MARIAH ANTON-ARTERS (Performer) (she/her) is a New York based artist who graduated in 2019 from UNC School of the Arts with a BFA in contemporary dance. Prior to her attendance there, she trained in formal disciplines under Jo-Ann Hertzman. Mariah has been privileged to perform a wide range of works and most notably, was a dancer in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at BAM Opera House. Since then, Mariah has continued to work with the Merce Cunningham Trust, while also freelancing and working with Liz Gerring, Cornfield Dance, Christopher Williams, Helen Simoneau Danse and Daniel Gwirtzman, among others. Mariah is honored to be working among the incredible group of artists that comprise Dance Heginbotham.

GERALD CASEL (Performer) (he/they/siya) is a dance artist, equity advocate and antiracist educator. As director of GERALDCASELDANCE, his choreographic work complicates and provokes questions surrounding colonialism, collective cultural amnesia, whiteness and privilege and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. Casel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. They have previously been a faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, California State University Long Beach, and UC Santa Cruz where he also served as the Provost of Porter College. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for sustained achievement for dancing in the companies of Stephen Petronio, Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Sungsoo Ahn, and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet. He is the founder of Dancing Around Race, an ongoing community engaged-participatory program that interrogates systemic racial inequities that continues to grow.
www.geraldcasel.com

KARA CHAN (Performer) (she/her) is a New York City-based dancer and teaching artist, originally from Vancouver, Canada. She received her BFA from The Juilliard School, under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes and is an alumna of Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program & Springboard Danse Montreal. Performance credits include Twyla Tharp Dance, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group (The Hard Nut), Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (Artemis in Athens), Janis Brenner & Dancers, Barkin/Selissen Project, and Gleich Dances among others. Kara was named one of Dance Magazine's “25 to Watch” for 2020.

CHRISTINE FLORES (Performer) (she/her) is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from New World School of the Arts (Miami) in 2015 with a BFA in Dance and received additional training at Springboard Danse Montreal, the Contemporary Program at Jacob's Pillow, and Cunningham Fellowship workshops. Named one of Dance Magazine’s 2021 “25 to Watch”, Christine is currently based out of New York City performing with Dance Heginbotham, Pam Tanowitz Dance, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Company XIV, Danielle Russo Performance Project, NVA & Guests, and Shinsa Collective.

LINDSEY JONES (Performer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and herbalist, originally from St. Louis, MO. A SUNY Purchase alumni, she has been a member of Dance Heginbotham since 2012. She is currently dancing with the Trisha Brown Dance company and has collaborated with Pam Tanowitz Dance (2013-present), Kimberly Bartosik, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, and Caleb Teicher, among others. Since 2012, she has worked regularly with the Merce Cunningham Trust on re-stagings & workshops, including the Bessie-award winning Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at BAM and was featured in Alla Kovgan’s 3D film CUNNINGHAM. Jones teaches a variety of movement-based classes including Cunningham Technique and classes that combine movement and herbalism. She was a 2022 New York Public Library fellow, researching Dance & Ecology and is a graduate of Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism. www.lindseycjones.com

JOEY KIPP (Performer) (he/him) was born in Brazil and raised in Mtn. View, CA with a B.A. in Biology and Dance from Marymount Manhattan College, and was a Merce Cunningham scholarship student in 2010. Joey has worked with Heather Kravas, David Neumann, Catherine Galasso, Biba Bell, blaze ferrer, Heidi Latsky, Bill T. Jones, Chelsea Arce, Vanessa Walters, luciana achugar, Stacy Grossfield, Jody Oberfelder, David Byrne, Ani Taj, Yasmine Lee, and Steven Hoggett. Joey is a collaborator/writer/performer with Pioneers Go East and has been featured in The New York Times  for his work with Biba Bell, Stacy Grossfield, and Jody Oberfelder. Joey has performed at The Rev, The Progressive Theater, The Shed, On The Boards, Performance Space NY, Summerscape at Bard’s Fisher Center, Walker Arts Center, the Rauschenberg Residency, and the Park Avenue Armory. Joey has shown work at Judson Memorial Church, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Marymount Manhattan College, and San Jose State University. He has choreographed for the Gotham Roller Derby, and NYU’s The Threepenny Opera. Joey also worked on the pre-production of the Sweeney Todd 2023 Broadway revival. Thanks to John and the entire team at Dance Heginbotham.

