About Us
- Ara Fitzgerald, Author -
Ara Fitzgerald is a dance-theater artist, writer, choreographer, improvisor, illustrator, performer and educator. Known for solos with original text, she revels in collaborations with photographer/filmmaker, Peter Cunningham, composer, Wall Matthews, Clare Byrne, Paris based choreographer, Martha Moore, and the honor to perform reconstructions of work by renowned dancer/clown, Lotte Goslar. Her book, Slow Dancing Is Easy, Scripts for Solo Performer was published in 2025 by Still River Books. A graduate of Connecticut College and Wesleyan University (MALS), she taught at Connecticut College, Trinity Square Conservatory, the National Theater Institute, and served as director of dance and theater at Manhattanville College. Her work has been seen on and off Broadway, in dance spaces and museums. When she told her grandmother, a retired vaudevillian, that she would pursue modern dance, her grandmother retorted, “A modern dancer is just a vaudevillian with an education.”
- Peter Cunningham, Photographer -
Peter Cunningham is a professional photographer. His teachers include Baptist fisherman Lester Tate, dancer Martha Myers, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Zen Master Bernie Glassman. Peter has exhibited his work in New York, Krakow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Kigali, Nanjing, Beijing, Berlin and Grand Manan, Canada. His clients include singers, teachers, chefs, playwrights, athletes, accountants, actors, fisherman and clowns. He has taught Photography as Zen Practice in the US and China. He is co-author with Peter Matthiessen of Are We There Yet? A Zen Journey Through Space and Time and is a founding member of The Order of DisOrder.
- Ola DeKorne, Designer -
Ola DeKorne is a photographer, designer and performer residing in upstate NY. Originally from Wroclaw, Poland, she holds an MA in Photography and Painting and Cultural Studies as well as post-graduate degree in Dance Performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She performed in Paris, working with choreographers Andy de Groat, Sarah Crépin, Salia Sanou, among others. Her photographs have been published in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Rita Baum, Format, and Charaktery, among others, and can be found in private collections in Europe, Canada and the United States.