The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance at Princeton University announces four artists as Caroline Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence for the 2025-26 academic year: Juliana May, Pam Tanowitz, Omari Wiles, and Netta Yerushalmy. Tanowitz, Wiles, and Yerushalmy are creating new works or teaching repertory works that will be performed at the Princeton Dance Festival, November 21-23; May and her company are working on a new piece that will be presented this fall at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Launched in 2017, the program provides selected professional choreographers with resources and a rich environment to develop their work, and offers opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to engage with diverse creative practices. The artists share their work and processes with the Princeton community through workshops, conversations, residencies, open rehearsals, and performances.

A Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, May has created works for Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Barnard College, The New School, Joyce SoHo, The American Realness Festival, and Abrons Arts Center.

Tanowitz is the founder of Pam Tanowitz Dance. She is the inaugural choreographer-in-residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has created works for the New York City Ballet, Australian Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet.

Wiles is an African American, West African, and Vogue dancer. Best known as Omari NiNa Oricci, founder of The House of Nina Oricci, Wiles is also creative director of Les Ballet Afrik. He has worked as a featured dancer showcasing Afrobeats with Goldlink, Jidenna, Maleek Berry, and Wunmi; West African dance with Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, and Forces; and Vogue with Rashaad Newsome, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson, the Joyce Theater, the Guggenheim Museum, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum. His choreography for Cats will be coming to Broadway in 2026.

Yerushalmy was a Princeton Arts Fellow at the Lewis Center from 2019-2021. She has presented work at Danspace Project, Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, La Mama, International Dance Jerusalem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance in Tel Aviv, and elsewhere. Yerushalmy works across genres and disciplines, collaborating with artist Josiah McElheny, cellist Maya Beiser, and composer Julia Wolfe, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. She has created work with repertory companies and students nationwide at many institutions including Juilliard, Rutgers University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, and University of Texas at Austin.