PAIGE BARNETT KULBETH (Performer) (she/her) is a Louisiana/NYC-based dancer and artist from Lafayette, LA, with a Chemical Engineering degree which has never been used from University of Louisiana (2017). After college she began creating dance installations at her local art gallery, Basin Arts, and was soon commissioned to direct the rework of NYC artist Tina Girouard’s Mardi Gras Suites and Quartets (1974/2018). This piqued a new interest in 1970’s post-modern art of New York and she impulsively moved to Brooklyn. Once there, Paige immediately began dancing with Dance Heginbotham, performing with musicians from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Knights, and jazz guru Ethan Iverson. Notable performance venues include Jacob’s Pillow, La Jolla Music Society Festival, Scottsdale Arts, The Ringling Museum, and Bryant Park. Paige has also danced for Karole Armitage in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 Fashion show and is currently cast as “Birdie” in Isaac Mizrahi’s annual production of Peter & The Wolf at Works & Process at The Guggenheim. When not dancing, she is always in development of her own choreographic works, experimental art events and movement-based video art. www.vpbarnett.com

MYKEL MARAI NAIRNE (Performer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based freelance dance artist, administrator, and creative producer. Born and raised in New York City, Mykel studied at Alvin Ailey, where she was a fellowship student, and later, during a long hiatus from movement study, graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Film & Media Studies. Mykel re-engaged with her movement practice through intensives with Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, American Dance Festival, and Movement Invention Project and had the privilege of performing works by Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham, among others. She joined Dance Heginbotham in 2018, and since then her freelance performance work has brought her to venues across NYC, including St. Ann’s Warehouse in the Off-Broadway revival of Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish), the Whitney Museum of Art (2019 Whitney Biennial), Danspace Project, Brookfield Place, Marinaro Gallery, Astor Place (Joe’s Pub, Astor Alive!), The Space at Irondale, Bryant Park, and Symphony Space, to name a few. Mykel currently collaborates and performs with Dance Heginbotham, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Studio Susan Marshall, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. MykelMaraiNairne.com | IG: @mykelmarai

DANIEL PETTROW (Performer) (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, actor, director, and teacher.  He is the Director of Performance and Communication Training for Heifetz International Music Institute.  Daniel frequently focuses on avant-garde and experimental creations while fostering collaborations with artists from different disciplines.  Recently, he created a ritual dance-theater creation titled A Respectable Death, about his late brother, visual artist David Pettrow.  The show will be presented again in 2025 at the National Theater of Bretagne in Rennes, France.  In 2023, Daniel created the film and art show Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Hot Season (in collaboration with Afghan artist Kubra Khademi) which premiered at Fondation Fiminco in Paris, and Collection Lambert in Avignon, France. In January 2021, Daniel created the short film Wolf and Duck as part of the Guggenheim’s Work & Process Artist Virtual Commissions. For the last twenty years, Daniel has worked closely with renowned French director Arthur Nauzyciel. In 2016, Daniel worked with legendary Italian director Romeo Castellucci, performing in Julius Caesar: Spared Parts. In 2019, Daniel collaborated and performed in the dance-theater production HERZ SCHMERZ with choreographer John Heginbotham, which had its premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Daniel is a frequent collaborator with Dance Heginbotham: HERZ SCHMERZ, The Principles of Uncertainty and One Man Show. Daniel also dances the role of “The Wolf” in Isaac Mizrahi’s production of Peter & The Wolf for Works & Process at The Guggenheim (2012 - present). Daniel is an associate actor with New York City-based experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He is a frequent collaborator/director with choreographer Anabella Lenzu. Film: In Stereo, Sweet Parents, The Cult of Sincerity, The Last Adam, Psychopathia Sexualis, Kathy T, My Uncle Sidney. TV: Red Band Society, Good Eats, Don’t Know Jack, Road Trip.

MARJORIE FOLKMAN (Artistic Collaborator) danced as a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group (1996-2007), with Sara Rudner, Martha Clarke, Richard Colton/Amy Spencer, Kraig Patterson, and performs with Dance Heginbotham, among others. Choreography and movement direction include operas produced by Bard SummerScape, Prototype Festival, Tulsa Opera, Odyssey Opera, Boston Baroque, collaborations with visual artists, and Wendall Harrington’s design seminars at Yale’s School of Drama. Marjorie stages dances by Mark Morris, including at Barnard College, where she is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice.

ETHAN IVERSON (Composer & Pianist) (he/him) Pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King, performing across the world and in venues as diverse as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo. During the TBP era, Iverson balanced the cutting edge collective with performances and recordings with jazz masters like Billy Hart, Paul Motian, Tootie Heath, Ron Carter, and Charlie Haden. After a 17-year tenure, Iverson left TBP to pursue diverse interests and aesthetics. His discography now includes two recordings for ECM, and a current release Every Note Is True - his first for the Blue Note Label. Working also consistently outside the jazz sphere, Iverson created the score to Pepperland, an evening-length exploration/explosion of the Beatles with the Mark Morris Dance Group, premiered an original piano concerto with the American Composers Orchestra, and has accompanied noted classical musicians Miranda Cuckson and Mark Padmore in recital. Iverson’s concurrent writing career includes the now 20-year old website Do The Math, a repository of musician-to-musician interviews and varied essays. Time Out New York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New York jazz icons. Iverson has also published articles about music in the New Yorker, NPR, The Nation, and JazzTimes.

