Lavy is a gender queer, Queens based, choreographic dance artist and producer. Graduating with their BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, Lavy founded VERBAL ANIMAL, a rotating cohort of interdisciplinary collaborators. Since its inception, Lavy has been commissioned by the 14th St Y, WAXworks, TADA! Theater, 3 Dollar Bill, Laguardia Performing Arts Center and Triskelion Arts. In addition to performance, VERBAL ANIMAL curates Queer Noise, a platform created to provide emerging queer choreographers an opportunity to present experimental and process centered work. Notably, Lavy was commissioned by Mare Nostrum Elements, as a returning choreographer, to premiere an evening-length work at Laguardia Performing Arts Center. Following, Lavy was commissioned to create a new work for the annual 2024 Making Moves Festival. Additionally, Lavy is a Co-Producer for the NY show Kiss My Face. They are active in creating decentralized performance experiences in club spaces that emulate sweat, connectivity, and Queer resilience. For, they are the founder and producer of PLAY ME TECHNO AND TELL ME IM PRETTY, an experimentally forward and performance charged nightlife experience that doubles as a fundraiser for the Trans community. Our next event is December 14th.

Ragin Smith is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She approaches building performances through surrealism, poetry, and visual sculpting. Ragin has created work as an artist in residence with Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation and Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre. She has also presented her work at Dance Hole, ESTIA Day Fest, Fabled Narcissism, and Arts on Site. After studying dance and composition at Marymount Manhattan College, Ragin has performed works by Sigrid Lauren, August Henderson, Brendan Fernandes, Shaquelle Charles, Evan Ray Suzuki, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, Beatriz Castro, Valeria Gonzalez, Ryan Bailey, Morgan Bobrow-Williams, Troy Ogilvie, La Intrusa Company, and others. Alongside her freelance performances, Ragin is currently a collaborator with Wet Hairy Women, Hivewild, Verbal Animal, Headlights Theatre, and MORISATO Company.

Kenley Hardwick is a recent graduate from Marymount Manhattan College. Before coming to New York for college he began his training in South Carolina where he attended the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities. Upon Graduation, Kenley began studies with Gibney Pro, working with choreographers such as Rena Butler, Maleek Washington, Laja Field, and Elia Mark. Recently, Hardwick joined VERBAL ANIMAL as a company member for their 2023 season.

Cayleen Del Rosario is a dance artist based in New York City. She earned a BFA from studies at NYU Tisch and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and is currently a master’s student at The New York Graduate School for Psychoanalysis.

Her work has been presented at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Provincetown Dance Festival, CPR Center for Performance Research, Truro Center for the Arts, Pageant, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, The Tank, and other spaces.

Angelina Hoffman is an artist from New York City. As a dancer and an actress, she has performed in the work of Cayleen Del Rosario, Cherrie Yu, Vita Taurke, and Sharleen Chidiac, among others. As a choreographer, writer, and director, she has presented her work most recently at the performance series RSVP in London and at Pageant in New York.

CONNOR SALE
Connor is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: ENUF; The Suite; The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), 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.