N I L E B A K E R
Nile Baker is a native of California and, as well as being a professional dancer, has been designing and making clothes since 2014.
Nile is a self taught designer and clothing maker. His interest in clothing design and manufacture started when he had to create a dance costume for his senior year BFA concert. Nile takes an artisanal and slow approach to creating, using hand sewing techniques, dyeing by hand, and working primarily with natural fibers. Nile enjoys fusing old world craft with unique and unusual, modern and avant-garde design details.
Nile has worked in the ateliers of Zam Barrett, an avant-garde designer based in Brooklyn, and Robert Danes, a women’s evening wear designer based in New York City. Nile has designed costumes for Indelible Dance, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and other New York dance artists.
AMY SHOSHANA BLUMBERG
Amy Shoshana Blumberg is an anti-Zionist Jewish theater director, dramaturg, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She co-founded and co-leads movement-theater company the after-image with whom she was a 2025 SU-CASA Artist through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a Spring 2024 Artist-in Residence at The Movement Lab at Barnard College. Recent credits include associate director for Sydnie L. Mosley Dances’ PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells (Lincoln Center and Dance Place) and What Does PURPLE Sound Like (Center for the Performing Arts at PSU) and dramaturg for SAXYN Dance Works and Ani Javian & Benjamin Roach, among others. Amy is currently co-creating SEDER, an original physical-theater production, alongside collaborator Eliana Fabiyi. MFA in Theater Directing (Temple University). https://www.amyshoshanablumberg.com/
Photo by Eliana Fabiyi
K Y L E G E R R Y
Kyle Gerry currently dances for Lucinda Childs and has also danced in many projects for Christopher Williams, Jessica Gaynor, and the Merce Cunningham Trust, in which he has performed several of Merce’s solo roles. He created a choreographic response to an architectural rendering as part of Lu Valena’s interdisciplinary Bait/Switch series and, in collaboration with composer Drake Andersen, an original evening-length opera based on Roland Barthe’s Mythologies. His theater credits include playing Mr. Ramsay in Stephanie Lane’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and a fox in Becky Chaleff's Fox Mirror Forest. His long term project, Orlando, has had workshop showings in Seattle, Detroit, and Toronto; an excerpted showing at the Poetry Project in New York; and a workshop showing in Paris in collaboration with students at Ecole 42. Kyle is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University.
D O M I N I C A
G R E E N E
Dominica Greene is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator based in Brooklyn, New York. She values dance as one of the purest forms of expression, utilizing it as an energetic entity capable of affecting real and palpable change. Her company and freelance experience is extensive, having collaborated with, performed, and toured the work of many notable choreographers domestically and internationally. As a mixed-race, Caribbean-American queer woman, she is committed to dreaming up and worldbuilding alternate realities and more expansive futures with her BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community. @draminica, dominicagreene.com
K B JONES
KB Jones is an artist living, working, and teaching in New York City. Her paintings were included in Plein Air, an exhibition at MOCA Tucson and The Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles. Recent solo shows include The Land and the Fog, at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City and Green Lights, in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2020, Jones was awarded a residency at The Chinati Foundation. She has a BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MFA in Painting from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
STEPHANIE JEAN LANE
Stephanie Jean Lane is an actor, dancer, director, and teacher based in New York City. She was a company member of Sleep No More from 2018-2022, and has performed at Lincoln Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Guthrie Theater, Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage Company, Elm Shakespeare, in Edinburgh and Shanghai, and on TV and film. She danced for Ani Javian, Rocha Dance Theater, and The Painted Ladies. She teaches movement, voice, and acting at New York Film Academy, coaches privately, and makes original work for stage and film. Stephanie is honored to be working on Orlando, and has previously worked in dance dramaturgy alongside Amy Shoshana Blumberg, for choreographer/performers Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. www.stephaniejeanlane.com
JUSTIN LYNCH
Justin Lynch is from Kingston, Jamaica. He has worked with the Merce Cunningham Trust, Molissa Fenley, the Metropolitan Opera, Elisa Monte, Christopher Williams, Megan Williams, and others. Since 2015 he has collaborated regularly with Third Rail Projects, performing in and co-creating several of its productions. Justin studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London and Boston University, graduating with a degree in music before earning a law degree at Columbia University. When not dancing, he is an immigration and business attorney for creative people, and a collaborative pianist at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.