The Company
Lian Kizner
Founding Artistic Director
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Lian Kizner is a Queens-based dancer, choreographer, and the director of Flow by Lian. Kizner’s keen eye for character interpretation and direction earned her the Choreography Award from Lehman College in 2019. Since graduating, Lian co-founded and is the artistic director of Flow by Lian, which leverages its platform to contribute to both the creative canon and investment in community equality efforts. Some of her choreographic credits include Kraine Theater, Dixon Place, IATI Theater, The Players Theater, Gibney Performing Arts Center, and more. She is currently the Company Manager of Dancers Unlimited. In 2024, Lian was chosen as a dance resident for Camino al Arte in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She was also accepted into WADE Dance HUB: Italy for the summer of 2024, where she worked with Vangeline, founder of the New York Butoh Institute, and Adriano Popolo Rubbio of Komoco Dance Company. In 2025, her self-produced, choreographed, and directed dance film “Negiot,” was featured on a Times Square billboard through Artistic Tribe NYC. Lian has a deep passion for the arts and exploring the beauty of the human experience through connection, listening, and mind-body oneness.
Dancers
Kara Rose Hauenstein
Asim Logan
Destiny Pino
Loreal Quiroz
Idania Quezada
Derron Thomas
Stephen Galvan
Co-Founder (SteLi Dance)
Dance BA Lehman college, class of 2017 has been dancing since age 15. His philosophy of dance is “respect your body - dance is a partnership with yourself.” His studies in dance blossomed during his undergraduate years. In 2017 his choreographic work “NoMENclature,” won the award for choreographic excellence. Since graduating, Stephen has been an active member of: REDi Dance Company, The ChoreoJoey Project, and Herbert H. Dance Co. His style combines modern dance, house, ballroom, dramaturgy, Butoh, hip hop, capoeira, ballet, and floor work.
