“It is not the role of art to change the world but I think it is important at least to try make people question them self about their behavior and society towards other communities and people, to initiate a soft process in peoples’ mind.”

-Faustine Lavie

Team

Double Bind 2.0

Angélica Barbosa

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Casey Leyden

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Olivia Caldeira Holston

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Khaila Espinoza

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Avery Boose

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Daniella Macre

Actress, Dancer & collaboration in choreography

2021~2023 Company Members

L Train, Double Bind, This is sarAika (U.S), Continuum(U.S), I Choose Myself, etc

Faustine Lavie

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Faustine Lavie (she/her) was born in Toulon, France, where she started ballet at 3 years old. She studied in different renowned dance schools such as Paris Opera Ballet School and ESDC Rosella Hightower. She moved to NYC in 2015 to attend The Ailey School, where she graduated from the Certificate Program in May 2018. Faustine had the opportunity to perform works by many choreographers, such as Darrell Grand Moultrie, Manuel Vignoulle, Winston Dynamite Brown, Amy Hall Garner, Fredrick Earl Mosley, Clifton Brown and Shay Bland. Faustine worked with An Nuo Spiritual Dance & Art, with whom she performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in 2018 and 2019. She is currently a company member with i KADA Contemporary Dance Company, LaneCoArts, Footprints Dance Company, The DynamitExperience, Arim Dance, Keiko Fujii Dance Company and Six Degrees Dance. She founded Faustine Lavie Dance Project in 2020. She is delighted to join Sara and Aika in the production of L Train and is looking forward to more projects with them.

Mayu Nakaya

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Mayu Nakaya (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer from Japan based in New York City.
Nakaya’s choreography has been presented at MADE BY WONEN organized by Dual Rivet and Move to Change presented by MODArts, IKADA Dance Festival, White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival, Green Space, and selected Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spring 2023 New Work Series.
Currently, as a dancer of Nakaya has a member of Helen Simoneau Danse, sarAika Movement Collective, iKADA Dance Company. Additionally has worked with Yoshito Sakuraba, Catherine Messina, Faustine Lavie, Yuki Ishiguro, and worked with Jesse Obremski’s work and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau’s work at Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance in 2022.
Nakaya started ballet training when she was three years old. After then, she learned contemporary dance and choreography, gaining a lot of performing experience at the Contemporary Dance Course at Tokyo Metropolitan High School of Arts and The University of Tsukuba.
From 2016 to 2019, she participated in several dance competitions in Japan and the Seoul International Dance Competition, dancing her choreographies; she had many top prizes and first-place awards.
She moved to New York City in 2019 and studied at The Ailey School scholarship program for two years. 
 
As an Asian living in the diverse city of New York, Nakaya has made a career out of “what I love” and is constantly exploring ways to bring the appeal of artistic activities that transcend borders, race, economics, disability, and gender to the hearts of people through her dance and her works.
Maitlin Jordan

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Maitlin Jordan (she/her). A graduate of the University of South Florida and rigorous Limon Professional Studies program in New York City, Maitlin was hand-picked by the artistic director, Colin Connor, of the Limon Dance Company to perform as a guest artist during the Limon Dance Company’s 2018-2019 season. Based out of Brooklyn, New York, Maitlin has performed at venues such as: The Joyce Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Tank, Triskelion Arts, among many others. She is presently working with choreographers such as: Kathryn Alter, Colin Connor, Bridgit Stanton, Sandra Robbins, and several others. Her improv work can be seen in various videos for musical artists, and showcases such as Dance Astoria, Calling All Magic, and the upcoming debut of L TRAIN Production.

Alongside her own performance career, Maitlin is currently on faculty as a modern, Contemporary, and Jazz teacher at Dance Matters NYC,  leads the Dance Education Program at the Academy of the City Charter School, and has set award-winning choreography for several dance studios along the east coast.

Haley Morgan Miller

Dancer & collaboration in choreography

Haley Morgan Miller (she/they) is an interdisciplinary choreographer, dancer, technologist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. Her works include audio reactive renderings of paper mache masks for Every Morning a New Arrival, premiered at Art She Says. The healing performance installation explores the relationship between the self and shadow selves with live painting by Lauren Altman. Haley’s debut dance film, Ephemeral Pleasures, appeared in the Anyplace Anytime Online Dance Film Festival by Cross Move Lab, and FRAMES Virtual Festival hosted by Collective Exchange. Her choreography has been presented at Marinnovators Science and Technology Festival, Vision Series Festival, and The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Haley is a company member with sarAika movement collective, and Chloe Kastner Dance Company. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she performed work by Mark Morris, Juel D. Lane, Michael Figueroa, Jun Kuribayashi. Haley is a company member with both sarAika movement collective, and Chloe Kastner Dance Company. She adores teaching at The Tutu School, and working as an Arts Administrator and Marketer with Yana Schnichtzler HUMAN KINETICS and sarAika movement collective.

