Ariel Lembeck
again and again

Ariel (pronounced R.E.L) Lembeck is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). She graduated from Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and Minor in Business from the Leonard Stern School of Business. Through highly physical dance performances, public interruptions, and installations she creates vibrant material-rich environments to propose the power of the collective over the supremacy of the individual. Lembeck’s work has been presented by WaxWorks, JudsonChurch (STUFFED), The Jack Crystal Theater, The Footlight (MerdetheShow), Ruth Page Center for the Arts (Chicago,IL), The Floor on Atlantic, The Wild Project Theater, The Tank NYC, and Kestrels. She has been an artist in residence at The Floor on Atlantic (2019), The Egg (2020), The Field Center (COLLAGE 2022), MotiVE Brooklyn (2022-2023) and was most recently accepted into the Fresh Tracks Residency and Performance Program for 2025-2026. Lembeck was featured on the Unsequenced Podcast for her interactive installation work titled brilliant you presented at Triskelion Arts, BK NY (2021). She premiered her first evening-length solo dancework TRYHARD at Kestrels in Gowanus in October 2024. Other artists Lembeck has worked and collaborated with are Meredith Monk, Douglas Dunn, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Anat Vaadi, Jessica Gaynor, Elisabeth Motley, Joanna Kotze, Barnett Cohen, Nicole Mannarino, James Barrett, among others. Lembeck is also the creative producer for a canary torsi, a team of artists making interdisciplinary work lead by Yanira Castro. www.ariellembeck.com

Marin Day is a dancer and arts worker currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has been fortunate to perform works by Miguel Castillo, Maia Chao, James Barrett, Betsy Miller and Brit Falcon among others. Day collaborates with Maddie Hopfield under the name PEPTALK. PEPTALK has shared their work at Life World and Kestrels. From 2019-2023 Day was the Associate Producer at the Bates Dance Festival. She currently is on staff at Danspace Project and is the Studio Manager for sister sylvester. Day holds a B.A. in Southwest Studies from Colorado College.

Emma Judkins is a dancer, performer, and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY with roots in the Northeast. She graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College with a BA in Dance and French in 2011. She has performed with Beth Gill, Tere O’Connor, Anna Sperber, and Pavel Zustiak/Palissimo Company. Other artistic and performing collaborations include Laurel Snyder, The Space We Make, Kendra Portier/BAND, Amber Sloan, Derrick Belcham & Emily Terndrup, Phantom Limb Company, and Kyle Abraham/A.I.M. In March 2026, she premiered her first evening-length work entitled At Matins or Evensong at Kestrels. Judkins is also an arts administrator and freelance bookkeeper. www.emmajudkins.com

Dasol Kim is a dancer and movement director born in Cheonan, South Korea and based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and was a company member of UNA Productions from 2019–2023. Kim performs works by Julia Antinozzi and has collaborated with Akira Uchida on a series of dance films. Working across performance and direction, her practice has been featured in Allure, Nowness, and Vogue Portugal.

Ryan Gamblin is a sound designer, composer, and performance-maker. Their practice blends found media, original composition, and the use of systems as instruments. Recent: Bowl EP (Vineyard / National Black Theatre / New Group), Weathering (Faye Driscoll / New York Live Arts), Being Moved (Maia Chao / Whitney Biennial), For All Your Life (Leslie Cuyjet / BAM), Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard / The Civilians), The Following Evening (600 Highwaymen / PACNY), Manon! (Heartbeat Opera), Spare Parts (Theatre Row), Time Signatures (Exponential Festival), Godbird (Exponential Festival). Independent work: SPLICE (Reforesters Laboratory), Interface (in development). 2025-26 Fellow, Target Margin Theater Institute. ryangamblin.com | @sound.by.ryan

Dahlia Qumhiyeh
AB+

Joshua Leon Eguia is a choreographer and dancer in NYC. Notable dance and fashion work include collaborations and projects with Ariana Grande, Addison Rae, Karole Armitage, Marc Jacobs, Alison Clancy, Guvanch, Bill T. Jones, CreeLo, Mayte Natalio. Joshua is a vegan fashionista who loves friendship, Techno and Hello Kitty.

Sarah Esser is a Japanese-American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Queens. A Barnard College alumna, Sarah has performed alongside J Balvin, Megan Thee Stallion, Kim Petras, and Julianne Hough and has been featured in campaigns for Nike and Twitter. She served as Assistant Choreographer for Kim Petras (2022 Coachella debut, 2023 Sydney World Pride) and Contributing Choreographer for Sudan Archives (2024 Pitchfork Fest), and she has showcased work at Dance Lab New York, CreateART, and Brown University, among others. Sarah is represented by MSA Agency and managed by Movers Management.

Angad Kalsi (they/them) is a British-Punjabi movement artist residing in Queens. They graduated from the University of Maryland with dual degrees in Dance and Psychology before completing their Master of Public Health at NYU. Embracing contemporary form and post-modern conceptual approaches upon foundations in hip hop/street styles, their practice bloomed collaborations with Project ChArma, Al Blackstone, Cristina Camacho, Shawn Stone, and PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER; presenting from DC, NYC, LA, and PR to Greece, France, and Mexico. As a choreographer they have presented political work at the 37th Annual DC Choreographers Showcase, Steps on Broadway, The Jam Showcase NYC, White Wave Dance Festival, and ArtX.

