collaborators

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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 is an interdisciplinary artist working in dance, music, video, sound design, and multimedia performance. She has shared work internationally in Scotland, Cyprus, Sweden, France, and Brazil, as well as at U.S. venues like Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, Movement Research, and the Wexner Film/Video Theater. Her iterative screendance work The Maya Project explores power and the camera through a somatic lens. As a video dramaturg, she collaborates with choreographers on multimedia performances, experimental dance films, and documentation. Logan holds Dance degrees from UNCSA and Ohio State and serves as the Executive Director of the Office of Creative Propulsion at James Madison University.

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 (she/they) is a queer, mixed race asian american, disabled, and immigrant person. Their work as an artist, administrator, and advocate focuses on arts infrastructure, asian american identity, and disability justice. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the National Center for Choreography – Akron, SPACE 124 @ Project Artaud, Center, LEIMAY/CAVE, EMERGENYC, and The Croft. Their writing has been published by Triskelion Arts, In Dance, The Dancer-Citizen, Etudes, Critical Correspondence, and Dance Research Journal. They are currently a co-director at Bridge Live Arts. 

Solana Yemaya Hoffmann-Carter (she/her) 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, 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 restaged works for TBDC at Movement Research, Venice Biennale College Danza, Emory University, New York University (NYU), and Purchase College. She has also restaged works by Netta Yerushalmy at NYU, Rutgers University, and the University of the Arts. Currently, she is the Marketing Manager at Trisha Brown Dance Company and a Digital Scenic Designer at ABC News. 

Marissa Truitt 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 is a Philly-based dance artist whose pedagogic and choreographic work is influenced by the power, disquiet, and joy stirring within oneself. She has performed or collaborated with numerous choreographers, including Douglas Becker, Daniel Charon, Daniel Condamines, Helen Simoneau, Adrienne Westwood, and Jesse Zaritt. She was a performer with and co-founder of VIA Dance Collaborative. 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. 

Laura Witsken is a New York-based dancer and improviser. She collaborates with sculpture and multi-media artist Izzy Leung. As a performer, she has worked with choreographers Nicole Mannarino, Gillian Walsh, Adrienne Westwood, and Madeline Wilcox. She has recently worked in production assistance for Stacy Grossfield, Gwendolyn Knapp, and Anna Thérèse Witenberg. Laura is a 2019 alumna of The University of the Arts where she received a BFA in dance and minor in business.

Sugar Vendil (she/they) 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. A serious notebook fiend, she grew up in El Sobrante, CA, and lives in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn with her partner and child. Vendil’s “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia” premieres in 2026. She is working on her solo album for piano and voice and is an artist in residence at TOPAZ and CUNY Dance Initiative at York College/JCAL. Her album “May We Know Our Own Strength” is on Gold Bolus Recordings. Subscribe to her e-letter here: http://sugarvendil.com/eletter.

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 (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.

Brandon Epperson 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 works on media centric events with interactive LED wall, projection, sound and broadcast camera delivery, high fashion, live music tours, dance, interactive experiential, theater shows, interior installation, XR/AR television, VR and 360 workflows. He has 18 years of experience with different techniques of projection mapping and camera tracking for real-time effects. 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 ABC News, Viacom, Sony, Alicia Keys, Momentum Worldwide, McCann Worldwide, Red Bull, IMG, Mercedes, Ferrari, Acura, Honda, Tiffany and Co, JP Connelly Productions, Verizon, Villa Eugenie.

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.

Julia Kelly a Virginia native, hails from Brooklyn via Barnard College of Columbia University. For foundational training, Julia thanks the artists and master teachers of Tanztheater Wuppertal and the Limón Dance Company; with Limón she has performed abroad and at Lincoln Center. Since 2013, Julia has devised and performed site-specific and experiential performance with Third Rail Projects, including the Bessie award-winning Then She Fell (Alice, Hatter, Red Queen; Rehearsal Director, 2016-present); Ghost Light (Lincoln Center/LCT3, 2017); Behind the City (Town Stages, 2018); Oasis (Brookfield Place, 2019); and Midsummer: A Banquet (opening 2019). Julia has loved recent collaborations with Kathryn Alter, Xan Burley & Alex Springer/The Median Movement, Tami Stronach, and is happy to return to the fold with Adrienne and this fascinating team.

Jung-eun Kim (aka j.e.) is a dancer, choreographer and media designer. She holds a MFA in Dance from ADF/Hollins University and MALS in Visual and Performing Arts from Hollins University.  Je has been a guest artist at Dickinson College, Hollins University, The Modern Dance Promotion of Korea, and The University of the Arts.  She has worked with artists such as Amanda K. Miller, Sarah Skaggs, Helen Simoneau Danse, Adrienne Westwood, Jen McGinn, Emily Wexler and Jane

Comfort & Co. Venues where her works have been shown include: Race and New Media Conference at SUPERFRONT, Pop up Performances at One Arm Red, Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York); Current Gallery (Baltimore); paraphrase/NEXUS at CRANE ARTS, Current at Mascher Space Cooperative, Studio 34 and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia); Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke); Grimsby Minster(UK). Je hails from Seoul, South Korea. www.jekim.org