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

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Instagram: @anna_bauer151

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. 

www.psychopompdance.org

Instagram: @psychopompdance @shenandoahharris

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

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Instagram: @caitlinjavech @t_o_r_r_e_n_t

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

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

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

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.

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Instagram: @pari_rajb