Dale Andree
…is the founder and director of NWD Projects and National Water Dance, a national, simultaneous, performance mobilizing dancers for the environment. Begun in 2014 this bi-annual live-streamed event engages dancers and movers of all ages across the country including Puerto Rico. For the past decade, she has focused on dance in the environment through live performances and film. She has had the opportunity to live in Everglades National Park as an artist in residence through AIRIE and create dances within the sawgrass and diverse ecosystems of that “river of grass”. Her work is grounded within the community and through a residency, with Live Arts Miami she created “Such Rooted Things”, a film and performance addressing climate change through the eyes of diverse women’s experiences. Her films have been selected by ScreenDance Miami, The World Outside: Screendance in Nature as part of the American Dance Festival 2020, Los Angeles Experimental Dance and Music Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, and others. Her company NWD Projects is presenting “Dancing Out of Time: An Environmental Dance film Festival” in Miami in June. Dale taught for over 20 years at New World School of the Arts in Miami and founded and directed Mary Street Dance Theatre, a touring company that toured the US and South America. First and foremost, Dale is a mother, and it is this responsibility that has driven her to environmental arts activism.
Thryn Saxon
…is, in addition to co-director of Homeport Art House, the director of her own performance company SAXYN Dance Works. Thryn has performed with Sleep No More, Kate Weare Company, and is currently working with Helen Simoneau Danse and Doug Varone and Dancers. Her work has been performed at The Perez Art Museum, Windhover Performing Arts Center, Arts on Site, Gelsey Kirkland Theater, and 92Y where her solo “lorelei” was selected for the Future Dance Festival 2022. Thryn has created work for several schools, music videos, and dance films. Her environmental dance making began in earnest this year with a site-specific work entitled “Mother Tongue” which was presented by NOoSPHERE Arts and CreateART at Kingsland Wildflowers as a part of the We Are Nature: Earth Ethics event for Climate Week NYC 2022. Most recently Thryn was selected as the RADicle 22/23 AIR at The Croft in Michigan. In March Thryn and her company SAXYN Dance Works premiered her newest piece “Seolh” as the featured artists at RADFest in Kalamazoo, MI.