Katie Dean (performer) is a performer and designer originally from Virginia. She has performed in New York with visual artists and choreographers including Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Xavier Cha, Jessica Cook, Ayano Elson, Jennifer Harge, Megan Harrold/Inimois Dance, Ivy Baldwin Dance, Julie Mayo, Melanie McLain, Phoebe Osborne, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, Nadia Tykulsker, Hannah Walsh, and Rebekah Windmiller, and in collaborative work with Heather Bregman, Jake Dibeler, and Alaina Stamatis. She has performed at spaces including BAM, MOMA PS1, the Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum, the Jam Handy (Detroit), and the Queens Museum. In addition to her work with Ivy Baldwin Dance, she is currently in projects with Kim Brandt, Ayano Elson, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, and Nadia Tykulsker. More at katiedean.net.
Kayvon Pourazar (performer) is of Persian origin, and spent his formative years in Iran, Turkey and England. Kayvon immigrated to the US in 1995, graduated with a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase in May 2000 and has resided in New York City ever since. He has performed in the works of Heather Kravas, Juliana May, Juliette Mapp, Yasuko Yokoshi, Levi Gonzalez, Donna Uchizono, Gwen Welliver, Beth Gill, RoseAnne Spradlin, K.J. Holmes, John Jasperse, Doug Varone, Wil Swanson, Gabriel Masson, Jennifer Monson, Jodi Melnick and in The Metropolitan Opera productions of Les Troyens and Le Sacre du Printemps. Kayvon’s ventures as a dancemaker have been shown in New York City at Danspace Project (Food for Thought), The Kitchen (Dance & Process), P.S. 122 (Hothouse), The Cunningham Studios, Roulette (DanceRoulette), Center for Performance Research, Catch, AUNTS, Dixon Place as well as the Universities of Nebraska, Vermont and Sacramento State. In 2010 he received a New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award for Performance. He has served as Adjunct Faculty at Bennington College and The New School. He teaches regularly for Movement Research and has taught as guest artist for Tsekh Russia (Moscow) and Workshop Foundation (Budapest).
Eleanor Smith (performer) is a freelance dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She has performed with Ivy Baldwin Dance since 2009. Eleanor also dances for Katie Workum and Molly Poerstel. She has performed in works by Vanessa Anspaugh, Anna Azrieli, Kim Brandt, Levi Gonzalez, Juliana F. May, and robbinschilds. Eleanor has enjoyed curatorial experience through serving on the 2011 Fresh Tracks Selection Committee and as a member of the team for the Movement Research Festival Spring 2016. Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been making experimental dances in New York since 2006. Recent works include: Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts, 2019), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center for COIL 2017), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for COIL 2015), Tulip (Roulette, 2013; Judson Now at Danspace Project, 2012), and Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2012). Residencies and awards: 2019/2014 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Residency Program, 2018 Artists at The Yard, 2018 DiP Residency Artists at Gibney, Featured as one of Alastair Macauley’s “Best Dance of 2017” in The New York Times for Basketball, 2016 LMCC Process Space Residency, 2015 Rosas Summer Studios Recipient, PS122’s 2014 RAMP Artist, 2013 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Nomination for Emerging Choreographer, and the 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award. Guest Artists and Co-Teachers at Connecticut College in 2015, Sarah Lawrence College in 2018, and The New School in 2019.
Saúl Ulerio (performer) is a Dominican-American choreographer, musician and performer. Ulerio has been seen in the works of Heather Kravas, RoseAnne Spradlin, Rebecca Lazier, Kota Yamazaki amongst other, and currently performs in the works of Antonio Ramos, Daria Faïn, Ivy Baldwin. Ulerio was a 2011-2012 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist and a 2012-2014 Movement Research Artist in Residence.
