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 in The Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center through commissions by Peter London Global Dance Company. She has also had work presented throughout NYC at CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia has performed in spaces like Perez Art Museum Miami, South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. Kashia has had the pleasure of working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. She has also worked with artists like Marcella Lewis, Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie-B Parson. Kashia was most recently an apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Kashia has been grateful to have been a recipient of residencies like Gallim Moving Artist (2023), Triskelion Arts SPLIT BILL 42 (2024), and Baryshnikov Arts Center (2024). She is currently the 2025 Triskelion Arts Fellow and is a 2025 Fresh Tracks Residency Artist with New York Live Arts.
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CHANNCE WILLIAMS 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.

JAILYN PHILLIPS-WILEY (She/Her) is a Jersey bred, Brooklyn based freelance movement artist who stands on movement being a tool for transcendence, an act of resistance, and a spiritual release that is vital to the human experience. While attending Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Jailyn’s been blessed enough to work with her peers, Shannon Gillen/Vim Vigor Dance, Dawn Marie Bazemore, and Noa Zuk. In her senior year, she received the dance department’s Majorie J. Turner award for outstanding choreography for her senior thesis and received her BFA in Dance in May 2020. Jailyn has been a member of Umoja Dance Company since 2022 under the direction of Karen Love after performing with their children’s company (Usaama) for 6 years. Wiley’s professional experience includes chameckilerner, Liony Garcia, KeiyaA, and Ogemdi Ude, among others. Jailyn continuously strives to cultivate her artistic voice through an afro-surrealist lens and is grateful for every opportunity to share her discoveries with those willing to witness.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.