Weena Pauly-Tarr works at the tender edges of seeing and being seen – where bodies reveal stories, guard vulnerabilities, and inhabit power through movement. Her work overlaps somatic therapy and dance-theater, exploring how being witnessed shapes identity, presence, and connection. She has performed with STREB, Brian Brooks Moving Company, David Neumann, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, and is creating a dance theater trilogy with Katie Workum. Creator of SE+AM, she teaches somatic coherence as a path to wholeness. Based in Queens, NYC, she lives with her husband and four kids.

noah souder-russo is an atist, guide, and sonic explorer. his offerings center around deconditioning from homogenized programming through music, community gatherings, and ritual. noah holds an MA in women’s and gender studies and has spent many months intensive silent retreat practice. in other cosmic languages, noah is a virgo sun, taurus moon, cancer rising, 1/4 splenic projector.

Becca Goldstein is a spiritual guide, strategist, and community builder committed to cultural renewal and urban ritual practice. She works at the intersection of legacy, purpose, and spiritual awakening. Her work spans sacred site activation, transformational gathering design, and one-on-one accompaniment for those navigating moments of transition. Drawing from mysticism, somatic practice, and systems thinking, Becca creates spaces where the personal and collective meet.

Sarah Lemieux is an electroacoustic composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work blends sound, storytelling, and experimental approaches to music creation. Her PhD research in Music Composition and Neuropsychology of Music Perception informs her exploration of the intersections of consciousness, emotion, and sound. Sarah’s pieces have been featured at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2023) and the International Alliance for Women in Music’s annual concert (2024). She creates immersive auditory landscapes that challenge conventional formats and attempt to create a sonic space for deep contemplation.

Theo J. Brahma is a ceremonialist, dye master, ethical designer, and holistic entrepreneur who turns ritual, pigments, and repurposed materials into transformative experiences that uncover devotion, ecology and decay.

Kim Burgas (she/they) is a multimedia artist, sensory sociologist, experimental banjo player, and strategic designer in oncology. Her work explores bodily movement, plant kinship, and care at the end of life. Through installations, workshops, and gatherings, Kim explores how living beings (plants, people, grief, and gesture) are contained or commodified by external systems, and opens space for their complexity and wildness to re-emerge. She is currently co-developing Death Languages, toolkit for building more personalized relationships with death through language, and leads Death Over Dinner conversations.

Named one of “25 Screenwriters to Watch” by Austin Film Festival, Par Parekh is a filmmaker working in both nonfiction and narrative. His debut documentary feature Sister Úna Lived A Good Death aired on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2024. Par was co-writer and producer of Glory at Sea!, winner of the Wholphin Best Short Film Award at SXSW and named one of The Greatest Films of All Time by Everything Everywhere All At Once director Daniel Scheinert for British Film Institute / Sight and Sound. Par recently launched Red Hook Story House, an oral history archive and micro-museum dedicated to preserving the stories, spirit, and folklore of this beloved waterfront neighborhood.

Sondra Loring is a queer movement artist, writer, and community organizer. Loring’s choreography addresses social and political issues through site-specific works and solo performances, creating opportunities for community dialogue and engagement. Sondra founded Satya Yoga Center, Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation and MovingPotential in the Hudson Valley, creating welcoming spaces for community care. Through MovingPotential, she and a team of teachers bring trauma-informed yoga, meditation, creative writing, nutrition and dance to correctional facilities, reentry and recovery centers, helping individuals reclaim agency through mindful practice.

Emerald Trinket Monsod Walker created original roles and performed extensively with Urban Bush Women, Ping Chong, and Meredith Monk on national and international tours.  She taught for Lincoln Center Theater for 19 years; and directed the youth interdisciplinary performance program (about History & Culture through dance, theater, and music) of Ping Chong’s “Undesirable Elements” at Global Kids for 25 years.  She is also a writer and long-time member of the Pat Hall Dance Community.

