BLiPSWiTCH + Sloane Lenz, wardrobe designer
Zack Wiggs, pedal steel player
Michael Brown, synthesizer
BLiPSWiTCH
Taryn Lavery, a Utah native, fuses her classical background with a desire to revitalize modern dance for broader audiences, extracting a new form of contemporary performance. She is a dancer with multimedia dance company, ARCOS, works regularly with Jennifer Sherburn and freelances throughout Austin. Taryn is a founder and the co-director of Austin's BLiPSWiTCH, a project-based dance company focused on collaboration and site-specific works as an avenue to community expansion.
Alex Miller is a dance artist and certified Pilates instructor originally from Louisiana. She earned her BFA in Performing Arts with a concentration in dance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her MFA in dance from Hollins University in partnership with Frankfurt University/MA Code in Virginia, New York, Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. Alex is the co-founder and co-director of BLiPSWiTCH, an Austin-local site-specific dance company. Alex teaches contemporary dance classes for professional movers at First Street Studios and for teens at Tarrytown Dance. She teaches Pilates at Pilates on Kerbey.
Photo: Jade Skye Hammer
Sloane Lenz
Sloane Lenz is an Austin based designer, musician, and filmmaker. Working primarily with musicians, she’s a favorite for avant- garde stage wear and music video styling. She presented her first collection at 18 years old during Austin Fashion Week, and then was asked to present during New York Fashion week the following season, and has toured the US bringing her collections to venues far and wide, including the one and only Graceland. She’s known for using unconventional and experimental materials in her work, as well as putting on shocking runway shows.
Zack wiggs
“I play instruments!”
The Oh Hellos
Pelvis Wrestley
Lord Friday the 13th
Brody Price
Shinglers
Sour Bridges
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Austin, Texas whose musical background includes live music performance, production, and band development, as well as composition for modern dance and film. His writing involves genre-bending flavors inspired by folk, contemporary, and electronic music, often implemented through synthesis and psychedelic coloring.
Photo: Jade Skye Hammer