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Tori Lawrence is a choreographer, filmmaker, and educator who creates site-specific multimedia performances and dance films. Her recent screendance projects have been filming and hand-processing super 8mm and 16mm analog motion picture film. Her environmentally-based work inspires an imaginative and sustainable way of looking at, thinking about, and using space. She's currently collaborating with San Francisco-based choreographer Sara Shelton Mann on a new performance installation set to premiere in 2021. Tori has been a dance lecturer at Middlebury College, the University of Kansas, and a guest artist at Franklin & Marshall College, Wilson College, Drexel University, and Connecticut College. She’s been awarded residencies and fellowships at Yaddo, Djerassi, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest’s Workshop Foundation. Her projects have been funded by New England Foundation for the Arts, Dance Films Association, Vermont Arts Council, and Lighton International Artists Exchange.

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Originally from the Midwest, Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas, Franklin & Marshall College, and Connecticut College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion.  Ellie is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works and has been with the company for seven years.  She currently teaches at Keene State College and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought/Hawley Street Ballet in Northampton, MA.  Ellie's dance reviews and other dance writings have appeared online at thINKingDANCE and BAC Stories.​​

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Jungwoong Kim has been a performance artist---a dancer, choreographer, designer, and film editor---for more than 20 years. Born and raised in South Korea, he had extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual. He was awarded a 2015 grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for the creation of SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary performance project. Currently he is involved in the Philadelphia based Korean activist organization SESAMO as a choreographer, collaborating with their community members in a numerous site-specific performances. Jungwoong teaches improvisation and Contact Improvisation locally and internationally. He collaborates with Marion Ramírez, Germaine Ingram, Leah Stein, and Merián Soto. For the last two years he has been working with Tori Lawrence + Co.

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​Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. Jennifer addresses her body, mind and being through questioning. Articulating internal experiences through performance and teaching, she augments these practices by sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language. Her dancing is profoundly inspired by Linda Rogers Albritton, Ann Cummings, Patricia Cummings, Beatrice LaVerne, Barbara Sloan, Bambi Anderson, Dale Andree, Gerri Houlihan, Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Lisa Race, David Dorfman, Patty Townsend, Thomas F. DeFrantz, and Janet Wong, Jennifer is currently performing in the cast of Weathering by Faye Driscoll. She has been a company member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, and sustained a duet collaboration with Paul Matteson from 1999-2019. Jennifer received a Masters Degree in 2019 from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She currently teaches Sarah Lawrence College (NY) and Movement Research (NYC).

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