KC&D COLLABORATORS
CURRENT
JOSH ANDERSON
Josh believes in the power of good joke well placed. Using that sentiment as a guide, Josh creates staged a filmed works that float between theater and dance. He has a BFA from the University of Utah and an MFA from Ohio State University. Josh’s work has been presented across the US, and his films have been screened internationally. Currently, Josh’s work centers on a growing teaching practice, developing spaces for improvisational practice and performance in the great city of Chicago, and creating work that utilizes his identity as a white cis-gendered straight man as fodder for satire.
marcus hayes
Marcus Hayes is Professor of Dance and African American Studies and is currently chair for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Austin Peay State University (APSU) in Clarksville, TN, where he focuses on dance techniques, history, and choreography, as well as the African influences on social dances in the Americas. He received a dual B.A. in History and Theatre Arts: Dance from Beloit College and an MFA in Dance from Mills College.
Hayes has worked with many noted dance artists including Molissa Fenley, Liz Lerman, and Dr. Ruth Little; and is the author of Introduction to Dance: A Guide for Understanding Dance as an Art Form.
Mikey rioux
Mikey Rioux is a nonbinary human.
Mikey's work and accomplishments span the last three decades. They work in and across boundaries of graphic, plastic, and performing arts.
Their work is a playful challenge to socially constructed binaries and subverts boundaries between mediums, methods, content, context, and culturally inherited ways of being.
timothy russell
Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as the Music Director for the UW-Madison’s Dance Department.
In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement.
He holds an MFA in Music Improvisation from Mills College where he studied improvisation, electronic music and composition
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Nat evans
Nat Evans is a composer and artist based in Seattle, Washington. His interdisciplinary works range from site-specific events and installations to chamber music, scores for dance and film, conceptual works based in ecology and social practice, to meditations on everyday life.
His work is regularly presented across the US, and has also been presented in Europe, South America, Australia, and China. Works and events by Evans have been featured on WNYC, The New York Times, and VICE, among others.
Nat studied music at Butler University with Michael Schelle, Craig Hetrick, and Frank Felice.
Matthew McMunn
Matthew is a member of Chicago’s The Seldoms Dance Company, and he has performed in a remount of Sybil Shearer’s Judgement Seeks its Own, Kristina Isabelle’s Levels & Lines, and Speak Production’s Were the World Mine.
Matthew’s choreography has been presented by Durham Independent Dance Artists, The Bipeds, Links Hall, Core Project, The Leopold Group, and Fused Muse Ensemble.
Michelle Jensen
Michelle Jensen received her BFA in dance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, K-12 Dance Certification from the UW-Milwaukee and M.Ed in Educational Leadership from Concordia University-Portland.
Michelle is a part of the Performing Arts and Physical Education departments at York Community High School teaching dance and yoga. Michelle also serves as the director of York Dance Company. Michelle has performed and collaborated with Mordine & Co. Dance Theater, Hedwig Dances Chicago, The Moving Architects, Cindy Brandle Dance Company and Kate Corby + Dancers.
Emily Miller
Emily Miller is a San Diego-based dancer, dancemaker, teacher, and studio owner.
Emily received her BFA in Dancemaking from Columbia College Chicago, spent time in Chicago dancing for Kate Corby & Dancers and New York working with David Dorfman Dance. Emily has since returned to San Diego armed with a love for community, a fascination with form/function, and a fervent desire to make as much room for and access to the work as possible.
Chih-Hsien LIn
Chih-Hsien Lin, a native Taiwanese, is a dancer, movement philosopher and creator, and clinical counselor specialized in dance/movement therapy and creative approaches, currently works as a psychotherapist at a group private practice. Over the arc of her career both artistically and clinically, she has worked extensively with diverse populations.
As an immigrant artist, Chih-Hsien works passionately with an authentic sense of self and movement directions. Her movement language reflects a rich cultural bearing from traditional Asian ethnic dances and martial arts to a vast array of somatic modern integrations.
ELIZABETH WADIUM
Elizabeth Wadium is an experimental filmmaker and composer based in Madison, WI.
Her work explores how a human presence emotionally characterizes the natural world. As a multimedia artist, she is also interested in developing harmony between cinema and other artistic disciplines. Wadium’s previous collaborations with Kate Corby include the films North, West, and Hungars Beach.
erin kilmurray
Erin Kilmurray is a dance artist building genre-straddling works challenging conventions of gender, agency, and spectatorship that enlivens the body and environment. She is a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist (2020), listed on Newcity’s 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2020), a Greenhouse Grantee, 3Arts Make-A-Wave + 3AP Awardee (2018), and toured her work SEARCH PARTY in cultural- exchange to dancebox-Kobe in Japan (2019). Kilmurray is the director of The Fly Honey Show ---
acknowledged as a Chicago institution by the Chicago Reader (2018). Her work and teaching practice have been supported by Links Hall, The Dance Center of Columbia College, Thalia Hall, Pivot Arts Festival, University of Chicago, Lucky Plush Productions, The Cambrian, among others.