Souleymane Badolo was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Badolo is the director and founder of Kongo Ba Téria, a company which fuses traditional African dances with western contemporary dance. He has worked with renowned African choreographers, including Gnapa Béatrice Kombé, and renowned French choreographers Elsa Wolliaston and Mathilde Monnier. He currently splits his time between Burkina Faso and Brooklyn.

Choreographer Judith Sanchez Ruiz was born in Cuba where she studied ballet and Afro-Cuban traditional dances before studying with David Zambrano and joining the Trisha Brown Company.

Lighting design by Carol Mullins.

i get lost: An evening of solos by Souleymane Badolo and Judith Sanchez Ruiz is made possible with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.