Katie Workum (performer) is a performer and maker living in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with Ivy for 12 years. Her choreographic work takes form as a shifting and temporary monument to community, self and the present. She melds improvisational performance and practice together as an alternate, feminist model of working and presenting work. Currently she is an artist and residence at Center for Performance Research, NYC and Marble House Project, VT for the development of her new work Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, Jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena. She has been presented by Gibney Dance,The Wassaic Project, MASS MoCA with Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, The Chocolate Factory, PS122’s Catch/Coil, Gibney In the Works/American Realness, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance New Amsterdam, 92nd St Y, Symphony Space, Galapagos Art Space, GAle GAtes, et. al., WAX and others. She has been an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA (2015), Chez Bushwick (2014), Dance New Amsterdam (2008, 2009), Mount Tremper Arts (2010, 2014), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2006), and The Kitchen (2005). She holds a Masters in Dance Education at NYU Steinhardt and has taught at BkSD, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Gibney, DNA, Barnard College, NYU Experimental Theater Wing, and Lehman College.
Chloë Z Brown (lighting design) is thrilled to be the new production manager for The Lewis Center for the Arts, Programs in Dance and Theater at Princeton University. She was the Director of Production at New York Live Arts and Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) from 2002 to 2013. As a lighting designer, she collaborates with Ivy Baldwin, Laurie Berg, Andrew Dinwiddie, Jeanine Durning, Juliana May, Sarah Maxfield, David Neumann, Heather Olson, Brian Rogers, Vicky Shick, Chris Yon and many more. In 2005, she was honored with a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for her lighting of Amanda Loulaki’s La la la la, Resistance (The Island of Breezes) at DTW.
Justin Jones (composer) is a Minneapolis-based composer, educator, choreographer and performer. Jones is a 2021 New Music USA Creator Development Fund awardee and the recipient of a 2021 McKnight Foundation Next Step Fund grant. Jones has collaborated with choreographer Ivy Baldwin since 2007 on scores for 10 evening-length works and numerous scores for students and repertory companies. He also currently composes for Body Cartography Project, Chris Schlichting, and Chris Yon. He is the recipient of the 2007 McKnight Fellowship for Choreography and was awarded a 2003 NYFA Fellowship for Performance Art/Multidisciplinary work for his work with Chris Yon. His choreography has been presented in Minneapolis at Bryant Lake Bowl, Red Eye, The Southern Theater and the Walker Art Center; in New York at The Thalia, LaMaMa, Sarah Lawrence, and EMPAC. He has danced in choreography by Body Cartography Project, Chris Schlichting, Dylan Skybrook, Morgan Thorson, Karen Sherman, Chris Yon, and was a member of Tere O’Connor Dance Co. from 2001-2004. (http://www.mnartists.org/jonesjustinmaccom)
Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen (set design) have collaborated since 2005. They have collaborated on more than a dozen works using paper as their primary medium. The works range from large sculptural objects to warehouse-sized immersive environments that suggest layers of earth, old growth forests, or the flow of a glacier. www.stripedcanary.com
Mindy Nelson (costume design) is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied dance and business/economics. In New York, she has designed costumes for a variety of local theater and children’s productions as well as dance works by Ivy Baldwin, Melissa Briggs, Netta Yerushalmy, Mimi Garrard,Shannon Hummel, Nicholas Leichter, and Katie Workum, among others. After years of dancing, teaching, and costuming on the East Coast, Nelson moved back to her home state of California in 2012 where she lives in Santa Barbara with her family. She continues to design costumes for dance locally and in New York City while operating her sewing/design business. www.sprucedbymindy.com.
Nadia Tykulsker (project manager)is a native Brooklynite, a mover/maker/administrator/organizer. Her work is centered by an anti-racist value system and arts advocacy. She is currently administrative partner and project manager to Jonathan Gonzalez, Marjani Forte, Fana Fraser and Ivy Baldwin as well as the managing director for Harge Dance Stories. She is part of the Financial Operations Team at ArtsPool Services, Inc. She has worked administratively with a variety of artists and arts organizations, including Lionel Popkin, Faye Driscoll, Donna Uchizono, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Cora Dance. She also makes dance, collaborating currently on a work with Katie Dean, Kim Savarino, Tara Sheena, and EmmaGrace Skove-Epes and has performed in works of Londs Reuter, Stevie May, Maya Ciarrocchi, Phoebe Berglund, Alexandra Pinel, and Kim Brandt. She is deeply committed to collaboration and the examination of social constructs, using creation as a forum to build stronger communities. She is thoroughly enamored with the work of Ivy Baldwin and her incredible collaborators.
