Katarina Lee

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Katarina grew up dancing at Crawfordsville Academy of Dance. In high school, she spent two summers at Interlochen Center for the Arts participating in their dance program. She studied at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and graduated Cum Laude in 2016 with a BA in dance and Minor in Business. While there, Katarina performed works by Amy O'Neal, Takehiro Ueyama, Lauren Edson, and Jesse Zaritt to name a few. Along with expanding her technique, Katarina was able to study other aspects of dance including; choreography, costuming, and pedagogy. Upon graduation Katarina moved to Houston to dance with Ad Deum Dance Company, where she was given the opportunity to dance with Springs Dance Company in London for a period of time. In 2017 Katarina moved to Cleveland, Ohio to join Inlet Dance Theatre, undertaking the roles of Company Dancer and Costume Coordinator. While there she trained in Erick Hawkins Release technique, Pilobolian Nontraditional Partnering, and group based improvisation. In 2022, Katarina premiered her first professional work, Hiheyhello, as a part of Inlet's summer dance intensive. In August of 2022, Katarina moved to Seattle and spent a year performing in various projects throughout Seattle's dance scene. In 2023, Katarina accepted a company position with Spectrum Dance Theatre and is excited to begin her second season with them. 

Alison Clancy

Dreaming of beauty and collective catharsis, Alison Clancy is a choreographer, composer and filmmaker directing projects that bridge between worlds. Alison's haunting, impressionistic choreography is created in collaboration with virtuosic performers from a broad spectrum of genres. Choreographic explorations are informed by a deep relationship with formal structures and neo-classical ballet, but subvert technique in exploration of primordial sensuality; illuminating the authority of each body's authentic story. Visual storytelling is often enhanced through cinematic, custom lighting and video installations and many works are accompanied by Alison’s original music compositions. Ghosts of past, present and future are summoned.

Clancy’s original music and choreography has been presented by Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Folk Teater (Gothenburg), Bremen Theater (Copenhagen), Korzo Theater (Den Haag), MC Theater (Amsterdam), Great American Music Hall (San Francisco) and Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Festival (NYC) and commissioned by Ideal Glass Studios, Hong Kong Institute of Architects, Susannah Griffee, Middlebury College, Dancers of The Met, The Hamptons Art Affair. Alison is a recent recipient of  the Audiofemme Agenda Grant, New York State Choreographer’s Initiative Award and SMUSH Gallery Curatorial Dance Fellowship. As a recording artist and composer Alison is signed to Independent Project Records and Indigo Wave Management, with music in many films. 

As a performer Alison dances in sixteen productions with The Metropolitan Opera and originated the longest Principal Dance Solo in the company’s history for the premiere of Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander. She’s danced the work of iconic artists including Zvi Gotheiner, Shen Wei, Martha Clarke, The Flaming Lips, Annie-B Parson, Howard Schatz, Baz Luhrmann, Steven Hoggett, Nick Cave, Kelly Divine, Ann Yee, Ryan Heffington, Carolyn Choa, William Kentridge. Alison has also fronted several bands, and played clubs all over the US and Europe. 

Alison hails from Nevada City, CA and is a regular guest lecturer at New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

www.alisonclancy.com

dana e. fitchett

dana e. fitchett is a trans-disciplinary artist whose practices are grounded in listening and cultivating honest languages in service of alignment, integrity, and freedom. As founder and creative director of dance collective Movement for Liberation; teacher of her original Groovement classes; and in her visual art and transcription processes, dana works in and in conversation with the expressive legacy of the African diaspora. She values honesty, comfort, and clarity — in life and in movement — and places as much emphasis on the relationships, learning, and presence established through her movement practice as on the movement itself. dana has another career in storytelling, writing and editing for individuals and community organizations working for transformation and justice. Also a novice music producer and practiced plant-based foodmaker, dana holds a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and a master’s of fine art in interdisciplinary art, and spends most of her time between Boston, Brooklyn, and Oakland.