Kachal Dance
Preforming “#CRAY“
Choreography by Alia Kache

Alia Kache, founder/director of Kachal Dance and former rehearsal director of Ailey II, received her early training at Center for Creative Arts and Chattanooga Ballet, and graduated from the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program in 2004. Her favorite credits include Companhia Dança Contemporânea, Pilobolus Creative Services, Radio City Christmas Spectacular,  Big League Theatrical’s Aida, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and The Lion King. Her choreography has been performed by BalletX, Ballet Memphis, Ailey II, and Houston Contemporary. She is a two time Lincoln City Fellow and former artist in residence with RestorationART in Brooklyn, NY.

NewBrese Dance Project
Preforming “In Which We Find Ourselves”
Choreography by Rachel Calabrese & Sawyer Newsome in collaboration with dancers

NewBrese Dance Project is a physical contemporary dance company led by founders/ co-directors Rachel Calabrese and Sawyer Newsome. The company aims to create work that focuses on the ideas of self-identity, societal identity, and the complexity of interpersonal relationships. They love investigating the physicality of movement and how its momentum can be the driving force behind each impulse. This leads them in finding new ways they can come into partner work and floorwork. The company has presented work throughout New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Wisconsin, and Utah since its creation in 2020. 

Website: https://newbresedance.wixsite.com/my-site
Instagram: @newbrese_danceproject 

Photographer credit: Effy Grey 

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Fast Forward is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.