Arianna Wellmoney

Actress

Arianna Wellmoney (she/her) is originally from Milan, Italy. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2016. She recently starred in Emmy Award Winning Director David Distinti’s webseries “Dave’s Retro Video Lab”. Recent credits include: “La Santera” (TV Pilot), “3018” (Snapchat Show), “#SwipeLife” (Tinder Commercial), “Enoptromancy” (Off Broadway show) and “True Drama” (Feature Film). She wrote and starred in “Extraordinary Aliens”, performed both in New York and Los Angeles.

Collaborators

gathering of talents
Current
Kate Perkins

Dancer

Beatriz Castro

Dancer

Julia Asher

Dancer

  • Kim Hancock
  • Io Ermoli
  • Natalie Long
  • Sarah Blake

Angelica Barbosa Rodríguez

Born and raised in Colombia. A graduate with honors from the BFA in Performing Arts with an emphasis in dance at Pontificia Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia), and the last semester abroad at Institut del Teatre (Barcelona, Spain) in Dance Pedagogy & Choreography and Interpretation. She moved to New York to continue her professional training at the Ailey School and as a scholarship trainee in Limón Pro. She received supplemental training at institutions such as P.A.R.T.S (Brussels, Belgium), Dart Dance Company (Berlin, Germany), Martha Graham School (NYC)) and GALLIM School of Movement. She is currently working with GALLIM Dance Company as an administrative and marketing intern. She is a teaching artist with Notes in Motion, Ballet Hispánico and Dancewave. Angélica is thrilled to be joining SarAika in Double Bind project.

Casey Leyden

Casey Leyden is a freelance dancer based in New York City. She recently graduated in May from Adelphi University obtaining a BFA in Dance with a minor in Environmental Studies. Casey has worked with various choreographers such as Omar Román De Jesús, Doug Varone, Larry Keigwin, Isaac Lerner, Murray Louis, Paul Taylor, Sloan Pearson and more. She has also done additional training with Gallim and Doug Varone and Dancers Intensives. Casey is so excited to be working with SarAika Movement Collective in their upcoming performance!

Olivia Caldeira Holston

Olivia Caldeira Holston was born in São Sebastião, Brazil and was raised in California. She is a freelance dancer, teacher, and choreographer who recently moved to New York from San Francisco. She received her BA Honours degree from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2019. She has attended summer intensives such as the Alvin Ailey Professional and Junior Divisions in New York as well as P.A.R.T.S. and Eastman in Belgium. Since graduating, Olivia has had the opportunity to dance with many Bay Area dance companies such as Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Garrett+Moulton Productions, David Herrera Performance Company, Kristin Damrow & Company, and Fullstop Dance, among others. She is thrilled to be dancing with sarAika Movement Collective and choreographer Audrey Thao Berger. In addition, Olivia has taught at the Oberlin Dance Commons and Shawl Anderson Dance Center as well as master classes at Marin Academy and the College Preparatory School in Oakland.

Khaila Marie Espinoza

Khaila Marie Espinoza (She/Her) is a freelance dancer and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York City. She Started Her professional dance career in Jacksonville and Miami Florida. And earned scholarships to the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham certificate programs. Throughout her career she’s learned different dance styles and techniques that pushed her creativity and artistic potential. Some of the dance studios that Khaila has worked with and grown with throughout her career are Suzanne Saltmarsh Dance, Jacksonville center of the arts, Cooper Morgan Dance, Riverside Dance studio, Peter London Global Dance Company and Currently in two New York based companies, The Dynamite Experience and Clymove. Khaila is inspired by learning from choreographers that explore different ways of movement, teaching philosophies and project based in collaboration and community in New York City. Her aspirations include starting her own works choreographing and teaching a various range of ages sharing the Joy and passion she has for dance. 

Avery Boose

Avery is a graduate of New York University where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance. She began her training at The Hive studios under the direction of Seth Robinson and Jeff Wolfe in Chicago, Illinois. She worked as an assistant for Tribe Dance Intensive and has toured with Streetz National Dance Convention. During her time at Tisch School of the Arts, she has performed repertoire by Andrea Miller and José Limon. Avery has learned repertory from Sidra Bell, Doug Varone, Gibney dance company, and other New York based companies. Since moving to New York she has completed Gibney Dance’s independent summer study, the European workshop B12, and has become a certified yoga instructor. Since graduation Avery has been working as a freelance dancer in New York City. She has recently performed with Tabula Rasa Dance theater and has also performed work in the Spark Theater festival.

Daniella Macre

Daniella Macre is an afro-latina actor, dancer and poet from Panama and The Bahamas. Her early exposure to art through her training in various dance styles catapulted her into Acting. She is a recent BFA graduate from UNCSA School of Drama (World’s 2nd Best Undergrad program, Hollywood Reporter.) Daniella has trained under Bob Krakower, Peter Hedges, and Scott Ziegler. She dreams of one day having a successful and diverse film-acting career. Professional credits include Measure for Measure as Isabella in Shakespeare in Paradise (The Bahamas.) and short films such The Judas Project and For the River to Take. Her credits at UNCSA include “Dance Nation” (Amina), “Barbecue” (Adlean), “Polaroid Stories” (Persephone/Semele) and “If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be A Muhfucka” (Kaya). Website: daniellamacre.com Contact: Zuri Agency (David Gilbert) @daniella.macre

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