Lo Poppy is a fluid movement based artist, facilitator, and experimentalist. Their creative life radically deconstructs familiarity;  inverting ideas with curiosity and questions. Inspired by humanness and imagination, the crux of their work embodies truth, play, integrity and authenticity.  Lo's love for teaching and creating drives her as a researcher and experimentalist. They enjoy open dialogue with the artists they work with so the movement is generated out of fluid conversation. They intend to guide others with love, compassion, excitement, and support as they discover who they are as artists and human beings.

Lo holds a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts where they taught for the Tisch Summer High School Program, and now sub as an adjunct for the BFA Program. In Spring of 2024, Lo will be a guest choreographer for The Steps on Broadway Pre-Professional Training Program and present work with the students in June of 2024. 

Their Fluid Creature Collective recently performed for Journey Dance Connections Choreography Awards Show at the SOHO Playhouse, The Deans Tisch Orientation at Town Hall, and Steps Choreographers Lab Performance in 2023. FCC will be continuing their research with Green Space: Digging in Group Residency and premiere their work in Spring of 2024.

Creative Director & Choreographer

Sadi (she/they) is a mover, singer and actor based in New York City and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May of 2023 with a bachelor in Dance and minor in Business of Entertainment and Media. She is interested in how various forms of art can make us feel, think, hear and observe differently throughout our day and how each individual has their own story and path in this life. She is invested in the process of creation and all of the questions and discoveries it can bring up. To move the body, use the voice and play with expressions are all things she finds joy and connection in within her practice. Sadi is excited to continue exploring and indulging in the creative process with the Fluid Creature Collective and is thankful to work alongside the incredible humans involved.

Gary McCall (he/him) graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he grew up training in contemporary and jazz dance at his local studio, and has participated in numerous theater productions. He has performed in works by Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, and Sidra Bell, and has danced abroad in Berlin to further his study in dance composition and improvisation. Gary choreographs to help identify and analyze thoughts that cloud his psyche. Finding the bridge between the body’s physicality and the mind’s conceptualism is what drives him to create and explore

Jess Lemcke (she/her) was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona and began her dance training at the age of 3. She was trained at Ballet Conservatory by Cory Fragoso-Gram and Norman Walker. She continued her dance education at NYU Tisch and graduated with a BFA in 2023. She has trained with a wide range of choreographers and companies including Sidra Bell, Limon Dance Company, the B12 festival in Berlin, and many others. Jess feels most drawn to the artistic expression that contemporary allows. She is inspired by energy flowing throughout her body and how energy can shift on a day to day basis. She likes to explore her movement with a sense of curiosity that will lead her to movement discovery of new pathways and new emotions.