Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance (2020-2021), Louis Armstrong House Museum (2020), Danspace Project Inc (2019), Pepatian and BAAD! (2018), and beyond. Farrish has been supported by creative residencies including Gallim Women + Residency (2021), Gibney Spotlight: New Voices, Barysnikov Arts Center, Arts On Site (2020), Keshet Makers Space Experience, BAX Space Grant (2019), Pepatian Dance Your Future (2018), and Chez Bushwick (2017). Pieces sprouted outwards including "Black Bodies Sonata", "The New Frontier (my dear America)” evening length and film, "With grit From, Grace", "Spectacle” Film and Live Production evening length work, and anticipated "Martyr's Fiction" (2021) that continued to push boundaries of form, voice, scene, narrative in an array of cinematic mediums. In 2020-2021, she has been commissioned for choreographing and directing a range of films and live performance hybrids. Her work has been performed at venues like Judson Church, Danspace, Jacob's Pillow, New York Live Arts, Joe’s Pub, BAAD!, film festivals, and beyond. In 2021 she created site-specific immersive, “Broken Record” duet commission, with Brandon Coleman for Little Island Festival, “Rinsing” short dance film, co-directed Melanie Charles “Y’ll D’nt Care Abt Black Women” Film, Saul Williams’ “People Above the Moon” Solo for The Motherboard Suites at NYLA, “Roster” Outdoor Concert Performance collaboration Four/Four Open Air Series with Melanie Charles, and Martyr’s Fiction Feature Film. In 2022, she will be releasing her feature film “Martyr’s Fiction”, creating new solo works with Belinda McGuire and herself, collaborating with Kenyon Adams, Symphony Space, and creating commissions for companies.

She’s received grants and support including Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Dance Films Association Production Grant, Film Residency and community support from Little Falls, NY, and Brooklyn Filmmaker Collective Mentorship Fellowship. She was awarded a Bessie Performance Award for her solo “People Above the Moon” in NYLA’s “Motherboard Suite”. NY Times named “Roster” Top 2021 Dance Performances, and titled Farrish a “Break Out Star of 2021”. She was listed on Dance Magazine “Top 9 Screen Dance Makers to Watch” as well. She receives Harkness Promise Award for 2022, and is Bessie nominee for her performance of “December 8th” at Gibney.

She is currently a rehearsal director at Sleep No More NYC and adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch.

Alex MacKinnon is a multi instrumentalist, producer, and artist with particular love for the drums and piano. His latest offering is “The Real Story,” a downtempo ethereal ballad out on Youtube and Bandcamp now.

Rebecca Margolick is a dancer and choreographer based in New York and raised in Vancouver Canada. Her multi disciplinary and solo works have been presented in Germany, France, Costa Rica, Singapore, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, Mexico, and around the U.S and Canada. She was named Top 25 to Watch in 2021 from Dance Magazine. Her solo Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danse in Montreal.
She was a 2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellowship at the Ailey School under the mentorship of Gus Solomons Jr. and Dance Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts in December 2019. She was a 2020/2021 artist in residence at the Dance Deck in Vancouver Canada.

Mark Caserta, born and raised in South West Philadelphia, received their BFA in Dance & Ballet performance from the University of the Arts, School of Dance. They danced professionally with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal (BJM) and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Mark has been awarded the Philadelphia Rocky Award for Outstanding Dance Performance, the Pennsylvania Ballet Choreography Award and Choreography Awards from Youth American Grand Prix. Mark was an Emerging Choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal in 2018 and the recipient of the 2019/2020 EMERGE Choreography Award from Springboard Danse & Gibney Company. Mark has been commissioned by Gibney Company, Whim W'Him Contemporary Dance Seattle, DanceWorks Chicago, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Kit Modus, Peridance Youth Ensemble, PA Ballet II, The Ailey School at Fordham University, Pace University and University of the Arts School of Dance. Mark was co-director of The Thriving Artist Project, a program offering a free Pre-Professional experience to young dance artists in Plano TX. Mark currently is Artist in Residence at University of the Arts School of Dance, Contemporary Faculty at Gibney Dance NY & Peridance Capezio Arts Center, a guest artist with MindLeaps and a freelance educator, dancer, choreographer. Mark founded BigKid Dance in 2018.born and raised in South West Philadelphia, graduated from the University of the Arts School of Dance with a BFA in 2010. They danced professionally with international touring companies Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal and Camille A. Brown & Dancers since then. Mark has been awarded the Philadelphia Rocky Award for Outstanding Dance Performance, The Patrick Swayze Scholarship from Complexions Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet Choreography Award and Outstanding Choreography Awards from Youth American Grand Prix. Mark was a 2018 Emerging Choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal and premiered their first full evening length work ‘BIG KID’ at Gibney NY POP Performance Series in February 2019. Mark was commissioned to for new works on Pennsylvania Ballet II, Grace Dance Theater, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance with partner Mikey Morado, Atlanta based company Kit Modus, Whim W’him Contemporary Dance Seattle, Peridance Youth Ensemble and DanceWorks Chicago. Mark was named the 2019/2020 EMERGE Award Recipient with Gibney Company & Springboard Danse Montreal.

Amanda Krische is a dancer, interdisciplinary choreographer, and herbalist who creates work that dialogues with the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, ecology, and storytelling. A graduate of LaGuardia Arts High School and the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY, Amanda has performed in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Place des Arts, New York Live Arts, Danspace and the Joyce Theater. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Teresa Fellion, Loni Landon, Nicole von Arx, and Nicole Wolcott. Her choreographic work has been commissioned by the National YoungArts Foundation, Grace Farms Foundation, and Bombshell Dance Project. She has received project support from the Jerome Foundation for the development of her choreographic work on memory and mental time travel, initiated at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has held artist in residence positions at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center, Omi International Arts Center, and Keshet Arts Center, and will be in residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France in 2023. Amanda has served on faculty in the Dance Department at LaGuardia Arts High School and has been a guest teacher/lecturer at New York University and Cooper Union School of Art. She is a 2012 YoungArts Winner and a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Lighting Designer + Trisk Technical and Production Manager
Anna Wotring , Pittsburgh native, is a community minded dance artist, designer and production stage manager committed to the practice of collaborative leadership. She currently works with Annie Heath, Lauren Horn, Jennifer Nugent and slowdanger as a technical design consultant, dancer, and production stage manager. Wotring obtained her BFA in Dance, at the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a multitude of dance organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is beyond excited to begin working and imagining with the Trisk team. @annaissupercool

Special thanks to Trisk for the opportunity to have a research lab for new work, and to hold these showings and spaces to grow

Incredible thank you to all of the artists I get to work with- We are defining healthy working processes, following our ideas, following the blindspots and fears, and expanding... Thank you for this gift to create and imagine with you even for a little bit.

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.