Kasey 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.

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.

Lily is passionate about exploring the profound impact of the built environment on well-being and quality of life. She is a professional freelance ballet dancer based in New York City and Copenhagen, graduated from the School of American Ballet in 2018, danced as an apprentice with New York City Ballet through 2020, and performed with Connecticut Ballet in 2021. She graduated from Columbia University in 2023 with a BA in History and Theory of Architecture.

Lily was the voice actress in Nickelodeon Presents History and Heritage which was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches in 2011.

Nicole is a New York-based curator, writer, and researcher drawing from local and international influence and experience. They fiercely believe in the transformative power of community action to drive meaningful change. In their work, they hope to harness art's potential to ignite communal, radical imagination toward a more just, sustainable future.

In 2023, they graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Sustainable Development and Anthropology. They are now the Zero Waste Fellow at Columbia University. Nicole's research centers the profound impact of art, food, and popular culture on our perceptions of the built and natural environment.

Though Nicole is passionate about working in the art world, they see tons of waste across disciplines. They aspire to create a more accessible, sustainable, art world with a meaningful consideration for the environment. They advocate environmental justice in higher education and are actively involved in developing workshops and curricula to promote equitable access to educational resources. Nicole inspires collective action towards just climate solutions.

Kierney McAllister is an actor, singer, and writer from Seattle, Washington, and is based in New York City. She attended Hope College in Michigan, studying Theatre and Classical Vocal Performance and receiving multiple scholarships and awards in both degrees. During her time at Hope College, Kierney was nominated for six Irene Ryan Acting Awards and was the costume designer and “Mother Earth” in The Line Between, a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Award winning production for Outstanding Devised or Company Generated Work 2018. Kierney furthered her education by spending the summers of 2016 and 2019 in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art completing Shakespeare and classical acting courses. Throughout her burgeoning career, she has been honored to work with such directors and coaches as Nick Hutchison, Gary Lagden, Daina Robins, Erik Saxvik, Daniel Kwiatkowski, Alex Thompson, Tim Hardy, Tamsin Collison, and Linda Dykstra. Kierney is excited to bring her theatrical and musical training to the initiative of Project III.

Tharathip (Kazuki) Mitsunaga, a third-culture-kid born to a Thai mother, a Japanese father, and raised by an American step-father; he lived in Bangkok for 12 years, moved to Rome for four, then Cairo for two. He is currently an undergraduate studying architecture in the U.S. at Virginia Tech.

During a semester in Copenhagen, he was inspired to commit to art, drawing from his international background and his experience existing between multiple cultural spheres.

His recent work focuses on cultural identity for those that transcend national borders. Kazuki works through the medium of art and architecture to make the self seen

Awaken your senses and experience the world of Claude Monet at the brand-new immersive exhibition, Monet's Garden, at 30 Wall Street, New York City. Go on a 360-degree journey through the history and work of one of the greatest and most influential painters of all time. Using state-of-the-art multimedia and multi-sensory technology, you can dive into the Father of Impressionism’s paintings and get a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind. Explore his studio and learn about his life, struggles, and inspirations before stepping into the scenery of Monet’s Garden where you’ll be invited to walk across the bridge and enter the paintings through interactive projections, and finally float among the waterlilies in a completely immersive installation of Monet’s most famous work.

NOPLACE is a frame of mind one occupies when growing up between multiple cultural spheres. Representing the experience of a Third-Culture-Kid, it's easy to lose one's sense of self during your developmental years while moving between multiple countries. Existing between cultural paradigms such as those of your parents, the country you live in, or your nationality concurrently grows a sense of freedom as well as insecurity. For the privilege of a multinational perspective comes at the cost of short-lived friendships, a diminished sense of family, and a recurring question of where is home?

NOPLACE, however, is a celebration of this phenomenon, as the figure is created against the ever-changing backdrop of its context - it gains a sense of personhood. While the door, the paint, or the artist may come from different places it isn't bound by the labels born by its creator. It is an amalgamation of all the forces which lead to its creation and to deem it anything beyond what it deems itself would be an empty truth. By the end, the figure stands independent of its creator eager to experience what the world has to offer.

