TRISK PRESENTS: SPLIT BILL #42
Kashia Kancey & Rebecca Margolick

MARCH 14 & 15, 2024
8PM

Runtime: 70 minutes with a brief intermission.

RESERVOIR
Rebecca Margolick

-INTERMISSION-

I BELIEVED IT TOO
Kashia Kancey

*This performance contains partial nudity.

RESERVOIR

Choreography and Performance
Rebecca Margolick

Composer
Jonathan Goulet

Costume Alteration
Deloris Onwuka

Lighting Design
Anna Wotring

Stage Manager and Light Board Operator
Sabrina Canas

In this solo piece, the performer embodies the spirit of an unnamed woman, evoking imagery of the iconic Dybbuk. Drawing inspiration from Yiddish folk dance and contemporary movement, the dybbuk begins to find solace and expression through dance, channeling her rage and grief over the life she was denied. The performance is an exploration of the dreams we construct for ourselves and the uncertainty we must embrace. Through navigating grief and the changing futures we previously imagined for ourselves, the boundary between the performer's identity and that of the dybbuk gradually fades.

Rebecca's work has been presented in Turkey, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, France, Germany, Poland, Israel, and across the U.S and Canada. She has received residencies from Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab, Banff Centre for the Arts, Derida Stage Sofia, Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosí, and others. In 2021, she was named one of "Top 25 to Watch" from Dance Magazine. Her solos have won prizes at Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal, and SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Festival in Germany. She has created original works for Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Arts Umbrella, LITVAK Dance, Ballet B.C. Annex, The Ailey School, and Michiyaya Dance. She is creating a new work for Oregon Ballet Theater in 2024.

Rebecca was a company member with Sidra Bell Dance New York from 2012-2016, and a performer with UNA Productions since 2016. She has freelanced with Kayla Farrish, Belinda McGuire, Allen Kaeja, Maya Orchin, Derrick Belcham, Aszure Barton, Shay Kuebler, and more. She recently joined Andrea Peña & Artists for a new project.

She is currently developing two new collaborative duets, one with Tushrik Fredericks in NYC and one with Livona Ellis in Vancouver, both will premiere in 2024.

Jonathan Goulet is a composer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His work seeks to explore the interinfluence of different mediums, including dance, video art, improvisation, and electroacoustic music. In addition to numerous ongoing collaborations with choreographers and performance artists, he is the co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Arts Company Other Animals in partnership with choreographer Alexandre Morin.

Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support in the creation of this solo. Thank you to BC Movement Arts Society for a residency.

I BELIEVED IT TOO

Choreography and Performance
Kashia Kancey

Performers
Alondra Balbuena
Kyla Thomas
Lakeria Robinson

Sound Editing
Cristina Moya-Palacios

Lighting Design
Anna Wotring

Stage Manager and Light Board Operator
Sabrina Canas

I Believed It Too, a work that asks "When the curtain closes, who are you?" It is a solo about a woman trapped inside of a destructive false reality she is desperate to escape from. She’s experienced it so long that it seems real to her. During the solo she sheds a multitude of performative layers while facing several battles and illustrating numerous realities and characters that represent the world she’s trapped inside of. We see her go on an unraveling journey that begins to strip away at the act she’s been trying so hard to keep up with. As she struggles to maintain her mask of illusion, her perception of reality becomes distorted in many ways. Tackling topics of imposter syndrome, heartbreak, and deep self reflection - Is any of this even real?

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, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place and CreateART Performance. 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. Kashia is most recently an apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. She is also a 2023 Gallim Moving Artist in Residence. Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY, and continues to pursue her career as a performer and choreographer.
@kashiakancey | kashiakancey.com

Alondra Balbuena born in New York City and raised in Miami, Florida is a freelance dance artist working to deepen her understanding of human connection through performance based movement. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Kyla Thomas is Brooklyn-based performer and movement director. Originally from Miami, she graduated with her BFA from New World School of the Arts. She moved to New York to expand her creative career and 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.
www.kyla-andrea.com

Cristina Moya-Palacios is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-raised artist with a BFA from New World School of the Arts. Now in 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.

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.