Elena Demyanenko is a Russian-born graduate of the Academy of Arts (Moscow). Elena has had the honor of working with Stephen Petronio from 2003-2008, Martha Clarke, Pavel Zustiak, Lindsey Dietz Marchant, Kota Yamasaki and Jimena Paz. In 2007 she was the recipient of EMPAC Dance Movies Commission for her dance film Kino Eye. In 2010, Elena has received Jerome Robbins Fellowship for the creation of her new work. Elena danced in the Company from 2009-2012.

Kathleen Fisher is a dancer, teacher, improvisor, and bodyworker. She was a member of Trisha Brown Company from 1992 - 2002 and was an original cast member of M.O., Twelve Ton Rose, L'Orfeo, Canto Pianto, Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, and Groove and Countermove. With the Company, she also performed extensive repertory including Brown's solos, Accumulation, and If you couldn't see me. She has taught TBDC master classes and workshops and led lecture-demonstrations for professional and aspiring dancers, children, and educators around the world, including assisting in Set and Reset/Reset at University of Utah and leading Astral Convertible (Re-imagined) at University of Illinois. Her ongoing self-education and performance work includes projects with Bebe Miller Company and Jane Comfort and Company as well as forays into theater and film and the study of somatics and healing arts. She is a Certified Kripalu Bodyworker, Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and practitioner of Craniosacral Therapy. Her teaching is very much influenced by these practices; she uses touch, bodywork, improvisation, and vocabulary based challenges to craft a forum in which dancers experience heightened awareness in action. Currently, she lives in the US and Bimini, Bahamas where she observes and joins the amazing dance of the resident wild spotted dolphins.

Lance Gries danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1985-1992, during which time he was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award and a Princess Grace Fellowship. Gries was an original cast member of Lateral Pass, Newark, Carmen, Foray Forêt, Astral Convertible and Astral Converted. He has taught numerous TBDC master classes and workshops and has led TBDC restaging projects for many European dance companies and institutions, including Lyon Opera Ballet, London Contemporary Dance, Frankfurt Conservatory, CDC in Paris, Toulouse, and Angers. Gries was a founding faculty member at PARTS, a school for contemporary dance in Brussels, Belgium where he has been a visiting professor for over twelve years. His own work has been presented in New York, Europe, South America and Australia.

Eva Karczag has practiced, taught, and advocated explorative methods of dance making for the last three decades. She danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1979-85, creating original roles in Opal Loop, Son of Gone Fishin' and Set and Reset. She has performed her own work in diverse locations including St. Mark's Church and Judson Church (NYC), Dance Umbrella (London), Dancehouse (Melbourne) and recently in durational performance/installations at the Laban Institute (London) and Herbert Art Gallery (Coventry). Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices including T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Qi Gong, the Alexander Technique (certified teacher), Ideokinesis, and Yoga. She has an MFA degree (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College and has taught dance at major colleges and studios throughout the US, Australia, and Europe, including a sustained period of teaching on the faculty of the European Dance Development Center, (EDDC) Arnhem, The Netherlands from 1990-2002. Current activities include collaborating on the development of a long term performance project, Red Thread, with Lisa Kraus and Vicky Shick.

Lisa Kraus studied at the Graham and Cunningham Schools and with James Waring before attending Bennington College where Judith Dunn and Steve Paxton were her teachers. She created a role in Trisha Brown's Duetude (1976) in Boston, then danced with the Company from 1977-1982. Lisa originated roles in Glacial Decoy, Opal Loop, and Son of Gone Fishin' as well as appearing in the television and film projects Making Dances and Beyond the Mainstream. In 2003, she was Rehearsal Director for the Paris Opera Ballet's production of Glacial Decoy, first teaching the work and then returning to coach in 2004. In 2012 she co-taught Line Up for performances in the Venice Biennale. Her own work has been presented in the US, Europe and Australia and awarded Choreographer's Fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Independence Foundation. She was on the faculty of the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands for a decade and has also served as adjunct faculty member at Swarthmore College, Temple University, and New York University, as well as guest teaching at numerous schools and arts centers inter/nationally. Lisa has written extensively on dance for publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Dance Magazine, and co-founded thINKingDANCE, an online dance journal. Her most recent production - Red Thread - was a collaboration with former TBDC colleagues Eva Karczag and Vicky Shick.

Carolyn Lucas has been a member of the Company since 1984. In 1993, she was appointed Choreographic Assistant and since then has played an integral role in the creation process of Brown’s works in dance and opera. Additionally, Carolyn directs company rehearsals for new work and restaging projects for both TBDC as well as companies and institutions around the world, including P.A.R.T.S. and Paris Opera Ballet. She is also currently sharing her firsthand knowledge of nearly two decades of documenting Brown's work for the digital Trisha Brown Archive. Carolyn attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1984. She studies Tai Chi with Maggie Newman and Alexander Technique with June Ekman.

