LENIN FERNANDEZ, a Cave, started dancing in 2010 at Mt. San Antonio Community College. In 2015, he worked with Esklan Arts Factory (Erika Silgoner) in Rome. In recent years, he has been a frequent collaborator with Sonya Tayeh on multiple projects including her NYLA (2016)  and Jacob’s Pillow (2018) debut you’ll still call me by name, the Off-Broadway show The Lucky Ones, pre-production for Moulin Rouge, and Rent Live on Fox. Lenin worked with Teresa Barcelo, Erica Sobol, LA Contemporary Dance, and Heidi Duckler Dance before joining New Dialect in October 2019. Additionally, he has performed for Charissa Kroger, Acts of Matter, Whyteberg, Szalt, and Arrogant Elbow. Lenin actively engages in community outreach through Heidi Duckler Dance. He works with elementary through high school students, sharing tools of composition and improvisation through the company’s site-specific framework. His most recent collaboration was a 12-week movement healing and composition workshop with women from the Chino Women’s Prison in Southern California. He is grateful to share in this capacity and to further push the edges of dance as a healing modality. 

EMMA MORRISON is a Nashville native, who began her training at the Franklin School of Performing Arts in Franklin, TN. She began dancing with New Dialect in 2013, and has since worked with and performed the works of Banning Bouldin, Peter Chu, Alex Ketley, Bryan Arias, Yin Yue, Belinda McGuire, Joy Davis, and Roy Assaf. Along with being a dancer in New Dialect, Emma has assisted Banning Bouldin in creative processes for Salt Contemporary Dance, Groudworks Dance Theater, Springboard Danse Montreal, and The Julliard School Summer Intensive. She has led masterclasses at Belmont University, Salt Contemporary Dance, New Dialect Summer Intensives, and Groundworks Dance Theater. She is now leading the Contemporary program at Metro Parks Dance in Nashville. Her most recent choreographic ventures have been in the contemporary opera scene, premiering Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus in Fall of 2019, and she is currently developing a multi-media collaboration inspired by the Dichterliebe song cycle by Robert Schumann.

BECCA HOBACK is a dance artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Becca began her solo project in 2018 to create, commission, and perform solo dance work that is evocative, theatrical, innovative, and experiential. She developed a community outreach initiative called “Body View” to promote physical expression and inspire artistic engagement. She is a founding member of New Dialect, and is featured in the company as a performer, outreach workshop team leader, community and company class teacher, and choreographic assistant to artistic director Banning Bouldin. She is an adjunct dance instructor at Harpeth Hall and a guest instructor for the Metro Parks Dance Division. Becca trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Learn more at  beccahoback.com

REBECCAH PESHLAKAI was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She attended New Mexico School for the Arts, Dance Department. In 2018, she graduated a year early as a junior. After graduation, she spent six weeks studying dance in Israel with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. In the fall of 2018, Rebeccah moved to Nashville, Tennessee to train as a scholarship student with New Dialect. During this year, she worked with artists such as Sidra Bell, Roy Assaf, AriEl Freedman, Alex Ketley, Yin Yue, and Banning Bouldin. In 2019, Rebeccah was accepted into and attended New York Universities Tisch School for the Arts, as a dance major. She is now living in Nashville working as a scholarship student with New Dialect and freelance dancer.

SARAH SALIM is originally from North Carolina and began dancing at the Cary Ballet Conservatory and International Ballet Academy. In 2009, she worked as a trainee with Carolina Ballet and in 2011, joined Nashville Ballet 2 where she started training under Banning Bouldin. Sarah danced with New Dialect from 2012-2019, where she performed in the premiere of New Dialect’s MultiLingual  at OZ Arts, Belinda McGuire’s Incorporeus, Banning Bouldin’s Murmuration, Trisha Brown's Planes, and Rebecca Allen’s Kat5, Idan Sharabi's Ella, Yin Yue's PARA, and Roy Assaf's Girls. Sarah also workshopped with Bryan Arias, Peter Chu, Joy Davis, Laurel Jenkins, Alex Ketley, David Norsworthy, Riley Watts, and Shannon Gillen Lipinski. She is the co-founder of Animata Arts, a Nashville-based platform to showcase independent creative talent.

JOI WARE is a native of Dallas, TX where she began her dance training. She is a graduate of Point Park University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Science in Sports, Arts, and Entertainment Management. She has worked with many notable choreographers including Garfield Lemonius, Joshua L. Peugh, Christopher Huggins, Sidra Bell, Jessica Hendricks, and more. Joi is currently a dancer with New Dialect, Nashville’s premiere contemporary dance company. Learn more at joiware.com

ALICIA ENSTROM (Violin & Vocals) is a classically trained violinist, composer, producer and reformed circus runaway (Cirque du Soleil) who plays high and loud, tinkers with tech, and loves to use music to stir the pot of your subconscious. She is a unique artist who's work spans that of classical, orchestral, pop, and ambient electronic. Alicia has performed on stages throughout the world as a soloist, for blockbuster movie soundtracks and video games (Call of Duty, Madden NFL, Harriet), alongside Billboard 100 artists (Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton), on TV awards shows, and with the most recognized symphonies in the world. She has released numerous self recorded/produced projects of which she performs live with looping pedals... and sometimes on a hoop. 



In 2018, Alicia won The Ear Classical Composition Competition in New York City with multiple performances at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC... via her looping pedals and with orchestra. And she was just recently nominated for an Academy of Country Music - Specialty Instrument Player of the Year Award 2020. In addition, her compositions can be seen in short films, commercials, interactive video art and installation, and commissioned orchestral and dance performances. All music is released via Tone Tree Music. Learn more on Alicia’s Instagram (@alicia_enstrom), YouTube , and on her website at aliciaenstrom.com

ADAM LOCHEMES (Electronics & Production) is a multi-instrumentalist, music producer, mixer, composer, and sound designer. His work aims to capture the inherent struggle between the human spirit and mind through sonorous textures and landscapes. Adam worked together with choreographers and visual artists to develop experimental pieces in New Dialect's "Third Voice" program. This residency invites artists across disciplines to collaborate in a democratic, creative process. But if you have not caught any of Adam's installation work, you can find him performing and recording alongside friends in Arlie, Bedon, and many other recording artists across the country.