COLIN JACOBSEN (Composer & Violinist) (he/him) Since the early 2000's, Colin Jacobsen has forged an intriguing path in the cultural landscape of our time, collaborating with an astonishingly wide range of artists across diverse traditions and disciplines while constantly looking for new ways to connect with audiences. For his work as a founding member of two innovative and influential ensembles – the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and orchestra The Knights – Jacobsen was selected from among the nation’s top visual, performing, media, and literary artists to receive a prestigious and substantial United States Artists Fellowship. He is also active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and has toured with Silkroad since its founding by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 at Tanglewood. As a composer he has written pieces for an eclectic mix of artists including pianist Emanuel Ax, singers Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Jamie Barton, banjo player Bela Fleck, mandolinist Avi Avital, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, choreographers John Heginbotham and Brian Brooks, theater group Compagnia de' Colombari and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. In the 2022/23 season, Jacobsen assumed the position of Artistic Director of Santa Fe Pro Musica, an organization with which he has had a fruitful long term association as a guest soloist and leader.

AMBER STAR MERKENS (Artistic Collaborator) (she/her) is originally from Newport, Oregon. She holds a BFA from The Juilliard School and was a member of the José Limón Dance Company before joining the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2001. For over a decade, Amber was featured in Mark's work and inherited his roles in Dido and Aeneas, Ten Suggestions, and Rondo. Amber met and performed with John Heginbotham during her time with MMDG, and their friendship and collaborations continued over the years. Amber is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award, has been on faculty at the Mark Morris Dance Center and the Greene Hill School, and is currently a practicing clinical herbalist and doula. She has two amazing children who inspire her every day.

MAILE OKAMURA (Costume Designer, Video Editor) (she/her) is a San Diego native and studied classical ballet with Lynda Yourth, Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich, and at San Francisco Ballet School. She danced with Boston Ballet II, Ballet Arizona, and for over 20 years with Mark Morris Dance Group. She currently performs with Pam Tanowitz Dance. Maile has designed and constructed costumes for Dance Heginbotham, Mark Morris Dance Group, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Tanglewood Music Festival, Houston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Bard College, Middlebury College, American Classical Orchestra, and JACK Quartet. Since spring 2020, she has collaborated with John Heginbotham and Colin Jacobsen on the video project, 24 Caprices, as video editor.

NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Queens, NY. Her work has been seen across the United States, Cuba, England, Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy, New Zealand, and Russia. Selected dance credits include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theater, Atlanta Ballet, Dance Heginbotham, Dance Theater of Harlem, Gallim, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, Malpaso, Mark Morris Dance Group, & New York City Ballet. Selected Opera credits include work with Minnesota Opera, Opera Montreal, The Juilliard School, Arizona Opera, and LA Opera. Selected theater credits include Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theater, The Play Company, The Playwrights Realm, Philadelphia Theater Company, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. Her installation of 1,000 paintings entitled Tiny Paintings for Big Hearts is open to doctors, nurses, staff, and patients of Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, NY. (@nicolepearceart) www.nicolepearcedesign.com

EMILY SCHMIT (Lighting Designer, You Look Like a Fun Guy) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer and collaborative artist working in theater, dance, music, fashion shows, live events, installation, and immersive experiences. Emily is an artistic associate with immersive theater company Optika Moderna and resident lighting designer of the Monterey Jazz Festival. Proud member USA829. www.emilyschmit.com

SERENA WONG (Lighting Designer, You Look Like a Fun Guy) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, Fall For Dance at City Center, the Joyce, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the US and abroad- including, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most recently she has designed for choreographers LaTasha Barnes, Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Leonardo Sandoval, and Bill T. Jones. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery.

OMAR ZUBAIR (Sound Designer, You Look Like a Fun Guy) (he/him) After writing his first book Disorientation Therapy in 2007, Omar Zubair found that the closer to the core of being he looked, the more blurry it became; so, he began to listen to it instead. And ever since, listening has become his primary compositional technique -- whether creating a theatrical score for The Wooster Group or building a sound installation for a national historic landmark, sound designing for a blind choreographer so that she can continually orient toward the audience or improvising with a dance class at Juilliard to coax authentic movement out of each student, making music to help people grieve at a funeral or celebrate at a wedding. He lets the ear hear twice before acting once. He has helped found composer collectives across the globe in order to promote radical empathy and empower active listening.