ABOUT CASEY

Casey Hall-Landers (they/them) is a performing and educating dance and multi-media artist working in arts administration, technical production, accessibility, and design. They hold a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a MA from Berklee College of Music in creative media and technology. Casey currently serves as the Resident Production Manager at Disco Riot, Stage Manager and A/V Technician at The Template, and Program Coordinator for Neurodance (dance classes for people with neurologic conditions). They have also created projection design for dance with Malashock Dance Company, San Diego Asian American Dance Festival, and Disco Riot Dance Company. Casey is one half of the artist duo Sensory Dimensions, an organization centering accessibility and disability justice in their artwork and performances about chronic pain and disability. Their work with Sensory Dimensions also includes expressive arts workshops that deepen body awareness and foster social connection through play and somatic practices. Most recently Sensory Dimensions performed My Body’s Wake, at La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WoW) Festival.

Casey’s creative work is interdisciplinary, spanning dance, film, spoken word, visual, and tactile art. Their films have screened with San Diego Queer Movement Fest at Digital Gym Cinema and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. Their most recent film with Sensory Dimensions is currently touring at LGBTQ+ centers in California, New York, and New Jersey. Alongside and within their filmmaking, Casey performs and teaches dance. Through movement they help people deepen body awareness and foster social connection through play and somatic practices. No matter what hat they wear Casey brings a commitment to accessibility, passion for problem solving, and a beaming positivity to every facet of their work in the San Diego arts community and beyond.

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.

Sensory Dimensions Website

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.

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