collaborators
Angélica Negrón
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics as well as for chamber ensembles, orchestras, choir, and film. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise.” Negrón has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kronos Quartet, loadbang, Prototype Festival, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Sō Percussion, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the New York Botanical Garden, among others. Recent premieres include works for the Seattle Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra and multiple performances at Big Ears Festival 2022.
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Kathryn Nusa Logan (she/her) (performer and video) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans contemporary dance, film and video, music and sound design, and multimedia installation and performance. She has presented work internationally in countries including Scotland, France, and Brazil, and throughout the US at venues including Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater, The Wexner Center, and Center for Performance Research. Her screendance work includes creative documentation, video installation, video dramaturgy, and dance film, all informed by her academic research investigating power and the camera through a somatic lens. Logan holds degrees from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and The Ohio State University and currently serves as Executive Director of an Integrative Arts office at James Madison University.
Seth Easter
Kathryn Nusa Logan
Rebecca Fitton
Seth Easter is an Emmy-award winning designer for theater and TV. He has been collaborating with Adrienne since 2005. Off-Broadway credits include The Summer Play Festival (Courting Vampires and How Love is Spelt at Theater Row Theaters) and The Boy In The Bathroom (Urban Stages) for which he received the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) Award for Best Design. He also designed Sonnet Repertory Theater's Twelfth Night (for which his "sharp set" was hailed by the New York Times), Nighttime Traffic for NYMF at Urban Stages, Harry Connick Jr.'s run at the Neil Simon Theater, and James Taylor/One Man Band for PBS. Seth is a graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Rebecca Fitton
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Rebecca Fitton
Rebecca Fitton (she/they) (performer and audio describer) is a queer, mixed race asian american, disabled, and immigrant artist, administrator, and advocate. Their writing has been published by Triskelion Arts, InDance, The Dancer-Citizen, Etudes, Critical Correspondence, Dance Research Journal, and the American Journal of Arts Management. She has been an artist-in-residence at Winslow House Project, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the National Center for Choreography – Akron, SPACE 124, Center, LEIMAY/CAVE, and The Croft. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University and an MA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin. rebeccafittonprojects.com
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter (she/her) (performer) is a dance artist and Waldorf teacher living in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Since receiving her BFA in dance and minoring in Religion and Philosophy at the University of the Arts, she has worked with many NYC-based companies and projects, as well as, traveled internationally to pursue her passion of discovering and connecting with new people and places. Driven to work within creative spaces that continuously strive to provide an inclusive and equitable environment, she has found many opportunities to teach, which furthered her desire for a practice in education. With the desire to move in the direction of therapeutic teaching practices the language of movement is always at the forefront of Solana’s work.
Amanda Kmett’Pendry
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter
Amanda Kmett’Pendry (she/her) (performer), hailing from Southern Maryland, is a dancer living in New York City. Since receiving her BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she has had the pleasure of working with artists Madeline Hollander, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, Jodi Melnick, Limón Dance Company, Romeo Castellucci, Adrienne Westwood, and Netta Yerushalmy, among others. She danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) from 2016-2022. As a teacher, Amanda has taught and staged works at Movement Research, Venice Biennale College Danza, Emory University, New York University (NYU), Purchase College, and Rutgers University.
Marissa Truitt
Katie Swords Thurman
Katie Swords Thurman
Marissa Truitt (she/her) (performer) is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Marissa graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Contemporary Dance in 2020. Since graduating from UNCSA, Marissa has choreographed and directed her first dance film “Gū’ Nū’Ku” which was later featured at the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers; received the Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; performed in Doug Varone’s DEVICES 7 Choreographers Showcase for choreographer Nicole Pierce’s “And It Lingers," Kate Digby’s “Search for Simurgh,” and performed in Sarah Campen’s “Fish Dance” dance film.
Katie Swords Thurman
Katie Swords Thurman
Katie Swords Thurman
Katie Swords Thurman (she/her) (performer and rehearsal director for [ ]) is a Philly-based dance artist whose pedagogic and choreographic work is influenced by the power, disquiet, and joy stirring within oneself. A co-founder of VIA since 2004, she has performed or collaborated with numerous choreographers, including Douglas Becker, Daniel Charon, Daniel Condamines, Helen Simoneau, Adrienne Westwood, and Jesse Zaritt. Her choreography, having been seen worldwide, has led her to expand her teaching throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and Mexico. She taught modern dance techniques at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia for 13 years, where she was an Associate Professor. While at UArts, she choreographed several original works in collaboration with her students and colleagues, and she co-directed student educational and work-exchange projects in partnership with academic and art institutions in France (Ecole Supérieure Musique et Danse and CND Pantin), Belgium (Beursschouwberg Brussels, Royal Conservatory Antwerp), and Luxembourg (Trois C-L Centre Création Chorégraphique). She received her B.F.A. degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and her M.F.A. from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival under the direction and mentorship of Donna Faye Burchfield. At the end I want to add - Katie is an Adjunct Professor at Bennington College.
