WORKSHOP
MADE BY WOMEN
FALL WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 11
10am - 4pm
Location : Joyce Studios - Studio 3
As part of the 5th Anniversary MADE BY WOMEN celebration, Dual Rivet is excited to host a 6-hour, high intensity workshop comprised of the key technical and theatrical elements the company works with. This year’s Faculty includes Dual Rivet, Leslie Kraus, and Tamisha Guy! The workshop will dive deep into theatrical exploration, floorwork technique, improvisation and partnering repertoire. This workshop is designed to push our understanding of our physicality as movers, explore our technique through physical communication, and delve into exciting character development. We are so excited to share our highly physical, contemporary movement with the community.
MEET THE FACULTY
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TAMISHA GUY
TAMISHA A. GUY, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, studied at Ballet Tech under Eliot Feld, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and SUNY Purchase. She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company 2013. Awards include the 2016 Princess Grace Award and 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s 2016 “Top 25 to Watch” and Dance Europe’s 2017 “Best Dancers of the Year.” Guy was a performer with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham from 2014 to 2025, serving as the Rehearsal Director for four of those years. She is currently a Dance Lecturer at Barnard College and the Founder of HUETAPE, a skin-toned kinesiology tape brand celebrating the unique needs of melanated individuals.
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DUAL RIVET - Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth
DUAL RIVET is a women-led dance company focused on creating and sharing highly physical contemporary dance to a wide audience. Based in NYC, Dual Rivet creates work for stage and film that exchanges a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. Directors Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth have been making and presenting work since 2017. They have performed, taught, and set work at Festival PRISMA (Panama), b12 (Berlin), Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico), Barnard College/Columbia University, Sam Houston State University, Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Joe's Pub, West End Theatre, Kittery Maine, Musikfest Pennsylvania, Gibney Dance, Peridance Capezio Center, CreateArt, Arts On Site and many more.
The company teaches a myriad of classes, throughout the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on contemporary partnering and floorwork. Dual Rivet is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School, Gibney, Peridance, SUNY Purchase, Marymount Manhattan College, and Adelphi University. The company hosts an annual choreography festival, MADE BY WOMEN, highlighting women choreographers and filmmakers from around the globe. For more info:
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LESLIE KRAUS - Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
LESLIE KRAUS is a choreographer, performer, and educator with a distinguished career spanning performance and academia. From 2006 to 2014, she was a principal dancer with the Kate Weare Company, contributing to over ten of Weare's creations and serving as Assistant Director. From 2012-2015, Kraus performed with Punchdrunk in both Sleep No More (NYC) and The Drowned Man (UK), and has continued with the company as both performer and guest rehearsal director through 2024. From 2020-2025, Kraus coordinated the Five Moons Dance Festival, which honors and celebrates the legacies of the five renowned Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma. From 2018-2025, she taught at the University of Oklahoma, earning the rank of Associate Professor. Kraus is also a director for CONCRETE, an immersive theatre summer intensive under artistic director Stefanie Batten Bland. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from the University of Washington. In 2025, she became the artistic director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
WHAT TO EXPECT
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
with Tamisha Guy
The emphasis of class is to explore the fullness of movement in relation to quality, isolation and speed. Through a blend of classical modern techniques and contemporary aesthetics we build upon our understanding of weight distribution, intricate and circular pathways and efficient transitions through guided improvisation and phrase work.
PARTNERING + FLOORWORK
with Dual Rivet
Dual Rivet’s class encompasses a wide range of contemporary floorwork and partnering skills. We will explore intense physicality through strength building techniques, attention to placement and weight, and a curiosity to move. The classes will include basic floorwork and partnering concepts, contact improvisation, and repertoire that is inspired heavily by capoeira, acrobatics, and release technique. The class emphasizes our maximum physical capacity as movers as we will focus on softening and delving into safe practices. The result will be momentous, seamless and sustainable movement, allowing for personal exploration of style and musicality.
SWEATING NARRATIVE
with Leslie Kraus
In this workshop, we will demystify the bridge between dancing and physical acting. Trained dancers are already imbued with tools to become potent physical storytellers, and this class will unlock key information for you to access what you already know and drive you towards making and performing work that is more narratively driven. Come ready to sink your teeth into improvising, composing, and authoring yourself as a sweaty storymaker.