Creative Director

& Choreographer

Lo Poppy is a queer, multifaceted artist, facilitator, and experimentalist based in movement practices. Their creative life deconstructs familiarity, while inverting ideas with dreamscapes and alternate realities. Inspired by humanness, imagination and athleticism, the crux of their work embodies playful instincts. They aim to reveal the grotesque elements of being human all while collaboratively building a microcosm that is swimming with wonder, reflection and care.

They hold a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts where they studied and learned from Pamela Pietro, Sean Curran, Jeremy Nelson, Indah Walsh, Giada Matteini, and many others. In 2023, they worked as an adjunct professor for the Tisch Summer High School Program teaching contemporary and floorwork. In 2024, Lo was a commissioned choreographer for the Steps Conservatory Program, and had the honor of being a guest artist with their conservatory work in The Steps Beyond Spring Choreography Lab.

Lo has presented work with 7MPR at Arts on Site, Steps Choreography Spring Lab 2022 and Fall 2023. They continue sharing their practice as an alternate instructor at Steps on Broadway.

Sadi (she/they) is a mover, singer and actor based in New York City. She 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. Sadi has worked with and performed works by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company,  Sidra Bell, Andy Blankenbueler, Darrah Carr Dance, Sean Curran Dance Company, David Dorfman, Komoco Dance and Jenn Freeman. She is interested in how various forms of art can make us feel, think, hear and observe differently throughout our daily life. She  invests in each process of creation and all of the questions and discoveries they 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 grateful to be working alongside such beautiful people in the Fluid Creature Collective and is excited for all that is to come.

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) is a freelance artist currently based in New York City. Her work centers around the exploration of human emotion and expression of authenticity through movement. Born and raised in Arizona, she moved to New York to continue her dance education at NYU Tisch, where she graduated with a BFA in 2023. Her training spans a wide array of choreographers and companies, including Parsons Dance, Sidra Bell, Humanhood Dance Company, and the B12 Festival in Berlin. She is driven by a profound curiosity of the energy that flows within and around her body, using movement as a means to reflect on the ever changing eb and flow of the human experience. Through her art, Jess aims to take the audience on a transformative journey, allowing them to feel, connect, and experience art in a visceral way. Creating movement alongside the Collective has inspired her to further push boundaries and seek the unknown to create an even more authentic experience for both the artists and audience involved.

GUEST ARTISTS INCLUDE

Megan McDevitt

Mary Lynn Gonsorcik

Zoey Barnes

Zoe Farago