Karl Cronin’s artistic work presently focuses on creating ritualized practices that highlight the somatic experience relating to specific environments and situations. Cronin took an extended break from performing between 2000-2004 to study cognitive development at Harvard’s Lab for Developmental Studies and Harvard Medical Schools’ Music Nueroimaging Lab. Cronin returned to performing and creating choreography in 2004, and has since presented several works that blend art practice and scientific process. This work has been performed at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (MA), Green Street Studios (MA), Movement Research @ Judson Memorial Church (NYC), and in site-specific performances in over 14 states.

Laurie Berg is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in several different mediums including dance/performance, 2D collage, and jewelry generating.  She grew up in St. Louis, MO and attended the University of Arizona, Tucson graduating with a BFA in Dance. Currently Laurie's work is focused on the connective tissues between seemingly disparate images, illustrating more possibilities in the objects and environments that we glance over again and again as we go through the day.  Laurie is a collaborator at heart, and is developing projects on a wide range of topics with Liliana Dirks-Goodman and Megan Byrne, Bessie McDonough-Thayer, and Siri Peterson.  She also dances with Sasha Welsh/Victory To Others and Christine Elmo. Laurie co-curated the AUNTS event FACTORY/MARKET for the MR Spring Festival 09 and in March of 2009, she participated in the Bessie Laboratory for Composition through Dance Theater Workshop.  Laurie is excited to explore the great outdoors with Dry Earth! For more information: www.anotherbergcreation.com

Deborah Black has been working with Dry Earth and Karl Cronin as a collaborator and dancer since January 2009.  She currently also makes dance with Christiane Hommelsheim, Peter Sciscioli, Sasha Welsh and performs and practices two solos commissioned from Deborah Hay.  Black has also been in works by Susan Rethorst, Anneke Hansen, Naomi Goldberg-Haas, and Allison D'Amato.  Her choreography has been produced in Berlin (The Lucky Trimmer Tanz Performance Serie, Tacheles), Bedburg-Hau and London (ArToll artist residency and The Place, in collaboration with Geneviève Beth Grady), and venues in New York.  She has a BFA in dance from NYU, Tisch and studies the Alexander Technique regularly with June Ekman. 

Cynthia St.Clair is a Brooklyn-based movement/performance artist.  Since earning her BFA from Temple University, she has enjoyed the opportunity to perform professionally with 4thRight Dance, COURT, Dance Theatre X, Darla Stanley Dance and Philip Grosser, among others, and currently dances with Dry Earth, Victory to Others and Rebecca Lloyd-Jones. Cynthia has presented her choreography through Field Day at Abrons Arts Center, Open Performance at Dance Theatre Workshop, The Fertile Ground series at Green Space, WAXworks at Triskelion Arts, and The Field’s Far Space in New York City, as well as at venues in both Philadelphia, PA and St.Petersburg, FL.

Sasha Welsh's choreography and performance work explores states of awareness, the potential of memory and imagination, and the limitations and possibilities of the human body. She is currently also collaborating with Deborah Black and Siri Peterson in New York, and Noriko Kato in Japan.  Sasha is the artistic director of Victory to Others, an experimental performance company, and curator of performances at Ulla's House. Her work has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dance Conversations at the Flea, Dixon Place, Performance Mix at Joyce Soho, the INOVA galleries (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (her work was a Philadelphia City Paper pick of the Fringe in 2004), RAW Material at Dance New Amsterdam, and Studio 303 in Montreal.  Sasha has taught dance at DeSales University and Temple University, where she also earned her MFA. She is also a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA), and Laban Centre London (PDDS).