Ayo ohs
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ayo ohs (A.O./she/they) is a socially engaged artist and director working in sound, healing arts, and performance. ohs has presented choreography, theater, and spatialized audio compositions in their NYC studio, and in venues throughout NY and San Francisco, where their work was described as “feisty, clever and poignant” by the SF Bay Guardian. 

ohs was a close collaborator with Andrew Schneider in performance, direction, and dramaturgy with AFTER (The Public Theatre), NERVOUS/SYSTEM and NOWISWHENWEARE (BAM Next Wave 2018, 2022). ohs was choreographic assistant for Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me (The Kitchen) and an original cast member in Thank You for Coming: Attendance and Play (Danspace Project, Wexner Center for the Arts, BAM, Jacob’s Pillow, Venice Biennale, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, among other international and national tours). 

In 2024, ohs released The Silent Unseen, an audio tour tracing histories of Asian American immigration through Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum through narration, personal stories, music composition and somatic reflection. ohs will release their first EP, with a corresponding performance at Culture Lab, in October 2025. You can check out this show’s single Killing Me Slow and other musical works under ‘ayo minor’ on all major streaming platforms. 

As an anti-racist facilitator and somatic healer, ohs is a founding member of Movement Research’s Artist of Color Council and founder of Embodied Liberation Yoga (formerly Anti-Oppression Yoga), a network of online videos and classes. They hold a BFA summa cum laude from NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Experimental Theater Wing. ayoohs.com 

Kashia Kancey
I’m in the Middle of the Ocean, and I Can’t See You 

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 at Movement Research at Judson Church, CreateART Performance, and at Triskelion Arts where she premiered I Believed It Too (2024) and The Closties Variety Hour (2025). Kancey has performed in spaces like South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. She has danced with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. Kashia has also worked with artists like Marcella Lewis, Annie-B Parson, Tendayi Kuumba, and Donna Uchizono. Kashia was most recently a performing apprentice with Urban Bush Women and a company member with David Dorfman Dance. She has been an artist in residence at Gallim Moving Artist (2023), New Dance Alliance (2024), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2024), and is currently the 2025 Triskelion Arts Fellow.

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.

Chanel Stone is a performer, producer, choreographer, and community organizer based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she moved to NYC in 2015, where she discovered the power of Black community in dance. Stone earned her BFA in Dance from LIU Brooklyn in 2019 and has performed works by choreographers such as Stephen Petronio, Dwight Rhoden, Donald Byrd, Gregory Dolbashian, and Alenka Cizmesija. She has danced with Big Dance Theatre at The Perelman Arts Center, performed with the Donna Uchizono Dance Company at The Joyce Theatre NY Quadrille, and starred as the lead in four Company XIV productions. Stone made her musical theater debut in The Color Purple at Pittsburgh CLO as Olivia and the production’s dance captain. As the founder and lead producer of Beyond the Black Box (BBB), Stone has built a thriving arts & culture organization dedicated to celebrating, honoring, and healing the Black dance community. Since its founding in 2022, BBB has produced seven events, including gatherings at Triskelion Arts and House of Yes, and choreographed five original works. Stone’s artistic practice is deeply tied to her community work, using dance and performance as tools for connection and empowerment.

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, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Michelle Dorrance. Now in Brooklyn, she’s performing with Kashia Kancey, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Skyla Schreter Dance, and Luis A. Lara Malvacías. Most recently, she presented solo work at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month and in Xenoduo’s installation performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. In 2024, she became a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist. Beyond performing, Moya-Palacios enjoys crafting sonic scores and choreographing work focusing on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, and surrealism through extreme physicality and theater. 

Jade Manns 
Superposition 

Jade Manns is a choreographer, dancer and co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. Her work has been presented at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Sundays on Broadway at Weis Acres, The Brooklyn Rail, Singing in Unison, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival, The Provincetown Dance Festival, and PAGEANT among others. Jade has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA Emergency Grant), The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and Kino Saito Arts Center. She is a 2024/2025 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist.

