Brittany Bailey (dancer, CHIMERA) has trained with Merce Cunningham as well as whirled with the dervishes of the Mevlevi Order. Bailey has performed at MoMA in Marina Abramović’s retrospective, The Artist is Present (2010), and with Yvonne Rainer in the exhibition, Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018). In 2011, Bailey was a member of the Michael Clark Company for performances at the Tate Modern. Bailey currently studies at Columbia University and works as a Research Assistant in Columbia’s Couples Lab.

Reid Bartelme (dancer, Unison with Objects, Shimmering Islands, INTRO, TROPOPAUSE, costumes Shimmering Islands, Special Collections, INTRO, TROPOPAUSE, Untitled) began his professional life as a dancer. He worked for Ballet companies throughout North America and Canada, and later in his career worked for modern dance companies in New York including Shen Wei Dance Arts and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. He has also performed in works by Jack Ferver, Liz Santoro, Burr Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, and Kyle Abraham. He went on to graduate from the fashion design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and began working as a freelance costume designer. Reid has designed costumes most notably for Christopher Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch, Pam Tanowitz, Trey McIntyre, Jack Ferver, Pontus Lidberg, and Liz Santoro. In collaboration with designer Harriet Jung, Reid has designed costumes for the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Justin Peck, Marcelo Gomes, Jodi Melnick, Doug Varone, and Kyle Abraham.

Maggie Cloud (dancer, Special Collections, Shimmering Islands, The Map of The Known Universe, and TROPOPAUSE) grew up in Sarasota, Florida and graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in Dance. She has most recently been involved in the work of Moriah Evans, Beth Gill, Neal Medlyn, John Jasperse, Pam Tanowitz and Gillian Walsh. Maggie has taught at Chen Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and at the University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute. She’s currently working toward a master’s degree at Tri-State College of Acupuncture.

Quinn Czejkowski (costumes, CHIMERA) is a dancer, costume designer, and floral person based in NYC. She designs costumes for dance and has assisted designers Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung. She is currently the costume shop manager for Company XIV.

Dominica Greene (dancer, CHIMERA) is a performing artist from Upland, California. As a senior at Los Angeles High School for the Arts, she received an Honorable Mention in modern dance from the National YoungArts Foundation. She earned a BFA in contemporary dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, studying and performing repertoire by choreographers Doug Varone, Jose Limon, Emery LeCrone, Lucinda Childs, Twyla Tharp, and Merce Cunningham among others. At Springboard Danse Montreal 2016 she premiered a new work by Shannon Gillen/VIM VIGOR and soon after worked with Gillen on a NYFW show for Phelan. With New York as her main base, Greene has since worked extensively and on new creations with Helen Simoneau Danse, Suku Dance Lab, Jasmine Hearn, Kayla Farrish, Tom Weinberger, Burr Johnson, and Kate Wallich. She also works in film/video and has appeared in music videos by KARINA, Cashavelly Morrison, Palehound, and Zolita. She has toured domestically and internationally including festivals in Burkina Faso and China. She is incredibly honored and enthusiastic about embarking on this new journey with the very special Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

Russell Janzen (dancer, TROPOPAUSE) was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and began his dance training at the age of six at The Rock School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Janzen attended summer sessions in 2004 and 2005 at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in the winter of 2005. In October 2007, Mr. Janzen became an apprentice with NYCB, and in June 2008, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in October 2014 and to principal in February 2017.

Harriet Jung (costumes TROPOPAUSE and UNTITLED, dancer TROPOPAUSE) received her degree in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, then moved to New York to study Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon completing the program, she obtained a design position with womenswear designer, Jill Stuart. In addition, she began collaborating with costume designer Reid Bartelme and co-founded Reid and Harriet Design in 2011. Together, they have most notably designed for New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz, Doug Varone, and Kyle Abraham. She studied Korean traditional dance as a child and later joined several hip hop dance groups at UC Berkeley.

Catherine Kirk (dancer, CHIMERA and METEOR) is from Dallas, Texas. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Catherine had the pleasure of apprenticing for Sidra Bell Dance NY before working with Danakah Dance, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, UNA Projects, and Helen Simoneau Danse. Kirk is currently dancing for Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M, Jasmine Hearn, and Burr Johnson.

Russell Lilie (dancer, _DRAFT) is a New York based dancer and choreographer who received his BFA from NYU in 2011. He has worked with Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011-18), RedCurrant Collective (2011-13), Dai Jian dance (2014-15), Anneke Hanson (2015-18), and Russell Dumas (2017-18). His performance career has taken him to twelve countries where he has performed on traditional stages like Lincoln Center, and in nontraditional venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Basel Hong Kong.

Owen Prum (dancer, CHIMERA) attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he received a BFA in dance and participated in a restaging of Trisha Brown’s “Set/reset Reset”. He has performed with various artists and choreographers such as the Des Moines Metro Opera, Ella Wasserman-Smith, Min Oh, Richard Licha, and Ori Flomin. 

Christopher Stout (performer, _DRAFT and CHIMERA) is a West Village based abstract minimal painter who has worked with Burr Johnson previously in contemporary movement pieces at Lichtundfire and Doing/Living.