Performers
Marirosa Crawford
Marirosa Crawford is a Miami native and a New York based movement artist. She began her training at a local studio in Miami and went on to focus more extensively at New World School of the Arts. Crawford went on to study at SUNY Purchase where she received both her BFA in Dance and a BA in Literature. While at Purchase she worked with Doug
Varone and Marcus Jarell Willis, and performed works by Martha Graham and José Limon. Shortly after graduating, she traveled to Montreal to attend Springboard Danse Montreal and had the opportunity perform works by Johannes Weiland and UNA Productions.
Marirosa moved to Los Angeles after graduating, choreographing and performing her own solo work titled “measuring undercurrents”. During her time there she toured internationally with L.A. Dance Project, Volta Collective and
worked extensively with Marcella Lewis, Bret Easterling, Chris Emile, and Genna Moroni. She has recently moved back to New York to continue researching her artistry as a performer and movement artist and hopes to begin her career as a writer.
Jessy Crist
Jessy Crist (she/they), is a bicostal dance artist and choreographer. She has worked professionally with EMPARA, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Shcraiber, Alan Lucien Øyen, Dimitri Chamblas, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Company (Las Cruces, NM), and VOID Movement Project (Turkey). They joined LA Dance Project as a guest artist for the 2022-2023 season, under Artistic Direction of Benjamin Millipied.
As a freelance artist, Jessy creates their own work in collaboration with multimedia artists. Her dance film, GYPSUM, has screened at Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was selected as an installation for Currents: New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM. Jessy premiered her solo work VAMP for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and has been an artist in residence at Moulin/Belle (France), and Keshet Dance Center (Albuquerque, NM).
This is her debut as choreographer for STP GRL Movement Collective.