2theFuture is a creative universe, open collective, and body-positive clothing line of wearable art founded by Olive Louise in 2020. Through clothing creation and other creative avenues, the collective strives to create a present that we want to bring 2theFuture: where liberation is not just a dream but a reality that we form through our actions. 2theFuture takes seriously that clothing, which is often trivialized even within the art world, is a powerful form of empowerment. The 2theFuture creative universe began out of a love of collaboration, community, and creating with people who share a vision for a liberated world.

Aldridge-Isabella-BioIsabella Aldridge is a freelance dance artist and choreographer based in New York. She earned a BFA in dance from the Fordham/Ailey BFA program at Lincoln Center, graduating summa cum laude, and also completed a BA in Communication and Culture in the spring of 2022. Isabella has furthered her training with summer programs at Orsolina 28, MOVE NYC’s SWEAT, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and The Ailey School. She has had the privilege of performing in works by notable choreographers including Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Jamar Roberts, Alexander Anderson, Cameron McKinney, Rena Butler, Micaela Taylor, Roderick George, LAJAMARTIN, Robyn Mineko-Williams, Jessica Castro, and Yusha-Marie Sorzano. In the summer of 2021, Isabella premiered and performed her work, Repentino, at Battery Dance Festival. Most recently, her piece Sweet Pulse was selected for the Steps Beyond Foundation Spring 2023 Performance Lab cycle.

Sarah E. Allen is a New York-based contemporary artist. She moved to New York in 2019 to attend New York University, where she received a BFA in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts as well as a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. Throughout her career, Sarah has had the privilege to learn and work alongside artists and companies including Kyle Abraham, New Dialect, Steven Petronio, David Dorfman, Gallim, Alvin Ailey, Ronald K. Bown, Roderick George, Sidra Bell, and Wideman Davis Dance. Furthermore, Sarah has had the honor of performing works by Camille A. Brown, Yue Yin, David Dorfman, Rosemary Roberts, Counrtni Poe, Nick Bass, and Wideman Davis Dance. Most Recently, Sarah had the privilege of performing at the 90th Jacob’s Pillow Festival with Yue Yin Dance Company. Sarah most recently performed in her first international performance with Yue Yin Dance Company in Venice, Italy.

Gabi is a visual journalist based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, who is currently taking on the world. She took a break from her schooling in Western Kentucky University's Photojournalism program to pursue a six-month internship with MLive: Kalamazoo Gazette Branch and has just returned from her semester abroad with the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Arhaus, Denmark. Gabi will graduate from WKU this spring with the Class of 2023. Gabi has been instrumental in the documentation and video direction of several Project III creations as she used to be a dancer herself before turning to photography. In her free time, Gabi takes time to enjoy long drives, exploring backroads in her well-loved 2008 Toyota Prius.

Jaya Collins is a native New Yorker from Harlem, NYC. She started her dance training at Dance Theater of Harlem. Jaya attended DTH’s Pre Professional Program as a scholarship student from 2005 to 2011. During her time at DTH she auditioned for Ballet Tech in 2009 and enrolled in the full-time school that fall. During her 8 years at Ballet Tech, Jaya has had the opportunity be a member of Feld’s Premier cast for his new works, Upside Dance, KYDZNY, and Pointing 2, as well as performed in a collection of ballets on some of New York City’s most famous stages: The Joyce Theater, The New Victory, and the Delacourte.

Jaya holds a BFA degree with a concentration in ballet from SUNY Purchase, where she studied with Bettijane Sills, Michelle Thompson Ulerich, Joseph Malbrough, and Jean Freebury. She has learned and performed Balanchine and Classical ballet repertiore, Trisha Brown Set and Reset/Reset and original contemporary works from guest artists. For one school year, Jaya taught as a preschool dance teacher at Utopia Children’s School in Harlem, NY.

After graduating Jaya is currently an assistant dance teacher as well as a project based dancer. She has worked with Visions contemporary ballet for their Fall 2022 season, she has performed at Battery Dance Festival/Young Voices in Dance and CounterPointe’s 10th year anniversary with Norte Maar.

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.