Laura Witsken
Katie Swords Thurman
Laura Witsken
Laura Witsken (she/her) (performer) is a dancer based in NYC. Her current choreographic and improvisatory work explores alliance of articulation and effort. Recently, she has shared a work in process at SUPR OMEN (Faster, 2026) and her collaborative work with multidisciplinary artist Izzy Leung at the 6BC Botanical Garden (Slow Violence, 2025) and The Woods (SWAN SONG, 2025). Laura has performed in the work of Ella Dawn W-S, Gillian Walsh, Moriah Evans, Madeline Wilcox, Adrienne Westwood and Nicole Mannarino. She holds a BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA).
Sugar Vendil
Jim Briggs III
Laura Witsken
Sugar Vendil (she/they) (performer) is an award-winning Filipinx-American composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist. Vendil's work spans acoustic and electronic music, and performance integrating sound and movement. She grew up in El Sobrante, CA, and lives in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn with her partner and child. Vendil’s “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia” premiered in 2026, presented by Pioneers Go East Collective at Judson Memorial Church. Residencies include MacDowell, Mercury Store, CUNY Dance Initiative, and Topaz Arts. Her forthcoming album “Late Bloomer” for voice, piano, and electronics will be released in early 2027 on Gold Bolus Recordings. Subscribe to her e-letter here: http://sugarvendil.com/eletter.
Allison Costa
Jim Briggs III
Jim Briggs III
Allison Costa is a dancer, creative technologist, and transdisciplinary artist, whose practice embraces tenets of emergent strategy, glitch feminism, and the risk/recovery practice of improvisation. She graduated with honors from Barnard College of Columbia University with a double major in Dance and Computer Science. Allison has worked at the Barnard College Movement Lab pursuing dance/tech creative research since 2019, while also performing as a freelance artist. She is a 2023 resident artist at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. Her recent collaborations include Burnt Sugar/Danz Dance Conduction Continuum, Francesca Harper, Nona Hendryx, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Choreographic Coding Lab, SHIFT. Dance. Arts. & Media., Dishman + Co. Choreography, and eˉlektron.art. Allison began working with Adrienne in Summer 2023.
Jim Briggs III
Jim Briggs III
Jim Briggs III
Jim Briggs III (soundscape and design) is a sound designer and audio engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has composed scores for Adrienne Westwood and VIA Dance Collaborative since 2004. Film and television credits include American Experience, We Shall Remain, The Supreme Court, ALOHA New York (Tribeca Film Festival), Appassionata (Cinesonika Festival), Terry Sanford and the New South (Full Frame Festival), and The Portrait. His “Sonic Subway Map” audio installation was exhibited at the LMCC Swing Space in downtown NY through an initiative of the New School and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Jim is a broadcast engineer for WNYC, New York Public Radio, and his work has been heard on Radiolab, Soundcheck, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Selected Shorts, and WNYC’s News programming. He was a mix engineer for WNYC’s documentary special Living 9/11, and a team recipient of the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma in 2012. Jim has been teaching audio at The New School in New York since 2007, where he advises a web radio project at The New School for Public Engagement (Media Studies and Film) and Eugene Lang College (Music; and Cultural Studies and Media). His Airspace mobile radio booth project was awarded a 2010-2011 Innovations in Education Fund grant.
Nikki Calonge
Nikki Calonge
Nikki Calonge
Nikki Calonge (performer) is an educator and performer. Stage credits include performing in the Tony-award winning “Life of Pi” on Broadway, the Obie-award winning “Psychic Self Defense” at HERE Arts Center, “Lincoln in the Bardo” at the Metropolitan Opera, and “Clown Show” by Geoff Sobelle. Her work has been developed by Object Movement Puppetry Festival, the New Georges Audrey Residency, Fresh Ground Pepper, CATCH, Prelude,The Exponential Festival, and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar’s Incoming Series. Nikki teaches movement at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU Tisch. B.F.A. from NYU Tisch; M.S. from Pratt Institute in Dance/Movement Therapy. nikkicalonge.com
Seth Easter
Nikki Calonge
Nikki Calonge
Seth Easter (he/his) (production designer) is an Emmy-award-winning designer for theater, large-scale live events, and broadcast. He has been collaborating with Adrienne since 2005, and their works together include Lullaby in Surrealism, Record, s o u n d ing line and box/truck. Off-Broadway credits include The Summer Play Festival (Courting Vampires and How Love is Spelt at Theater Row Theaters) and The Boy In The Bathroom (Urban Stages) for which he received the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) Award for Best Design. He also designed Sonnet Repertory Theater's Twelfth Night (for which his "sharp set" was hailed by the New York Times), Nighttime Traffic for NYMF at Urban Stages, Harry Connick Jr.'s run at the Neil Simon Theater, and James Taylor/One Man Band for PBS. Seth is the first and only Production Designer to receive the DuPont-Columbia Award from Columbia School of Journalism. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Sasha Finley
Nikki Calonge
Quinn Czejkowski
Sasha Finley (she/her) (lighting designer) is a New York based lighting designer. Her design credits include The Bergman/Landsbury Test 2 (Life World), Mother Courage and Her Children (Brown/Trinity Rep), Blue Seal, Blue Sea (Makers Ensemble) and Cabaret (Northern Stage). She was the Lighting Design Intern at San Francisco Opera in the Fall of 2023 and was a 2021 participant in the ETC Fred Foster Mentorship. She holds a BA in English and Theatre from Smith College and an MFA in Lighting Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Follow her work at sashafinley.com.
