ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kimiko Tanabe, Dancer
Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a fourth-generation Japanese American artist. She explores the mediums of performance art, dance, writing, origami and paper, and is in a committed partnership with her .38 Muji pen. She is forever fascinated with Japanese folklore and as a lover of literature she finds herself making important life decisions under the eyes and influence of fiction. Her work combines her background in contemporary dance with her literary tendencies to create surreal performance art that is both joyful and haunting, and that gives platform and power to the Asian-American emotional experience. For Kimiko, art is intimate and inexact.
Kimiko is a BAX Space Grant Recipient (2022), Gallim Moving Artist Resident (2022), Artist in Resident at The Floor (2021), and Fresh Ground Pepper Play Ground Play Group Residency Cohort Member (2021). She currently performs with and glenn potter-takata and has performed with marion spencer, Catherine Galasso Projects, Kizuna Dance, Seymour::Dance Collective, Lisa Fagan and Hannah Mitchell, and Morgaine DeLeonardis.
@kimiko_tanabe

Corinne Lohner, Dancer
Corinne Lohner (she/her) is a performing artist from Dallas, Texas. Currently, she freelances in NYC with companies like Yin Yue Dance Company, Douglas Dunn Dance, c/s movement projects, and more. Notable past credits include Boston Dance Theater, BAIRA Dance Theater, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company where she performed works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Raja Feather Kelly, and Andrea Miller amongst others. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has presented her own work in Salt Lake City, Berlin, and New York.
@rinnylohner

Nathan Repasz, Drummer
Nathan Repasz is a New York-based drummer, vocalist, improviser, theatre artist, music director, and composer. His solo language+percussion performance explores the liminality of sense/nonsense and groove/noise – his piece “National Hot Dog Day” is featured in the 2023 Emergency Index and he recently performed his two-person show with Hannah Mitchell - Family Acid Trip - at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He has performed in Iceland, Poland, Germany, Czechia, and the U.K., and at Carnegie Hall, The Kitchen, SXSW, and NPR’s Mountain Stage. He works as a choral singer, session/pit musician, and goat-cheesemonger in the NYC area. He is a member of the interdisciplinary theatre collective CHILD, which will be in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center in fall 2023.
@the1truegoiter

Matt Morris, Lighting Designer
Matt Morris is a New York City based lighting designer with varied lighting design experience across theater and dance, music, comedy, and other live events. He particularly enjoys working on new work with emerging artists and has an affinity for dance and movement.
Through his work at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn he has collaborated on new pieces with several artists and companies, including the SHA Creative Outlet, 2nd Best Dance Company, and the Jamal Jackson Dance Company. His recent work includes designing for MoveNYC's Sweat Lab ar Chelsea Factory and for shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh.
@matehyo

Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江, Musician
Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born, New Jersey-based performer, experimental vocalist, composer, and certified foodie. As an improvising performer, Lu utilizes custom-built feedback-driven electronic instruments, voice, and amplified muscle movements to perform in various settings. Other than performing, Lu also writes for acoustic and electronic improvisers. Through using sound-canceling headphones and in-ear monitors, Lu creates surreal listening environments for improvisers to explore human relationships, audio-visual interactivity, and the phenomenology of sound. Lu’s works have been performed at Festivals, Conferences, and Venues such as DiMenna Center, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, HighZero Festival, Jazz Showcase, Elastic Arts, NIME conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Oberlin MMG, Spencer Museum of Art, Rhizome DC, and NowNet Arts conference. Lu currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
@levi.lu1

Olivia Palacios, Rehearsal Assistant
Olivia Palacios is a NYC-based, Latina choreographer—designer, working in dance, theatre and film. Choreography credits include Princeton University, Columbia University, General Mischief Dance, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, OMG Art Faire, New Ohio Theater, Theatre for the New City, The Tank, Spoke the Hub and The Craft. She has also worked with Big Dance Theater, The Public Theater, The Chase Brock Experience, and New Dance Alliance.
OliviaPalacios.com / @ChoreoByLiv_Pal