Anna Bauer and Jairus Carr July 22nd-29th

Anna Bauer and Jairus Carr are choreographers living in Austin, Texas. They dance for the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company while producing their own work. Anna and Jairus began collaborating in 2022. Their pieces have performed at Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Austin Dance Festival, and RAD Fest. In 2023, they traveled to Washington to reset a duet on the artists of Bellingham Repertory Dance. In 2024, they spent 10 days at the Keshet Makers Space Experience in New Mexico creating a new trio. In dance and in life, Anna and Jairus are trying their best.
When beginning a piece together, they ask this question: What makes dance interesting, for both mover and viewer? Their recent choreographic collaborations attempt to answer this question with duality: they meld humor and sincerity, simplicity and maximalism, musicality and internal timing to form works that hover between abstraction and narrative.

Noel Olson August 12th-19th

Noel Olson is a dancer and choreographer from Omaha, Nebraska, based in New York City. They studied at The Ailey School, graduating from the certificate program in 2023, and is currently training with GibneyPRO. They have worked with Red is Dancing in a tribute to Judy Chicago featured in Elle Magazine. They also worked alongside Katy Pyle in “Travesty Doll Play Ballez (After Copelia)”. In 2023 they performed Algorithm Ocean True Blood Moves, created by Ana Pi and Julien Creuzet, commissioned by Performa and featured in the New York Times. Noel’s practice incorporates elements of drag and dance theater in nightlife settings including their performance in GODSPAWN created by GODCOMPLEX, and Lover Boys co-created with Jules Assue. They have performed work by Ronald K. Brown, Peter Chu, LAJAMARTIN, Ana-Maria Lucaciu, and Darrell Moultrie. Noel is eager to expand their own repertoire, with a focus of centering queerness in their work.

2023 Resident Artist

Eilish Henderson

Eilish Henderson (B.S. Hofstra University | M.A. New York University) is a movement artist working with subjects of the body based in NYC. She is interested in nourishing the practice of translation through interdisciplinary methods. Her work seeks to explore resonance, discord, decay and healing. Rooted in nature, the body escapes its skin shell and reinvents itself dispelled of trauma, an unearthly creature insect. Through ritual, disorientation, and unlearning, her creations emerge. As a choreographer, she draws upon butoh, contemporary floorwork, Capoeira, and release technique. Through movement she navigates the infinite patterns of a body’s relationships— negotiating touch, desire, intimacy and disgust. She develops the nuance of the movement work through accessing visual art, words, and fleeting images. Her work has been presented as a part of the Emerging Artists Festival: New Works Series, Smush Gallery, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, and Agropoli Dance Festival in Italy.