Christine Shepard is a multifaceted New York based artist who strives to be genuine, dynamic and bold with her art. She is a Pace University graduate with a BFA in Commercial Dance. Professionally, she fluctuates between commercial and theatrical work. Some of those include Mean Girls on Broadway, DRAG the musical off Broadway, and Ariana Grande’s “Yes And.” music video. She also creates poetry that has transpired into choreography, spoken word, lyrics and short stories; a book of one collection is in the works. Shepard brings a raw, authentic energy to any project and hopes to use her passions and purpose to push boundaries and perpetuate truth.
Website: www.chrisnshep.com
Instagram: @chrisnshep

Dahlia Qumhiyeh was born in Malaysia and raised in Kuwait, and grew up outside of the US as a Palestinian-Malaysian immigrant with her family. Having moved to the U.S. at the age of 17, she received her B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina, and soon after moved to New York City, working as an artist with United Talent Agency. She has had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Mandy Moore, Tanisha Scott, Brian Friedman, Charm LaDonna, Luam Keflezgy, as well as movement directed for projects on Stephen Colbert, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Brooklynettes and Bergdorf Goodman. Dahlia has been featured on GQ Middle East, Paper Magazine, NatGeo, and Schön Magazine as an upcoming artist. Using movement as a foundation, she implements technology and spoken word to form immersive narratives around self surveillance, gendered structures, and individuation. Through her multidisciplinary collective project Barr Bodies, co-founded with fellow movement artist Bev Vega, she has shown work at Danspace Project and Bridge for Dance. She was awarded the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency in 2022, the CUNY Dance Initiative Residency in 2025, and is currently a 2026 Van Lier Artist of Color Fellow at Movement Research.

Bev Vega is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Getting her start in Texas’ music and arts scene, she was enamored by movement within complex soundscapes. Jumping into learning all she could about movement(s) born in the club, she trained in locking, vogue femme, and contemporary floor work while expanding into DJing, filmmaking, and programming. In New York, Bev was a Third World Newsreel Production Fellow studying social-justice based filmmaking. She’s presented films at the NY Museum of Modern Art, The Gallery ATX, and WeAreThirdEar. Co-founding the collective Barr Bodies with Dahlia Qumhiyeh, she creates immersive work crossing the line between audience and performer presenting work at Uptown Rising, Danspace Project, as a CDI resident as well as guerilla performances across the city.

Cristina Moya-Palacios
Without Breasts There Is No Paradise

Valentina Baché was born in the Caribbean jungle of Playa del Carmen, México, learning movement before speech, taught by sea, dogs, and blood. At fifteen they skipped high school, moved to the US, and eventually earned a BA in Dance from Hunter College in 2020. Their work has been showcased throughout New York from Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, CPR, Chelsea Factory and many more. Through dance as prayer, Baché studies nature’s magic, cycles of harm, and the transformative power of rage. Overall they are a multidisciplinary artist, performer, textile artist, sculptor, and designer of beauty, violence, and truth, all at once.

Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and dance-theater choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Kancey creates work surrounding themes of joy, nostalgia, urgency, power, indulgence, intimacy, and reclamation of space through the black queer femme lens. Kancey has worked with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, Urban Bush Women, and the Metropolitan Opera. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, Valentina Bache, Cristina Moya-Palacios, and Symara Sarai. Kancey was recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” 2026 as a choreographer and performer. Currently based in Brooklyn, she is excited to continue making work where she can exist unapologetically and dream without any limits.

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, and Larry Keigwin. Now in Brooklyn, she’s taken on more collaborative roles with peers and is currently performing with Kashia Kancey, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Skyla Schreter Dance, Valentina Bache, Demetris Charalambous, and Luis A. Lara Malvacías. Beyond performing, Moya-Palacios enjoys crafting sonic scores for fellow artists and choreographing her own work that focuses on the immigrant experience, Latin American identity, and surrealism through a blend of extreme physicality and theatrical portrayals. Most recently, she has presented a collaborative duet with Kashia Kancey at the Lincoln Center Atrium along with solo work in Triskelion Arts Split Bill #47, the Performance Mix Festival, the AbidWe Komorebi exhibition at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month, and in Xenoduo’s “A Mobile Home” installation and performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. In 2024 Moya-Palacios became a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist and a Gallim Moving Artist Residency recipient in 2025.

Kyle Carr Scheurich graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts. During his time at LaGuardia he studied at Manhattan Youth Ballet under the direction of Francois Perron. He graduated from The Juilliard School under the direction of Larry Rhodes, and joined Batsheva – the young Ensemble in 2014. Scheurich joined Batsheva Dance Company in 2016-2021, with Ohad Naharin acting as artistic director and house choreographer. Scheurich has performed with AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) for the stage premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s & Or Schreiber’s ‘Broken Theatre’. Currently Scheurich performs in various works, under the direction of choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, co-founder of P.OR.K (Portugal). Scheurich creates his own dance-theatre works, with his solo show ‘true ribs, rawhide’ premiering in 2026. Scheurich is an Ilan Lev Method practitioner & musician.

