ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MIZUHO KAPPA
Mizuho Kappa is a choreographer and performing artist originally from Osaka, Japan, with a degree in Entomology.

Kappa is currently a Resident Artist at La MaMa, and at The Cell Theater ’27-’28.

As a performer, she has recently performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NY, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Zvi Dance, and Ballet Collective, among others.

Her interdisciplinary choreographic works have been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Gene Frankel Theater, TheaterLab, CPR, The Brick, Ars Nova, NOoSPHERE ARTS and more. She frequently collaborates with cross-disciplinary artists, including a neuroscience researcher, a transmedia playwright, a hybrid writer, and a puppet designer. These collaborative works have been showcased at the New Museum, New York Hall of Science, Open Source Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, City University of Hong Kong, House of Yes, the Chocolate Factory, and beyond.
Kappa is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company ’25 Season and a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency ’25, Mark Morris SharedSpace Residency ’26. 

Her choreographic voice is recognized for conveying narrative through raw expression, unexpected physicality, and striking surrealistic tableaux, described as “evoking and unhinged” by Brooklyn Magazine and “potent” by The New York Times.

ANDREA FARLEY SHIMOTA
Originally from Minnesota, Andrea Farley Shimota’s dance journey began at Summit Dance Shoppe and Hopkins Dance Studio. She graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Purchase, earning a BFA in Dance and a BA in Sociology. After graduation, Andrea quickly joined the cast of PunchDrunk's "Sleep No More" in New York City. Concurrently, her freelance career has been highlighted by performances at New York Fashion Week for Shannon Gillen, an immersive event at the Plaza Hotel for their anniversary celebration, as the primary dancer in a music video for Latin Emmy award winner Silvana Estrada, and for Alexandra Waierstall at Dia: Beacon. Her collaborative work extends to projects with artists such as Marla Phelan, Kevin Pajarillaga/CJ Johnson, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and Hannah Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company. Currently, Andrea is engaged in rehearsals with Assaf Salhov as well as with Jody Oberfelder Projects.
https://www.afarleyshimota.com

DYLAN RICHMOND
Dylan Richmond is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, dancer, scholar, and poet from the Connecticut shoreline. Dylan has presented work at TOTAH, WestFest, NYU, The Tank, Bowdoin College; and lectured at Yale University, UCLA, and Connecticut College. As a poet, Dylan is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is notably published in A Gathering of the Tribes, From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast, Sibling Rivalry Press, Lily Poetry Review, and No, Dear. He also shares with his twin the 2020 “Excellence in Journalism Award” from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalism. Dylan is the Company Manager and Live Gallery Producer for New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Dance and English where he received the President’s Award. | @dylanrichmnd @choreopoet

ETHAN RICHMOND
ethan richmond is a poet, dancer, and dramaturg from the Connecticut shoreline. they were the recipient of the Celebrate! Maya Angelou Poetry Fellowship and their poetry is published in A Gathering of the Tribes, Sibling Rivalry, Dykes and Dolls, and singer-songwriter Kevin Atwater’s “Achilles” Literary Collection. ethan has danced and/or read poetry at The Center, NYU Tisch, TOTAH, Triskelion Arts, Martha Graham Theater, DADA, The Tank, Williams College, Bennington College, and the Grand Ole Opry. they graduated cum laude as the Class Poet from Williams College, earning highest honors in English and awarded the Ernest Brown Africana Arts Prize for unusual brilliance, imagination, and industry in the arts. ethan currently works in Development at AILEY.
@ethnrichmond

Madre Guía is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist weaving together queer Afro-Caribbean diasporic experiences through DJing, electronic music production, and improvisational performance. She experiments with electronic music to explore polyrhythmic potentialities for deepened ancestral connection. She is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS and holds an MFA in Dance Performance.
@madre_guia

Amira Oguntoyinbo is a lens-based artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice explores the ways images shape personal and collective understandings of identity, memory, and place. Her work considers the social lives of images, particularly the ways photographs are made, circulated, and reinterpreted through contemporary technologies. Amira holds a BA in French and Digital and Computational Studies with a minor in Visual Arts from Bowdoin College, where she developed an interdisciplinary practice connecting photography, technology, and visual culture. She is currently a Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA Fellow in Public Programs.
@am.ra

Connor Sale is a New York-based Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include I Believed it Too (Baryshnikov Arts Center), Time Piece (Pageant), The Missing Fruit, Part 1 (New York City Center/Fall For Dance), Das Ersatz; I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty; Meaghan Robichaud is the Greatest Show On Earth (The Brick), MEOW! (Exponential Festival), Femenine (PS21), the underscore; Star Spangled Manor; Dog God//Germ Angels; The Closties Variety Hour; Farewell My Fool; til infiniti; The Suite; ENUF (Triskelion Arts). He’s toured internationally with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells/École des Sables), Akram Khan’s Gigenis, Faye Driscoll’s Weathering, and Teac Damsa’s MÁM. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.