WHO WE ARE
Carlye Eckert, Founding Member & Director of Programming
Carlye Eckert (Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, The Juilliard School 2009) is a dance artist, educator, and community arts organizer based in Newburgh, NY. Ms. Eckert facilitates artistic, educational, traditional, and non-traditional platforms and experiences for engaging with movement-based practices. Her work uses environment and community to cultivate an exchange and range of ideas and dialogues between audience and art.
Ms. Eckert's choreographic work has been presented nationally at A-WOL and the West Linn Theater in Portland, OR; Garner Arts Center, Chapman Steamer Arts, The Ritz Theater in New York State’s Hudson Valley Region; Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion, CAVE, CUNY, Dance New Amsterdam, West End Theater, Dixon Place, Location One, DUMBO Dance Festival, Green Space, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center, and The Juilliard School in New York City.
As a performer, Ms. Eckert has worked and collaborated with Tino Sehgal, Jonah Bokaer, Jack Ferver, Boris Charmatz/Musee de la danse, Attic Projects, Yara Travieso, Lucie Baker, Esme Boyce Dance, The Equus Projects, Aszure Barton & Artists, Keigwin+Company, and Brian Brooks|Moving Company 2013 - 2023.
From 2011-2021, Ms. Eckert was a founding member & co-director of the free performance series, STUFFED: Dinner + Dance (STUFFEDArts) at Judson Memorial Church in NYC.
Ms. Eckert has been on faculty at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, a teaching artist for Juilliard Global, ASAP!, Newburgh Performing Arts Academy, and Florida State University. She is the Educational Outreach Director for Dance Parade NY.
David Fishel, Founding Member
David Fishel is a filmmaker/ video-artist based in New York who dabbles as an absurdist poet, animated storyteller, experimental sound artist, and obnoxious performance artist. Mr. Fishel is a graduate of the University of Iowa where he focused his studies in Cinema and Comparative Literature and Intermedia Art. Fishel has worked and collaborated with Hans Breder, Phil Niblock, Jill Sigman, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Jason Batemen, John Kolvenbach, and Octavio Campos. He is a frequent collaborator of The Hatch-Billops Collection, Robert Flynt, Carlye Eckert, and Luke Murphy.
Fishel's film and installation work has screened at Lincoln Center, ADF, Pentacle's Kinetic Cinema, Miami Light Project, Judson Church, LaMama ETC, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and numerous festivals internationally. His music videos, promos, and shorts are routinely broadcast globally.