Sacha Vega
SWELL

Sacha Vega (she/her) is an artist who collages across movement, poetics and humor to examine the ideologies that train bodies to move. Working across performance, time-based media, and writing her practice stagesforms of critical play that reframe embodied instruction. She’s invested in using her practice as an experimental space to test dogmas of authority, perceived inheritances, and temporary utopias.

Rose Luardo (she/her) is a surrealist comedic performer. A woman for whom pleasure is found in creating vibrant art installations and unpredictable live work. Her multihyphenate practice spans solo and group perforamances, fine art shows in galleries and pop-up happenings in parking lots. Musician, hype woman, actress, dancer — a true renaissance woman with a flair for the absurd.

James Gentile (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist based in Philadelphia. In their compositions, they collage textures, samples, and instrumentation; challenging the constraints of established music to craft new sounds irreverent to genre. They are a frequent collaborator with Sacha Vega.

Dorchel Haqq
vol.1/ DND / a study on perspective 

Dorchel Haqq creates physical theatre work as a vessel through which she and her collaborators navigate the complexities of being who they are in this present moment, while reflecting on how their collective history shapes their future. Through improvisation, Dorchel shapes memories into movement, a world-building practice, creating stories, characters, and set designs that explore time, space, and form in conversation with sociopolitical responses in the nervous system. Rooted in curiosity, Dorchel’s practice cultivates a sustainable ecosystem centering black culture with a deep value in care and trust between the body and space. Raised in Harlem, Dorchel began my journey embodying history at LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre and the Dance Theater of Harlem. Dorchel studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. Upon graduating, she was commissioned to create a new work for the conservatory’s Fall Concert. Dorchel has performed in works by AIM by Kyle Abraham, Kayla Farrish, Loni Landon, Vanessa Goodman, Maya Lee-Parritz, Stefanie Batten Bland, Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. Dorchel is in her first season with David Dorfman Dance and is currently touring Narcissister’s Voyage into Infinity.  Through her 2025 Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship, she was mentored by Nora Chipaumire. Dorchel is a 2025/26 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Resident. The following organizations have supported Dorchel in find herself again and again through singular and collaborative investigations: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency (inaugural resident), Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator AIR 2021, Center for Performance Research AIR 2024, Baryshnikov Arts Center AIR 2024, Triskelion Arts 2019+2026, Beyond the Black Box 2021+2023, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons 2024, MADE BY WOMAN Festival 2023, Estrogenius Festival 2025, Arts On Site 2019+2021, ART CAKE 2021, Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellow 2025, DraftWork- Danspace Project 2025, Battery Dance Festival 2020+2025, New York Live Arts, City Artist Corps Grant 2021, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant 2024.

Christine Shepard is a multifaceted New York based artist who strives to be genuine, dynamic and bold with her art. She is a Pace University graduate with a BFA in Commercial Dance. Professionally, she fluctuates between commercial and theatrical work. Some of those include Mean Girls on Broadway, DRAG the musical off Broadway, and Ariana Grande’s “Yes And.” music video. She also creates poetry that has transpired into choreography, spoken word, lyrics and short stories; a book of one collection is in the works. Shepard brings a raw, authentic energy to any project and hopes to use her passions and purpose to push boundaries and perpetuate truth. Website: www.chrisnshep.com Instagram: @chrisnshep 

Syaera Valentine is a Black, Trans-femme, multimedia artist, exploring the parameters of tangibility, reality, and human connection through the tools of music, dance, sound design and illustration. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Valentine’s initial art background lies in the meadows of ballet, martial arts and fencing; Studying at The Dance Theater of Harlem, Manhattan Youth Ballet, New Breed Life Arts and the Peter Westbrook Foundation. Furthering her dance education, Valentine completed her BFA at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase college, where she also discovered a love for audio as a medium of storytelling. Since 2022 Valentine has been working as a soundsmith fulfilling roles such as A1 A2 Recording Engineer, and Post Production at institutions such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Princeton University, Dorset Theatre Festival and Music Theatre Philly. Valentine is currently re-exploring her relationship to movement and is the lead Audio Engineer at the Passage Theatre Company. Instagram: @syaeravalentine

Channce Williams is a freelance artist living in New York, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His creative practice encompasses elements of movement, poetry, and visual art. He began his training at the Center of Creative Arts and continued his studies at Point Park University, where he received his BFA in 2020. Throughout his endeavors he has performed both new and restaged works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Aszure Barton, and Maxine Doyle, among others. He has worked professionally with Sidra Bell Dance New York, GALLIM Dance Company, and Tanztheater Wuppertal, along with a cohort of independent choreographers including slowdanger, Hannah Garner, Demetris Charalambous, and Kashia Kancey. Instagram: @senti__mental