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Elyse is from Westwood, New Jersey and graduated from Manhattanville College with a BA in Dance and Theatre and a concentration in Dance Therapy. While in school, she worked with choreographers such as Peter Pucci, Ara Fitzgerald, Marta Renzi, Ann Marie DeAngelo, and Julio Monge, as well as studying with Doug Varone and Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Company, and Rutgers Dance Conservatory. She has performed professionally for Marta Renzi, Lawrence Goldhuber, Lucy Kerr, and Emily Smith (NotForReTale). While working at Gibney Dance Center she has continued to cultivate her passion to use dance for social change.

Alexandra is an outside-Boston born actor, dancer, movement director and writer. After studying Dance and Theatre at Manhattanville College, she started her time in New York City dancing alongside greats like Gus Solomons Jr for Lawrence Goldhuber, and has danced at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, HERE Arts Center, LaMama, and onscreen at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival. Having been consistently cast as the dancer who would monologue, she took this as a sign that she should probably study acting. She began her training with a private two year Meisner study with James Brill of the Neighborhood Playhouse. After several years of performing at venues like The Connelly Theater, The Cutting Room, and The Tank, she began her training at LAMDA where she recently received her MFA in Classical Acting. In addition to her upcoming projects, she currently assists Nancy Meckler in her continued direction of the Olivier nominated A Streetcar Named Desire ballet. She’s big on DIY projects she probably won’t ever finish, believes she can fix absolutely anything with little to no technical training, and you can call her Lex, but please don’t call her Alex.

Marilène Oliver is an artist who works at a crossroads between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. Oliver uses various scanning technologies to reclaim the interior of the body and create artworks that invite us to contemplate our increasingly digitised selves.

Keely, originally from London, England, has lived in New York City since 1986. She has received numerous commissions for her work, and has been presented at many theaters and festivals both nationally and internationally. Among other endeavors, Garfield has created work for ballet dancers (Dance Theatre of Harlem), antique puppets (Golem, Chechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre), musical theater (Gypsy, Sundance Theatre, Utah, Carnival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), children (Reel to Real, Lincoln Center), students (Barnard, Hunter), and MTV. Garfield is a curator (with Peggy Peloquin) of Dance Theater Workshop's Family Matters series, and serves as the chair of DTW's Artist Committee. Highlights include: Deep (The Joyce Theater), Disturbing The Peace (Zenon Dance Company, MN), Iron Lung (Groundworks Dancetheater, OH), and Disturbulance (Dance Theater Workshop), Scent of Mental Love (Film for Radio Bremen/Canal Arte), and most recently Line & Sink Her (Danspace Project). Keely is very happy to be working again with Larry, her dearest pal! For more information visit www.keelygarfield.org

Rhetta Likes and enjoys working in Mr. Larry's process. She is happy to have an opportunity to try it on again. She is also a longtime member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, writes poetry to help her color and deal with reality and has an ongoing relationship with the Divine, in all its forms. Respect to the birthplace, MayMay, Georgie, Dr. Peez, Nilla & Choc-E, Core Peeps and all Above, Below, Ahead and Behind. Love is all.