TruDee, my alter ego, is a manifestation of optimism, fearlessness, unconditional love and play. She was born in 2014 out of a dare to try on a hot pink onesie with a mullet wig in a San Diego thrift shop. She danced her way out of the dressing room, Long Island accent intact and hasn’t stopped since. She creates short physical dance comedy vignettes, which she uses to transform any space into a stage. Trudee, a straddler of genres, has performed in dance programs, circus cabaret evenings and house parties.

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TruDee

The cast of Check All That Apply is comprised of dancers, actors, writers, musicians, & poets, all of whom identify as mixed-race.

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Sarah Esser

Donofrio Dance Company (DDC), a Brooklyn based contemporary dance company established in 2009 by Taylor Donofrio, seeks to build work that challenges viewers to examine today’s shifting experience of the present and our understanding of the human connection. DDC explores new approaches to the performance experience, and their work builds upon a heightened awareness for how audiences have evolved according to technology’s ability to deliver an immediate and transient experience.

www.donofriodanceco.com

Taylor Donofrio & Donofrio Dance Company

BOINK! is a modern dance company that explores the infinite possibilities in the world of film and live performance. Our mission is to combine dance and film in new and exciting ways in order to connect with all audiences.

BOINK! Dance & Film

Soluq Dance creates from a sense of challenge, exposing themselves to the areas that underpin our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. With dance as a primary tool, they test the rigors of the body and the soul in order to help move the human spirit forward.

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Kevin Clark - Soluq Dance Theater

Based out of New York City, N E 1 4 Dance is a unique collective of individuals who serve as both dancers and choreographers, founded by Michael Greenberg in 2018. The current mission of N E 1 4 Dance is to give each member the opportunity to invest in their own creative ideas while having a supportive group of dancers and collaborators to work with.

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N E 1 4 Dance

Copy That Dance, directed by Phoebe Rose Sandford, has presented work in Split Bill at Triskelion Arts, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, Your Move Dance Festival, The Craft, Home Audio Series, and at venues including NYU’s Jack Crystal Theater, SMUSH Gallery, and Green Space. Phoebe has performed with Anne Zuerner, mishiDance, Sarah Foster, Alice Gosti, RedCurrant Collective, Jonathan Matthews, This is Not a Theatre Company, The Charles Weidman Foundation, Patricia Hoffbauer, and AMS Project. The company’s short film He even took narly premiered at The Hours Festival in 2017. Copy That Dance is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

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Copy That Dance

As a 10-year-old boy in Brazil, Jelon Vieira began to study Capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art that is central to his life philosophy. In the mid-1970s, after joining a Brazilian folk dance company, he went on tour to Europe. Soon after, he traveled to New York City, where he founded his own dance company. DanceBrazil has performed worldwide, sharing Brazil’s cultural history and stories of its communities. A Capoeira mestre, Vieira in 2007 founded Capoeira Luanda, which is dedicated to the teaching and practice of Capoeira. He is the recipient of an NEA National Heritage Fellowship, among other awards.

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Jelon Vieira

Molly Mingey is an artist and flight attendant based in Brooklyn. She makes dances from her ordinary experience of a situation. Her background is in contemporary dance, site-specific performance, and dance theater. Molly’s process is driven by her interpretation of her life and her love and curiosity of dancing bodies; underneath banality lies satire, subversion, and humor.

www.mollymingey.com

Molly Mingey

Luther Bangert is a juggler, a mover, and a street performer. In his work he navigates and challenges traditional ideas of juggling, virtuosity, and failure, by allowing patterns their fair share of spontaneity, incorporating musicality, and blurring the realms of subject and object.

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Luther Bangert