Kasey Broekema
Where does the love go?
WHERE IT STARTED, WHERE IT'S GOING
Where does the love go? is a kind of love letter to ballet. If someone has danced or has not, the underlying universal message is when you love something or someone so much it begins to hurt you. Where does the love go?
In the work, Broekema explores a marriage of the intensity of ballet and the ease of house dance and club culture. After leaving her career in ballet in 2019 mainly due to suffering from intense PTSD, she was introduced to the house music scene in New York City. She fell in love with the community she discovered through dancing recreationally, and when she eventually found her way back to ballet in 2021, transformed her career by tapping into that ease.
Broekema intentionally cast a diverse group of ballerinas who all bring their variations of on-again, off-again, relationships with the professional industry. While what the audience witnesses today are simple clips of rehearsal footage from nine hours of studio rehearsal, Broekema plans to film Where does the love go? in a live music venue where people will be dancing alongside the ballerinas.
Project III is in talks with a few venues and hopes to begin production by the end of the calendar year.
In the work, Broekema explores a marriage of the intensity of ballet and the ease of house dance and club culture. After leaving her career in ballet in 2019 mainly due to suffering from intense PTSD, she was introduced to the house music scene in New York City. She fell in love with the community she discovered through dancing recreationally, and when she eventually found her way back to ballet in 2021, transformed her career by tapping into that ease.
Broekema intentionally cast a diverse group of ballerinas who all bring their variations of on-again, off-again, relationships with the professional industry. While what the audience witnesses today are simple clips of rehearsal footage from nine hours of studio rehearsal, Broekema plans to film Where does the love go? in a live music venue where people will be dancing alongside the ballerinas.
Project III is in talks with a few venues and hopes to begin production by the end of the calendar year.
ARTISTS
- Kasey BroekemaLead Artist & ChoreographerKasey is a driven New York-based creative inspired by the motivation to connect with different communities, cultures, and walks of life through a passion for storytelling. She is fascinated by pushing the boundaries on what forms impactful storytelling can embody through producing immersive experiences, journalism, live performances, creating art, editing films, and writing stories.
Her work is influenced by her dance training from Nashville Ballet, New Dialect, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Violette Verdy at L'Academie Americain de Danse de Paris, Suzanne Farrell, Andra and Ernesta Corvino, and summers at the Pre-Movement Invention Project and Ellison Ballet. She made her NYC debut as a soloist in The Good So Far by Christopher Williams at David Geffen Hall. She performed in Paul Taylor's Company B at Interlochen Center for the Arts, works by Antonia Franceschi and Amy Hall Garner at New York Live Arts, as a dancer on HBO's Plot Against America, Kitri in Don Quixote and Alice in Alice in Wonderland at Columbia University, and as a supernumerary with American Ballet Theatre.
In 2021, Broekema graduated as a Core Scholar and on the Dean's List as an English major from Columbia University. - Ariana DickersonperformerAriana is a professional ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem. She received her training at Interlochen Center for the Arts and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Media Advertising and Ballet from Indiana University Bloomington Jacobs School of Music.
- paige shermanperformerPaige Sherman is a native New Yorker and is currently attending Princeton University for molecular biology. She just completed her year as the president of Princeton University Ballet.
- Maya CanestaroPerformerMaya is a professional freelance ballerina. She previously danced with Madison Ballet and Kansas City Ballet.
- asia yiuperformerAsia is a dedicated dance teacher who finds immense joy in sharing the art of movement. Raised in New York City, the vibrancy of the city has deeply influenced her appreciation for diverse forms of art. Asia is passionate about learning from others' experiences and ideas, firmly believing in the transformative power of communication to inspire. Beyond teaching, she actively seeks opportunities that align with these values and she is proud to have worked with Project III, adding to her enriching journey.
- Michaela FleischerperformerMichaela is currently attending University of Chicago Law School. She obtained her undergraduate degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and while there danced with the Barnard Dance Department and Columbia University Ballet Ensemble.
- Kyra LinPerformer
Kyra is a freelance performer based in New York City. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and has danced with Ballet Arts and Ballet Chicago.
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