Lu Chen: 

陳璐 / Lu is an artist with a focus in movement residing in Mini Sota Makoce.

Lu holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College, where they majored in Psychology and Theater and Dance.

Lu has performed with Macalester Mainstage Theater, Lightning Rod, 20% Theatre Company, Red Eye Theater, Twin Cities public parks, Tek Box Theater, the MODArts’ Move To Change Festival, and Southern Theater. 

Lu danced in works by choreographers such as Wynn Fricke, Ashwini Ramaswany, and Vanessa Cruz.

Sabrín Feels: 

Sabrín Feels is an actor, comedian, and artist from Miami, FL.

IG- @lilgentleman_

Taylor Arvizu Hara: 

Taylor Arvizu Hara is a mover, singer, writer, lover, witch & somatic coach currently working and living in Minneapolis! 

Marisol Herling: 

Marisol Herling is a queer, Latine artist and chef based in the Twin Cities. Marisol began dancing with TWE in 2018 after relocating from Nebraska. She has since collaborated with other MN artists and created her own work as part of the 2018 MN Fringe Festival and as a 2022 Naked Stages Fellow. Marisol is also the co-producer of a multidisciplinary show with her spouse, aimed at highlighting local and national BIPOC artists, called The LIFT. 

Alongside her performance work as a dance and burlesque artist, Marisol is a chef; prioritizing accessibility and sustainability in food.

Nate Ramos: 

Nate Ramos (any/all pronouns) is a queer movement artist based in the Twin Cities, MN. They hail from Watsonville, on the central coast of California, with ancestral roots in El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. As an ecological restoration practitioner, their practice is concerned with the repair of ecological and somatic ruptures they and their communities (have) face(d). Improvisation undergirds their movement practice and performance.

They have performed in a variety of productions over the past three years in the Twin Cities, San Francisco, and their alma mater, Stanford University, ranging from ensemble choreography to real-time movement improvisation and physical theater. They enjoy social dancing of all kinds, and communing with the land, water, and especially, beavers.

Ione Sanders: 

Ione Sanders (she/her) is an improvisational dancer and experiential educator based in Minneapolis on Dakota land.

Her interests include printmaking, collage, process theology, and deep time. Much of Ione’s artistic interest and life work centers around lineages of paganism, animism, and transsexuality as vectors for unlearning whiteness and rebuilding interdependent relationships with human and non-human neighbors and kin.

Ione has appeared in scored and improvised works including: Declivity, with A House Unbuilt at the MCA Chicago; Sound Moves, with choreographer Chrissy Martin; Jerry’s Map, an improvised group performance at the Intuit Art Museum; and numerous informal and in-process showings.

She is a recent transplant to Minneapolis from Chicago, where she helped organize and teach at the Chicago Contact Improvisation Jam.