Cocco & Co performing ‘uneasy feeling queasy’
Damir and Tatyana performing ‘Thillana’ 
Neta-Kinetics performing ‘The Wanderers’
Erin McElhone performing ‘The Dating Pool‘
Inclined Dance Project performing ‘Of Tenses’
N/N Dance Collaborative performing ‘CONTINUUM‘
Six Degrees Dance performing ‘Blood and Bone’
Chiemi Ip performing ‘Peas in a pod‘

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Cocco & Co
Breena Cocco
Breena Cocco’s Brooklyn-based company, Cocco & Co, works with a movement language that is idiosyncratic, athletic, and elastic. Cocco’s works have been presented at the Young Choreographer’s Festival, NewGrounds Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, Small Plates Choreography Festival, Richmond Dance Festival, WAXworks, and Fertile Ground.

Damir and Tatyana
Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale
Rukmini Devi Arundale was a reputed dancer and choreographer of Bharatnatyam, an Indian classical dance form. Her charismatic personality and contribution to the renaissance of Indian Classical music attained her niche in the arena of Indian culture. Kalakshetra, as the name suggests, is a centre for artistic endeavour. Founded in 1936 by the vibrant visionary Rukmini Devi Arundale, the Institution stands testimony to her dream of creating a space where the essence of Indian thought would find expression through artistic education. An institution she established with the vision “of imparting to the young the true spirit of Art, devoid of vulgarity and commercialism.” Spread over almost 100 acres by the seashore in Chennai, the Kalakshetra Foundation, as it is known today, is a vital centre for the study and performance of fine arts.

Damir Tasmagambetov and Tatyana Popova are critically acclaimed bharatanatyam performers, currently based in New York City. Both artistes are praised for their choreographic skills, technical and expressive skills, as well as their musical sense – with many solo and performances as a duo to their credit. Damir and Tatyana are a dynamic dancing duo trained from the illustrious Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai. Involvement with their gurus, Kalakshetra and their independent pursuits has enabled them to perform at various prestigious venues across the world.

Neta-Kinetics
James Colter aka Cricket
Neta-Kinetics is a contemporary street dance company formed in 2022, following the lineage of Cricket (James Colter).
Neta-Kinetics combines rigorous training in house, breaking, hip hop, and other forms of street dance with a playful and theatrical sensibility in order to produce dynamic works for the stage. We seek to build intensely physical, character-based worlds that weave in the diverse movement backgrounds of our group while keeping the integrity of street styles a primary focus of the work.
James Colter aka Cricket has had over 25 years experience in the street dance scene. His dance style has its base in hip-hop, House, and Bboy. He’s one of the founders of the “House Head Session,” He is a founding member of Rennie Harris Pure Movement (founded in 1991) and a dance ambassador for the US State Department during the Obama administration. Cricket has taken part in the SDK Street Dance festival, Summer Dance Forever, and choreographed at the Apollo Theater and had many film credits.

Erin McElhone in collaboration with the dancers
Originally from Texas, Erin received a BFA in dance from Adelphi University in May 2022 with a minor in business. Currently a freelance creator, arts administrator, and performer, Erin works at Gibney and with Madison Hicks for her non-profit Moving Forward. Erin’s choreography has been presented at the Balance Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Adelphi’s Scholarship and Creative Works conference, and Arts on Site.

Inclined Dance Project
Kristen Klein
Kristen Klein is a Brooklyn based choreographer, dancer, teacher, and pointe shoe fitter. She founded Inclined Dance Project, a collaborative all-female dance company, in 2009 and her choreographic works have been performed throughout New York, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Japan.

N/N Dance Collaborative
Nancy Brier in collaboration with the dance artists
Choreographer, teacher, filmmaker, Certified Movement Analyst and artistic co-director of N/N Dance Collaborative, Nancy collaborates with composers, filmmakers, designers and visual artists in the creative process of dance-making. Awarded the 2022 NYS Choreographers’ Initiative grant to experiment with fusing choreography and video projection crafted for live performance and a 2022 Restart NY Regrant to direct, choreograph and produce an immersive multidisciplinary Summer Solstice Celebration of the Arts outdoor event. Concert works have been performed in NYC, France, Czech Republic, Italy and on MetroArts Thirteen/MetroStories television networks. Has made dance films since 2014: Official Selections in Amsterdam, Berlin, L.A., London, Paris, Vienna festivals.

Six Degrees Dance
Cecly Placenti in collaboration with the dancers
Cecly Placenti is a writer, producer, choreographer and dancer passionate about building community. Embodying the theory that all people are connected through a network of 6 or fewer degrees, Cecly started Six Degrees Dance in 2011 with the goal of creating work that is detailed and symbiotically dependent on all artists involved.

Chiemi Ip in collaboration with the dancers
Chiemi Ip is a NY-based movement artist and dance educator who values abundance, serenity, and beauty in movement. She incorporates Modern dance techniques, street styles, and Contact Improvisation in her choreography, and premiered her work at Gibney and GreenSpace. Besides creating her movement repertory, Chiemi is a teaching artist at Mark Morris Dance Group, and works with The Equus Projects and Dance Visions NY. She holds an MFA in Dance and a MA in Dance Education at New York University.

8 in Show 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.