The Roster

Roster Grid Image Descriptions

A grid of eight images for each artist, with the artist/company's name overlaid in white text over a faint purple background. In order, clickable text to each artist's webpage read: Bridgman|Packer Dance, David Dorfman Dance, Ephrat Asherie Dance, Kinetic Light, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, RUBBERBAND, PearlArts Movement & Sound, Versa-Style Street Dance Company.

Images, in order:

Myrna Packer, a light skinned female dancer with curly auburn hair, thrusts her head back in a backband while the head of Art Bridgman, a light skinned male dancer with brown hair, crouches next to her in the empty space below the small of her back. They move in an industrial landscape of tan, concrete walls.

Four dancers wearing white costumes are posed in David Dorfman Dance's (A)Way Out of My Body. They take the same position with their legs turned out and bent. Their upper bodies are in port de bras with their left arm in fifth position. Their facial expressions range from happy to serious. 

Three Ephrat Asherie Dance dancers pose together on a bright lime green and yellow studio. The hinge their torsos to the side,  slightly at the waist as their legs form a shallow lunge. With hand on their hips, they look upwards proudly, hand on the shoulder of their neighbor.

Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard are back to back on a wooden ramp in their wheelchairs, each extending an arm sideways toward the camera. Mirrors of each other, their heads tilt back in a moment of soft touch. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly hair; they wear shimmery sleeveless costumes.

Two Nrityagram dancers, a medium-complexioned woman in a navy blue costume and a medium-complexioned woman in a orange-red costume, form similar poses with a seated musicians in the background. With a shallow bend in both knees, the dancers ease their head to the left as both arms.

Three RUBBERBAND dancers in similar two-piece costumes interact on a purple-lit stage. The center dancer in a black costume, kicks his leg above a lunging dancer to the left. On the right, he hovers his arms above the head of another dancer, who crosses her arms as she steps across her midline.

Three PearlArts Movement & Sound dancers joyously move on an orange lit stage, fit with white wooden boxes., Cameron Waters, in a purple button up shirt is in mid air on top of a box, the other two dancers in similar yellow and red shirts gleefully run together on the marley floor. The dancer in the red shirt, LeTrea Rembert, looks back to Waters over his shoulder as if in a game of tag.

Two Versa-Style Street Dance Company dancers hinge backwards on the tips of their sneakers, extending into a layout against a black background. Brianna "Passion" Grey, a woman in a denim jumpsuit and red hat, extends her arm to the side as she bends her leg up to right angle.  Brandon "BeastBoi" Juezan-Williams, a man in a black tee, jeans, and a white hat, forms a similar pose that is mirrored and behind Passion.