Janessa Clark is a BESSIE Award-nominated choreographer, dance filmmaker, performer, and installation artist. Her practice combines dance, video, new technology, and language to create movement-driven art for stage, screen, and site-specific environments. The work created nourishes a desire to challenge traditional modes of choreography and spectatorship through co-authorship. Janessa holds an MA in Performance Practices and Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University. She founded and directed the New York City-based dance collective, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX, from 2001-2012 which she dissolved to form nomadthenewcompany, which worked from Stockholm 2012-2018.