ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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.
@senti______mental

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.
@jaipeedubs

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

CONNOR SALE is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: to begin with no end; ENUF; The Suite; The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), thegarden.exc (Judson Memorial Church), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft + What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), 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.