creative and administrative direction
Photo by Timothy Avery Photography
Creator, Founder, and Director of Lady BOS Productions, Kristin Wagner is a dance performer, choreographer, educator, and administrator passionate about creating space and opportunity for artists to make and share dynamic, evocative, compelling dance works. Having graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston University with B.S. in Hospitality Administration, Kristin left a burgeoning career in Finance at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston in favor of a life filled to the brim with art. For the past six years, Kristin has enjoyed translating her skills in finance, accounting, and operational management within the field of dance at such organizations as The Dance Complex, Boston Moving Arts Productions, and Dance Paws LLC. In 2018, following the success of her first self-produced dance theater concert ...that’s what she said, Kristin created Lady BOS Productions in an effort to provide low or no cost consulting to grassroots dance companies, as well as to grow ...that’s what she said into a multidimensional, high-impact dance project that supports femme artists.
As a performance artist, Kristin has had the honor of performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Jordan Hall, among others. She has been dancing with KAIROS Dance Theater since 2012, currently serves as principal dancer and rehearsal director for the company. Kristin also performs with Brian Feigenbaum and Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, and has been creating a series of collaborative duets with Tony Guglietti. Kristin has presented choreography at the Salem Arts Festival, Boston University, The Dance Complex, the Third Life Choreographers Series, NACHMO! Boston, Tufts University and Harvard University. Kristin is currently on teaching faculty in a variety of studio settings ranging from recreational to pre-professional and adult, including the New England Conservatory, Wilmington Dance Academy, and Koltun Ballet Boston.
For more, please visit: http://kristincwagner.com | Instagram: @kriscross392
As a performance artist, Kristin has had the honor of performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Jordan Hall, among others. She has been dancing with KAIROS Dance Theater since 2012, currently serves as principal dancer and rehearsal director for the company. Kristin also performs with Brian Feigenbaum and Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, and has been creating a series of collaborative duets with Tony Guglietti. Kristin has presented choreography at the Salem Arts Festival, Boston University, The Dance Complex, the Third Life Choreographers Series, NACHMO! Boston, Tufts University and Harvard University. Kristin is currently on teaching faculty in a variety of studio settings ranging from recreational to pre-professional and adult, including the New England Conservatory, Wilmington Dance Academy, and Koltun Ballet Boston.
For more, please visit: http://kristincwagner.com | Instagram: @kriscross392
outreach and development
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Alexandria Nunweiler is a contemporary dancer currently based in Boston, MA. Professionally, she has performed with companies such as Triptych Collective, Martha Connerton's Kinetic Works, and THE MARK dance company. Most recently, Alexandria has performed with Brian Feigenbaum for the Dance Complex's I-ARE Residency. Her choreography has been featured at ACDF Southeast, Women's Showcase, Tiny & Short: A Drop in the Bucket, and Loose Leaves Showcase. Alexandria holds her BA in Dance and her MSc in International Business. She is also on staff at OnStage Dance Company in Malden, MA.
Photo by Alison Evans
Rachel Linsky is a Boston based arts administrator, choreographer, dancer and educator. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography and a BA in Arts Administration from Elon University. She has completed administrative internships with Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion and Pantos Project Dance. She also served as a Community and Education Intern with Urbanity Dance. As a performer, Rachel currently works with Connections Dance Theater and dances as an apprentice with KAIROS Dance Theater. She recently performed in Laugh Track at Green Street Studios and with Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion in Waterway/Lightway/Greenway. As a choreographer, her recent credits include: Christine Evan’s “Trojan Barbie” directed by Kim Shively, Ten Tiny Dances at the Dance Complex, and Boston Contemporary Dance Festival. Rachel is currently a 2019-2020 Resident Artist at Chelsea Theatre Works, where she is creating an evening length work that combines contemporary dance and WWII Holocaust accounts as a means to preserve survivors' stories and bring Holocaust education to a more diverse audience.
programmatic consultation
Rachel Roccoberton is passionate about bringing people from all communities closer together through shared experiences in the arts. Rachel brings a multifaceted background to the Lady BOS team. Honing her arts administration skills at community arts centers, she is currently Creative Programs Manager at The Dance Complex in Cambridge MA where she oversees festivals and performances with dancers of all levels. She regularly produces shows for local dance studios and works with her community theater. She spends her summers bring musicals to life with children in under three-weeks for a local arts council and has taught dance and musical theater for many years. Rachel has been a Production Assistant for the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for over 10 years, lead movement workshops for puppeteers, and has even choreographed for multiple puppet productions. Rachel believes that through shared laughter, tears, and experiences of the ephemeral and permanent art we can learn about differences, discover change, and ultimately find understanding.
technical design
Lynda Rieman is strongly passionate about collaborating with other artists to create performances that authentically weave together various crafts and mediums. She has been working in the medium of dance since the 1980s, creating performance environments with lighting, sets, found objects, sound, film, and aerial rigging. After receiving her BA in dance from Bard College, she co-founded San Francisco-based Zaccho Performance Group with Joanna Haigood. Lynda has worked as technical director, set designer, lighting designer and director, production manager, and stage manager for companies including CONTRABAND, Oberlin Dance Collective, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Chitresh Das, Paul Dresher Ensemble, and the Dance Brigade. She worked as production/stage manager and lighting director for both Theater Artaud and ODC/San Francisco. Lynda currently manages the dance theater at Boston University, where she designs lights for faculty, student, and guest concerts. Lynda has been designing and coordinating all lighting and technical needs for ...that's what she said since 2018.
