Lenora Lee has directed, choreographed, and produced her own works performing nationally and internationally.  In recent years she has been developing a cycle of works based on the investigation of one's ever changing perspective on the past and on memory.  This cycle includes A Timeless Jump with cellist Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (2005), You Quietly...(2006) and Gale Winds & Turiya (2007) with choreographer/dancer Elaine Wang, and Exposed (2007).   In May of 2007 Lenora, in collaboration with Elaine, self-produced Petal Home, an evening of dance, installation, and music at MadArts Studios, which was sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC). Lenora and Elaine then went on to choreograph Gale Winds & Turiya, a work commissioned by Mulberry Street Theater as part of their Ear to the Ground series. This project premiered in New York in October 2007 and was funded in part by the Jerome Foundation.

Lenora's pieces give visibility to issues of women's health, mental health, and to a journey that is deeply rooted in unveiling experiences seemingly private in public performance.  Her work evokes traces of memory, of vulnerability, and taps into inner desires, secrets, and stories of family, community, and transformation by the painting of portraits through narrative and gesture.   Within the work there is a sense of unbreakable resilience, of unstill stillness, of a range in energy and movement that is both violent and fluid, haunting and ancient, manifesting from her own internal timing.  Lenora's movement language captures a speed and precision similar to that of martial arts and a detail in gesture and communication to the likeness of sign language.  For Lenora, the integration of movement and sound, dance and music, is an organic intertwining and lays the foundation for communication, conversation, and interaction.  The multicultural perspective and multidisciplinary approach to her work, stems from a history of collaboration with artists such as saxophonist Francis Wong, Japanese (odori) dancer/taiko artist Melody Takata, American Indian vocalist/bassist John-Carlos Perea, Cuban and Brazilian percussionist Jimmy Biala, cellist Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, and flautist/taiko artist Kaoru Watanabe. Lenora's dance works can be seen as conversations integrating unique movement languages influenced by modern dance, ballet, Japanese drumming (taiko), martial arts, sign language, improvisation and jazz music.  

Elaine Wang (Choreographer/Dancer) A native of Los Angeles, California, Elaine seeks to convey personal and intimate stories through the marrying and entanglement of intricate abstract gestures, dynamic and fluid movement, and the integration of theatrical text and narratives. Drawn to life's complexities and eccentricities, her work dives into the interior landscape of human being's dark and convoluted places, the fragile and transparent, and the beautifully strong and resilient. Elaine's interests lie in playing and colliding between past memory, dreamscape, and present reality. Her most recent works have concentrated on the ideas of what makes something home, as well as on the extreme situations and emotions that trigger human beings to unhinge and the inevitable aftermath of what coping mechanisms are used in order to find one's bearings. These works include Petal Home (2004), By a Small Cowry Shell (2004), Get Home Before Midnight (2004),To Tif and Allen, with Love (2005), Zip, fasten, gather . . . Unravel (2005), You Quietly. . . (2006), Finding Blue (2007), and Gale Winds and Turiya (2007) with choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee.

Elaine has studied at the Juilliard School, University of California at Los Angeles (BA Dance), and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (MFA Dance).  She has performed and choreographed with Los Angeles-based TRIP Dance Theater, danced with JazzAntiqua Dance and Music Ensemble, and worked as a Dance Specialist for the Los Angeles Unified School District's Visual and Performing Arts Unit.  She has toured and taught with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's "Ferocious Beauty: Genome" and has worked in individual projects directed by Zvi Gotheiner, Yin Mei, Stephan Koplowitz, and Satoshi Haga. Elaine's works have been presented at the Ford Amphitheater, Hollywood Fountain Theater, the Church at Ocean Park, Jacob's Pillow, Mulberry Street Theater, the Bric, Wow Cafe, Madarts Studios, John Ryan Theater, and Chez Bushwick. Elaine has also served on faculty at the Los Angeles Unified School District, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, PS 24, and Families First Center. She is currently on faculty with Muv Dance and Yoga teaching creative movement, yoga, and qigong in public schools to both faculty and students.