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.

The work of multimedia artist Camille Norment is well known in both contemporary art and music.  Her extensive contributions fluidly span both fields in a multiplicity of forms including installation, composition, sculpture, drawing and performance.  Norment’s expended practice creates new knowledge emergent from sonic narratives, as somatic and cognitive experiences.  

Sound is a physical force that connects everything it its omnidirectional path. The term psychoacoustics names the study of sonic phenomena as it meets, interacts with, and is transformed by encounters with objects, structures and other bodies across time and space.  Camille Norment coined the term cultural psychoacoustics as a dynamic aesthetic and conceptual framework to probe and politicize through sonic thinking and investigation, particularly instances of sonic and social dissonance. Here, the sonic is not only sound listened to, but sound felt, and even imagined. Human and non-human bodies are activated through the resonance of empathetic narratives that emerge between the present, and a multiplicity of concurrent histories and futures.  

In her performance work, Camille performs as a solo artist, with other musicians in selected projects, and with her ensemble, the Camille Norment Trio, comprised of the Norwegian hardingfele, electric guitar, and glass armonica. Each of these instruments was once banned in fear of the psychological, social, or sexual power their sound was thought to have over the body, and the challenge they represented to social control.  Norment’s live manipulation of sonic feedback is an ethereal fourth member, giving presence to a normally censored voice.   

Camille Norment exhibits and performs internationally over a span of 30 years, has several permanent public artworks, and appears in many public and private collections.
In addition to her ICA Summer stages residency, in 2026 she will hold a solo exhibition at Atelier Nord as part of the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, and premier a new performance composition in the festival.  Earlier this year, Norment’s solo exhibition, Lemma Dilemma, at Galleri F15 in Moss, and her performance commission for the Borealis Experimental Music Festival in Bergen , Will There Also Be Singing?, were received with critical acclaim.  This spring, she also installed a site-specific manifestation of the Plexus(rhizome) series at ARKO in Seoul which premiered a performance in collaboration with cellist Okkyung Lee. Norment’s vocal-based sculpture commission for the new Studio Museum in Harlem in New York opened in the fall of 2025.  In 2023 Norment presented a solo exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall and the simultaneous premier of a 13-ensemble music commission in the Bergen Festspillene music festival; exhibition in Punta della Dogana, Venice, and related performance; and the premier of a performance commission for vocal ensemble and feedback, for the Munch Museum, Oslo.  She presented two solo sound installation commissions for the Dia Art Foundation in New York in 2022. Camille Norment has performed at Palazzo Grazzi Teatrino, MoMA New York, SF MOMA, The Park Avenue Armory, The Stone, and many other venues internationally. She represented Norway in the Venice Biennial 2015, and was the recipient of the Nam June Paik Award 2023.  Camille Norment is awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Bergen, Department of Ark, Music, and Design in 2024. 

Born in Silver Spring Maryland, she lives and works in Oslo, Norway. 

Jimena Paz was born and grew up in Buenos Aires; she has lived and worked in Argentina, the U.S., and Europe. Throughout her work, she explores experiences of foreignness, otherness, migration, and the fictional and sensorial aspects of the multiple relationships that exist between body, soul, land, environment, and cultures. 

Most recently, Paz has been working on an interview project titled Conversaciones. The intention of this project is to expand conversations and awareness about Latine/x artists and cultures in Westernized dance, to bring the important voices of immigrant artists to the conversation, and to learn directly from them in their mother tongue. She collaborated with the artist Ralph Lemon for the work In Proximity (2025, 2022) at MoMA PS1 (New York) and Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy). She also collaborated with visual artist David Hartt for the exhibition Metabolic Rift (2025) at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin and performed in the work of Vicky Shick Including You (2025). Her solo, iridescent (2021), was presented at Movement Without Borders, curated by Richard Colton, and included among The New York Times’ ”Best of Dance 2021.” Other works include Yellow, a co-creation with American artists and choreographers Vicky Shick and Ralph Lemon, presented at The Chocolate Factory Theater in 2017.  

She has had the pleasure of working with  Vicky Shick, Ralph Lemon, Lance Gries, Susan Rethorst, the Stephen Petronio Company (1999–2006), Juliette Mapp, Constanza Macras (Germany/Argentina), Iris Scaccheri (Argentina), Aurelia Chillemi (Argentina), Martha Clarke, Liz Gerring, Antonio Ramos, Todd Williams, Burt Barr, Sabrina Farji (Spain/Argentina), and Virginie Yassef (France). She was an artist-in-residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation (2023), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2018), Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (2016), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013–2014), The Yard (2012), and Movement Research (2007–2009). 

Paz holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University (2009). Additionally, she holds a dance teaching degree from the Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Artística at the Centro de Educación Corporal in Argentina.