Derek Baron is a composer, writer, and teacher living in New York City. They have released solo and ensemble music with Recital, Penultimate Press, OtoRoku, Regional Bears, and other labels. Collaborative projects include the amateur chamber ensemble Cop Tears, and Permanent Six Flags, a music/writing duo with Emily Martin. Recent and forthcoming works include The Game of Letters, a chamber suite composed for the ensemble Apartment House, and an album of epistolary collage songs entitled The Holy Restaurant. They also run Reading Group, a record label for new and archival music and audio.

Willa Schwabsky is a costume designer and stylist based in Brooklyn. Her work ranges from film, dance, theater, and music styling. While her heart lies in film, she loves to work with musicians and dancers— always putting forth ideas of punk and alternative fashion, while also favoring bright colors and patterns to help performers stand out in their distinct worlds. 

Willa’s work has been shown at Pageant, Kestrels, the Poetry Project, Studio 17, among others, and she has worked with musicians such as Voyeur, Sleigh Bells, Tei Shi, and Fcukers. Her film work has been screened at NoBudge, the Arthouse Film Festival, BAM, and the Roxy cinema.

cove barton is a movement artist and filmmaker from Vashon Island, WA based in Brooklyn, NY who incorporates bodily distortion and nostalgic collage to seek earnest character in his work. barton graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornish College of the Arts through the Advanced Degree Program, and studied with acclaimed artists like Sidra Bell, Victor Quijada,  and Johannes Wieland, learning their repertory and modalities. He has performed works of artists such as Katy Pyle/Ballez Company, Merce Cunningham, Anna Maria Häkkinen, John Heginbotham, Alexa West, and Netta Yerushalmy, at venues/festivals such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, BAM Fisher, The Chelsea Factory, Performa Biennial, in Helsinki, FI at Kiasma Teatteri, as well as in Seattle at Broadway Performance Hall, Erickson Theater, and Cornish Playhouse. barton’s choreography and work in film has been shown at Millenium Film Workshop, QUEER NOISE Festival, and in Seattle’s Base: Experimental Arts + Space, Velocity Dance Center, and Northwest Film Forum.

Chelsea Enjer Hecht is a Brooklyn based dance artist with roots in Minnesota and Mongolia. Their dance lineage includes ballet, competitive jazz, lyrical, and tap. Cunningham, Graham and contact improvisation were later influences while studying at SUNY Purchase College, with a semester abroad in Taiwan at Taipei National University of the Arts. She has enjoyed performing in fashion shows, dance films, music videos, museum installations and outdoors in addition to the stage with numerous creatives for the past ten years. Their solo works were presented at Arts on Site’s Made by Women Festival, and by POGO Dance (dir. Emily Kessler) at Fort Greene Park. She has guest taught for Midday Movement in Boston and Peridance. In the past year, they performed with Rachel Gill, MeenMoves (dir. Sameena Mitta), Amber Sloan, Alexa West, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. She also assisted MeenMoves in setting work at Marymount Manhattan College and a multigenerational cast at 92NY. When she is not dancing, Chelsea is honing her practice as a licensed massage therapist. When they are not working, they are committed to cooking dinner without following a recipe.

Kalliope Piersol is a dancer based in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, earning a BFA in dance with a concentration in composition. She has had the pleasure of working with artists including Alan Good, Cayleen Del Rosario, Jade Manns, Evvie Allison, Jeremy Nelson, and Luis A Lara Malvacias.

Noa Rui-Piin Weiss is a dancer, writer, and administrator based in Brooklyn, NY.  As a performer, he has worked with Jade Manns, Emily Kessler, Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett, Mia Martelli, Alexa West, and Adrienne Truscott. Noa regularly collaborates with Miranda Brown, and their duets have been presented by The Brick, Pageant, and Pioneers Go East, among others. His performance writing has been published by Gibney Imagining Journal, Curationist, Culturebot, Danspace Journal, Critical Correspondence, and The Brooklyn Rail. In his extremely limited spare time, he performs as his drag alter-ego Bacterial Vaginosis.