Left Side Labs

Left Side Labs, co-founded by Emma Batman & Mathew Heggem, is on a mission: to support the development of an arts community driven by innovation, entrepreneurship, and dance-making. As choreographers, this is a journey to create new dance content and craft that material into quality choreography and intelligent technique. Their dance work is presented in the form of workshops, seminars, classes, and performance events for a broad spectrum of audience members. But their work also comes in the form of collaborative programming and partnerships with community organizations on topics that matter to the sustainability of dance- making. Left Side Labs recently launched ARTSLAB, an arts entrepreneurship incubator program to train artists in critical business skills, and partner with local business organizations as part of an #ArtsMeetBiz initiative.