Quinn Czejkowski
Quinn Czejkowski
Quinn Czejkowski
Quinn Czejkowski (they-them) (costume designer) is a multidisciplinarian exploring movement, costumes, and tattooing. Based in the Hudson Valley, they are intensely curious about how we move, dress, treat, adorn, and otherwise ascribe meaning and identity to and from our bodies. They are building a slow fashion brand Sequined Chaos, elevating secondhand clothing with embroidery and appliques, reviving heirloom pieces, and taking on custom builds for performances and events. Most recently, they have constructed costumes for Alvin Ailey and Life & Trust. Past collaborators include: Helen Simoneau, Pam Tanowitz, Kimberly Bartosik, Jen Rosenblit, among others.
Brandon Epperson
Quinn Czejkowski
Brandon Epperson
Brandon Epperson (he/his) (digital consultant and coding) works in design and custom software development for entertainment, fashion, and fine art industries after years of performing in classical and Broadway-related fields. He has 2 decades of experience working on media-centric events with interactive LED walls, projection, sound and broadcast camera delivery. Often in high fashion, live music tours, dance, interactive experiential, theater shows, XR/AR television, VR, and 360 workflows. He specializes in custom media servers and CMS situations, workflows across many 3D environments and programming languages, sound design, lighting design, data visualization, and UI development. Current and past clients include Childish Gambino, Martin Garrix, Boris Acket, Fred Again, ABC News, Viacom, Sony, Alicia Keys, Momentum Worldwide, McCann Worldwide, Red Bull, IMG, Mercedes, Ferrari, Acura, Honda, Tiffany and Co, Verizon, Villa Eugenie.
Nick Yulman
Quinn Czejkowski
Brandon Epperson
Nick Yulman works with sound and technology in a variety of ways including musical robots and interactive installations. He has presented his own work at venues around the world and has collaborated extensively with composers, choreographers, animators, designers, and other artists. He studied and taught creative technology at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is currently Head of Design & Technology at Kickstarter and previously worked with the national oral history project StoryCorps.
Alex Ring Gray
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Alex Ring Gray (he/him) (audio programmer) is a composer, performer, and producer working in classical, electronic, and improvised musics. He serves as Music Production Manager for Philip Glass, co-founder of cmntx records, and Technical Director of InfraSound Ensemble. He has also worked in varying capacities for composers Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, and Alex Weston, among others. Recent projects include "Be the Sky" with Philip Glass and Tenzin Choegyal, several short film scores, and solo LP "The Organ That Breathes." He holds degrees from New York University and the University of Tennessee.
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Drew Sensue-Weinstein (he/him) (sound designer) is a sound and stage artist whose artistic background includes contemporary theatre, performance art, ambient music, death metal, and more. Drew’s recent work crisscrosses Field Recording with environmental research, guitarscapes, live hydrophone, and ambient screaming to explore the connections between Earth’s decaying ecosystems and the decline in our collective mental health. Drew has recently designed projects with BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, LEIMAY, The Goat Farm, Harvard University, Pacific Opera Projects, RIP Space, National Sawdust, and REDCAT. Drew holds an MFA from CalArts in composition. He currently lives in Los Angeles but is often bi-coastal.
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Photos by Maria Baranova, Rachael Shane, Ian Douglas, Abi Kutz, Rachel Keane, Toby Tanenbaum, Kathryn Logan, Natalia Roberts, Myssi Robinson and Whitney Browne.
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Adrienne Westwood Projects is a project of VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation, a 501(c)(3) public charity recognized by the IRS as VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation. We are also registered with the New York State Charities Registration Bureau. Our Federal EIN is 20-2838552 and our NYS Charities Registration Number is 21-21-53.
FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING. ONE WEEKEND ONLY.
[ ] by Adrienne Westwood and Angélica Negón
premieres
October 23-25, 2026
Doxsee Theater at Target Margin, Sunset Park, Brooklyn