Festival Artists
2015 | 2014
Autumn Knight
Autumn Knight is a Houston-based interdisciplinary artist. Knight’s work primarily falls within performance, installation and social practices that address conventions of racial and gender identity, psychotherapy, and art access. Knight’s performance work has been in group exhibitions at various institutions including the University Museum at Texas Southern…
Dean Moss
Dean Moss is a director, choreographer and media artist who, through his company Gametophyte Inc., questions identity and transcultural experience in the guise of multidisciplinary collaborative performance projects. Moss was the Curator of Dance and Performance at The Kitchen from 1999-2004 and served as a Curatorial…
Ibrahim Quraishi
Ibrahim Quraishi is an artist who works with different mediums like photography, photo painting, video, film, installation, performance, dance and theatre. His primary interest is the exploration of the understanding of visual performativity and its relationship to the broader cultural perspective. As a son of a…
Janet Biggs
Janet Biggs is an American artist, known primarily for her work in video, photography and performance. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her undergraduate degree from Moore College of Art, and pursued graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design. She has had…
Jasmine Hearn
Jasmine Hearn is a freelance choreographer and performing artist/dancer. A native Houstonian, she graduated magna cum laude from Point Park University with her B.A. in Dance. Jasmine travels around the country to showcase her choreographic work and participate in diverse dance projects. Currently, she is a…
Jhon R. Stronks
Jhon R. Stronks was one of Houston Press’s 2014 Houston Master Minds and holds additional honors in the Houston Press Best of 2013 in the Contemporary/Modern Dance Categories. He is a dance maker whose passion for giving address to the gaps between what is perceived and…
Karen Stokes
Karen Stokes has created eight evening length dance projects, and multiple repertory works that have performed in Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Toronto, and Sweden. Stokes is the Artistic Director of her own non-profit company: Karen Stokes Dance. In January 2013, Stokes’ company was the…
Laura Gutierrez
Laura Gutierrez, a graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, received a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2009, where she was awarded a William R. Kenan, Jr., Performing Arts Fellowship at the…
Lori Yuill
Lori Yuill is an independent choreographer, performer and teaching artist. She did her undergraduate work at TCU and then moved to Guatemala to perform and teach with Momentum Danza Contemporanea. In 2000 Lori returned to Houston and performed with Suchu Dance. She also made Floating/Falling for…
Luke Savisky
Luke Savisky creates multimedia installations that transform natural and architectural settings as well as traditional and non-traditional art spaces. Exploring the spectrum of the human experience through film and art, he stretches the limits of visual media using sculptural forms and unusual projection surfaces in unlikely…
Maya Zbib
Born in Lebanon, Maya Zbib is a theatre director and performer and founding member of Zoukak Theatre Company and Cultural Association. She acquired a BA in Theatre from the Institute of Fine Arts, the Lebanese University (2003) and pursued her MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths,…
Mondo Bizarro
Mondo Bizarro is a New Orleans-based company that has been creating daring, multidisciplinary art and fostering creative partnerships in local, national and international communities for the last eleven years. Our latest work, Cry You One, premiered as a 2.5 mile theatrical procession through the heart of…
Omar Abi Azar
Omar Abi Azar is a theater director and a founding member of Zoukak Theater Company, he holds a BA in Theater from the Lebanese University, Institute of Fine Arts (2006). Since 1999 he has directed and performed in a large number of productions with local and…
Rebecca French
Rebecca French, Artistic Director of FrenetiCore Dance, began dancing and choreographing in 1995. She co-founded FrenetiCore in 2003 with composer and filmmaker Robert Thoth, and the two created and performed original multimedia dance theatre and dance-on-film until 2012. She co-founded Frenetic Theater in 2006 and the…
Sari Nordman
Sari Nordman is a dancer-choreographer, and has presented her work at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, AUNTS, BAAD!, BAX, CPR, Columbia University, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, The Irondale Center and Movement Research at the Judson Church, among other venues. She is a recipient of BAX…
Sofia Córdova
Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sofia Córdova received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Though beginning her career as a [photographer Cordova’s work has expanded to include performance,…
Suzanne Bocanegra
Suzanne Bocanegra is an artist living and working in New York City. Bocanegra’s work has been seen in exhibitions in the United States and abroad, in such venues as the Serpentine Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Hayward Gallery in London, the Armand Hammer…
