Andrew Wass began dancing in college, replacing the chem lab with the dance studio. He has had the opportunity to perform in work by Scott Wells, Jess Curtis, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, and Mary Overlie.

His dance films have been shown in film festivals in LA, Minneapolis, Rio de Janeiro, Houston, Berlin, and San Francisco. His performance work has been shown in San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Marfa, Tijuana, and New York. In the fall of 2007, he was an artist in residence at Djerassi. He also received the Jack Loftis and Vibeke Strand, MD honorary Fellowship and an Izzy nomination for music/soundscore/text in 2007. He has been a member of Lower Left since 2002. Influential to his work has been a sentence by Keith Johnstone, "Content lies in the structure..." (Impro page 110).

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Kelly Dalrymple-Wass is intrigued by repetition and precision in bodies and on paper. Other interests lie in bodies that fulfill intention, find stillness, and explore complexity and simplicity.

As a member of Lower Left she investigates and teaches solo and group improvisation and choreographic skills through a performance lens. Lower Left recently became artists in residence at Marfa Live Arts. Kelly cofounded the performance group Non Fiction, is a visual artist, a graduate of Mills College, teaches Pilates, and has been dancing for 14 years.

Major influences include Mary Overlie's post modern theories, Nina Martin's Ensemble Thinking and Articulating the Solo Body, and the Alexander Technique with Shelley Senter. The work of Yvonne Rainier, Deborah Hay, Wally Cardona, Mary Reich, and Trisha Brown is influential in her own creative process.

Along with other Lower Left members Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, and Margaret Paek, Kelly is carving out a new dance destination in Marfa TX, where they organize and facilitate improvisation performance labs and workshops. Kelly has taught at Missouri State University, Purdue University, Mills College, Earthdance, Movement Research's improvisation festival, and University of Houston. Kelly grew up in San Diego and is headed towards making her home/s in Marfa, Tx and Berlin, Germany.

Shelley Senter has been involved with experimental and postmodern dance for more than 25 years, touring throughout North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Australia and Russia as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.

She has been critically recognized and awarded for her distinct approach to movement, both as an independent artist, and as a collaborator with many distinguished artists in the New York, West Coast and International dance communities, including Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer.

Senter was awarded a Fellowship at the Montalvo Arts Center and is a recipient of a San Francisco Bay Area Isadora Duncan (Izzy) award.