Elinor Kleber Diggs

Elinor Kleber Diggs is developing a new work titled DUELLEG. The piece is a movement-based triptych for three dancers that considers how moments of tension and overwhelm mirror the emotional and physical dissonance in our everyday lives. Based in Harlem, New York, Kleber Diggs is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance with a Concen-tration in Composition from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College and have shown their work at the Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater Lab in White Plains, NY, the QUEER NOISE New York City Annual Festival, and at the 2025 Association of Performing Arts Professionals event hosted by Pepátian.

inkBoat

Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, a choreographic project combining traditional practices of Daoist Internal Arts with inkBoat’s performance-devising practices (rooted in the Japanese avant-garde), delves into the nature and quality of a body nearing the end of its run, speculations on the afterlife and the tenderness of recognizing fellow travelers. 

Shinichi Iova-Koga directs this work in collaboration with Jubilith Moore, Dana Iova-Koga, Dan Cantrell, Ellen Sebastian Chang, the inkBoat company and Hudson Valley residents, playfully touching on the nature of being and non-being.

ATE9

Similar to a multidisciplinary installation, SOON AFTER US is a narrative and sensory dance experience, rooted in the sphere of science fiction and exploring the roots of our social constructs. Set in a distant, unfamiliar world shaped by fragmented memories of Earth and past civilizations, the five characters embark on a journey through movement. They explore new relationships, and confront the echoes of ancient traditions and inherent human connections. A speculative, evolving reality is shaped by composer Yuka Honda, set designer Amir Raveh, and real-time paintings by Akiko Nakayama. The constantly changing environment includes removable set elements, projections, and immersive sound installations that create a fluid, multidisciplinary space.

Kyle Marshall

Kyle Marshall of Kyle Marshall Choreography is developing the Julius Eastman Trilogy, a trio of dances embodying the visionary music, full life and legacy of singular composer Julius Eastman (1940–1990). For the residency showing, an excerpt of one of the dances, Femenine, is set to a recording of Eastman’s minimalist composition “Femenine” (1974). With woodwinds, marimba, voice, vibraphone, piano, bass, and an ocean of bells, the pulsating, emotional journey of the score is a counterpoint to Eastman’s sometimes dark life. The dance seeks to celebrate the joys of queerness without ignoring the injustices and societal frustrations we face.

John Kelly

John Kelly is a performance and visual artist. His character-driven dance theatre works stem from autobiographical, cultural, and political issues, the challenges faced by social outsiders, and the nature of creative genius. These works have been performed at MET Live Arts, The Kitchen, La MaMa, Lincoln Center, the Warhol Museum, the Whitney Biennial, NY Live Arts, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, REDCAT, and London’s Tate Modern.

Celia Rowlson-Hall

Celia Rowlson-Hall is a multidisciplinary artist who blends narrative storytelling, modern dance, and film—creating a genre all her own. Her most recent work, the film installation First Snow, was selected by Times Square Arts for their December 2022 Midnight Moment, the largest digital art installation in the world. Every night of December, First Snow took over 90 plus screens in Times Square, immersing the audience, through movement and dance, in a magical snowstorm. Baryshnikov Arts has since commissioned Celia to create a new evening-length dance piece to be presented during their 2023–24 season.