Lindsey Bauer is a dance artist, teacher, choreographer. She is a co- founder and Co-Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective (ECDC) a non-profit organization contributing to the presence of dance as an accessible public art through community partnerships, and professional performance. Lindsey is a dancer in the ECDC performing company, dancing in most recent evening-length works, If You Knew You Then (2017-2018) and Almost Porcelain (2015). As Co-Artistic Director, she designs and implements partnerships with local organizations in providing movement experiences for and with community members and produce workshops and performances for the public. Projects have included partnerships with the New Haven Pride Center, The Shubert Theater, Lyric Hall Theater, New Haven Public Schools, the Connecticut Capoeira & Dance Center, Eli Whitney Museum, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and Mystic Aquarium. Lindsey has choreographed work for the ECDC company which has been produced in festivals and showcases in the Northeast. As an independent artist, Lindsey has worked on various projects with artists such as Kellie Ann Lynch, Adejoke Tugbiyele, Luis Antonio, Cai Ying & Phoebe Hui, Lee Sher & Saar Harari, Olushola Cole and Rachel Bernsen. She trains in Capoeira at the Brazilian Fitness Center with Mestre Efraim Silva. Lindsey is a member of the Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School dance department. At Co-op, she has taught classes in technique and choreography, co-written curriculum, served on committees, engaged in collaborations, productions, and events. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Towson University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University.

Kellie Ann Lynch (she/her) lives in Connecticut (Wappinger and Quinnipiac land) and is co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective in New Haven (elmcitydance.org). Kellie has been teaching, choreographing, performing and dreaming for ECDC since its inception in 2008. She spent many years collaborating and performing with Adele Myers and Dancers and David Dorfman Dance. Other companies Kellie has been seen performing and touring with include Kate Weare Company and Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc. As a freelance dance artist, she has had the opportunity to work with incredible independent choreographers along the East Coast, many of which are located right here in New England. Kellie has received artist fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her work with former dance partner, Ariel Cohen ('08); and Connecticut Office of the Arts ('10, '20); and her work has been commissioned, produced and performed throughout the Northeast including at Bates Dance Festival as an Emerging Choreographer. In 2014, Kellie was recognized as an influential choreographer by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven through an "Arts Award"; and in 2019, ECDC received an "Arts Award" for the organization's work in New Haven. In addition to making and performing dances, Kellie is a somatic educator. She maintains a private teaching practice in New Haven and recently became certified in the Feldenkrais Method. Kellie has a BA in Dance from Rhode Island College and an MFA in Dance from Smith College.