they/them and he/him pronouns

NEVE grew up on a river in the part of Lenni Lenape land where they drive trucks, hay-wagons, and horse-drawn wagons over the rolling green hills known as Clinton, New Jersey. Their parents were fairytale, goddess, and art loving bohemians, and early on NEVE got a taste for all that is romantic, timeless, and world-changing. NEVE’s first professional dance experience began when he was eight years old. Scouted by Def Dance Jam Workshop founder and director Aziza, NEVE danced with the all-Black, ability-integrated youth and elder-friendly dance company for five years, their parents commuting them daily from NJ to Harlem, NY. NEVE received their BA in dance and critical visual culture in 2012 from Hampshire College, and moved to the Bay Area to continue their art and embodiment work with Sins Invalid, AXIS Dance Company, and the SF queer porn scene in 2013. In 2014, NEVE met one of their loves of life while on tour with Mangos with Chili, and subsequently moved to Seattle (Duwamish) in 2016 where they still live. Here, NEVE premiered two evening-length musical dance theater works in 2018 and 2019 to critical acclaim.

NEVE is a 2020 Pina Bausch Fellow, one of the first two Americans to ever receive the award (Majesty Royale being the other)! Their new choreographic work, “Flora hereafter: how flowers survive”, commissioned by AXIS Dance Company, will premiere in their 2021 Home Season (Oct 22-23).

NEVE loves life, the delights and pains of embodiment and love, the sparkle-ache and promise of growth, the higher power inside all of us, the earth’s lullabies and war cries, drinking color, and kissing/thinking/dreaming/learning/winning with their local and international queer fam.

NEVE believes in God(exxes), Liberation, Land Back, Right of Return, Reparations, the Loch Ness Monster, the Multiverse, the concept that all living beings are people, and You.

Markeith Wiley or Keyes (they/them) is a multi-dimensional art maker, who creates out of necessity. Their vast movement vocabulary spans a lifetime of influences from break dancing to musical theater & all in between. Markeith is also a curator, sound designer, DJ Dark_Wiley & a community activist. Wiley has been an arts educator in Seattle since 2009 teaching at Rainier Dance Center as the director of hip hop/street styles dance, choreographing with Seattle Children’s Theatre & teaching at their alma mater Cornish College of the Arts.

Markeith has performed, collaborated or created work with Kitten N Lou, Dani Tirrell, On the Boards, the CD Forum, Velocity Dance Center, Gibney Dance (NYC), Cal State San Luis Obispo & many others.

Arson Nicki is a post-drag artist, DJ, and livestreamer currently based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Their work has been showcased at cultural institutions and nightlife venues up and down the West Coast. Arson’s art references pop culture and contemporary fashion to question gender norms, present drag in unexpected settings, and push pop music to its logical conclusions.

Bio coming soon.