Place-Making

Samantha Mohr is a Co-Director and Educator of homeLA’s Place-Making Program and is responsible for developing homeLA’s education curriculum and teaching students. An LA-based maker and performing artist, their work reflects a collage of dance, theater, visual, vocal, and live performance arts. Samantha's choreography has been presented in Los Angeles at REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, LAMAG, LACE Gallery, homeLA, Pieter Performance Space, Electric Lodge, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work; in New York at The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Eden’s Expressway; in Paris, France at Cinema La Clef; and in Baltimore at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Baltimore’s Theater Project. Samantha is a co-recipient of the Rubys Artist Grant (2019) with collaborator Candace Scarborough.

Jay Carlon is a queer Filipinx American contemporary dance artist and community organizer based between LA and NYC. He is committed to connecting his art practice to sustainability and his personal and collective journey of decolonization. He is Co-Manager and Educator of homeLA’s Place-Making Program. He is responsible for developing our education curriculum and teaching students. Carlon was named Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, and his work has been featured throughout the United States, Mexico, Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Jay is a performer and directing associate with Australian spectacle theater company Sway, where he has performed at the 2014 Olympics, the 2016 World EXPO, and the 2018 Super Bowl. Carlon has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Bill T. Jones, jumatatu m. poe, The Industry Opera, Oguri, Solange Knowles, Rodrigo y Gabriela; and choreographed works for Kanye West and Mndsgn.