Kirstie Simpson

Recorded October 5, 2023 @ Earthdance https://www.earthdance.net/

December 11, 2022 Bill Young Studio 100 Grand St. New York, NY 10013 

Emma Bigé, practices, teaches and improvises dance and philosophy. They live nomadically between Paris, Aix-en-Provence and some destinations that can be reached by train. They fell in love with experimental dance practices in Europe and the United States, influenced by Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, Matthieu Gaudeau and many others. Their obsession, at the moment: to find, in dance and elsewhere, the somatopolitical resources to mobilize our sensibilities to other and more-than-human creatures.Music credits by Stephen Katz StephenKatzMusic.com

Keith Hennessy was born in a mining town in Northern Ontario, Canada, lives in San Francisco, and tours internationally. He is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, a laboratory for live performance that plays with genre and expectation. Rooted in dance, Hennessy’s work embodies a unique hybrid of performance art, music, visual and conceptual art, circus, and ritual.Instigated by Keith Hennessy in 2001, Circo Zero makes live performances responding to political crises, while centering queer bodies and ideas.Deeply rooted in dance, LGBTQ, and activist communities, Circo Zero participates in local and global justice movements, functioning as an artistic laboratory of civic engagement. Instigated by a white queer artist engaged in social justice movements for over 30 years, Circo Zero creates performances that offer a meeting ground for investigations of identity, history, and power. Music credits by Stephen Katz StephenKatzMusic.com

Margaret Paek is part of the Lawrence University faculty, teaching dance in the Conservatory of Music. As a collaborative dance artist, her research engages in inclusionary methods and ensemble enterprises, and she is keenly invested in dance as an integrative life practice. She moves under the premise that we are all dancers, we just may not know it yet.Music credits by Stephen Katz StephenKatzMusic.com

A dancer, scholar, and a 2019-2020 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim fellow, Ann Cooper Albright is professor and chair of the Department of Dance. Originally an undergraduate philosophy major at Bryn Mawr College, she received an MFA in dance at Temple University, and a PhD in performance studies at New York University.Combining her interests in dancing and cultural theory, including phenomenology, gender, sexuality and feminist studies, Albright teaches a variety of courses that seek to engage students in both practices and theories of the body.Music credits by Stephen Katz StephenKatzMusic.com

Keith Hennessy was born in a mining town in Northern Ontario, Canada, lives in San Francisco, and tours internationally. He is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, a laboratory for live performance that plays with genre and expectation. Rooted in dance, Hennessy’s work embodies a unique hybrid of performance art, music, visual and conceptual art, circus, and ritual.Instigated by Keith Hennessy in 2001, Circo Zero makes live performances responding to political crises, while centering queer bodies and ideas.Deeply rooted in dance, LGBTQ, and activist communities, Circo Zero participates in local and global justice movements, functioning as an artistic laboratory of civic engagement. Instigated by a white queer artist engaged in social justice movements for over 30 years, Circo Zero creates performances that offer a meeting ground for investigations of identity, history, and power. Music credits by Stephen Katz StephenKatzMusic.com