Executive Team and Co-Founders
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Artistic Director
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (she/her) is a choreographer, director, and dance artist. She is the former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet (2022-25), and Artistic Director of NYC based dance company BODYSONNET (2019-present). She is a graduate of The Juilliard School with the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. She recently choreographed Magma, an evening length immersive dance theater show at SF’s premiere nightclub, The Midway.
In July 2025 she was asked to serve as Interim Rehearsal Director of AXIS Dance Company, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse performers, whom she has collaborated with since 2023 as a teacher and performing artist.
Moscelyne has received support from Anthony Quinn Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Adobe, and MassCultural Council, and commissions from The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Metropolis Ensemble, Merde Project, LINES Training Program, and Post:ballet. She has taught at ODC, The Juilliard School, Joffrey NYC, Gibney, LINES, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Yale University. Moscelyne’s dance films have been featured at The San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West, and ADF’s Movies By Movers.
Sean Lammer
Creative Consultant
Sean Lammer (he/him) is an American dancer, choreographer and teacher. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School (‘19) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (‘15). He has worked with an array of companies and artists including GALLIM, Richard Siegal | Ballet of Difference, MADBOOTS, Helen Simoneau Danse, and more. Beyond this he has studied and performed the repertoire of Merce Cunningham, Emanuel Gat, Twyla Tharp and Ohad Naharin. In 2019, Sean co-founded his own collective BODYSONNET in pursuit of bringing together a small group of inspired artists to create highly collaborative work, in unconventional spaces. Sean has taught internationally across the United States, Japan, Germany and Botswana.
Mio Ishikawa
Associate Artistic Director
Mio Ishikawa (she/her), Japanese performer, choreographer and creative collaborator based in New York City. Her work reaches across various genres of art. Ishikawa trained at the Juilliard School (BFA 2019). She has performed in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More NYC as a closing cast until 2025 including the role Lady Macbeth. She joined Life and Trust in 2025 to continue cultivating her performance in immersive theater. As a freelance performer, she has been with Sidra Bell Dance New York for over 4 seasons since 2022. Additionally, She worked with choreographers, Kelly Bartnik, Kyle Abraham, Ivan Perez, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, Michelle Dorrance, Andrew Celia Rowlson-Hall,Stefanie Batten Bland, Amy J Gardner and among many others.
As a choreographer, Ishikawa is a recent recipient of 2023-2025 Center for Ballet Art NYU Juilliard Fellowship in support of her creative endeavors. Her works have been presented at High Line Nine Gallery in Chelsea, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, New World Symphony in Miami in the past.
As a leader, Ishikawa is Associate Artistic Director of BODYSONNET (2019-). She has been a part of residencies in US and Germany and have produced dance performances and films.
Ishikawa is also a co-founder (2025) of Fabulosa!, a digital platform that introduces site-sympathetic choreography and direction through dance.From 2022-2024,she has led workshops at NYU and Harvard University as a teaching artist of SBDNY.
Additionally, Ishikawa is a Ilan Lev practitioner based in NY.
CORE TEAM ALUMNI
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Projects: ARENA, Volta, An Evening at Chesterwood Garden, Our Treaty, Blue Vice, The Mount.
Roles: Graphic Designer, Choreographer, Dancer, Development Team, Producer.
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Projects: Our Treaty, Blue Vice, High Line Nine, please come alone: a canto
Roles: Community Liaison, Grant Writing, Scheduling Choreographer, Dancer, Producer.
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Projects: please come alone, a canto, Blue Hour
Roles: Producer, Graphic Designer, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: neverover
Roles: Producer, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: neverover
Roles: Producer, Stage Manager, Choreographer, Dancer.
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Project: I woke up on Skyline Drive
Roles: Producer, Grant Writer, Choreographer, Dancer.
View an archive of the collaborators we’ve worked with across our projects: Collaborators Master Sheet.