Esmé Julien Boyce
is a Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer. She received a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Boyce's work has been presented at 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, Lincoln Center, The Dogwood Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Judson Church, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Center for Performance Research. Boyce’s work was curated for the Judson Church performances of the Museum of Modern Art’s fall 2018 exhibition, Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done. Boyce was a 2016-2017 New Direction Choreography Lab Fellow at The Ailey School and returned to The Ailey School to choreograph for the 2018 BFA Fall Concert. As a dancer, Esmé has had the pleasure of working with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Judith Moss, Yara Travieso, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Douglas Dunn, Katherine Partington, Aileen Passloff, Marta Renzi and Cori Kresge. Esmé is currently dancing with Megan Williams Dance Projects, Amber Sloan, Catherine Tharin, and her project-based company, Esmé Boyce Dance.
Cody Boyce is an artist, composer and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Cooper Union and is presently pursuing an MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College. Cody composed and performed the score for Interrobang, a collaboration and performance with Esmé Boyce Dance which was presented by the 92Y in 2017. He also composed and recorded the score for LASERsHOW: Light, Color and Geometry, an exhibition designed by artist Matthew Schreiber for the Frost Museum of Science in Miami, FL that explores the physics of laser light. In 2016 he self-released Dark and Pretty Flat, his first album of instrumental music and narration, stemming from a collaboration and performance with Esmé Boyce Dance in the fall of 2014. Other compositions for dance include A Particular Premiere of a First, shown at The Howard Gilman Performance Space at Baryshnikov Arts Center in October 2011, and Radix ut Paliurus, Senior Dance Production, performed at the Juilliard School in 2009.
Kit Boyce, set designer, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. He holds a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In addition to visual art, Sue Julien designs and constructs costumes for dance. Ms. Julien has designed costumes for performances at the 92nd Street Y, Chen Dance Center, BRIC, BAM’s Fishman Space, The Joyce Theater, The Howard Gilman Performance Space at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater (The Juilliard School), DanceNow at Tisch Studios and Dixon Place. Ms. Julien has also worked with choreographer Yara Travieso, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Catherine Tharin Dance, Satellite Collective, Janis Brenner & Dancers and the singer Grace Weber.
Cori Kresge is a NYC based dance artist, writer, and teacher. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in dance and has been a member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, José Navas/Compagnie Flak, and Stephen Petronio Company. She currently collaborates and performs with various artists including Rashaun Mitchell+Silas Riener, Rebecca Lazier, Hanna Novak, Xavier Cha, Esmé Boyce, Sarah Skaggs, Wendy Osserman, Bill Young, Liz Magic Laser, School for Poetic Computation, and film makers Zuzka Kurtz, Alla Kovgan, and Charles Atlas. Kresge's debut poetry collection, isn’t devotion, is published by No, Dear/Small Anchor Press. She teaches dance at varrious institutions and is a certified Zero Balancing bodyworker.
Kit McDaniel (B.F.A., FSU) loves to dance and has been dancing for a very long time. Kit is grateful for her many years working with Esmé Boyce.
Matilda Sakamoto is a New York and Los Angeles based choreographer, dancer and artist. She received her B.F.A from the Juilliard School, and has danced for artists including Nicole Von Arx, Esmé Boyce, Ashley Robicheaux and Hivewild, and in the exhibition Transmissions at the Whitney. In 2019 she is performing as an actor in Richard Nelson's newest play The Michael's, at the Public Theater. Matilda choreographed a dance opera in Ostrava, Czech Republic for composer Petr Kotik at the NODO Festival, which re-premiered in New York at Paula Cooper Gallery. Her choreography has been presented at venues such as Judson Church, Dixon Place, and Triskelion Arts. She has also been a choreographer of the Juilliard School's summer dance program.
