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.

nikki lee (Dancer)  is a dance artist, educator, and photographer. In the fall of 2017, she arrived at Smith College via Pawtucket, RI, where she had been deeply invested in designing and implementing a dance program at Joseph Jenks Junior High and other public schools since 2007. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Smith College, investigating choreographic methods that utilize improvisation and multi-media performance techniques.   Nikki loves making and performing dances with Elm City Dance Collective, and has been a member of the company since 2013. She has created dance works in Rhode Island and Massachusetts for Andary Dance, DoubleShift Dance Theatre, Island Moving Company, AS220, Modern Jazz Dance Company, Frazier Festival, Perishable Theatre, Providence College, Ziterion Theatre, and The Dance Complex. She has been a creative collaborator and performer in the works of Melody Ruffin Ward, Deb Meunier, Vincent Mantsoe, Daniel McCusker, and Nathan Andary, and she has performed works by Bebe Miller, Dr. Henry LeTang, and Donna Jewel.  Nikki holds a B.A. in Dance Performance from Rhode Island College and K-12 Certification in   Dance Education in the State of Rhode Island. She has received awards, grants and fellowships from Smith College, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Murdock-Thompson Center for Teachers, the RI Association for Physical Education Health Recreation and Dance, the Bates Dance Festival and Rhode Island College Alumni Association. Nikki’s photos of dancers have appeared in Contact Quarterly, Andrea Olsen’s book, The Place of Dance, and countless newsletters and marketing materials in print and online.  

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. 

Samantha Russell (Dancer) grew up training under Christy Curtis at CC & Co. Dance Complex.  Here she had the privilege of working with well-known choreographers such as Lauren Adams, Nick Bass, Dee Caspary, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Mia Michaels, Mandy Moore, Jason Parsons, and Wes Veldink.  She attended Purchase College, State University of New York on partial scholarship as a member of their dance conservatory program (‘07-‘08), and continued her education at Appalachian State University ('08-’11) where she obtained a B.A. in Dance Studies and a B.S. in Technical Photography. While studying at Appalachian Sam became a certified Classical Pilates instructor, now teaching at Aldrich Pilates in New Haven. Samantha is one of the founding members of Defero Dance Collective, located in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, whom she still performs with today.  She recently joined ECDC after moving to Connecticut in June of 2014 and is so thrilled to be apart of such a talented and diverse group of dancers.

Alicia White (Dancer) is a Rhode Island Native and Graduate of Rhode Island College (’10) where she earned a BA in Dance and a minor in Theater.  She has been dancing with ECDC since 2012.  IYKYT marks her third project with the Company, following Beauty Culture and Almost Porcelain.   Alicia is Founder, Director and Choreographer of Metamorphosis Dance Company based in Pawtucket, RI.  She has had the pleasure of performing in works by Eva Marie Pacheco (Providence Ballet Company Member ’10-’14), Wanda Strukus, Michael Bolger, Keith Terry, and Gus Solomons Jr. Outside of performing Alicia is a teacher and freelance choreographer for Studios, Arts Education programs, and Musicals through out the state of Rhode Island.  Her main drive is to share the spiritual, cultural and community building aspects of her art with everyone she encounters.