Guest Artists in Residence

Princess Grace Foundation Awardee, she has won fellowships at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet, the Banff Centre, and Princeton University. Her work has been presented by ABT’s Incubator project, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, BalletX, the Juilliard School, Jacob’s Pillow, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, among others.  
 
A Savannah, GA native, Lamb trained at Boston Ballet School and was a longtime soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, later performing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Pontus Lidberg Dance. Her repertoire included works by Balanchine, Kylian, Naharin, and Ek. DANCE Magazine called her “a dancer of stunning clarity who illuminates the smallest details — qualities she brings to the dances she makes, too”.  
 
She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® with additional certification in MUNZ Barre method and is studying the Ilan Lev Method of somatic reeducation.

Keith Johnson has danced for Ririe/Woodbury Dance Company, Creach/Koester, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Doug Varone and Dancers. In addition, he has performed with Bili Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, Nancy Bannon, and Victoria Marks. Keith is the Artistic Director of Keith Johnson/Dancers and the Co -Director of Fistbomb Films with Gregory R R Crosby.  
 
He was named the Distinguished Alumni for 2012/13 from The Department of Modern Dance at the University of Utah. He has been awarded two Lester Horton Awards for Choreography, been a 2015 and 2024 Djerassi Artist Resident, has taught at ADF, Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Intensives, and Beijing International Dance Festival. He is an Emeritus Professor from California State University Long Beach.

Now in its 23rd season, The Seldoms is a Chicago-based dance company creating multimedia performances driven by bold physicality and the belief that dance can inspire dialogue about pressing social issues. Under the direction of choreographer Carrie Hanson, the company develops expansive, research-based productions in collaboration with artists across visual art, theater, sound, and fashion, as well as experts in history and science. 
 
Founded in 2002, the company has performed in more than 20 U.S. cities and internationally in Russia, Canada, Taiwan, and Scotland. Their collaboration with Glasgow visual artists produced Toolbox, a sourcebook for makers, and the exhibition Toolbox at Twenty at the Hyde Park Art Center, named one of Chicago Tribune’s “Best Art Exhibits” of 2022. 

Their acclaimed work Power Goes—commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago—received a NEFA National Dance Project Award and toured nationally. Recent projects include Floe and Superbloom, large-scale projection works commissioned by ART on THE MART. 

Based at Visceral Dance Center, The Seldoms continues to use performance as a platform for reflection, dialogue, and collective inspiration. Learn more at www.theseldoms.org.

Native Houstonian, Lauren Anderson trained exclusively at Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy from the age of seven. She joined Houston Ballet in 1983 as a Corps de Ballet and in 1990 became the first Black principal dancer at Houston Ballet. She is also one of the few Black ballerinas at the head of a major ballet company anywhere in the world.   
 
In January 2007, Ms. Anderson transitioned into Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement department, where she conducts free dance programming for Houston area schools, and lectures to students on her historic career as one of America’s most distinguished African-American ballerinas.In the spring of 2016, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture awarded her with a permanent exhibit. In fall of 2021 was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. Most recently, a production chronicling her life, Plumshuga, premiered at Stages Theater.

2021 Bogliasco Fellow Gina Patterson has won such honors as the Choo San Goh Award, a nomination for an Isadora Duncan Award, the Hubbard Street 2 National Choreographic Competition, New Choreographers on Pointe, and the National Choreographic Initiative. Her work appears in the repertoire of companies across the US and have been presented internationally in Italy, Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Spain.  
 
She danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Ballet Austin, Ballet Florida, and as a guest artist across North America and Europe. Ms. Patterson educates through creativity workshops and multi-disciplinary collaboration with young artists. Advocating for empathy and compassion, she searches to uncover the authentic and vulnerable – the voice within. She uses her art to examine our humanity and interconnection, believing in the art form’s power — to heal; and through the creative process, build unity and community.

Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award recipient and graduate of The Juilliard School, Darrell Grand Moultrie has created and staged works for dance companies including American Ballet Theatre, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Atlanta Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet among others.   

Moultrie served as the choreographer for the Pulitzer Prize winning & Tony nominated play FAT HAM on Broadway, Disney’s new revival AIDA in The Netherlands, the world premiere of the new musical GODDESS at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, MCC’s SPACE DOGS, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of MERRY WIVE, WITNESS UGANDA at American Repertory Theater, and SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS at Manhattan Theatre Club. Moultrie served as a choreographer on Beyoncé’s record-breaking Mrs. Carter World Tour.