Belinda Becker is a DJ, dancer, actor based in New York City. She holds several DJ residencies in select venues. She has been studying and performing Haitian Folklore, and Afro-Cuban dance for over 20 years under the direction of Pat Hall and Baba Richard Gonzalez. Dance companies include: The Pat Hall Dancers, Bonga and Vodou Drums of Haiti, and La Troupe Makandal.  Film and television credits include: Jean Galmot, Aventurier, Law & Order, Love Rome, The Sticky Fingers of Time and most recently, Tendaberry. Belinda lives in Harlem with her beautiful daughter, Willow.

Lissy Vomáčka has been living and dancing and working and mothering in NYC for many years. Her dancing career has taken her far and wide over the years, with an emphasis on studying with master teacher Pat Hall, in the  Afro Caribbean tradition.  She has worked in Special Education for 30 years, with a focus on preschool children with autism. She is also a licensed Acupuncturist, a Certified Zero Balancer and a certified yoga instructor.

Dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and visual artist, Sheila Anozier is a performer and artistic collaborator whose main focus and inspiration is the rich tradition of Haitian art. Her studies with master teacher Pat Hall and folklorist Georges Vilson, have guided her in integrating the modern with the ancestral traditions of her family and community. The joy that is released through her art has helped her and others express the intersection of cultures that is so important to the immigrant-based communities that make up America.

Paula Macali is a dreamer, seeker, soul searcher; dancing in this interconnected web of magic and mystery. Ever grateful for the multitude of teachers, dancers, friends, family, helpers seen and unseen guiding the way.

Katherine Toukhy is an artist and facilitator who has resided in unceded Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) for fifteen years and grew up part of a small Coptic Egyptian diaspora in Rhode Island. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses participatory and solo processes that nourish embodied knowledge to challenge ongoing narratives of displacement and erasure. She draws upon improvised movement, land-based imagery or materials, and her Egyptian heritage to create figurative abstractions and participatory experiences. She has worked with support from Culture Push, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Laundromat Project, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council, among others.

Tamar Korn is a vocal musician who has sang full-time in the city and beyond for just over twenty years. Her approach has been an exploration along a continuum of tradition & experimentalism, playing within and without genres of 20th Century North America. She is known as an improvisor and for weaving existential poetry and excepts of social commentary into songs of all sorts. Her formal degree was in Theatre, specializing in experimental theater, voice, and movement.

Nzingha Clarke is part of the Liquid Cartographies curatorial team. A professional problem solver, Nzingha has been thinking about death cults, fascism and game theory and wondering if there’s a way to win a gunfight without bearing arms.

Pulso de Barro explores folk music, dance, and poetry along with the native traditions of our shared lineages. Since we are the result of a cultural syncretism of the different territories where we come from, we seek to give space to our multifaceted identities. With a focus on traditional Son Jarocho music from Southern Veracruz and various other genres from the Caribbean and Latin America, Pulso de Barro supports and encourages the recognition of music as a vital part of the articulation of communities. We believe that the countless stories of our territories are embodied in the creative flow. From this place we learn to coexist reciprocally with nature and re-imagine our future.

The Hydrofeminist Map Collective is comprised of Nora Almeida, andrea haenggi, Jordan Packer and Estefania Mompean. 

Nora Almeida is an urban swimmer, interdisciplinary artist, and activist based in Lenapehoking. Her art and embodied research is centered on water and explores intersections of archiving, environmental investigation, and spatial disruption. 

andrea haenggi is a body-based interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, performer and co-founder of the Environmental Performance Agency. Her “ethnochoreobotanic” practice with more-than-human kin fosters multispecies communities focusing on decolonization, climate change, feminism, and liberation.

Jordan Packer is an urban geographer and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. She is currently pursuing a PhD in human geography where her work explores urban erasure, environmental degradation, and the politics of resistance and removal.

Estefania Mompean Botias is an architect and urban designer investigating the concept of Architectures of Emergency. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. at EPFL Switzerland, she studies New York’s socio-environmental challenges, particularly the impact of flooding on local communities and urban planning processes.