Diane Madden has danced, directed, taught, studied and reconstructed Trisha Brown’s work since 1980. Through the talents of dancers both within the company and from internationally known schools and companies, she enjoys keeping Trisha’s rich range of choreography alive on stages and alternative sites worldwide. Diane has developed an approach to teaching that weaves anatomically grounded technique with improvisation, composition and performance skills. In addition to her own performance work in collaborative improvisational forms, she is greatly influenced by her study and practice of Aikido with Fuminori Onuma. Diane has received two Princess Grace Awards (1986, 1994) and a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie” 1989).

Trisha Brown Dance Company (NYC) member 1995-2002; Artistic Director Mariah Maloney Dance (NY) 2003 – Present; Graduate Program Director The College at Brockport (NY) 2011 - Present. From 1995-2002 Mariah performed, lectured and taught as a featured soloist and ensemble dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, creating original roles in Trisha Brown's Music cycle including works: Twelve Ton Rose, L'Orfeo, Canto Pianto, Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, and Groove and Countermove as well performing the legendary works: Set and Reset, Newark, Astral Converted and For M.G.: The Movie, among others. Today she continues her relationship with TBDC by serving as an international guest artist and directing restaging projects. The Columbia College Chicago Dance Center premiered Mariah's re-staging of Set and Reset/Reset. Mariah creates solo and group work from the sensing body accessing movement scores and choreography through improvisation. Her company is presented in the United States, South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. In New York Mariah Maloney Dance is produced at La MaMa; The Kitchen; Dance New Amsterdam; Judson Church; Danspace Project; Brooklyn Museum of Art. Recent international engagements include Theatre Academie Helsinki, Helsinki Finland; Danza Teatro, Santiago, Chile; DanceHouse Dance Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Mariah Maloney Dance recently presented an evening of work at the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out International Dance Festival and The Rochester Fringe Festival. Maloney earned a BFA from Purchase College and an MFA from Hollins/ADF. mariahmaloneydance.com

Melinda Myers danced for TBDC for four years (2006-2010). She was an original cast member of I love my robots and L'Amour au theater. She also performed Set and Reset, Foray Forêt, Groove and Countermove, PRESENT TENSE, how long does the subject linger at the edge of the volume…, L’Orfeo, Canto Pianto, Glacial Decoy, Group Primary Accumulation, and Spanish Dance. She received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005 and is currently an MFA candidate at University of Iowa concentrating on choreography and performance. She has re-staged Trisha Brown's work at Bard College (2010) and University of Iowa (2011). She enjoys teaching technique, improvisation, composition and theory classes as well as creating choreographic works that integrate music, storytelling, theater and dance.

Brandi Norton danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1997-2006. She was an original cast member of L'Orfeo, Canto Pianto, Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, Groove and Countermove, Geometry of Quiet, PRESENT TENSE, Winterreise and how long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume... Brandi received her BFA from Juilliard and continues to lead workshops and re-staging projects for TBDC, most recently at Movingeast (London) and Lyon Opera Ballet. In 2008, Brandi and Sonja Kostich formed the dance company OtherShore, which had its premiere of newly commissioned works at the Baryshnikov Arts Center where they were artists-in-residence.

Cori Olinghouse was a member of Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002-2006. She was an original cast member of how long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume… She also worked with Brown on O Zlozony /O Composite for the Paris Opera Ballet, which she later performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Cori is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (graduated from Manhattan Center for the Alexander Technique) and maintains a private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She teaches regularly at TBDC intensives and workshops, and has taught at Bennington College, Fordham University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Sushi Visual and Performing Arts Gallery, London Contemporary Dance School, and Tseh Moscow Summer Dance School. She recently performed in Bill Irwin’s The Happiness Lecture at the Philadelphia Theater Company. Her own work has been presented at Dixon Place, Bennington College, The Brooklyn Museum, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Judson Church, Spoke the Hub, and the Movement Research Improvisation Festival. She is a 2009-2011 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Tony Orrico was a member of Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2006-2009 during which he was an original cast member in I love my robots. He also performed in Foray Forêt, PRESENT TENSE, how long does the subject linger on the volume…, Set and Reset, Groove and Countermove, Geometry of Quiet and the Early Works. Tony directed the restaging of Floor of the Forest and Drift for South Bank Centre in Fall 2010. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He has worked with choreographers Shen Wei, John Jasperse, Faye Driscoll and Jack Ferver and he was a re-performer in Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in Spring 2010. Orrico is a visual artist, choreographer and performer. His Penwald Drawings have recently been collected by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. and commissioned by Flux/S at Strijp-S in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