Isabelle Evans is originally from Dorset, England, where she began her dance education at TLW Dance, under the direction of Tiffany Longley-Wolff. In addition to her local training, she was a member of The English National Ballet’s Youth Company for two years where she took the lead in their annual performance at Sadlers Wells Theater in London. Following two summer intensives with The Ailey School Junior and Professional Divisions, Isabelle moved to New York City to continue her training in the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program as a recipient of the Fordham University Faber Award. At the age of 19, Isabelle was a young cast member of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and had the privilege of performing in his award winning adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Isabelle has spent her summers training at The Royal Academy of Dance, where she is a two-time scholarship recipient and award winner, The Ailey School, Orsolina28, Henny Jurriëns, Elmhurst Ballet School, Mark Bruce, and Matthew Bourne’s Swan School. Isabelle has performed works by Matthew Bourne, Mark Baldwin, William Forsythe, Marco Goecke, Helen Simmoneau, Janice Rosario, Morgann Runacre-Temple, and Christian von Howard. Isabelle will graduate in May 2023 from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program.

Jennifer Gerken is a hispanic dance artist born and raised in Houston, Texas. She began her dance training at a local dance studio at six years old where she was introduced to a variety of dance techniques and styles. At 15 years old Jennifer was accepted into The Kinder High School for the Performing Arts (KHSPVA) where she received a dance and academic education. At KHSPVA she was given the opportunity to perform an excerpt of “Appalachian Spring” by Martha Graham as the Bride and the Follower. Her experience at KHSPVA inspired her to continue her dance education at the Ailey School. Since then she was given the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Helen Simoneau, Mark Caserta, Tina Bush, Winston Dynamite Brown, and Ethan Colangelo. Jennifer will graduate in May 2023 from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program. She aspires to join a Concert Dance Company, choreograph for renowned companies, and to create site specific pieces.

Kenzie Ginter is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she grew up training in a variety of concert and commercial dance styles. She received a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she had the privilege of performing works by Yin Yue and Dwight Rhoden, as well as choreographing and collaborating in student pieces. Most recently, Kenzie has enjoyed performing with Gotham Dance Theater and completing GibneyPRO’s Pilot Program under the mentorship of Alexandra Wells and Bret Yakima. She is currently an apprentice with i KADA Dance Company.

Paulo is a freelance dancer based in New York City from Ecuador. He studied at the National Ballet of Ecuador before moving on to earn a certificate in Jazz and Contemporary dance with the Joffrey Ballet School - American Ballet Center in NYC. Paulo has continued to perform with Ballet Hispánico, Adams Dance Company, The Abeline Opera Association, and more. He has also toured Colombia and Israel.

Shannon Harkins began her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet. She attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Massachusetts, and graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance. She has presented her choreography in the Young Voices in Dance program at Battery Dance Festival in 2022 and Norte Maar’s collaborative series, CounterPointe, in 2023. Shannon strives to create work that combines enhanced classical technique with added nuances, theatrics, and humor.

Troy Kelley attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in Dance, and Computer Science. He has also studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). At NYU, he performed works of numerous prolific dance artists - Wayne McGregor, Ronald K. Brown and Lar Lubovitch. Troy has worked with Wendy Perron in the first ever reconstruction of Trisha Brown’s Splang (1978), which unfortunately was not performed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Troy has created several works of his own, including a film version of his piece Liminal originally set for stage, with original music by Ho Bobby. Troy is also a professional software developer and has a passion for everything technology. He uses his skills in both dance and programming to inform the other practice and allows him to approach tasks in innovative, creative ways.

Sadé is a hip-hop and freelance artist based in New York City. Previously, she was contracted with Bloc Agency and performed in commercials - including Gap - and on stages across the tri-state area. Now, Sadé is pursuing her passion for performing as an independent artist and freelancing with many companies including We Run This: The Collective. Keep up with her latest work on Instagram!

Caleb Patterson is a dance artist based in New York City. He has performed works by several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Rena Butler and Patrick O’Brien during his education at The Joffrey Ballet School in 2014. Alongside being seen in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness led by Domani Pompey, he has worked with artists Maleek Washington, Emily Greenwell, Kayla Farrish and more. He has performed works by MATHETA dance, LaneCoArts, Spark Movement Collective, Kar’mel Small, Javi Padilla and Dolly Sfeir. Caleb collaborates closely with artists Michelle Thompson Ulerich and Johnny Butler, and has presented his own work at Arts On Site, TADA! Youth Theater, Bridge For Dance and other selected commissions. He has performed in Battery Dance Festival, MATHETA’s Speak Through Movement at Judson Church, Palm Desert Choreography Festival, Mare Nostrum Element’s Emerging Choreographer Series, Dance Gallery Festival, CUNY Dance Initiative and others. Caleb is currently working with Beatriz Castro for Triskelion Art’s upcoming Split Bill program.

