Jenny Boissiere (she/her) is a Washington Heights-based choreographer. Originally from New Orleans, her movement style reflects her background in modern dance, jazz, Black southern line dances and rhythms, and contact improvisation. Her work examines themes of power, dependence, empathy, and identity.

Jenny was selected for Doug Varone’s Choreographic Mentorship and Chen Dance Center’s New Steps Choreographer Series in 2017. She produced her first evening-length show, Reflections//Refractions: The Empathy Project in 2019. After a two-year hiatus, she created Running Into Joy in 2021 and ReStart in 2022, a site-specific dance set in Fort Washington Park.

Jenny’s work has been supported by an NYC Artists Corp Grant (2021), two Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone’s Creative Engagement Grants (2019, 2022), and two Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Grant (2019 and 2021). She is also an inaugural recipient of UMEZ and Mertz Gilmore Foundation’s Seed Fund for Dance in Upper Manhattan for Summer 2022.      

Jacquelyn batten

Jacquelyn Batten (she/they) hails from East Spencer, NC and is a graduate of UNC Greensboro with a BFA in Choreography and Performance and an Arts Administration minor (‘18). Her work centers around Black movement, social theory and spirituality, using these ideas as tools to further understand herself and the world around her. She explores these concepts through movement vocabulary rooted in her modern, hip hop, jazz, and traditional African training. Besides being a well-versed choreographer and performer, she developed her own movement-based media platform entitled (soul)lection where she shares her work, dance journey, and other movement-based content. Jacquelyn is also a budding arts administrator, with hopes of one day curating and producing performance art. They are currently wrapping up their time as the Dance Programming apprentice at New York City Center, with the hopes of advancing their administrative career to the next level. Jacquelyn is excited to be in New York tacking her artistic pursuits, and looks forward to where this journey takes her.

Madelyne Clark

Madelyne Clark was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in Monroe, Louisiana, where she began her formal competitive dance training at Linda Lavender School of Dance. During her off seasons with Twin City Ballet, Madelyne spent her summers studying at Joffrey South Ballet Summer Intensive, Next Generation Ballet, and Regional Dance America’s National Choreography Intensive. Madelyne graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. She soon moved to New York to continue her training at The Ailey School. As a student in The Ailey School Scholarship Program, Madelyne has worked with renowned choreographers such as Omar Roman de Jesus, Earl Mosley, and Martha Nichols and was featured in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. As a member of the Ailey Student Performance Group, she had the opportunity to not only learn repertory by Alvin Ailey but also work with Ronald K. Brown and Tina Bush. Madelyne enjoys all styles of dance and exploring new movements through both improvisation and choreography of her own which has been been recognized and awarded through Regional Dance America (Monticello Award 2017). Madelyne is very excited to collaborate these fellow artists in the Restart Project.

Sara Crayne-Dedrick

Sara Crayne-Dedrick, Westchester NY, graduated magna cum laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2015. While at college, she performed works by Pam Tanowitz, Doug Elkins, Larry Keigwin, Keith Thompson, Randy James, Kim Gibilisco, Paul Ocampo, and Julia Ritter. Her work has also been shown during the Rutgers Summer Series, annual student concerts, and ACDFA. She has had the privilege of dancing for Kelley Donovan, Monteleone Dance Collective, Tangent Dance under NACRE Dance Company and her own work throughout New York, New Jersey, and Boston.

Molly Gorin

Molly is a Brooklyn-based mover and native New Yorker. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2016 with a double major in dance and creative writing. Since then she has been making and performing contemporary dance and physical theater with a variety of emerging choreographers. 

Sarah Hillmon

Sarah Hillmon is a native of Rochester, NY. There, she trained with Garth Fagan, Timothy M. Draper and was a member of the Rochester City Ballet. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she had the privilege of performing works by talented artists including Sidra Bell, Lucinda Childs, Gus Solomons Jr, and Charles Weidman. While in New York, Sarah has worked with artists such as Solange Knowles, and has been a part of numerous dance companies including Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Robert Mark Dance, Suzanne Beahrs Dance, BodyStories, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company and DanceBoissiere.

becky hutt

Becky Hutt, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a dancer, visual artist and occupational therapist living in Washington Heights. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Social Thought and Analysis, Becky performed over the next decade with companies in Chicago and New York and toured throughout the US, Canada and South America with Disney Live. Becky then pursued her master’s degree in Occupational Therapy at Tufts University. During her time in Boston, she began studying salsa dance and performed as a company member of Caramelo Boston. Becky was a founding member of DanceBoissiere from 2014-2017 and has been a collaborator since then. In 2021, Becky returned to NYC and now works as a school-based occupational therapist. She is thrilled to be rejoining DanceBoissiere as a performer.  

Genna Mattana

Genna Mattana, from Syosset, New York, is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance, where she performed in works by choreographers including Kyle Abraham, David Parker, and Pam Tanowitz. Since graduating, she has worked with David Dorfman Dance, Krissy and the Works, Taryn Vander Hoop, Jenna Riegel, Brush/McGrath (works), Nattie Trogdon, Katie Skinner, and DanceBoissiere.

Jessica Robling

Jessica Robling, Brooklyn NY, graduated from The University of Wisconsin Madison in 2019 with a BFA in Dance and Pilates Certificate. While at UW-Madison, Jessica has performed works by Kate Corby, Li Chiao-Ping, Chris Walker, Jin-Wen Yu, Michel Kouakou, Scott Ewen, Heidi Latsky, Brooke Smiley, and Anna Halprin. Since graduating, she has had the opportunity to work with choreographers Jenny Boissiere, Jin Wen Yu, Li Chiao Ping, Liz Sexe Dance, Kanon Sapp, Michel Kouakou and was a member of Nimbus2 Dance.