Sensory dimensions at Arts letters & numbers
Who is Arts Letters & Numbers (ALN)
Arts Letters & Numbers is a non profit arts, education, and publishing organization dedicated to promoting creative exchanges across a wide range of disciplines including Architecture, Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, Film, Music, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
CASEY AND ELICIA
Casey Hall-Landers (they/them)
Born and raised in San Diego, Casey Hall-Landers is a production and stage manager, AV technician, choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and accessibility advocate working at the intersection of live arts, disability justice, and performance technology. With a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a master’s degree in Creative Media and Technology: Live Experience Design from Berklee College of Music NYC, Casey creates and supports live performances that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, and intentionally accessible.
Diagnosed with fibromyalgia while studying dance at NYU, Casey shifted focus from performance to production, movement therapy, and the study of chronic pain. Their independent research—combining neurobiology, trauma studies, improvisation, and creative arts therapy—continues to inform their choreographic and educational practices developing dance modalities that increase body awareness and help others better understand pain through movement.
While at NYU, Casey founded Access Arts NYC, a student-led, interdisciplinary outdoor arts festival launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival provided collaborative performance opportunities, public arts access, and education on accessibility in the arts.
At Berklee NYC, they expanded their production expertise in live music and theater, working in roles including stage manager, camera director, lighting and projection designer, and live audio mixer. As assistant to the Director of Education, Casey produced the Access Live Events Conference and authored Introduction to Accessible Design to provide resources for emerging artists and designers.
In their current practice Casey is exploring intersectional identity focusing on body politics of trans/non-binary and disabled people, improvisational dance to accommodate pain in real time, expressive interdisciplinary arts as a vehicle for understanding pain, and somatic practices rooted in neurobiology.
They work across a range of mediums including contact improvisation, tactile and body painting, spoken word, projection design, generative technology, and film.
With a deep belief that everybody has accessibility needs, Casey continues to support and create projects that push the boundaries of access in live events—and is committed to building a future where accessibility is not an afterthought, but a foundation.
Elicia Neo (she/her)
Singaporean violinist Elicia Neo’s passion in classical contemporary music forms her medium in how she shares her story. Her interests have led her to collaborate with composers and animators to create Skeleton (2021), an original multimedia piece for violin and percussion unpacking imposter syndrome, and Emergent (2022), an electronic visual-dance-music recital held in collaboration with dancers.
Over the years, Elicia’s music focus shifted into creating accessible and inclusive events for both the artist and the audience, having produced inclusive events such as concerts and guided-imagery concerts for healing at some of Bali’s finest resorts. Elicia Neo is a Trailblazer General Fund recipient 2022, Britten-Pears Young Artist 2023, Bang on a Can Fellow 2023, Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence recipient 2023, and an upcoming Black House Collective Performing Resident 2024.