graphic design
Photo by Jenny Chen
I.J. Chan is a dance artist and educator born, raised and now based in Boston. In 2015 she graduated from James Madison University with a B.A. in Dance and Journalism. Since then she has dedicated her life to training and performing intensively in multiple dance genres, for multiple local and international dance masters. She is currently dancing with KAIROS Dance Theater, McKersin Previlus/Lakaï Dance Theater, Jennifer Lin and Jean Appolon Expressions. In her own choreographic work, I.J. is interested in intersecting and exploring the Asian-American narrative. In addition to performing, she is passionate about bringing quality dance instruction to low-income and minority youth populations within the city. She also works as freelance graphic designer and visual artists, with a specific focus on creating marketing materials for other dance artists in the community.
Alyssa McCallion is a designer and illustrator living in Somerville MA. During the day, she works as a graphic designer at a video game studio in downtown Boston. On nights and weekends, she takes on freelance branding and illustration work while selling quirky pins, stickers, and prints under the name @alymacmade. Alyssa is very passionate about the dance and music scene in the greater Boston area and is psyched to be contributing to creative projects throughout the city.
photography
Haley Abram is a freelance photographer with experience shooting both documentary and editorial features. At Boston University, Haley quickly honed in on her passion for capturing moments by studying Photojournalism. Since picking up her first camera in high school, she’s been obsessed with documenting the world around her and bringing visions to life. Haley is also a lifelong dancer and loves collaborating with and supporting other artists through photography. Her work can be found in print and online for The Improper Bostonian, The Daily Free Press, and Off the Cuff. Haley is currently based in Boston, MA.
For more, please visit: www.haleyabram.com | Instagram: @haleyabramphoto
For more, please visit: www.haleyabram.com | Instagram: @haleyabramphoto
Victoria Lynn Awkward is a Boston-based emerging interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on dance, visual art, and empowerment. Originally routed in the Greater Boston area, Victoria started her training at Impulse Dance Center in Natick, MA and worked as an intern for MonkeyHouse Dance. She is a graduate of Goucher College, where she studied Visual and Performance Arts Education. At Goucher College and at the Academia dell’Arte in Italy, she studied Ballet, Horton, Release Modern, Butoh, Dance Theater, Contemporary and different styles of Improvisation. She has worked with choreographers such as Sidra Bell, Gregory Dolbashian, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Christian Von Howard, Iquail Shaheed, and Helen Simoneau. Victoria has performed with Baltimore-based Ashani Dances and with Boston-based Ruckus Dance. Victoria is the director of VLA Dance, a company that aims to empower artists and audience members alike through interdisciplinary art and physically demanding dance. Under the moniker VLA Arts, Victoria creates thought-provoking and empowering artwork through film, photography, and the written word.
For more, please visit: www.victoriaawkward.com | Instagram: @vlaarts
For more, please visit: www.victoriaawkward.com | Instagram: @vlaarts
Olivia Blaisdell was born in Connecticut, but raised in Los Angeles where she grew up studying dance at The Vonder Haar Center for the Performing Arts. Olivia returned to the East Coast to attend high school at The Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she studied ballet and modern primarily under Michael Owen and Diane Arvanites. She has also trained at Hubbard Street Chicago, Joffrey Chicago, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. In her first year of college, Olivia joined KAIROS Dance Theater as an apprentice for their 2017 season, and continues to dance for the company. She is currently in her junior year of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Boston University. In her free time Olivia never strays too far away from dance, for she runs her photography business “Olivia Moon Photography / @halfasianlens” where she specializes in dance photography and portraits.
For more, please visit: www.halfasianlens.com | Instagram: @halfasianlens
For more, please visit: www.halfasianlens.com | Instagram: @halfasianlens
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Nikki Vergakes is a freelance social media manager and content creator. Her love of building online communities sprouts from her upbringing as an only child, where she spent a lot of time in AOL chat rooms and HTML-heavy blogs. She has a passion for digging out a brand or organization's story, discovering the best way to tell it in tight collaboration with her clients and telling it to their ideal audience. She specializes in working with clients with a social mission, as activism was a big always a part of her life.
She grew up in Northern Massachusetts and studied Communications at Salem State University. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Public Relations, and a Masters Certificate in Strategic Communication. Prior to launching Cultivated Content, she worked in various marketing and public relations roles in the food, tech, and healthcare industries. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island and is soaking up all of the amazing beaches and food spots. In her free time, she likes to run, travel, and write in different forms, such as spoken word poetry and stand up comedy.
She grew up in Northern Massachusetts and studied Communications at Salem State University. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Public Relations, and a Masters Certificate in Strategic Communication. Prior to launching Cultivated Content, she worked in various marketing and public relations roles in the food, tech, and healthcare industries. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island and is soaking up all of the amazing beaches and food spots. In her free time, she likes to run, travel, and write in different forms, such as spoken word poetry and stand up comedy.
Top Cover Photo: "Hopelessly Gazing" choreographed by Vanessa White, image by Gabriel Rizzo/Golden Lion Photography
