended New Mexico School for the Arts, a performing arts high school in Santa Fe, and graduated from the University of New Mexico with a dual degree in Dance and Arts Administration. Her work was chosen for the 2020 South-Central American College Dance Association Adjudicated Concert and has been featured in concerts across Albuquerque. Most recently, Madrone produced and presented in NOW: an evening of contemporary dance premieres with friend and collaborator Elyse Fahey as part of their dance production company: RigorMortis Productions. Current projects include an evening-length improvised duet and a tech/dance collaboration with generative artist Drew Trujillo, set to premiere Spring 2024.
Instagram: @arbutus_menziesii
Enikö Nagy
Budapest, Hungary
Enikő Nagy (she/her) is a multidisciplinary performance and design artist who works in Budapest, Hungary. Enikő has a long background in diverse performative training and experience including physical theater, yoga, and a great variety of movement styles. Also provides a long experience as an editor for many video material and screendance films. In addition, she is building a career in teaching the youth contemporary dance and improvisation. Enikő is a 2018 graduate from Budapest Metropolitan University as a Media Designer and acquired her second degree in Dancer and Coach at the Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest in 2023. Enikő is interested in movement research, performing instant compositions, and experimenting with connecting art disciplines. She is particularly interested in combining cinema with the present moment through theatre and movement techniques. Enikő is currently working professionally as a creator and performer of a Budapest based comprehensive art company, named m.a.d.a.m. (music and dance and more) established in 2020. Some of their main goals include the sharing of cultural values through performing as both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artists. This very collective has a diverse artistic repertoire including contemporary dance pieces, residencies and interactive performances.
Instagram: @enik.o.nagy
Alys Ayumi Ogura
St. Paul, MN
Alys Ayumi Ogura is a storyteller and a performance maker through her movements, voice, and quirky humor. She started dance lessons at age 4 in Japan. She earned her B.A. in Theater Studies, in Iowa, and has been performing in Minneapolis since 2010. Ogura has worked with more than 40 artists and companies, including Houser Dance, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Pramila Vasudevan, and Laurie Van Wieren. Ogura has also toured with Sara LaRose-Holland’s KEDC, and Aprill Sellers’ ASDC, which is supported by the National Dance Project. Ogura performed about 20 self-created works at Twin Cities venues, including 9 x 22 DanceLab (multiple times), Walker Arts Center’s Choreographers Evening (2017 and 2022), and Red Eye Theater’s 2023 New Work 4 Weeks Festival. Ogura is a former fellow of the Arts Organizing Institute (2017-2018), Pangea World Theater, and Naked Stages (2021) at Pillsbury House Theatre.
She is a steering committee member at DanceMN.
Instagram:@ayumiverse
Ricardo Paz
Portugal
Ricardo Paz is a Portuguese circus artist, performer, specializing in Chinese pole acrobatics by the CNAC – Centre Nacional des Arts du Cirque in France. He works with contemporary performing and visual art projects from France, Bruxelles, Germany, Brasil and Portugal. His work is a constant search between the art of falling and the dramaturgy of the circus acrobat eye on the circadian storyline of humans and their interpersonal relationships, and how they impact us, and our surroundings. He shares alongside with Miranda Fern Katz the artistic direction and collaboration of their project When Paths Cross, an immersion between dance, circus and physical theater. He currently performs with the Portuguese Choreographer Diana Niepce, and he featured and performed numbered Chinese pole acts for circus agencies such as Cirque du Soleil and tv appearances such as Got Talent. Additionally, Paz teaches professionals and amateurs, including for EuropeFiction (Germany), a festival that holds workshops and the creation of a show with (and for) Syrian and Afghan refugees. He was fortunate to work with directors such as Cláudio Bernardo, Séverine Chavrier, Fabrice Guillot, and Yves-Noel Genod, and a few other artists and companies; and his original artistic studies were in cinema and photography, which all interview his lens as a creator and performer today.
Instagram: @ricardopazworks
Anna Pillot
Boulder, CO
Anna Pillot is a dance artist, educator, production manager, technical director, and adventurer. Her research embraces gender studies, biology, physiology, and psychology, exploring their intersections and divergences. Anna’s work constructs containers to surpass limitations, aiming for a heightened self while being honest about her humanity. As an educator, she empowers her students to embrace risks in their educational journey, fostering a willingness to grapple with failure and a receptivity to being vulnerable while in the process of learning. In production, Anna excels as a technical director, manager, and lighting designer, delving into projection mapping, video editing, and emergent technology.
