SPLIT BILL #47
ARIANA SPEIGHT
CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOS
RUNTIME: About 60 minutes with an intermission.
Portions of this performance contain the use of water based haze.
Photos by Elyse Mertz
DECEMBER 4-6, 2025
8PM
All Immerican Dream Girl!
Cristina Moya-Palacios
-INTERMISSION-
PSA: Pubic Service Announcement
Ariana Speight
All Immerican Dream Girl!
All Immerican Dream Girl! aims to shine a light on the complexity of the immigrant experience in the United States by commenting on “The American Dream” from the perspective of a Latina “Dreamer”, otherwise known as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Through overwhelming bouts of extreme physicality and segments that never seem to settle, viewers enter a simulation of the taxing cycles, frustrating resets and restarts, unraveling, and inability to move forward that the immigration process entails. This work takes us on a journey to nowhere via completely pathless attempts at assimilation that ultimately lead to a reckoning of the crumbling facade this empire has tried to sell us.
All Immerican Dream Girl! was created with support from Triskelion Arts, New Dance Alliance, and the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency.
Photo by Elyse Mertz
Choreographed by Cristina Moya-Palacios
Performed by
Cristina Moya-Palacios
Kashia Kancey
Costume: Valentina Bache
Collaborator: Kashia Kancey
Sound: Cristina Moya-Palacios
Prop Customization: Cristina Moya-Palacios
Lighting Design: Anna Wotring
A special thanks to my mom, Kashia, Valentina, the Trisk team, and all who have encouraged me along the way. My dreams have always shifted a lot throughout my life and now they are finally coming true thanks to you.
PSA, Pubic Service Announcement
pubic: of, related to, or situated near the pubes or pubis
PSA, Pubic Service Announcement, is a call and response.
Dance, humor, and other liberatory practices initiate a dialogue between the bodies currently and formerly inhabiting the space, revealing an accumulation of selves. Rooted in blackness and steeped in spontaneity, this work invites tangible histories and amorphous memories to surface. These radical acts of resistance are compositional activations that aim to disrupt the crippling systems of capitalism, patriarchy, and war. As our government and global powers continue to fund genocide, militarization, and surveillance, the targeting and brutalizing of QTBIPOC communities has increased exponentially, ultimately limiting our freedoms and censoring our voices. PSA centers storytelling and oral composites, amplifying connection, introduction, interruption, lineage, and relationship.
Photo by Elyse Mertz
Created by and performed by: Ariana Speight
Costuming: Ariana Speight
Dramaturgy:
Maghan Baptiste
dorchel haqq
Projection:
Myrtle Beach Rocks - Granny, Grandma Shirley, Uncle Rick, and I
Sound:
Treehome95 (Instrumental) - Tyler, The Creator
Enjoy Right Now, Today - Tyler, The Creator
Universal Studios
A Long Slow Little Wave / Citizen, An Activity - Loving
Parker Pond
After the Storm - Kali Uchis (feat. Tyler, The Creator & Bootsy Collins) [Pete Rock Remix]
Skylark - Gretchen Parlato > Aretha Franklin > Ella Fitzgerald
Sound Editing: Quaba Ernest
Training:
Melanie Holm - Vocals
Alex MacKinnon - Drums
Lighting Design: Anna Wotring
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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, 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 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. Cristina was a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist in 2024 and a GALLIM Moving Artist in 2025. She also received the highly coveted title of “Miss Pageant” after performing her work in Pageant’s 3rd Anniversary Gala. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores and choreographing work focusing on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, and surrealism through through rigorous movement and theater.
Kashia Kancey (performer/collaborator) is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Kashia is based in Brooklyn and continues to pursue her career as a performer and choreographer. She is the 2025 Triskelion Arts Fellow and a 2025 Fresh Tracks New Works residency artist.
Valentina Baché (costume designer) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rediscovering their ancestral bodily archives to best inform how change happens within the body first, recognizing and witnessing profoundly effective energies such as rage. They showcase the power of pleasure and joy through resilient, stubborn, and unbound honesty. They also create hand-woven art, "Raspaditos," only using second-hand/deadstock fabric and scissors to create genderless, sexy, and versatile clothing that can be danced in.
Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. She has worked with a number of artists: Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. She has performed at BAAD, BAX, Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, CPR, Dancewave, Danspace, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, NYLA, Pageant, Roulette, The Shed, Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among others. As a maker, she has shared many solos including: endearing indifference, loading... <all systems functioning>, an introduction, morph, the call, Vent & Drain and VENTing. As a 2024 CPR AiR, she presented an OPEN LAB: DIGITAL ARCHIVE and OPEN AiR: cocoon. Venturing into standup comedy, she was most notably featured in the Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. She most recently shared work in the Performance Mix Festival #39 and AUNTS Festival. She graduated from Rutgers University - NB with a BFA in Dance.
Anna Wotring (Lighting Designer and Director of Production) 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.
Sabrina Canas (Stage Manager and Lighting Board Operator) (she/her) is a first generation Argentine American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds her BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts (UArts), where she performed works by Jesse Zaritt, Netta Yerushalmy, Helen Simoneau, Marguerite Hemmings, Beth Gill, Sidra Bell, and others. In January 2018, she performed and attended the International Association for Blacks in Dance Conference in Los Angeles, California, under the direction of Tommie-Waheed Evans and Kim Bears-Bailey, and in November 2018, Sabrina produced and presented an immersive installation performance in Solmssen Court, under the direction of Niall Jones. Since moving to Brooklyn, Sabrina has presented a collaborative duet at The Craft, performed at BAM Fisher, 92nd Street NY, Triskelion Arts, PAGEANT, Flushing Town Hall, and NOD Theater (SEA). She has been featured in music videos for jazz musician Tony Glausi, When It All Comes Crashing Down in 2021, and Raia Was, Playing God Again in 2023. Sabrina is currently collaborating and performing with SAXYN Dance Works, MICHIYAYA Dance, HB² PROJECTS, and Kinesis Project among other independent project based artists in New York. She has shown work at The 14th St. Y, La Mama for EstroGenuis Expand, 28th Street Theatre (TADA!), SAA, and MOtiVE with tidbit collective as the co-director.
Sabrina is a Production Assistant at Triskelion Arts and served as stage manager for NVA & Guests at the Dance Managers Collective 2024 APAP Showcases at Ailey Citigroup Theater as well as the New Victory Theater. She was the lighting designer and board operator for Yak Milk at Arts On Site in May 2024.
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.
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