ABOUT THE ARTISTS

KASHIA KANCEY
Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. As a performer, Kashia has had the pleasure of working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, and Urban Bush Women. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie-B Parson, Symara Sarai, and Cristina Moya-Palacios. Her choreographic history begins in Miami by making work on herself and the Peter London Global Dance Company. Since moving to NYC, she has had work presented in spaces like CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia is grateful to have been a recipient of residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center(2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY. 

CHANNCE WILLIAMS  
Channce is a freelance artist living in New York, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He is interested in exploring ways of presenting narratives regarding memory, longing, and the accumulation of self via experience. His practice encompasses various elements of performance, poetry, and visual media. He began his training at the Center of Creative Arts and continued his studies at Point Park University, where he received his BFA in Dance in 2020. Throughout his endeavors he has performed both new and restaged works by Kyle Abraham, Hannah Garner, Sidra Bell, Martha Nichols, Aszure Barton, and Maxine Doyle, among others. Since graduating he has worked with GroundWorks DanceTheater, Sidra Bell Dance New York, and GALLIM Dance Company, along with a cohort of independent choreographers including Slowdanger, Jaka Pearl Porter, and Demetris Charalambous. 

KHANDIS MERRITT 
Khandis is a writer and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is grateful to be creating and performing with her best friends. 

MORGAN GREGORY
Morgan Gregory (b. Richmond, Virginia) is a transdisciplinary performer/choreographer/… who focuses on reimagining Afro-diasporic imagery through a futurist lens. In her choreographic and performance work development, she constantly explores ancestral importance, and in this continuous effort of understanding, she dreams within intersectional identities. Morgan is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and was honored as a Denise Jefferson Memorial Scholar, majoring in African and African American Studies and Dance. Morgan has toured with Julien Creuzet/Ana Pi on a multi-disciplinary project, Algorithm Ocean True Blood Moves, to the Dakar Biennale, National Opera & Ballet, Brown University, and Performa Biennale. In 2024, she was named a recipient of the LiftOff Residency with New Dance Alliance, a fellow with The Performance Project-University Settlement, and a BAX Space Residency Grantee. She has premiered performances at Mark Morris, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Arts on Site, University Settlement, and more, all of which range from proscenium-situated to community-centered cyphers and video installations.

CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOS
Cristina Moya-Palacios is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-raised artist with a BFA from New World School of the Arts. She’s had the pleasure of working with Adele Myers and Dancers, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, and Jamar Roberts. Upon moving to Brooklyn, she’s taken on more collaborative roles with peers and is currently with Company [REDACTED], Skyla Schreter Dance, and most recently RudduR Dance. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores for fellow artists and choreographing her own works. 

JOHNNY MATHEWS III
Johnny Mathews III (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer from Madison, Wisconsin. Johnny is a company member with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and KAŌS Dance Collective. Johnny is a 2026 CPR Artist-in-Residence and has been in residence at The Residency Project @ 280 in Pasadena, CA, and the Digging In Group Residency at Green Space in Queens, NY. He holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

ALONDRA BALBUENA  
Alondra Balbuena, born in New York City raised in Miami, Florida is a freelance dance artist working to deepen her understanding of human connection through performance based movement. Currently she is based in Brooklyn, NY. 

KYLA THOMAS  
Kyla Thomas is Brooklyn-based performer and movement director. Originally from Miami, she graduated with her BFA from New World School of the Arts. While in Miami, Kyla has performed works of choreographers such as Robert Battle, Laura Murphy, Kashia Kancey and others. Spaces she has moved in include the Perez Art Museum, Olympia Theatre and community-ran art galleries. She is currently working as a freelance performer, movement director and stylist. Some of her work includes companies such as Nike, Rebel Magazine, Kulfi, Timberland, and more. One of her active goals in her career has been to help continue to bridge the gap between the dance, fashion and film worlds. 

LAKERIA ROBINSON  
Lakeria Robinson, born and raised in Miami, Florida, is a BFA graduate student from New World School of the Arts College. She is trained in ballet, modern, Jazz and Afro dance techniques. Lakeria is an alumni of the School at Jacob’s Pillow Dunham Legacy and Afro Latin intensives. Having been a part of programs like Archcore40 and the Overtown Youth Center, she is also well versed in commercial styles like Hip Hop, Jazz Funk and Musical Theater. Lakeria has had the opportunity to perform works by Tina Santos, Robert Battle, Ronald K. Brown, Darshan Singh Bhuller, and several others who influence her creative process today. 

NAYAH MERISIER  
Nayah Merisier is a Haitian-American Dance Artist from South Florida with a BFA from New World School of the Arts (NWSA). She continued her training with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre School, Jacobs’ Pillow Dance Festival, and the Joffrey Ballet School. Aside from her own choreographic experience, she is trained ballet, jazz, contemporary, west African, Afro-Caribbean, and commercial dance styles. Nayah strives to provide representation and inspiration for young artists of color, and shed light on the Haitian American experience through dance.

CONNOR SALE
Connor Sale is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: til infiniti, Farewell My Fool, The Closties Variety Hour; The Suite; to begin with no end; ENUF (Triskelion Arts), The Missing Fruit, Part 1 (New York City Center/Fall For Dance), Das Ersatz (The Brick), Das Rauschgift (Box of Moonlight), MEOW! (Exponential Festival), With Tears (BEAMS), Femenine (PS21), the body || dust (Gibney), But, Soft (PAGEANT), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He’s toured internationally with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (École des Sables/Sadler’s Wells co-production), Akram Khan’s Gigenis, and Faye Driscoll’s Weathering. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight