No Regular Play are a duo equally at home in the rehearsal rooms of Julliard as in the main room of Fabric. Emotive and unapologetically organic, their fluid approach unites more than a lifetime of influences. Their impressive live show, which features Paulus' inimitable trumpet and vocals alongside DeBruyn's masterful manipulation of the rhythm and soundscapes bridges the gap between the indie arena and the heartbeat of the dancefloor.

From the mountains of Vermont, to the city of Chicago, to the coast of San Francisco, Tobin Ellsworth’s influences reflect his background, and his talents stretch as far as his travels. Growing up with a family of eclectic musical interests, and pure devout love of musical structure, led Tobin on the pathway to exploring just how far and wide those sounds could lead, taking him to a place in his career now that knows no direction but up. As a resident in San Francisco’s infamous Pink Mammoth crew, the lovable head dj of Disco Katz, sound purveyor of Sequel Sound, Motek family member, and round table knight of Solid Gold Jacuzzi, San Francisco has proven to love him, just as much as he loves them.

Joey Alaniz's sound selection and programming has taken him on journeys across sonic soundscapes and around the world to Kenya, Mexico, Hawaii, New York and all the major clubs in San Francisco. He held down a 3 year residency at the legendary San Francisco night club, The End Up doing Sunday Mass, and continues to throw Common Ground, a San Francisco dance party.

LEVYdance Company Artist Michaela obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Chapman University. Upon graduation, Michaela apprenticed with Kolben Dance in Jerusalem, Israel. After returning to the states in 2012, she began performing with Scott Wells, Christine Bonansea, and [detour dance] and is a current company member of FACT/SF and LEVYdance. Michaela is also a personal trainer and small business owner of City Move’n Fitness, bringing fitness to corporations around the Bay Area.

LEVYdance Company Artist Keanu is a developing San Francisco artist. Finding dance at 15, he nurtured his own relationship to the art form through hip hop and his improvisational body. Prior to his move here in 2016, Keanu studied dance at the University of Utah, where he worked with artists Satu Hummasti, Juan Carlos-Claudio, Eric Handman, and Carl Flink. After, he was an instructor at Middlebury College in Vermont and performed throughout the Northeast. Since moving to San Francisco, he’s become a Company Artist with LEVYdance and FACT/SF, and worked with acclaimed artist Sara Shelton Mann and Oakland-based AXIS Company.

LEVYdance Guest Artist Cookie Harrist is a dancer and vocalist based in San Francisco. She has performed in works by Joe Goode, Sara Shelton Mann, Larry Arrington, NAKA Dance Theatre, Catherine Galasso, Public Movement, and others. She teaches release technique and contact improv at ODC. Her own artistic/political work fights the culture of sexual assault in contact improv, as featured in the latest article of Contact Quarterly.

Roseann Baker is a dancer and movement educator. After receiving her BFA from SUNY Purchase College, she danced with Nelly van Bommel and Roadwork in New York. Since relocating to the Bay Area, she has worked with Garrett + Moulton Productions, Red Brick Company, and Liv Schaffer. For the past few years Roseann has been creating and presenting her own work at the LEVYdance Salon. Roseann is also a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® trainer at San Francisco GYROTONIC® teaching in the LINES Ballet Training, BFA, and Summer Programs.

With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from UC Santa Barbara, she began performing in San Francisco as a dancer and multi-mover with companies such as Capacitor, Flyaway Productions, and ZiRu Dance. In 2013, Miche began working with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Mainland China’s premier modern dance company, and she performed with GMDC throughout Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and China. Her own choreographic works have been presented for Chinese and Bay Area audiences through international dance festivals and local San Francisco venues. Miche teaches for the LINES Ballet training program and other studios throughout California.

Garance Marneur, LEVYdance's first Executive Artistic Director, has directed, designed and curated more than 60 productions in the UK and internationally for theatre, dance, opera, and film, including works for Trafalgar Studios in London, National Theatre in London, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Company, Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Exploratorium, and NBC Universal. Marneur won the Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2007, and was nominated for Best Scenic design at the Broadway World UK Awards in 2014. She relocated to the United states to take over the reins of LEVYdance in 2015.

LEVYdance – through its dance company, artist-in-residence programs, and studio space in SoMa – is dedicated to creating art that ignites awareness of our shared human experience. At the core of LEVYdance is an internationally-touring dance company recognized for innovative, interdisciplinary, interactive works that explore the nuances of being human. Beyond performing in traditional venues, LEVYdance creates innovative multi-media, site-specific and installation works that explore new relationships between performer and audience.

Ashwath is a Creative Technologist from India who lives and works in San Francisco. His varied background and interests has enabled him to pursue projects that involve design, engineering, human interaction and experiential technology. Technology, good food and the great outdoors fascinate him endlessly and he tries to immerse myself in all of these things through his work and hobbies. Ashwath pursues projects that involve physical computing, Augmented Reality, LEDs and music.

Emily Saunders is designer who loves creating spatial, digital, interactive and immersive environments. With a background in architecture, most of her work looks at redesigning and animating leftover spaces in cities. Intrigued by both the technical and creative aspects of each project, she has fun designing, visualizing, fabricating, and programming when at work. Originally from England, she now lives and works in San Francisco with her dog where she is inspired daily by the queer, art, and tech scenes alive in the city.

Marc Schroeder is a San Francisco-based multimedia technologist working with creative code, electronic music, written word, and data systems. His background is in radio, live DJing, and Computer Science. In all mediums, Marc is most interested in finding the thoughtful, introspective spaces hidden between identifiable styles by digging deeply for unexpected connections.

Sean lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He works in the local maker and burner scenes where he continues to expand his tool set from conceptual art, bronze casting, and mix media sculpture to 3D parametric modeling, interactive LED programming, mapped projection & animation, and immersive experience design. With 6 years under his belt as an architectural designer at both an international corporate firm and a local high end residential firm, he has a great deal of experience delivering large, complex projects on time and on budget. He has a passion for sustainable, integrated design, and his ongoing art explorations often source salvaged material and/or champion home, planet earth, through education and activism.