Casey is currently focused on expanding their use of technology in their work as an interdisciplinary artist as well as a director/producer. Casey is currently a graduate assistant for the director of education, Loudon Sterns, at Berklee NYC. In this role they design, produce, and direct live events for the student body while growing their skills as an independent artist and collaborator. At Berklee NYC Casey has produced, stage managed, video designed, choreographed, danced, and camera directed for many live music events. They are most proud of producing, directing, and stage managing the Access Live Events Conference, an event dedicated to fostering conversation about accessible design in live events. Access Live Events hosted lectures from Liz Jackson, Brandon C Kazen Maddox, and Jay Alan Zimmerman. Casey hopes to increase awareness about the need for increased accessible design live art events.
Over the past two years Casey has been developing dance modalities designed to increase body awareness and communication with pain. While in the Dance BFA program at NYU Tisch, Casey forged a niche pathway focusing on performance production, choreography, and movement therapy. In their independent study Casey spoke with multiple child athletes about their individual experiences with chronic pain, post-traumatic stress, and childhood trauma as well as studying under Elizabeth Coker to learn more about universal neurobiological patterns associated with motor-sensory imagination and creative arts therapies. Casey wishes to contribute to the destigmatization of trauma and encourage empathy through experimental performance combined with transparent contextual research.
Casey Hall-Landers is also the founder, artistic director, and producer of Access Arts NYC: an interdisciplinary arts non-profit dedicated to supporting emerging artists. Through collaboration, the organization will be creating educational opportunities and pushing the boundaries of what accessible and affordable art experiences can be.
From age 6 to 18 Casey trained in extreme competitive martial arts: a performance-based Tai Kwon Do, acrobatics fusion. Their training and athleticism made the inclusion of dance into their daily life seamless. In attending the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) Casey was exposed to modern dance, ballet, Irish step dance, flamenco, jazz, tap, and musical theater. Here, Casey performed work by renowned choreographers such as Donald McKayle, Hope Boykin, and Christopher Huggins. Their love for choreography and teaching blossomed when they began mentoring young martial artists and assisting with dance classes. As Casey coached and choreographed they began developing a style of teaching dedicated to empowering young artists and athletes to establish healthy relationships with their body concept, autonomy, and consent. This style continues in their work today focused on movement practices for body awareness and pain.
Untrained in visual arts, Casey explores creative arts therapies through their own artwork in order to process trauma and pain.
Other, more whimsical artwork serves as a form of escapism and therapy in itself.
View Casey's first published work of poetry in the 2020-2021 edition of the West 10th NYU Literary Journal.
Coming soon ... Blue Morning Hours, a collection of poems exploring moments of solitude with pain.
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