Instagram: @annakpillot
Parisha Rajbhandari
Eagan, MN
Parisha Rajbhandari is a Nepali dance artist residing in Mni Sota. She explores movement through vibrations, sounds, rhythms, body memory, and spinal articulation. Her choreographic process is grounded in collaboration and collective action. Parisha has been a dance artist with Ananya Dance Theatre since 2019. She has performed in three premieres of dance production with Ananya Dance Theatre. She also offers Yorchhā classes through the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice. She performed ADT’s Nün Gherāo: Surrounded by Salt at Jacob’s Pillow in May 2023. She has performed at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Kennedy Center, O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, Red Eye Theatre, and Cowles Center, and presented works at the American College Dance Association and Minnesota State University Mankato. She received her BA in dance from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2020 and is currently an MFA candidate in Dance and Choreography at MSU, Mankato.
Instagram: @pari_rajb
Marianna Varviani
Los Angeles, CA
Marianna Varviani is a Greek dance-theater artist. She has worked internationally in Greece, UK, Spain, Brazil and the USA as a choreographer, director, performer, and instructor. She is the artistic director of Selcouth Dance Theater Company. Her works have been performed at Arc for Dance Festival, European Dance Network, Our Festival, UCLA Kaufman Hall, San Pedro Festival of the Arts, Ebb & Flow Festival, and The Other Art Fair. Marianna has performed in projects by: Salia Sanou, Friidom, Ghislain Grellier, Stella Spyrou, Ohi Paizoume, Ha! Theatre Ensemble, Patari Project, Dimitris Kostakis, and others. She has a BA in Contemporary Theatre from E15/ University of Essex and an MFA in Dancef rom UCLA. She has been teaching dance and theater since 2008 for amongst others: UCLA, UTEP, E15/ University of Essex, Heidi Duckler Dance, Theatre of the Oppressed RJ, Ministry of Culture Greece.
Instagram: @selcouth_movement
Halley Willcox
Tempe, AZ
Halley Willcox [BFA, MFA] is a dance artist, educator and questioner. She is the director of Methods of Madness Dance Theater, an outlet for her creative work and community programming. She is the founder and director of the AZ Dance Film Fest and teaches at GCU and Arizona State University where she teaches with Liz Lerman and is working with her on the development of the Atlas of Creative Tools; a multidisciplinary creative framework. Halley has been a Permanent-Artist-in-Residence at [nueBOX] since 2019. She is currently presenting a new work titled “a rose for you,” which has toured the Wrong Gallery in Marfa, Texas with Mo Eldrige and Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn with chrisbelldances. She looks forward to showing “a rose for you” in Arizona in Spring 2024
Instagram: @methodsofmadnessdancetheater
Previous Makers
Previous Makers
2023 Keshet Makers Space Experience Cohorts/Artists
Cohort 1
- Alethea Pace, Bronx, NY //aletheapace.com // @aletheapace
- Elyse Fahey, ABQ, NM // elysemarinfahey.com
- Katherine G Moore, Columbus, OH // katherinegmoore.com // @_kgmoore
- Kathryn Nusa Logan, Long Island City, NY // lanusaspace.com // @kathrynnusalogan
- P.J. Verhoest, Wayne, NJ // pjthewizard.com // @spicyleafdala
- Ramya Sundaresan Kapadia, Knoxville, TN // natyarpanadurham.wixsite.com/mysite // @ramyakapadia
- Tara King, ABQ, NM // tara-king.com
- Tatiana Zamir, Los Angeles, CA // tatianazamir.com // @tatianazamir
Cohort 2
- Alfonso Cervera, Champaign, IL // alfonsocerveradance // @fonzy110990
- Christian Denice, Westlake Village, CA // @cdenice
- Daniel Morimoto, Brooklyn, NY // @digitalmovementdance / @danieldances
- Natalie Deryn Johnson, Brooklyn, NY // nataliederynjohnson.com // @ladyderyn
- Magnolia Yang Sao Sia, Inglewood, CA // magnoliayangsaoyia.com
- Sunny Min-Sook Hitt, Brooklyn, NY // sunnyhitt.com // @sunnyhitt
2022 Keshet Makers Space Experience Cohorts/Artists
