loveconductors
is a human movement project

Shiloh Hodges - project manager/ performer

is a performer (current: Then She Fell, previous: SBDNY, Renegade Performance Group, HYPERBOLIC!) and word person whose practice is based in feminist & queer worldmaking practices.

Samantha Lysaght - company manager/ performer

is a Brooklyn-based dance artist (informed by qi gong, house, and contemporary) whose practice is transitioning from running violently into walls and instead opening courageously to the vastness of physical and spiritual possibility.

Madeline Warriner - media manager/ performer

is a movement artist and educator, currently performing with loveconductors and The Equus Projects; teaching with Dancewave, Dance Theater of Harlem and Bates Dance Festival’s Youth Arts Program. She is the director of Pentangle Arts Dance Program, and teaches Yoga and Pilates to kids and adults around NYC.

Renée Colbert - media coordinator/ performer

is a multidisciplinary artist who started in dance. She devotes her time to learning technologies as a deconstructive/restorative practice in service to what is true. Renée has created all archival footage, on this site and our instagram account

Light McCauliffe - barber/ performer

is a barber and dance-maker queering heads and stages across NYC and beyond. Slide into the dms @lightcutsnyc although they have currently deleted the app.

Ube Halaya- performer

is a hybrid drag-performer-artist who wears things, writes things, and plays things.

Justin Faircloth - performer

is a performer from North Carolina. He’s currently working with loveconductors, Maddie Schimmel, Then She Fell and Ashley Yergens.

Maestro Flux - performer

is based in Cleveland as the Dance program coordinator for Rainey Institute and is a Conductor for the El Sestima @Rainey orchestra. He blends the arts – music, dance, theater, and visual - into one large and inspiring manuscript of life‘s most beautiful qualities, stories and lessons.

slowdanger - performers

is a Pittsburgh-based multidisciplinary performance entity co-founded and co-directed by anna thompson and taylor knight.

anna thompson

is a movement artist, facilitator, vocalist, and producer. She continues creative conversations with resonating artists including taylor knight, loveconductors, Sidra Bell, Jasmine Hearn, MICHIYAYA dance, and Anna Henson. She is currently a resident at Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Carnegie Museum of Art and will be premiering slowdanger ’s ‘empathy machine’ this fall at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater PGH, The Segal Theatre NYC, and Dance Place DC. She witnesses her work manifesting as one body amassed of multiple bodies navigating mixed realities through sustained collaboration and world building.

taylor knight

is a choreographer, performance artist, sound artist, curator and facilitator. He has worked with Jasmine Hearn, Ate9 Dance Company, Christopher Williams, Sidra Bell, Bill Shannon and more. taylor is interested in manifestation of process through questioning the frameworks of performance and the human condition. He is interested in ontological examination, physiological centering and performance as ritualistic practice, unveiling layers of their identity.