BIO

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.

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—combining neurobiology, trauma studies, improvisation, and creative arts therapy—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. 

Casey Hall-Landers is also a part of the artist duo Sensory Dimensions, co-founded with Elicia Neo. The two 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 process and 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).

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—and is committed to building a future where accessibility is not an afterthought, but a foundation.