- Candace Tabbs, New York, NY // www.candacetabbs.com
- Laura Malpass, Westminster, CO // www.lauramalpass.com
- Mariadela Belle Alvarez, Los Angeles, CA // www.raicesenmovimiento.org
- Melanie Greene, Brooklyn, NY // www.methodsofperception.com
- Reika McNish, Albuquerque, NM // www.reimo.site
- Suzie Rzecznik, Astoria, NY // www.suzierz.com
2020 Keshet Makers Space Experience Cohorts/Artists
Cohort 1
- Marika Brussel, San Francisco, CA // www.marikabrussel.com
- Erik Ehn, Albuquerque, NM // wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Ehn
- Samuel Horning, Brooklyn, NY & Chicago, IL // www.instagram.com/sammmmach/
- Ani Javian, Metuchen, NJ // www.anijavian.com
- DZ Maciel, Brooklyn, NY // www.dzmaciel.com
- Dazaun Soleyn, San Francisco, CA // www.dazaunsoleyn.com
2019 Keshet Makers Space Experience Cohorts/Artists
Cohort 1
- Mary Fitzgerald, Phoenix, AZ // www.maryfitzgeralddance.com
- Kate Ladenheim, New York, NY // www.thepeoplemovers.co
- Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs, New York, NY // www.instagram.com/cecilialynnjacobs/
- Amber Moon Peterson, Helena, MT // www.instagram.com/_._ambermoon_._/
- Molly Ross, Brooklyn, NY // www.instagram.com/mollyeross/
- Nola Sporn Smith, Brooklyn, NY // www.instagram.com/spornographer/
- Eileen Standley, Tempe, AZ // www.eileenstandley.com
- Kelly Ashton Todd, New York, NY // www.kellyashtontodd.com
Cohort 2
- Kristofer Bergstrom, Los Angeles, CA // www.k–b.org
- Adrienne Clancy, Silver Spring/Maryland // www.clancyworks.org
- Stephanie Miracle, Santa Barbara, CA // www.stephaniemiracledances.com
- Erinn Liebhard, St Paul, MN // www.erinnliebhard.com
- Anat Shinar, Minneapolis, MN // www.instagram.com/anatperforms/
Cohort 3
- Annalisa Dias, Washington, DC // www.annalisadias.weebly.com/
- Kayla Farrish, Brooklyn, NY // https://www.kaylafarrish.com/
- Amanda Krische, New York, NY // www.instagram.com/amanda.krische/
- Marina Magalhaes, Los Angeles, CA // www.marinamagalhaes.com
- Yvonne Montoya, Tucson, Arizona // www.yvonnemontoya.co
- Linda Ryan, St Muncie, IN // www.liryanmovement.com
- Paty Lorena Solorzano, Brooklyn, NY // www.girasoladances.com
Makers Space Independent Residencies (2019):
- Adrienne Clancy, Silver Spring, Maryland // www.clancyworks.org
- Lewis Cooke, London, UK // https://www.lewiscooke.info/
2018 Keshet Makers Space Experience Cohorts/Artists
Cohort 1
- Julianna Bulgarelli, Los Angeles, CA // www.linkedin.com/in/julianna-bulgarelli-35bb79148/
- Bradforn Chin, San Francisco, CA // https://bradfordchindance.wixsite.com/home/bradford-chin
- Kaitlin Flynn Goodwin, Pittsburgh, PA // www.courdance.com
- Kayla Harley, Washington, DC // www.kaylaharley.com
- Sarah Hogland Gurule, Albuquerque, NM
Cohort 2
- Marissa Brown, Brooklyn, NY // www.lonekingprojects.com
- Taylor Mitchell, Chicago, IL // www.instagram.com/mitchellmovement/
- Amal Rogers, Minneapolis, MN // www.instagram.com/amalamalamal_/
- Anat Shinar, Minneapolis, MN // www.instagram.com/anatperforms/
- Tanya Winters, Austin, TX // https://www.facebook.com/tanya.winters
Makers Space Independent Residencies (2018)
- Navarasa Dance Theater, Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Mysore, India // www.navarasa.org
- Anat Grigorio, Tel Aviv, Israel // www.anatgrigorio.com
2017 Further Seeds….Keshet’s Fellowship for Contemporary Dance
- Silva Laukkanen, Austin, TX // https://www.linkedin.com/in/silva-laukkanen-926595157/
- Tanya Winters, Austin, TX // https://www.facebook.com/tanya.winters
2016 The Originals! The Seeds! The Program Shapers! We called it the Rio Grande Movement Collective this year!
- Anat Grigorio, Tel Aviv, Israel // www.anatgrigorio.com
- Amy Ely-McKane, Eau Claire, WI // www.linkedin.com/in/elymckane/
- Carson Reiners, Chicago, IL // carsonreiners.com
- Alivia Schaffer, San Francisco, CA // aliviaschaffer.com
The Keshet Makers Space Experience is funded in part by the City of Albuquerque and the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund