Summer Stages Dance @ ICA

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, pianist/vocalist and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. He is also known for using his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. Pinderhughes is the first-ever Art for Justice + Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2020 Visionary Award. He has also been designated as a Creative Capital awardee, a United States Artists Fellow, and a Sundance Composers Lab fellow. He was the 2025 MoMA Adobe Creative Resident and was awarded the “Spark of Change” Award from APAP in 2026. Pinderhughes is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is currently getting his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program under the direction of Vijay Iyer. 

Pinderhughes is also the Artistic & Executive Director of The Healing Project, a community arts organization that creates narrative change and collective healing in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based around healing rather than punishment. 

His albums include The Transformations Suite, GRIEF, Venus Smiles Not in the House of Tears, and Black Spring. The short film for his song Process, directed with Christian Padron, won 2021’s Best Experimental Film award at Blackstar Film Festival. His solo exhibitions include GRIEF at the Kitchen (2023) and Call and Response at the Museum of Modern Art (2026).  

Pinderhughes has collaborated with many artists across boundaries and scenes including Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Titus Kaphar, and Lalah Hathaway. He is featured as a composer, lyricist, vocalist, and pianist on the albums August Greene and Let Love with Common, Robert Glasper, and Karriem Riggins. He has toured internationally with artists including Branford Marsalis, Chief Adjuah, Jose James, and Emily King, and been commissioned by institutions including Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater. Pinderhughes also scored the award-winning documentaries Whose Streets?, The Strike, and Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, winning two Emmy Awards. 

Known for creating thought-provoking, emotionally moving performances that renegotiate the audience/performer relationship while building bridges between the arts and sciences, Amanda Krische is an interdisciplinary choreographer, dancer, writer, educator, and herbalist committed to using dance as a way to build bridges between people, cultures, disciplines, and ways of being. With a body of work recognized both nationally and internationally, she creates work that challenges the boundaries of performance: placing movement in dialogue with disciplines as diverse as neuroscience, theoretical physics, ecology, anthropology, and ethnography.  

A graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Purchase College, SUNY, her choreography has been shown at prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, Danspace Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Kitchen, as well as in public spaces such as shopping malls, public parks, and gallery spaces. This diverse array of performance locations affirm her philosophy that movement is a practice that belongs to everyone, and deserves to live everywhere. Her work has been repeatedly supported by the Jerome Foundation, The Rockaway Hotel, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held artist-in-residence positions at Omi International Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Perelman Arts Center, and the University of Cambridge. She has completed a fellowship at the prestigious Camargo Foundation where she built cross-disciplinary movement research with scientists, anthropologists, and community members based in Marseille, France, and is a 2024-2025 YoungArts Fellow, supported by the American Foundation for Bulgaria.  

Working often in collaborations with filmmakers and music artists, Amanda has contributed choreography and movement direction a number of music videos, notably with Jaz Sinclair and Samora Pinderhughes. She was a co-director, with Christian Padron and Samora Pinderhughes, of the short film “Keith Lamar: SWEET” a short narrative film concerned with bringing awareness, humanity, and compassion to the stories of the carceral system, focusing on the story of the amazing Keith Lamar, a man currently incarcerated on death row.  

Amanda is also clinically trained as an herbalist and has her own private practice based in New York City. 

She has served on faculty at LaGuardia Arts High School and MOVENYC, teaching improvisation and choreography. She has been a guest teacher and lecturer at Harvard University, NYU, and Cooper Union School of Art. She has created interdisciplinary movement curricula in collaborations with Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Pina Bausch Foundation to activate the archives of both artists through cross-cultural programming in Queens, New York and Wuppertal, Germany. She is also a teaching artist and curriculum coordinator at Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, where she designs movement curriculum and dance programming for public school students based in Queens, NY. Amanda is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She is currently completing her masters degree in Performance Studies at NYU.