Shelley Senter was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1986-1991. She continues to be involved with the Company as a guest artist, reconstructing, adapting, and staging choreography on professional companies such as Ballet Rambert (Opal Loop) and the Lyon Opera Ballet (Newark, Astral Convertible and Set and Reset/Reset), and in settings such as the Choreographic Research Center at Royaumont Abby in Paris (Foray Forêt), the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and Addison Art Museum (Floor of the Forest and Group Primary Accumulation). She has directed five Set and Reset/Reset projects (Mills College, University of Colorado, P.A.R.T.S., CNDC Angers, and Lyon Opera Ballet), collaborating with visual artists from France, Belgium, California and Colorado, as well as Glacial Decoy Redux (Mills College). Shelley has taught both independently and for TBDC around the world, most recently at Impulstanz in Vienna . She has been critically recognized and awarded for her distinct approach to movement, as an independent artist, as a former member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company as well as a steward of Yvonne Rainer's Trio A. An internationally renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique, she maintains a private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Vicky Shick danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1980-1986, during which time she received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award. Shick was an original cast member in Son of Gone Fishin’, Set and Reset, and Lateral Pass. Shick has collaborated with many other performers and choreographers and has created her own work for the last twenty years. In 2003, she received another Bessie for Choreographic Achievement for her collaborations with visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick. In New York City, Shick teaches for TBDC, Movement Research, Eugene Lang College and Hunter College. She has led TBDC restaging projects at Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College and Princeton University. In fall 2010, she co-directed Set and Reset/Reset with Eva Karczag in her hometown of Budapest, Hungary. Shick is a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow for 2008-2009. In April 2013, she will be showing a new piece at Danspace Project.

Stacy Spence danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1997-2006. He was an original cast member of L’Orfeo, Canto Pianto, 5 Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, Groove and Countermove, Geometry of Quiet, PRESENT TENSE, and how long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume… Stacy received his MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and he continues to lead classes, workshops, lectures and restaging projects for TBDC. Most recently, he directed Newark Re-Worked at CNDC Angers. He has danced and collaborated with Polly Motley and filmmaker Molly Davies, along with numerous others. Stacy’s own work has been commissioned by EDge at London Contemporary Dance School, The University of New Mexico, and OtherShore Dance Company. From 2008-2009 Stacy was a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Todd Lawrence Stone was a member of Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) from 1998-2010. Working with Trisha, Todd participated in creating his role in ten repertory pieces for her company, the last piece being Pygmalion, which debuted in Aix-en- Provence, France in 2010. Todd has taught both independently and for TBDC around the world, most recently at the Bienal Internacional de Danca do Ceara in Fortaleza Brazil, at Centre Nationale Danse in Paris, France, and at Music in Motion Dance Company in Virginia. His teaching style is based on principles he has learned working with Trisha as well as his study of the Alexander Technique and Tai Chi. In 2007 Todd created a production company which creates salon- type performances and workshops for artists to explore, share, and present their work to their peers as well as other patrons. The Salon has presented work in New York, Berlin and Korea. He is currently a Guest Professor at the Purchase College from which he graduated with a BFA in Dance in 1995.

Laurel Jenkins Tentindo grew up and began dancing in Vermont. She has performed with Sara Rudner, Vicky Shick, and the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Laurel has collaboratively made pieces with actors, puppeteers, sculptors, musicians, and appeared in Poe (...and the museum of lost arts), a film/performance hybrid directed by Elise Kermani. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, studies the Alexander Technique with June Ekman, and is a certified Skinner Releasing teacher. Laurel danced in the Company from December 2007-2012.

Keith Thompson danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1992 - 2001, serving as rehearsal assistant from 1999-2001. He danced several major roles in the repertory and was an original cast member in M.O. L’Orfeo and Canto/Pianto, Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, Groove and Countermove and Twelve Ton Rose. Keith has taught numerous TBDC Technique & Repertory workshops in the U.S. and abroad. He co-directed Set and Reset/Reset at University of Utah, and directed the Canto/Pianto reconstruction at Hofstra University. Keith received his MFA Research Fellowship in Dance from Bennington College in 2003. He formed his own company, danceTactics performance group in 2005 and he currently resides in New York City.

Katrina Thompson Warren is originally from Anchorage, Alaska and holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. Warren danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1998-2006, creating original roles in Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, Groove and Countermove, PRESENT TENSE, and how long does the subject linger at the edge of the volume… She also had the pleasure of performing work from the repertory including Set and Reset, Glacial Decoy, Astral Convertible, Newark, and several Early Works. Warren has restaged Brown’s work on Pacific Northwest Ballet and Lyon Opera Ballet. She has also directed and assisted on several Set and Reset/reset projects including University of Minnesota and at P.A.R.T.S., and most recently directed a Glacial Decoy/redux project at Western Washington University. Warren has taught TBDC master classes and workshops both nationally and internationally. She now resides in Kansas City, Missouri, where her own work has been presented at the Folly Theater. She is currently working on performance collaborations with her husband/artist Peter Warren.

Abigail Yager was a member of the Trisha Brown Company from 1995–2002 during which time she also served as Ms. Brown’s musical assistant. She was an original cast member of Twelve Ton Rose, L’Orfeo, Canto Pianto, 5 Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James, and Groove and Countermove. As a reconstructor of Ms. Brown’s work, she has worked with the Lyon Opera Ballet, at La Monnaie National Opera of Belgium, Le Festival International d’Art Lyrique, and has directed projects at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Five College Dance Department, The Ohio State University, the American Dance Festival and at P.A.R.T.S. Ms. Yager has taught at universities, festivals, and studios worldwide, including the Korean National University of the Arts, and Le Centre Choréographique National de Rennes et de Bretagne. Her teaching reflects her ongoing studies of Yoga, Qi Gong, and Alexander Technique. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, Mentor for the Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA Program, and a returning member of the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 2003.