Project Flux: Perspectives

About this event

Perspectives is a place for Boise artists and audiences to engage more deeply with the performing arts. During this works-in-progress showing, audiences will get the chance to see in-development works, hear about the artists' processes, and ask questions to the creators. During the November 2026 showing, Perspectives will feature new dance works by Cydney Covert and Kelli Brown as well as a reading from a new play by Heidi Kraay. See below for their bios!

This is a free event, and seating is limited, so please reserve your ticket. This is an informal studio showing. Various types of seating will be available, including chairs, benches, and cushions.

Donations are optional but appreciated.

This event is made possible thanks to the support of the Boise City Department of Arts & History.

artists.

Cydney Covert. Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Cydney moved to Boise in 2014 to train at Ballet Idaho’s academy as a pre-professional student. She was hired as an apprentice in 2016, promoted to corps de ballet in 2018, and became a soloist in 2024. She made her choreographic debut in 2019 for Ballet Idaho’s NewDance program and created a second piece for their 2021 digital season. Her work See You On The Other Side was performed at the 2021 Treefort Music Festival. She served as the co-choreographer and rehearsal director for Daniel Ojeda’s BY & BYE in 2024 and was the choreographic assistant for Joseph Hernandez’s work Untitled (Derogatory) as part of the Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation (SFD+I) in 2025. In 2025, she was also commissioned by LED to create a work for their inaugural season at The Dixon, in collaboration with Elijah Jensen-Lindsey, making her the first choreographer aside from the founding director to create a work under the LED moniker. In the same year, she was one of two inaugural choreographers for Project Flux’s Perspectives series. She also dances for Boise-based contemporary companies Project Flux and LED, directed by Lydia Sakolsy-Basquil and Lauren Edson, respectively, and is a member of Blue Screen Dance under the direction of Joseph Hernandez. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Criminal Justice at Boise State University and teaches for the Academy at Ballet Idaho.

Heidi Kraay. Playwright Heidi Kraay flirts with other disciplines to examine links between brain and body on personal, global, mythic scales and in theatrical, expressive, impossible ways. Plays include TrapDoor , Take Me Away , see in the dark , How to Hide Your Monster , additional full-lengths, co-devised plays, one-acts, plays for young audiences and shorts. Dramatic work has been presented in Boise, regionally, in NYC and internationally, recently through Valdez Theatre Conference, SUNY Plattsburgh, Boise Contemporary Theater, and The Liberty Theatre Company. Climate Change Theatre Action commissioned two micro-plays, Tree People and DreamSong , to present worldwide. Heidi is a three-time Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and Valdez Theatre Conference alum. Their play for middle-grade audiences Wolf/Girl received its university premiere at Boise State University. Heidi co-founded Migration Theory, for which she co-devised large-scale immersive theatrical experiences SuperSecretSiteSpecificSomething and small matters . Projects in other disciplines include 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle , a memoir-adjacent book in the ancient century form, and Drown to Resurface , an album of poem-songs. A current resident artist at MING Studios, Heidi previously served as an inaugural Boise City Writer-in-Residence and last spring traversed inner/outer wildernesses at Ketchum’s Hemingway House. Their work has received awards from Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise City Department of Arts & History, The COVID Cultural Commissioning Fund and Alexa Rose Foundation. Heidi holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies and is finishing a Certificate in Writing for the Stage through PlayPenn. Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Learn more at www.heidikraay.com

Kelli Brown. Kelli Brown is the founder of Off Center Dance and Artistic Director for Flamenco Idaho. While with OCD, Kelli choreographed over 30 modern dance works and 5 short dance videos. Her flamenco journey has taken her to Spain nine times, including multiple grants to study in Granada. She was an adjunct professor at Boise State University/College of Western Idaho and a dance educator at Idaho Arts Charter School. Ms. Brown has performed with groups including Certamen (Carlota Santana Flamenco Vivo of NY, in the Kennedy Center), Flamenco Idaho, Off Center Dance, MahaVia, Flux, Boise Dance Co-op, Drop Dance Collective, and Idaho Dance Theatre.

In addition to her performance work, she has choreographed for Alexa Rose Gallery, Drop, College of Southern Idaho and University of Texas, PanAmerica. Brown has taught flamenco workshops for the College of Southern Idaho, Idaho State University and set work on Idaho Dance Theater. She obtained her Master of Arts in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, and her MFA in dance performance and choreography from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Ms. Brown has been the recipient of Jacob's Pillow Grant (2019), NWPE Grant for Flamenco Dance (2018), Alexa Rose Foundation Artist Grant (2017, 2022), Fund for Teachers Grant (2015, 2023)/Circle Grant (2024), Boise Arts and History AiR Award (2009) /Catalyst (2024) and project grant (2010, 2015), Idaho Commission on the Arts Awards (2010/2022), a Surdna Foundation Fellowship (2010), and Bates Dance Fellowship (2011, 2013).