Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the body-space-time Residency! The residents are as follows: Amy O’Neal (Winter), Tshedzom Tingkhye (Winter), C. Asa Call (Spring), Sharbani Datta (Spring), Nia- Amina Minor (Summer). Read about each of the artists below:
Amy O'Neal (Winter)
Amy O’Neal (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, curator, and dance educator merging contemporary and street dance since 2000. From 2000 to 2010, along with musician and composer Zeke Keeble, O’Neal co-directed locust, a dance/music/video performance company based in Seattle. From 2010 until now, she creates dance experiences merging practices and values of hip hop, house dance culture, and experimental performance. O’Neal is a grantee of Creative Capital, National Performance Network, National Dance Project, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, among others. She is a two-time Artist Trust Fellow, DanceWEB/Impulstanz scholar, a Kennedy Center Social Impact Residency Artist, Visiting Dance Innovator at Harvard, and Herb Alpert Award nominee with a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, where she earned the first Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.
She has danced in Seattle night clubs with members of Circle of Fire, Massive Monkees and many others since 2006 and participated in All Styles, House, and Experimental battles in multiple cities. Along with dani tirrell, Amy co-founded the first House dance classes in Seattle in 2015 at The Beacon: Massive Monkees Studio and co-organized Seattle House Dance Project. She started the street and club dance curriculum at the University of Washington in 2017 and joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in 2018. She continues to work between Seattle and LA and is the Executive/Artistic director of Hybrid Dance Lab, a research/performance platform for street dance artists to experiment in the theater context. She is premiering her next evening length work at On the Boards in March 2026 titled “Again, There is No Other (The Remix)” She feels the most at peace when she can embody her multiplicity and is passionate about creating and being in spaces where others can do the same.
Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki.
Tshedzom Tingkhye (Winter)
Tshedzom is a Tibetan-American artist working across choreography, film, improvisation, installation, and durational performance art. Originally from Seattle, she graduated from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2022 and since has been dancing between coasts. Dance and media form the visual foundation of her practice, as she moves from a desire to break away from structures that stagnate us. Rooted in her Tibetan identity and culture, Tshedzom plays at the intersections where art and liberation meet. She gravitates towards contemporary and improvisational methods, often incorporating elements of physical theater. Tshedzom has worked with artists including Marina Abramović, Fox Whitney, Alice Gosti, Sara Markovic, and Gilbert Blin. Her creations have been presented with The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Yakpo Collective, and Tibet Film Festival.
Photo by Steve Korn.
Sharbani Datta (Spring)
Sharbani Datta is an Odissi dancer, choreographer, and educator with over 30 years of experience in Indian classical dance. She holds a Sangeet Bhaskar, a master’s degree in Odissi dance from Pracheen Kala Kendra, affiliated with Chandigarh University.As the founder and artistic director of Nṛtya Kunj, based in Seattle, Sharbani is dedicated to preserving the classical essence of Odissi while exploring its evolving forms. Having worked extensively across India, the UK, and the US, her artistry bridges cultures through storytelling, rhythm, and devotion.
Her curatorial work includes Echoes of the Past at King Street Station Arts and the multidisciplinary event Raga and Rhythm at *East Rail Park. She has also conducted community workshops at Redmond, Woodinville, and Fall City libraries, promoting awareness of Odissi among local audiences.
Sharbani currently leads Odissi Beyond Borders, a collaborative project under Open4Culture, bringing together local Odissi dancers, groups, and gurus to share the beauty of the tradition with wider communities. A passionate teacher and advocate for the arts, she believes that “as dance evolves, so does the dancer,” embracing continual growth as the heart of her creative journey.
Photo by Ashok Patel.
C. Asa Call (Spring)
I am an interdisciplinary artist working across dance, poetry, and film to create layered, emotionally resonant experiences. After earning a BA in Studio Arts and Art History from Wichita State in 2005, I moved to Seattle and soon after co-founded the collaboration-based company Coriolis Dance with Natascha Greenwalt. I served as Co-artistic for 14 years, curating its programs and performing in new works by Zoe Scofield, Joshua Beamish, and Rainbow Fletcher.
My own performance works span the gamut of site-specific installations, films, and theater pieces for which I’ve received residencies from Centrum (2023), Velocity Dance Center (2018), and Open Flight (2015), among others. In addition to self-producing, these works have been selected for On the Boards’ NW New Works Festival (2011), Seattle Transmedia Film Festival (2015, Best Dance Film), Fotofilm Istanbul (2022, Best Fantasy Film), and OneReel’s Art Saves Me grant (2021).
In 2018 my full-evening installation What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You was co-presented by Northwest Film Forum and featured a two-tier set, sculptural installations, films, and an interactive tour responding to the history of the site. In 2025 I self-produced Impossible Maps, my third full-evening, multi-media dance performance at Yaw Theater.
Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis.
Nia-Amina Minor (Summer)
Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist, choreographer, curator, and educator originally from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the body and what it carries using physical and archival research to converse with memory. She approaches her practice as an imaginative space grounded in rhythm where improvisation, Black vernacular movement, and choreography meet. Nia-Amina has received regional and national commissions for her choreographic and film work and has a working background as a performer and dramaturg. She is co-founder of Black Collectivity, a collaborative project that curates and creates movement-based experiences that celebrate memory and culture.
As a performer, Nia-Amina has worked with artists such as dani tirrell, Zoe Juniper, Will Rawls, Alice Gosti, Keyes Wiley, and Amy O’Neal. From 2016-2021 she was a Company Artist at Spectrum Dance Theater under the direction of Donald Byrd. Nia-Amina has also provided dramaturgical assistance to choreographers Jade Solomon-Curtis and Donald Byrd. In her work as a curator, she has developed programming at On the Boards, Wa Na Wari, Velocity, and Base, and Friends of the Waterfront Park. From 2014-2016, she was a co-founder and curator of Los Angeles based collective, No)one Art House. As an educator, she has taught, guest lectured, and been a visiting artist at Cornish College, University of Minnesota, CalArts, University of Washington, Western Washington University, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine. Nia-Amina received her MFA in Dance from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University. She was Dance Magazine's 25 Artists to Watch in 2021, and one of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential People in 2025. Nia-Amina is currently on faculty at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University and is the Curating Artist in Residence at Velocity Dance Theater.
Photo by Devin Muñoz.