ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dominica Greene — Choreographer and Performer
Dominica Greene is a bi-racial Black woman who cherishes and channels her Caribbean heritage and Queerness into an art-based existence. A movement-based conceptual artist, she is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an Honorable Mention in modern dance from YoungArts and a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA.) Over the course of her eclectic professional career, she has collaborated and performed domestically and internationally with many notable dance-makers, namely Welcome to Campfire, Kayla Farrish, Burr Johnson, Sarah Michelson, UNA Productions, TRIBE Multidisciplinary Arts Collective, and Christopher Williams. She was a full-time company member with the internationally renowned Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company for two seasons, originating roles and performing in works by Charles O. Anderson, Ann Carlson, Daniel Charon, Molly Heller, Andrea Miller, and Yin Yue. Her current collaborators include Malcolm X Betts, Jasmine Hearn, Amanda Krische, Ashley Pierre-Louis, and Wesley Simpson.

As a maker, Dominica’s work has been presented in Utah and New York, and reached hundreds of people locally and internationally through several live-streamed performances during the pandemic. Her large-scale installation and group works have been commissioned by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and SALT Contemporary Dance. Her solo and interactive work has been shown at Arts on Site, Trans-Pecos, Grand Central Terminal, Gloria Strelsin Community Garden, the Center for Performance Research (CPR,) ISSUE Project Room, and Judson Church. In the next few months, she will be presented by Ki Smith Gallery, CPR, and UNCSA, where she will create a new work on the senior dancers. Greene is currently a Research Resident at Triskelion Arts and a GALLIM Moving Artist Resident.
@draminica | dominicagreene.com

Tushrik Fredericks — Dramaturg
Tushrik Fredericks, recipient of Princess Grace Award (Chris Helman dance honor), nominated by TRIBE (Founding artistic director, Shamel Pitts) in 2021 is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up he found himself drawn towards the style ‘KRUMP‘. He graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC in June 2015 and has had the opportunity to work with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director), Sidra Bell Dance New York (Sidra Bell, Artistic director) and UNA Productions (Chuck Wilt). Fredericks was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students (2016-2018). In May 2021 Fredericks received 3rd prize for dance at the SoloTanz Festival in Stuttgart for his first rendition of his self choreographed solo '(territory) of the heart' and in May 2023 he showcased the completed rendition of the solo at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, NY.
www.tushrikfredericks.com | @bytushrikfredericks

Myssi Robinson — Courtyard Designer / Creative Archivist
Myssi Robinson (she / her) is a multi-disciplinary maker, bessie award-winning performer, and caregiver from Powhatan lands / Richmond, VA.  She has interpreted many dances and is thankful to be in her second year on the care team of a special person who is navigating dementia.  Her art practice currently involves creative archiving and mixed-media marking beside experiments in listening, ritual, and spatial design.  Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to what comes. Myssi’s choices as an artist are directed by her vessel and spirit’s navigations of chronic illness and mood disorder management. Gratitude to Carolyn Johnson and Darrin Robinson for her life and abilities to create freely within it . . . to care deeply from it.
@myssirobinson 

Malcolm-x Betts – Costume Designer
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants. Performed in works by luciana achuga, Jonathan Gonzalez, Snoogybox, Nile Harris and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.
malcolmxbetts.com | @malcolmxbetts

Kate Williams – Costume Designer
Kate Williams is a multi-media artist. Her work centers around movement improvisation and choreography as well as designing clothing. She started her process of “dance” in college, where she began her focus into narrative dialogues based on personal experiences. Through movement she has been making it a part of her practice to learn how to further express and delve into these experiences, because it is a never-ending process. She is a self-taught sewer, making her own clothing since high school. This is a craft she continues to grow and learn more about.

Kate’s work is to merge her two practices at the center of expression—using clothing and wardrobe she creates as a sculptural element of her movement work. In addition to making her own costumes-in the past few years she has opened up her sewing practice and does commissioned seamstressing work-it ranges from tailoring projects to working with amazing artists and friends to help make their costume and clothing visions come to life.

She has performed in various places around New York City, and a couple shows abroad. Currently, she is part of the management team, as well as a member, of Otion Front Studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She attended Bard College (May 2020) where she was a joint major of Dance and Human Rights with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
@temp.girl.1.2.3 & @kflw.inc

Connor Sale — Lighting Designer
Connor is a New York based lighting designer. Recent projects include Small: 2Big, the end of theory (Triskelion Arts), The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Helen (La Mama), Julia Antinozzi’s double bill (Pageant), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). Additionally, he tours with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells is producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.