HEWMAN is a collaborative collective that reimagines the traditional model of a dance company run by one choreographer by engaging individual artists with distinct voices to collaborate as equals in creative process. Cofounded by Jason Collins, James Lindsay Harwell, and Ingrid Kapteyn in 2014, HEWMAN makes work with the underlying question of how to demystify dance performance by acknowledging the presence and essentialness of the audience.

Jason, Lindsay, and Ingrid were in the same class at Juilliard, and while they have each worked professionally for other choreographers since graduation, they love coming together in the studio to pursue their own creative research. They have self-produced three evening-length installations in unconventional venues across New York City, including in a midtown tenement, a Harlem gallery, and a Williamsburg garage, to name a few, and they are now exploring the translation of their work from open immersive settings to the stage.