ABOUT CASEY
Born and raised in San Diego, Casey Hall-Landers is a production and stage manager, AV technician, choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and accessibility advocate working at the intersection of live arts, disability justice, and performance technology. With a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a master’s degree in Creative Media and Technology: Live Experience Design from Berklee College of Music NYC, Casey creates and supports live performances that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, and intentionally accessible. They are currently the Production Management Intern at La Jolla Playhouse while freelancing with regional dance companies including Malashock Dance and Disco Riot as a projection designer, stage manager, and production manager. Casey also serves as the audio engineer and lighting and projection designer for Open Mic at the Template OB, and has worked as a live video DJ and lighting designer for concerts at Quartyard in downtown San Diego.
Casey’s creative work is interdisciplinary, spanning dance, spoken word, visual and tactile art, and film. Their first short film Love Me Maybe, a dance and spoken word solo, premiered at Queer Movement Fest 2025 at Digital Gym Cinema. This follows their recent directorial debut with Jazzie Lock’s Abyss music video. Casey looks forward to continuing to develop their work in film alongside their passion for live events production, accessibility, dance, and performance.
Diagnosed with fibromyalgia while studying dance at NYU, Casey shifted focus from performance to production, movement therapy, and the study of chronic pain. Their independent research combines neurobiology, trauma studies, improvisation, and creative arts therapy and continues to inform their choreographic and educational practices. Casey has developed dance modalities that increase body awareness and help others better understand pain through movement.
While at NYU, Casey founded Access Arts NYC, a student-led, interdisciplinary outdoor arts festival launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival provided collaborative performance opportunities, public arts access, and education on accessibility in the arts.
At Berklee NYC, they expanded their production expertise in live music and theater, working in roles including stage manager, camera director, lighting and projection designer, and live audio mixer. As assistant to the Director of Education, Casey produced the Access Live Events Conference and authored Introduction to Accessible Design to provide resources for emerging artists and designers.
In their current practice Casey is exploring intersectional identity focusing on body politics of trans/non-binary and disabled people, improvisational dance to accommodate pain in real time, expressive interdisciplinary arts as a vehicle for understanding pain, and somatic practices rooted in neurobiology.
They work across a range of mediums including contact improvisation, tactile and body painting, projection design, generative technology, and film.
With a deep belief that everybody has accessibility needs, Casey continues to support and create projects that push the boundaries of access in live events. They are committed to building a future where accessibility is not an afterthought, but a foundation.
Sensory Dimensions
Sensory Dimensions depicts the experiences of disabled people with chronic illness and pain by immersing audiences in multi-sensory environments using a diverse range of artistic modalities to create accessible live art events. Founded by interdisciplinary artists Casey Hall-Landers and Elicia Neo through the Berklee NYC Masters program in Creative Media and Technology, the duo is fueled by a passion to create safe and welcoming spaces for all.
In the artists’ ongoing investigation to express invisible disabilities through art, Sensory Dimensions have developed a practice of recontextualizing pain through different sensory and artistic pathways, using nature as a reflective device to understand our bodies, and interweaving accessible design within their creative expression.
Sensory Dimensions has performed their work in San Diego and New York City and presented a lecture on accessible design and generative technology at the Performers(') Present 2023 International Artistic Research Symposium at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Singapore.
Most recently Casey and Elicia were guest artists in residence with Arts Letters and Numbers where they taught Body Sense (a movement meditation workshop), Painting Your Pain (a tactile painting and sculpture workshop), and developed new work to be premiered at the San Diego Public Library City Heights Performance Annex during Disability Pride Month (July 26th).
Through their exhibitions, workshops, and lectures Casey and Elicia hope to promote visibility for invisible and dynamic disabilities and chronic illness.
Martial Arts to Dance, Choreography and more
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 bodies, emphasizing the importance of autonomy and consent. Casey continues to use this style in the work the currently do focused on movement practices for body awareness and pain.
Creative Writing and Poetry
View Casey's first published work of poetry in the 2020-2021 edition of the West 10th NYU Literary Journal. Currently Casey reads their poetry at open mic nights in San Diego and uses spoken word as a source of inspiration and music for their movement practice and performances.
Casey's debut choreo-poem/micro short film - "Love me, Maybe" - will be debuting at San Diego's Queer Movement Fest 2025 Film Screening
Coming soon ... Blue Morning Hours, a collection of poems exploring moments of solitude with pain.