Prior to attending university, Georgia graduated from the Dance Studio of the world renowned Fiorello LaGuardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts. She studied at Ballet Hispanico for ten years, and within the pre-professional program for eight years, where she received the first Citizenship Award. In the summer of 2022, Georgia went to Austria and danced in the highly recognized Impulstanz Festival where she continued pushing her artistic boundaries and soaked up inspiration from all Europe had to offer. She returned to the states more ready than ever to create music in collaboration with wonderful choreographers. Georgia is just finished a season with the Pa’lante Scholars program at Ballet Hispanico. She is now dancing in the Flamenco company BlackBird Dance!

Ashley Cassetta graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University in 2020, receiving her BFA in Dance. She studied the Niokali, Bartenieff, Horton, Dunham, Cunningham, Klein and Alexander techniques, as well Cecchetti, Vaganova and Russian ballet techniques during her undergraduate education. She has completed intensive study programs with Hubbard Street Dance, Gaga dancers, Parsons Dance and San Francisco Conservatory. Ashley has extensive choreographic experience, beginning at the young age of 12 when she co-founded, directed and produced a student choreography show at her hometown studio, continuing through her undergraduate education where she choreographed for her BFA spring concert, and FSU School of Theater’s production How to Keep a Guy for 10 Days (this production was discontinued due to the pandemic). Ashley attended the Arts in NYC program in fall of 2019 where she interned in the Career Center at the Actors Fund. She is currently a Balanced Body Certified Pilates Reformer instructor, teaching at New York Pilates. She is currently a company member with Animus Movement, AP Dance Inc, a Guest Artist with Connecticut Ballet, and a contracted company member with Rogue Wave Dance.

Sarai Daniels began dancing at three years old in New York, learning jazz, tap, hip-hop, and ballet. At age ten, she decided to concentrate her training in classical ballet at the Charlotte Ballet Academy. During her time there, she learned ballet from teachers such as Patricia McBride and jazz class instruction by Rachel Tucker. Sarai has been accepted into summer intensive programs at the American Ballet Theater, the Joffrey Ballet School, and Charlotte Ballet. From 2011-2016, Sarai performed in the Charlotte Ballet Academy’s rendition of the ballet The Nutcracker directed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. In 2022, she graduated from New York University with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Web Development and Programming. While attending the school, she had the opportunity to perform pieces by Sidra Bell, Ronald K. Brown, Elizabeth Coker, and peer-choreographers. Post-graduation, she performed her own solo at the Agropoli Dance Festival in 2022, as well as, participated in the WADE summer dance program. Sarai strives to combine her technological knowledge with her creativity to create innovative pieces of art.

Klara is a Latin Styles dancer from the Czech Republic who has won over ten World and European solo dance championships. As an ex-professional, she is now expanding her horizons by taking classes in house and other street dance styles.

Maqks Gross is a Brooklyn based choreographer and art maker. They work in a variety of mediums including dance, physical theater, visual art and clothing. Maqks is fascinated by work that expresses the dual nature of excess and pedestrianism as well as the simplicity revealed through queerness. By using references to classical tragedy and incorporating physical narratives to their stories, Maqks’s work creates an experience that invites the audience to show up as their most authentic selves in that moment on that day. Their work has been shown at Dixon Place in July of 2023 and May of 2024. They have also danced with Hard Femmes Dances and created costume and set design for Rosa Allegra Wolff.

Holly Harkins is a Brooklyn-based movement artist. She hails from Rustburg, Virginia, and began her dance training under Keith Lee at Dance Theatre of Lynchburg. Holly graduated high school from the UNC School of the Arts in 2017, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the George Mason University School of Dance with a BFA in 2021. Upon graduation she joined Dance Kaleidoscope as a company dancer and spent three seasons performing in Indianapolis. Holly has had the opportunity to perform works by Micaela Taylor, Kyle Abraham, Rafael Bonachela, Ohad Naharin, Hope Boykin, Martha Graham, and David Hochoy, and has presented three of her own choreographic works in Indianapolis.

Campbell Ives is from the Hudson Valley and is currently based in Brooklyn. They earned a B.A. in Dance from Barnard College in 2022. Now, they are a House Manager at New York Live Arts and working in artistic collaboration with Gesture Theater a trans-led movement theater company.

Sophie is a Brooklyn-based artist who grew up in Seattle, Washington. She is a recent graduate of Drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She studied primarily in the Playwrights Horizons Studio and the Stonestreet Studio. Sophie works in riveting developmental theatre and film alongside fantastic collaborators such as Kelly McCready, Holly Arsenault, Keiko Green, and Jan Rosenberg. Sophie, along with the cast of Erica Schmidt's Mac Beth (Seattle Repertory Theatre, Red Bull Theatre, Hunter Theatre Project) was nominated for best revival of a play at the 2020 Lucille Lortel Awards and the 2020 Drama Desk Awards.

Sophie - along with many Seattlites - loves a cup of dark
roast coffee, camping in the Pacific Northwest, and her civic responsibility!

Nicki Koning is a fiber artist working with themes of climate resilience, grief and hope originally from Missoula, Montana, based in New York. They work at the intersection of printmaking and sculpture through recycling paper, envisioning a future where excess paper and packaging are a remnant of a time of unchecked production. Drawing on the bodily associations of paper pulp, they make compostable art that can degrade, rot, and interact less harmfully with the environment and viewers. They are also interested in spirituality, mental health, and nature.

Allison Su is a senior at Barnard College studying Environment & Sustainability and Psychology. On campus, she is also involved in the Columbia University Wind Ensemble, Musical Mentors, and Gourmand. Her research interests revolve around climate resilience planning, especially in urban contexts. Climate resilience covers almost anything you can think of, and she is looking forward to diving deeper into urban gardening and composting!

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.