Works
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Revised Choreography Mio Ishikawa
Performers Ian Debono, Matthew Spangler
Original Music Tushrik Fredericks
Costume Elanur Erdogan
Premiere Information newave premiered the Summer of 2021 at Hudson Waterfront. newave was developed through a residency at Berkshire Pulse and Chesterwood in collaboration with photographer Adrianna Newell, sound artist Tushrik Fredericks, videographers Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, and writer missexandinguniverse.
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Revival Performance and Choreography Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Music Dream Puppy by The Sweet Enoughs, Movement 1 - Live by Mika Vain, Ryoji Ikeda, alva noto, Adagio for Strings Opus 11 by Samuel Barber
Text Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Recording Toney Goins, Tracie Lane
Dramaturg Shana ParkeHarrison
Premiere Information “In May 2020 I made a short dance video entitled x dance. I searched 'regret' in my email inbox, and collected words from rejection emails I have received since 2013. x dance reckons with pity and meditates on melodrama and the transcendence of no.” - Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
x dance premiered in Summer 2022 at ‘neverover: an invitation to queer chaos’ Little Boxes Theater, San Francisco, and ‘Blue Hour’ The Foundry, West Stockbridge.
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Revival Choreography Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Performers Ashley Green, Ny Opong, Colin Frederick, Miriam Gittens, Quaba Ernest, Lieana Sherry, Marcus Sarjeant. Understudy Grace Foley.
Music HYbr:ID oval blackhole by alvo noto, Ay Çürüdü by Anadol. 5 Lieder, Op. 41: No 1, Weigenlied by Richard Strauss, Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jessye Norman.
Text Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Costumes Áine Dorman, constructed by Janethia Dorman
Premiere Information say i am you premiered at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on March 18, 2022. say i am you was also performed September 2022 at Salesforce Park, and October 2022 at Heron Arts. A film version of the work was selected by the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2023) and Dance Camera West (2024).
Artists
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Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a choreographer, director, and dancer. She is Artistic Director of BODYSONNET and former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet. A Juilliard Dance graduate honored with the Artist as Citizen Award, she has choreographed for Skidmore College, The Juilliard School, Metropolis Ensemble, LINES Training Program and Post:ballet. Her films have screened at SFDance Film Festival and Dance Camera West. Recently she choreographed Magma, an immersive production at The Midway SF. Presently she teaches at Joffrey NYC, Gibney, and Steps on Broadway, and is developing Filling the Shell, a techno-choreographic work by ARESPHERE and BODYSONNET.
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Mio Ishikawa (she/her) is a Tokyo- raised Japanese performer, choreographer, and creative collaborator based in New York City. A graduate of the Juilliard School (BFA 2019), Ishikawa has performed several roles in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC and a large scale immersive production Life and Trust. Since 2022, she has danced with Sidra Bell Dance New York. She is the Artistic Associate Director of BODYSONNET (2019-). In 2025 Ishikawa co-founded Fabulosa!, a digital platform for creating and sharing site-sympathetic dance films and the process.
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Tushrik Fredericks (he/him) is a 2026 TED Fellow and multidisciplinary creative from Johannesburg, South Africa. Initially drawn to the visceral language of krump, his work explores physicality, emotion, and performance. A Princess Grace Award recipient nominated by TRIBE under Shamel Pitts, he trained at Peridance in New York City and has worked with ate9 Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York, and UNA Productions. Fredericks received 3rd Prize at Solo Tanz Stuttgart for “(territory) of the Heart,” later presented at MoCADA in Brooklyn. He is also a recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts residency and the 2024 Princess Grace Special Projects Grant.
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Steve Bangerter is an interdisciplinary artist. His work lives at the intersection of dance, theater, and design. Freelance graphic designer. Co-founder of Fabulosa! with collaborator Mio Ishikawa. Performance credits include Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Macduff), Life and Trust (Lenny), and The REV theater company.
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Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou is a Transcultural Media Artist & Technologist working across time-based and embodied mediums. Her multidisciplinary research spans interactive & real-time system design, site-specific performances, and immersive production. Through cross-disciplinary frameworks, She explores works that are connected through networked systems, lights, sounds, and dance performance.
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Ro Champlin is a DJ, creative, and community builder currently based in New York City after relocating in October 2025. At 30 years old, Ro is the cofounder of Buena Vibra Familia, a Northwest Arkansas-based sound system collective rooted in culture and connection. With a deep love for reggae, dub, and global rhythms, Ro uses music as a way to bring people together and create meaningful experiences on and off the dance floor. Through sound system culture and collaborative events, Ro is passionate about cultivating spaces centered around vibration, expression, movement, and community both in New York and beyond.
@rosiechamplin
@buenavibrafamilia
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Colin Frederick (they/he), born and raised in Warrensburg, Missouri began their dance training at Center Stage Academy of the Performing Arts. They attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where they obtained their B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography. After graduation, Colin moved to San Francisco, California where they have freelanced with several choreographers and companies including Garrett + Moulton Productions, Deborah Slater Dance Theatre, RAWdance, Post:ballet, and EIGHT/MOVES. Colin has choreographed and co-produced shows with BODYSONNET.
