Greenwich Village, often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
 Greenwich Village has been known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements.
 "Groenwijck", one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning "Green District"), was Anglicized to "Greenwich".
 Two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School, are located in Greenwich Village.
Dancenoise is an American performance art duo created by Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton.
 Dancenoise entered the New York and Washington, D.C., art and club scene in 1983, performing at venues such as WOW Café, the Pyramid, 8BC, Performance Space 122, Franklin Furnace, The Kitchen, La Mama and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.
 Their work has also been presented around Europe as well as at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
 In addition to their work under the title "Dancenoise", Iobst and Sexton, along with Jo Andres and Mimi Goese, were frequent collaborators with Tom Murrin, an East Village performance artist known for his monthly celebrations in honor of the full moon.
 Dancenoise is a recipient of National Endowment of the Arts Choreographic Fellowships and a Bessie Award for New York Dance and Theatre.
The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (LNAC) is a non-profit performance space, art gallery, and community center located in the historic Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
 Since March 1994, the organization has been the forefront of art spaces committed to the DIY ethic in St. Louis and the Midwest, holding the position as one of the longest-running "Do-It-Yourself" music venue in the region and in the United States behind ABC No Rio in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, the Che Cafe in La Jolla, California, and 924 Gilman Street in Oakland, California.
The Rochester Area Colleges is a consortium of higher education institutions in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area in the United States.
 Founded in 1970, Rochester Area Colleges has numerous area public and private colleges as members, and provides numerous collaborative working opportunities for colleges and their students.
 The purpose of the association is to support the functions of career development, placement and experiential education in the region.
 University of Rochester is generally regarded as the premier institution within the consortium.
Goatmother Industrial is an art producing entity currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
 Established in 2003, it serves as an identifying moniker for numerous art and sound related activities by artist Mark Rice.
 Originally based in Bloomington, Indiana, Rice took the title with him to the East Coast in 2009, where he has since attained his Masters of Fine Arts in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design.
 He is on an 11-month artist residency at Hub-Bub, an art gallery and performance space located in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
 Rice then taught Drawing, Art History, and Art Appreciation courses at USC Upstate and surrounding community colleges.
 In from 2013, Rice relocated to Philadelphia and for several years worked as the printmaking instructor and product coordinator at the Center for Creative Works, a non-profit vocational day program for adults with intellectual, physical, and developmental disabilities focused on therapeutic creative expression located in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
 Rice currently teaches printmaking courses at Tyler School of Art.
The Southern Vermont Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts organization in Manchester, Vermont.
 It is located on the west side of West Road, at the former Yester House country estate.
 The center includes art galleries with permanent and rotating exhibits, the area's largest sculpture park, a performance space, and educational facilities.
 Its grounds are open to the public for recreational pursuits, with trails for hiking and cross-country skiing.
 The center's campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Artspace in Richmond, Virginia began in 1988 and is a non-profit, artist-run 501-C3 gallery and performance space currently located south of the James River in the Manchester area of the city at Zero East 4th Street in the art complex Plant Zero.
 The gallery began as Artspace 1306 in a donated, rent-free space at 1306 Cary Street in Richmond's historic Shockoe Slip.
 Upon the loss of its free space, the gallery moved to North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom, retaining its original name of Artspace 1306.
 The gallery's next move as Artspace 1306 was to a much larger building at 6 East Broad Street in Jackson Ward, and the name of the gallery was changed at the request of the Richmond post office to Artspace, removing its former street number to prevent confusion at the new location.
 Artspace was the first of the Shockoe Bottom art galleries incorporated as non-profit organizations to locate on Broad Street, and it became an anchor gallery for Richmond's First Friday Art Walk and a popular and long-lasting venue for the Arts and Cultural District formed for Broad Street and Downtown Richmond.
Alina Troyano, more commonly known as Carmelita Tropicana, is a Cuban-American stage and film lesbian actress who lives and works in New York City.
 Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter ego, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and her counterpart, the irresistible archetypal Latin macho Pingalito Betancourt, followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and la Cucaracha Martina from her childhood fairy tales in Cuba.
 In Tropicana’s work humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history.
 In 1999, she received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Performance.
 She is the sister of the independent film director Ela Troyano, who directed "Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen".
 Both form part of the alternative arts scene in the East Village and Lower East Side.
 Tropicana started her career in the early 1980s performing at the WOW Café Theater (a woman's theater collective) and now performs extensively in spaces such as Performance Space 122 and Dixon Place.
 In 2010, Tropicana served as a co-hostess to Vaginal Davis' performance piece "Speaking from the Diaphragm" at Performance Space 122.
 Tropicana often collaborates with her sister and with other performers such as Marga Gomez.
 She is the author of a collection of performance pieces and short essays called "I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures" that includes four performance scripts, a screenplay, and three essays.
 Some of her work was featured in tatiana de la tierra's magazine "Esto no tine nombre", which gave voice to Latina lesbians all over the world and published the artistic pieces of Latina lesbians like Tropicana's.
Ishmael Houston-Jones (born 1951, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA) is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, curator, and arts advocate known for his improvisational dance and language work.
 This work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America.
 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a 1984 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for their work "Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders" performed at The Kitchen and he shared another Bessie Award in 2011 with writer Dennis Cooper and composer Chris Cochrane for the 2010 revival of their 1985 collaboration, "THEM".
 "THEM" was performed at Performance Space 122 (PS 122) New York's American Realness Festival, Springdance in Utrecht, Tanz im August in Berlin, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and at TAP,Theatre and Auditorium of Poitiers, France .
 The 1985 premier performance of THEM at PS122 was part of New York's first AIDS benefit.
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
 It was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 by Steina and Woody Vasulka, taking its name from the original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center, where artists working mostly in video showed their work.
 Although first intended as a location for the exhibition of video art, The Kitchen soon expanded its mission to include other forms of art, both plastic and performance.
 In 1974, The Kitchen relocated to a building at the corner of Wooster and Broome Streets in SoHo, and incorporated as a not-for-profit arts organization.
 In 1987 it moved to its current location.

Question: How many New York private colleges are there in this region where the non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space The Kitchen is founded?
Answer: Two