STAFF

NURIA LATIFA BOWART
Co-Founder/Director of Systems Development
is a professional dancer and movement artist, a Certified Rolfer and practicing manual therapist, a graduated student and contramestra of Capoeira, and a Certified Teacher
of the Axis Syllabus.
She carries over 25 years of research and practice
in therapeutic, martial, and performing arts, music, yoga, western somatics, contact improvisation, experiential anatomy, functional biomechanics, and more. She is also a mother of two.
Currently based in both Vermont and the San Francisco Bay Area, Nuria teaches and performs internationally and works locally with clients and students.

JARED WILLIAMS
Co-Founder/Artistic Director
is a visual artist, dance-improvisor and dance-arts curator primarily interested in ideas of wilderness, multiplicity, emergent structure and futurity. He has been focused exclusively on programming and curating dance since 2014 with a focus on experimental performance and somatic dance practices.
He is the co-founder, director and lead curator for Lion’s Jaw Festival, a boston-based annual performance and dance festival, currently housed at MIT, that he co-founded in 2016 with long time collaborator Sarah Mae Gibbons. Jared is a native of Cambridge, MA-unceded territory of the Nonantum and Massachusett. He is a father and a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.

ANYA SMOLNIKOVA
Residential Life Coordinator
and Director of working Resident Program
On staff intermittently since the beginning, Anya has been instrumental in initiating and developing many of the house systems and structures still in use today. Anya helped develop and currently manages our Working Resident Program.
Anya also painted the mural that sits above the dining room and designed the Field Center logo.

LILIANNA KANE
Head Chef
I am an improviser, primarily working though dancing and cooking. My mission: to nourish people through the practices of collective improvisation, collaboration, and care.
My food is inspired by a plethora of cooks, books, recipes, artists, experiences and memories.
For more about Lily's cooking and dance practices visit her website HERE

JULIANNE CARIÑO
Communications Data and Office Assistant
is a queer multimedia artist and performer, born and raised within Canarsie and Munsee Lenape lands. They have had the privilege of calling many lands their home, and they remain critically+somatically inquisitive about what it means to occupy stolen land. Julianne’s practice is tuned through improvisation with a focus on Contact Improvisation, chronic pleasure, connecting to the more-than-human world, and the dance of self-preservation. Cariño's most recent work is in touch with the depth and resonance of layered vocal sounding as a portal into the body, as a companion to processing memory and expressions of the heart.