Caitlin is a pre-medical student and Neuroscience and behavior major at Columbia University. She is Chilean-American and grew up in Virginia until moving to London at the age of 14 to attend The Royal Ballet School. After dancing and competing internationally, she danced professionally with Oklahoma City Ballet and freelanced. Now, full-time at Columbia, she works at the Zuckerman Institute of Mind, Brain, and Behavior studying decision-making and emotional regulation. She has worked as a research intern in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Columbia Irving Medical Center and at the Primate Cognition Lab at Columbia’s Neuroscience Institute. On campus, she is the Co-President of the Art Collective, an innovative and synergistic group of artists, Scientists & Engineers for a Better Society, and the Women in Science & Medicine Clubs. In May 2022, she became a founding fellow for the Mentora Institute devoted to inner mastery and outer impact in leadership and change-making, where she is currently working on a project to improve the attitudes and behaviors of young male athletes.

Melody is a climate tech worker and multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Originally from Los Angeles, she holds a B.A. degree in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. Melody has played her harp across various stages in the U.S. and Europe including at the Conservatory of Music in Paris and the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and danced in works by Mike Esperanza, Yin Yue, David Dorfman, Kevin Wynn, and Mark Morris. Outside the studio and stage, Melody works on preventing food waste and increasing fresh food accessibility as a lever to mitigate the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climate change.

Michelle Thompson Ulerich is currently a professor at SUNY Purchase, and the Artistic Director of Spark Movement Collective. She received her training from San Francisco Ballet, and danced for 14 years with Ballet Austin. Also during her time in Texas she earned her undergraduate degree from St. Edward’s University, and began her choreographic career with an emphasis on site specific and immersive dance experiences. She is a freelance choreographer in New York, and has recently shown work at Ace Hotel in Brooklyn, Mark O’Donnell Theater, Green Space, Dixon Place, Mercury Lounge, and the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. She has recently been commissioned by CounterPointe, CreateArt, Kingsland Wildflower Festival, Style Pointe, and SUNY Purchase. She also creates for film and music video projects. She teaches yoga with a specialization in prenatal yoga, and is a mother of two.

Originally from Silicon Valley, California, Aurora Vaughan is a freelance dance artist based in New York City. She graduated in May 2021 with a BFA in Dance from the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and a Performance Science Minor from the USC Marshall School of Business. While in school, they had the honor of performing works by Crystal Pite, William Forysthe, Sonya Tayeh, Jiri Kylian, Andrew Winghart, and Barak Marshall.

Aurora transfuses her work with technological and musical collaborations, all informed by her experiences as a queer person. She augments her dancing by traveling globally to study with esteemed artists such as Cindy Salgado, Ayman Harper, Shannon Gillen, Ella Rothschild, as well as training in acting and vocal performance.

Aurora performs in the contemporary/dance theater fields and creates process-driven collaborations with artists of all backgrounds, with the goal of experiencing the multitude of intersections between forms. The creators challenge themselves, each other, and audiences to consider their actions and reactions from different lenses, in hopes that new information can produce reifications of equality, equity, consciousness, and engagement, both artistically and not.

Alex Ware was born and raised in the Chicago Area where she received her interdisciplinary dance training from a competitive dance studio. In May of 2022, she went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from New York University with a BFA in dance as well as minors in the Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology, and Social and Cultural Analysis. Most recently she has had the honor of performing repertory by Stephen Petronio as well as new works by Yin Yue and Chelsea Thedinga. She also had the honor of learning and demonstrating sections of Crystal Pite repertoire from “A Picture of You Falling” and “The Tempest”, at Orsolina 28 in Italy. She has received supplemental training from the artists of RUBBERBANDance Group, Peter Chu - ChuThis, Gibney Dance Company Artists, Ronald K. Brown's Evidence, A Dance Company, David Dorfman Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and others. In addition to beginning her first season with CoreDance Contemporary in the fall of 2022 and beginning her professional dance journey, she also has a strong passion for teaching and choreographing and wishes to continue those facets of dance throughout her career. Alex wishes to make dance accessible, restructure how it’s taught, and feed her artistic vision by reflecting on social injustices in society. Alex is also certified in Group Fitness Education and aims to incorporate the best elements of the fitness world into her dance classes to create longevity and strength in her dancers.