(VACA) VALENTINA BACHÉ
Dog God/Germ Angels

RUNTIME: 55 minutes with no intermission.
This performance contains the use of water based haze and strobe lighting.
Content advisory: This performance includes simulated violence and the use of a prop weapon.

Photo by Blue

Created by Valentina Baché

Performed by Valentina Baché, SarahIsoke Days, Kashia Kancey, Cristina Moya-Palacios, Jacob Thoman, and Channce Williams

Lighting Design by Connor Sale

Sound Score by Slic
Sound score includes licensed songs: “Return” and “Breathing” by Chuquimamani Condori

In a maelstrom of nostalgia this dance revisits the magical realism of hurricane Wilma in 2005 and the Mexican subcultures of the early 2000s , escalating within disorienting forces of rage. Through trance-inducing techniques, time becomes suspended as we become one with the storm and how we deal with its aftermath. This work lies at the intersection of sustainable fashion, performance art, dance theater & ritual.
It begins with rhythm born from deep within, bringing with it the force of à hurricane and the conviction of a mountain.
Vibrations that awaken those who are blind to the collective sickness of the heart.This song cannot be stopped, it trains the performers, strengthens them to rise
to bite.

It will beckon you unstoppable
give into me
I will annihilate your indifference
in the destruction change leaves behind
an addiction to chaos
à cup that’s always leaking
à rage that’s never quenched
under blankets of smog
may this dance curse you into action

may this promise seep into every scream.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

VALENTINA BACHÉ
Valentina Baché was born into a cacophony of color and macaws, in the isolation of the Caribbean jungle in Playa del Carmen, México. They learned the language of movement before they learned to speak, taught by sea, dogs, and blood. At fifteen, they skipped high school to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, later transferring to Hunter College, where they graduated in 2020. Since then, they have done everything in their power to love, share their art and try to slow down time.In a lifelong battle against the imperialist soul, Valentina has found that love is the reason and that greed must be expelled from within each day. Through a spiritual devotion to dance as prayer, they explore the magic of nature and reveal the surreal ways in which we all contribute to cycles of harm.From this devotion, they have birthed a new technique, practice, and way of resisting. They spin because the divine is always spiraling, and they bark because the dog is a mirror reflecting our own malleability. They believe it is in the suppression of rage that energy becomes dangerous instead of transformative. Valentina is a multidisciplinary artist, a performer, textile artist, sculptor, and designer of beauty, violence, and truth, all at once.
@vacavache | @_raspaditos | valentinabache.com

SARAHISOKE DAYS
Sarah Isoke is a proud Brooklyn native with a deep passion for performance art. She majored in Dance at the Brooklyn High School of The Arts, Hunter College, and graduated from The Ailey School. Isoke holds dual degrees in Dance and Africana, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies. Dedicated to uplifting marginalized people through art, she leads both the Youth and Adult Dance Ministries at her church. Isoke has performed at prestigious venues like City Center and Lincoln Center and starred in "Bottom of the Ocean" in 2022. She works as School Administrator at Brooklyn Ballet and is involved with Hate The Dot, a menstrual health collective.
@sarahisoke

KASHIA KANCEY
Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and dance-theater 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, Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, and Urban Bush Women. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, Symara Sarai, and Cristina Moya-Palacios.

Her choreographic history began in Miami, with early works including commissions from the Peter London Global Dance Company, as well as self-choreographed solo work.

Since moving to NYC, she has had work presented in CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia is grateful to have been a recipient of residencies such as the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency (2023), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Most recently, Kashia was recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” 2026 as a choreographer and performer. Currently based in Brooklyn, she is excited to continue making work where she can exist unapologetically and dream without any limits.
@kashiakancey

CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOSCristina 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, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Michelle Dorrance. Now in Brooklyn, she’s performing with Kashia Kancey, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Skyla Schreter Dance, and Luis A. Lara Malvacías. Most recently, she presented solo work at Triskelion Arts, in Performance Mix Festival 39, at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month, and in Xenoduo’s installation performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. She was a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist in 2024, a GALLIM Moving Artist in 2025, and is part of the New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Residency & Performance Program this year. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores and choreographing work focusing on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, and surrealism through extreme physicality and theater.
@pmoyacristina

JACOB THOMAN
Jacob Thoman is a Filipino/American movement artist based in New York City. After graduating from The Juilliard School in 2019, Jacob joined Gibney Company through 2023 where he worked with Alan Lucian Øyen, David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen, and Stefanie Batten Bland. Jacob’s other collaborators throughout his life include Akira Uchida, Max Cookward, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Dorchel Haqq, Sonya Tayeh, Akram Khan, Amy J Garner, Vinson Fraley, Jasmine Ellis, Zora Jade Kyhri, and Mio Ishikawa. Beyond the stage he’s found himself dancing at the club, with nature, through site specific work, and film/tv.
@jacob.thoman

CHANNCE WILLIAMS
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, Sidra Bell, Aszure Barton, and Maxine Doyle, among others. He has worked professionally with Sidra Bell Dance New York, GALLIM Dance Company, and Tanztheater Wuppertal, along with a cohort of independent choreographers including slowdanger, Hannah Garner, Demetris Charalambous, and Kashia Kancey.
@senti___mental

SLIC (CAMI DOMINGUEZ)
Slic is a composer working primarily with the voice and digital synthesis. More recently, they have begun incorporating hand percussion to lend a greater physical presence and texture to their sound. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Slic has lived in Brooklyn since 2018. Their music practice is a way to chase attunement with the world around them and the forces that shape it, shaking out what’s been repressed or submerged whenever possible.
@slicdotmp3 | @slicslicslic | @slicdotmp3

CONNOR SALE
Connor Sale is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: The Closties Variety Hour; Farewell My Fool; til infiniti; The Suite; ENUF (Triskelion Arts), The Missing Fruit, Part 1 (New York City Center/Fall For Dance), Das Ersatz (The Brick), I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty (The Brick), 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.

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.