COLLABORATORS

IMA IDUOZEE

Of Nigerian and Finnish descent, Ima Iduozee is a choreographer, dancer, performance artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki. His debut work, This is the Title, premiered in 2012 and went on to garner international acclaim, touring in 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia. The solo was selected for Aerowaves Twenty in 2016.

Iduozee´s works are often characterised by poetic and physically rigorous renderings, that meet with notions of fantasy, identity and afrofuturity. In 2015 the annual honorary prize of the Finnish Critics Association, Critics Spurs´, was given to Iduozee, as an acknowledgement for the best artistic breakthrough of the year. His on going series of digital portraits, Adventures In The Sonic Future, celebrates the diversity of black cultural identity in the contemporary African Diaspora.
Photo by Ilkka Saastamoinen

EVERETT-ASIS SAUNDERS

Everett-Asis Saunders, New Music USA grant winner, is the founder and creative director of Flux Innovations, a sound and audio services company. His recent clients include PBS, Sony Music and Columbia Records. Saunders is a producer, composer, songwriter and performer. He has specific knowledge and practice in arranging, editing and mixing for theater, film and music entertainment.

His work spans across genres with original compositions for numerous independent films in the New York/LA Dance community, with his latest commissions including Marjani Forte & Works Bessie award winning Memoirs of a…Unicorn and Urban Bush Women’s recent Hair and Other Stories. Film works include PBS March of Washington (2013), Print Shop (2016) and Project Imagination winner, Transporter.
Photo courtesy of Everett-Asis Saunders

TEAM MEMBERS

Alexander Leslie Thompson - Managing Director
Dahlia (Dixon) Li - Dramaturge
Michelle Daly - Creative Producer
Lingling Yang - Grants Manager
Amy Smith - Business and Finance Manager
Shana Crawford - Production Manager
LD - Lighting Designer

Stephanie Jacco - Grants and Special Projects Associate