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Ny is a movement and performing artist. They received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2019. Upon graduation they joined The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company where they were a member from 2019-2024. Following their time with The BTJ/AZ Company, Ny joined the cast of the immersive theater show Life and Trust until its closing in 2025. They have also worked, collaborated with and performed live works by artists along the East and West coasts including; Lee Mingwei, Vinson Fraley Jr., Shamel Pitts, Huiwang Zhang, Volta Collective, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Okuwi Okpokwasili [Sweat Variant] and others. Ny primarily uses improvisation as their movement medium. In an effort to get in touch with and reveal the generations of history and memory that are held in their body. Discovering how those memories influence, affect and aid in how we shape our lives to move through the world. Ny studies movement through themselves and others; the subtleties and extremities of effort, emotion and sound that come from and move through the body.
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Marcus Sarjeant is a freelance artist based in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase in 2022. Currently he is a member of New York based companies Verbal Animal and Le Ballet Fou. In addition he can also be seen throughout the city working in a wide range of jobs including Music Videos, Backup Dancing, and within the night life scene.
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Quaba Venza Ernest is a Brooklyn-born, St. Lucian-American interdisciplinary artist whose work merges contemporary dance, theater, and sound. He is an alumnus of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, where he received the Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts for Choreography. He has worked with Ballet BC, Doug Varone and Dancers, Loni Landon, Damani Pompey, Dual Rivet, Sidra Bell, Sleep No More, Peiju Performing Arts, and The Metropolitan Opera. Through his project-based companies, Venza Dance and Ernest Records, he creates, explores, and supports community while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and nurturing emerging artists. His distinctions include the Center for Performance Research Resident Artist (2026), Dancing While Black Fellowship (2026), Pepatián/BAAD Dancing Futures Residency (2025), Chelsea Factory Summer Residency (2024), the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow (2021), and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts (2019).
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Ashley Kaylynn Green (Charleston, SC) began her training at Columbia City Jazz where she found her love for dance. She trained in a variety of styles including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and hip hop. In 2020, Green received her BFA in Dance from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, under the direction of Garfield Lemonius. There, she performed works by Peter Chu, Aszure Barton, Kyle Abraham, and Darrell Grand Moultrie. After graduation, she joined Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance where she received a Princess Grace Award in Dance. Green joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2021 and that year she was named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. She has performed her own improvisational work at Into the Open Music Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia and Amalgamation in Kingston, Jamaica and has created work with McKoy Dance Project, Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, and Arkansas Ballet.
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Miriam Gittens, a Fresno, California native, began her dance training at The Dance Studio of Fresno and earned her BFA from The Juilliard School in 2017. In 2018, she joined Ballet BC, performing works by Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, and William Forsythe spanning over four seasons. In 2022, Miriam joined Gibney Company in New York, continuing to perform on global stages. Gittens was featured in Dance Magazine's "On the Rise" column in 2023, and she received the Princess Grace Honoraria Award for Dance in 2024. Now as a freelance artist, Miriam has performed with chuthis, Twyla Tharp Dance, NVA & Guests, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber among others.
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Lieana Sherry is a Chinese-American dance artist and teacher focused on concert dance via contemporary, modern, and ballet techniques. Her professional work spans across New York, Chicago, and Kansas City. Most recently Sherry has danced repertoire by Omar Román De Jesús with his company Boca Tuya where she has had the pleasure of performing nationally and internationally. Sherry debuted in Omar’s full length program in 2024 in Panamá, and later at 92NY in New York. Inspired by the cast of ‘say i am you’ Lieana is delighted to make her debut with BODYSONNET in New York.
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Grace Foley is a New York-based dance artist. She received her B.S. in Dance Performance & Choreography from Skidmore College, where she had the opportunity to work with and perform works by Adam Barruch, Robert Battle, Chia-Ying Kao, Larry Keigwin, Jason Ohlberg, and Erika Pujič. She has received additional training from NVA & Guests, Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance, FLOCKWORKS Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, and the New York State Summer School of the Arts under the direction of Carolyn Adams. Grace will be joining the “gen3” group of artists at bluebox in Vienna this fall.
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Matthew Spangler is a New York based performer and choreographer. Born and raised in Boulder Colorado, he began his dance training at the age of four and in 2023 graduated with a BFA from The Juilliard School under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack and Mario Alberto Zambrano. While at Juilliard, he performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Spivey, Ohad Naharin, and Aszure Barton among others, as well as debuting his own choreography in the Senior Dance Production. Upon graduation Matthew danced with the Martha Graham Dance company, and has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and kNoname Artists | Roderick George.
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Ian Debono, originally from San Francisco, is a dancer with The Limón Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera. In 2023, he graduated from The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack. While there, he had the pleasure of performing works by Ohad Naharin, Spenser Theberge, Jermaine Spivey, Medhi Walerski, Paul Singh, Amy Hall Garner and Norbert De La Cruz III among others.
BODYSONNET
Founded in 2019, BODYSONNET is a company based in New York committed to making site responsive work on an international scale. Led by Co-Founders Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (Artistic Director), Mio Ishikawa (Associate Artistic Director), and Sean Lammer (Creative Consultant), BODYSONNET initiates projects that center dance to yield works that are highly physical and unique to the communities with which we engage. Our work demonstrates the intersection of movement with many mediums and enacts zero waste consciousness through collaboration with local artists and institutions. We redefine the viewer’s experience by developing innovative work that reinforces our shared humanity.
BODYSONNET is fiscally sponsored by Satellite Collective, a registered non profit organization.
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