Brandon Cournay (he/him)
Executive Director + Producer
Brandon Cournay is a Brooklyn-based creative leader and entrepreneur. Previous roles include Producer, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River To River Festival; Managing Director + Associate Artistic Director, KEIGWIN + COMPANY; Company Manager, Camille A. Brown; and freelance roles with Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Cornfield Dance, and The Current Sessions. He is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Dance Device Lab, which offers innovative educational experiences for dance studios nationwide.

Originally from Walled Lake, MI, he received his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. His eclectic performance career has taken him around the globe as a dancer with Mark Morris Dance Group, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Morphoses, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, and more. He has assisted on numerous creative projects in theatre, opera, TV, film, and dance. Brandon brings these experiences into his administrative work, giving him the unique perspective of experiencing every facet of the industry and leading with an artist-forward mindset to build profitable, collaborative structures for creative organizations.

Paige Barnett Kulbeth (she/her)
Digital Marketing Associate
Paige Barnett Kulbeth 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 (she/her)
Artistic Outreach Associate
Mykel Marai Nairne (she/her) is a freelance dance artist, arts administrator, and producer with a vested interest in supporting other artists in the field. Born and raised in New York City, Mykel attended The Dalton School and was a fellowship student at The Ailey School. Mykel earned her BA in Film and Media Studies with a concentration in documentary video production from Dartmouth College in 2016. During a hiatus from dance performance, Mykel worked as a Marketing and Arts Administration Intern for the Alvin Ailey Foundation Inc. and an Education Intern at Mark Morris Dance Center. Most recently, Mykel worked as a Development Fellow at Pentacle in the inaugural year of its fellowship program and as an Associate Producer at New York Live Arts. She is currently the Administrative Director for New York Women Composers and is excited to expand her role within Dance Heginbotham as their Artistic Outreach Associate.