ABOUT THE ARTISTS

TUSHRIK FREDERICKS (he/him), recipient of the Princess Grace Award (Chris Hellman dance honor), nominated by TRIBE (Founding artistic director, Shamel Pitts) in 2021 is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up he found himself drawn towards ‘KRUMPING‘. He graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC in June 2015 and has had the opportunity to work with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director), Sidra Bell Dance New York (Sidra Bell, Artistic Director) and UNA Productions (Chuck Wilt). Fredericks was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students (2016-2018). In May 2021 Fredericks received 3rd prize for dance at the SoloTanz Festival in Stuttgart for his first rendition of his self-choreographed solo '(territory) of the heart' and in May 2023 he showcased the completed rendition of the solo at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, NY. Fredericks also received the Baryshnikov Arts Open Fall 2023 residency for a co-choreographed duet with Rebecca Margolick, the recipient of the 2024 Princess Grace Special Projects Grant Award and a 2025 CPR – Center for Performance Research artist in residence.
@bytushrikfredericks | www.tushrikfredericks.com

CHANNCE WILLIAMS is a freelance artist living in New York, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His creative practice encompasses elements of movement, poetry, and visual art. He began his training at the Center of Creative Arts and continued his studies at Point Park University, where he received his BFA in 2020. Throughout his endeavors he has performed both new and restaged works by Kyle Abraham, Hannah Garner, Sidra Bell, 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, Demetris Charalambous, and Kashia Kancey.
@senti______mental

A Chicago native, CLAUDE CJ JOHNSON is a dancer, choreographer, and movement director. After finishing his studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and Suny Purchase College, where he was awarded the Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship, Claude then became a full-time company dancer with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham from 2017-2022 where he became a Princess Grace 2021 nominee. Claude has gotten the opportunity to perform works by Kyle Abraham, Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Mar Morris, Aszure Barton, Johannes Weiland, Doug Varone, Kevin Wynn, Nicole Von Arx, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Princess Madoki , and many more. As a performer, choreographer and black queer artist, Claude dances to translate the human experience to audiences to recognize the art form of dance as the best catalyst to motivate self-expression and social change. In any artistic space he believes his responsibility is to increase the knowledge and perspective of his community's vast experience.
@cj4400

NOUHOUM KOITA is a Japanese and Malian dance artist from Brooklyn, NY. He started his training at the National Dance Institute. Koita then went on to train at LaGuardia Arts High School and the Juilliard School. He is also an alumni of MOVE|NYC|‘s Young Professionals Program under the direction of Nigel Campbell and Chanel DaSilva. In 2020, Koita was named a National YoungArts Finalist at the Gold Award level, and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He has performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, kNoName Artist, TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances, and GALLIM. Koita has performed works by Trisha Brown, Roderick George, Ohad Naharin, Shamel Pitts, Barton and Andrea Miller.
@nouhkoit

CONNOR SALE is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: The Suite; to begin with no end; ENUF; The Dybbuk Part Two (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), MEOW! (Exponential Festival), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft and What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables are producing. 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

ASHLEY PIERRE-LOUIS is originally from Miami, FL, where her dance journey began at New World School of the Arts and continued at Florida State University, where she earned her BFA in Dance. Now based in New York City, she is a dance artist, choreographer, arts administrator, producer, and educator dedicated to fostering pleasure and joy through movement and community.
Through her creative work, Ashley invites both herself and audiences to imagine their deepest, strongest, and richest expressions of the self, asking how we might share these collectively to cultivate freedom in both mind and body. She is a performer and creator with Shamel Pitts’ multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE, and plays a vital role in arts leadership as the Dream Partner/Program Manager for Florida State University’s Arts in NYC program and the Artist Services Associate at Performance Space New York (PS122), where she has recently begun producing community events.
Ashley is currently developing Pleasure Practice, a movement exploration shaping her artistic voice, style, and aesthetic—something she longs to share with her community, with every and any BODY. Through this evolving work, she explores dance as a source of power and righteousness, offering a pleasure-centered, embodied path to joy, liberation, and self-discovery.

DAUAN JACARI, formerly known as Duality Junkie is a pioneering fashion label based in New York city. Founded in 2019 by the East Village raised artist , DJ Chappel, the brand emerges as a dynamic fusion of artistry and garment construction. Drawing from a rich background in dance and apparel craftsmanship, Chappel transcends conventional fashion norms by crafting wearable sculptures that seamlessly blend form and function. His designs, meticulously honed through a lens of movement, evoke a profound exploration of silhouettes' impact on our psyche.

TT BRITT (b. Richmond VA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City/Berlin and works within the mediums of video, image, fashion, and sound. Common influences within TT's practice include repetition (mantra), mysticism, ambiguity, religious iconography, cut up techniques, afrofuturism, and ancestral tradition. TT's sound can be described as a poly rhythmic journey exploring frequencies that are both otherworldly yet down to earth. TT has been invited into institutions such as: The Palais de Tokyo, The Guggenheim, MoMa PS1, MoCADA, and most recently The Metropolitan Museum of Art. TT has played parties, clubs, and festivals across the globe including: BASEMENT NYC, Nowadays, Den An Side - CPH, TAG - Chengdu, Zhao Dai - Shanghai, Wire Festival, Sustain Release, Dweller Festival, Herrensauna, Fast Forward, Bound, Endurance, Mala Junta, and MoMa PS1-Warm up.

ANNA WOTRING is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.