TRISK FELLOWSHIP
The Trisk Fellowship is the cornerstone of our residency programs. This prestigious fellowship grants an artist an entire year to fully explore their creative vision, offering studio access and substantial financial support. Fellows receive extensive technical and theatrical design support and have opportunities for showings and open rehearsals, fostering community engagement and behind-the-scenes access.
At the conclusion of their transformative year, fellows get the chance to share their artistic journey through a performance series in our theater. The Trisk Fellowship reflects our commitment to nurturing artistic growth by providing time, resources, and support for artists to realize their visions in their most impactful form.
THE 2026 TRISK FELLOWSHIP
NORA ALAMI & KIMIKO TANABE
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Nora Alami is a Moroccan experimental dance artist and creative producer, raised in Colorado. Dance is her tool for conducting research, building community, and organizing politically. Her artistic works research eros, the trappings of nostalgia, and join disparate realities through sensuality, absurdity, and materiality.
She is a danceWEB Scholar(2025), MANCC Forward Dialogues Artist (2024), CUNY Dance Initiative Artist (2023-2024), Resident Artist at Triskelion Arts (2022), and New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Choreographic Resident Artist (2017-18). Nora’s choreographic work has been supported by residencies at JACK, BRIClab: Performing Arts, and The Petronio Center. Her choreography has been presented at Nublu Classic, the UNDOXX Festival at JACK, the New York Arab Festival and LaMaMa Moves! Dance Festival, Danspace Project’s DraftWork, Triskelion Arts, Houston Metropolitan Dance Center, Center for Performance Research, New York Live Arts, and Movement Research at Judson Church. She holds a Masters degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
Nora loves to collaborate across disciplines. Reach out to connect at thenoralami@gmail.com or @noralami on Instagram.
Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a fourth generation Japanese-American artist moving through the social, cultural, and political landscape of post-internment Japanese-America. She draws inspiration from Japanese folkloric ghost tales of yūrei and yokai to tease at the seams of perceived reality, making space for the logic of spirits, dreams, and the afterlife to emerge.
While grounded in the body, her work spills across mediums, incorporating video, installation, and other visual materials. Her practice unfolds in both traditional studios and lived spaces, drawing from the intimacy of everyday rituals—lighting incense, dancing in the bathroom mirror when you’re already late, journaling, tending to plants, FaceTiming friends, watching old home videos. She archives these moments and translates their essence into live performance—delicately weaving together the sacred and mundane, and the private and public.
Her work has been presented at the Center for Performance Research, Triskelion Arts Center, Colorado College, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She has been a MANCC Forward Dialogues Artist in Residence (2024), Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipient (2024), New Dance Alliance Artist in Residence (2024), Colorado College Crown Family Professorship for Innovation in the Arts Artist in Residence (2023), BAX Space Grant Recipient (2022), and Gallim Moving Artist Resident (2022). @kimiko_tanabe
Photo by Chris Cameron
PAST RECIPIENTS
KASHIA KANCEY (2025)
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KASHIA KANCEY is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Some of her choreographic history includes having work presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, CreateART Performance, and Triskelion Arts. Kashia has performed in spaces like South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. She has danced with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. Kashia has also worked with artists like Marcella Lewis, Annie-B Parson, Tendayi Kuumba, and Donna Uchizono. Kashia was most recently a performing apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. She was a Gallim Moving Artist in Residence in 2023 and is a 2024 Baryshnikov Arts Center residency recipient. Kashia is elated to be the 2025 Triskelion Arts Fellow!
Kashia presented THE CLOSTIES VARIETY HOUR as the culmination of their fellowship in March 2025.
JULIA ANTINOZZI (2024)
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Julia Antinozzi is a choreographer and dance artist. Her work has been presented at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, PAGEANT, Jack Crystal Theater, Spoke the Hub (Director’s Choice) in NYC, nationally in Seattle (CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work) and Salt Lake City (Queer Spectra Arts), and featured in various online publications. Julia has held artist residencies at The Floor on Atlantic, New Dance Alliance and Motive Brooklyn. Most recently, she received the 2023-2024 Trisk Fellowship from Triskelion Arts, and was selected to be a 2023-2024 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Performance & Residency artist.
As a performer and collaborator, Julia has worked with Phoebe Berglund, Boy Friday, Juli Brandano, The Creature, Barbie Diewald, Ayano Elson, Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Anna Sperber, and performed in repertory by Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller.
Julia graduated from Smith College cum laude with a BA in Dance and a minor in Astronomy.
@juliadance__ juliaantinozzi.com
Julia presented THE SUITE as the culmination of their fellowship in April 2024.