“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
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
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