Founding Artistic Director + Choreographer

Creating work for the mainstage, alternative spaces, and for film, Katherine Maxwell (she/her) is a director, choreographer, and the founding Artistic Director of Hivewild. Maxwell’s 27+ choreographic projects have been presented at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, CPR- Center for Performance Research, the Ace Hotel, Dinner Gallery, Atlantic Terminal-Barclays Center, and the Actors Fund Art Center, among others. Maxwell has been featured by online platforms such as NOWNESS, VICE, and on Vimeo as a Staff Pick. her film works have screened at 14 international festivals including Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe. Maxwell’s been featured in NYTimes, Dance Informa, Lomography Magazine, and ART ZEALOUS. She’s been awarded residencies including the Downtown Brooklyn Rehearsal Residency Initiative, BAC’s AccessArt, and Shawbrook Creative Space (Ireland). Maxwell received her Bachelor of Arts from Kennesaw State University while working extensively with Lauri Stallings’ Atlanta-based platform, glo. Notable performances include Andall directions I come to you, Creative Time’s public art exhibition Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park (2015), Orfeo at the Atlanta Symphony with Robert Spano and Daniel Arsham (2017), Hinterland with Big Boi of Outkast and The Dungeon Family (2010), and roem, Stallings’ large-scale public work on the grounds of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art (2010).

Maxwell established Hivewild in 2016 as a platform to create formal works, engage the Brooklyn community, and promote artistic partnerships between visual artists, musicians, costume designers, and beyond.

Maxwell is actively interested in using movement as a platform for mindfulness and human acceptance. Her practice seeks to continuously blur the edges between performance, installation, and human encounter.

Professional Development

Robyn Ayers (they/them) is a movement artist and arts administrator living on occupied Lenape land (NYC). They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fordham University & The Ailey School, which they obtained summa cum laude with majors in dance and philosophy. Robyn’s performance career spans NYC and surrounding areas in company with Hivewild, cullen+them, The DynamiteExperience, and more. Beyond the stage, Robyn works in instructional design, event production, and arts administration. They design and facilitate experiential learning sessions geared towards young professionals, nurturing an honest and playful love of their creative practice. Their primary goal is to interrupt the teacher/student hierarchy, instead leaning into question-based coaching that supports artists in making informed decisions about their careers. Robyn currently serves as Hivewild’s Operations Manager, and is the Program Manager at Hi-ARTS, where they design and facilitate artist residencies and other creative programming.

Pilates

Sean Rosado (he/they) is a Texas native and a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Sean Rosado received his BFA in Dance in 2015. He has been privileged to perform the choreography of Alex Ketley, Andrea Miller, Crystal Pite, David Harvey, Kate Wallich, Kate Weare, Madboots Dance and William Forsythe. He has also had the opportunity to perform with Ashani Dances, Chamber Dance Company, Gallim, HIVEWILD, and Kate Wallich + The YC2.

Ballet

Felix Bryan (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based artist, born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. felix’s work and collaborations have been presented at Fridman Gallery, The Rooted Space, the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Professional Program, and on film. His work and practice are rooted in embodied storytelling, queer lineages, and electronic soundscapes. As a freelance artist, felix has performed works by artists including Sidra Bell, Katherine Maxwell, Bill T. Jones, Johannes Wieland, Robyn Mineko Williams, Jenna Riegel, Rena Butler, and Peter Chu. Currently, felix dances with Sidra Bell Dance New York and HIVEWILD.

Professional Development

Xenia Mansour (she/her) is a movement artist, performer, director, and coach based in Chicago, IL and working regularly in NYC. Mansour holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She performs regularly with experimental dance theater HOLDTIGHT in both Denver and New York City as well as dances for Katherine Maxwell’s HIVEWILD. A former company member of BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, she has also worked with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Sikora + Dance, Gabrielle Johnson + Artists, Javier Padilla, and Angie Moon Dance Theatre.

She has also worked with Grammy nominated musician,Nico Segal, choreographing and performing in “Welcome Home” at Steppenwolf Theatre, a production celebrating the release of his first solo album Tell The Ghost Welcome Home. She also collaborates with Greek-American Pop artist Tommy Bravos, performing in and movement directing his work. She has performed in a range of stage, site-specific, immersive, film, and fashion work including as a performer for Brendan Fernandes’ In Two, adance and sculptural performance in conversation with the work of Scott Burton throughout the galleries of The Pulitzer Arts Museum in St. Louis, as a guest dancer and model for Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernández, with choreography by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and as a feature dancer for CXN’s Fashion Commercial Come With Us, choreographed by Katherine Maxwell. 

In October 2023, Mansour established Philoxenia Movement LLC, a nexus of dance & movement that delivers private movement instruction, choreography/movement direction, performance, and consultation services based in Chicago, IL. She is the founder, principal, and sole member of Philoxenia Movement.