COLLABORATORS

CURRENT COMPANY DANCERS + COLLABORATORS

Emily Aslin

Emily Aslin (she/her) is a New York-based dance artist and choreographer and the founder of Aslin Projects. She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and has worked with the likes of Donald Byrd, Mike Tyus, Akira Uchida, Jamar Roberts, Felix Landerer, Marion Sparber, Lane Gifford, and Alexander Anderson. Emily has performed with companies such as Kizuna Dance, LaneCoArts, Synchronous, and spent summers at b12, the Donald Byrd Workshop, the Ailey Intensive, the Kizuna Dance Intensive, and the VIM VIGOR Intensive among others. Her work was chosen for the 2025 92Y Future Dance Festival and she has also presented work at 14St. Y, The Craft NY, Arts on Site, and Theaterlab. Emily was an artist in residence at The Visionary in 2025 and Carroll Hall in 2024. She premiered her first evening-length work, Dint, at Theaterlab in November 2025 and presented her work at APAP at Peridance Center in January 2026.

Nina Chong-Jimenez

Nina Chong-Jimenez began her dance training in NYC, attending Ballet Hispanico and Joffrey Ballet School Trainee Program on scholarship. During her time with Joffrey she performed with the JBS Touring Company studying and learning repertory under Francesca Corkle. After graduating with honors with her BFA in Dance Performance she was hired by Rennie Harris. Since then, she has performed in the companies of H.T. Chen & Dancers, Michael Mao Dance Company, Kibbutz, and LaneCoArts.

Jonathan Colafrancesco

Jonathan Colafrancesco is an Italian dance artist. He has danced works by Enzo Celli, Elisabetta Minutoli, Dario Lupinacci, Roberta Ferrara, Francesco Asselta, Samuel Pott, Vivake Khamsingsavath. Jonathan currently dances for Pony Box Dance Theatre, Xiang Xu dance, LaneCoArts, Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre, Project Tag, Spark Movement Collective, EM dance, and Terre Dance Collective. He is a Peridance Certificate Program graduate and studied with choreographers from Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin inc.

Gabrielle DiNizo

Gabrielle DiNizo, an Ohio native, graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance and English from Fordham University/The Ailey School, where she performed works by Robert Battle, Earl Mosley, Brice Mousset, and Adam Barruch. Her performance credits include Parsons Dance, Forza Dance, Jon Lehrer Dance Company, and XY Motion, an evening-length duet directed by Xiang Xu. Her passion for sustaining the arts extends beyond the stage through marketing and development roles with Parsons Dance and Forza Dance.

Mizuho Kappa

Mizuho Kappa is a choreographer and performing artist originally from Osaka, Japan, with a degree in Entomology.
She has recently performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NY, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, and Ballet Collective, among others.
Her self-choreographed solo works have been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Gene Frankel Theater, TheaterLab, The Brick, Ars Nova, NOoSPHERE ARTS and more.
She frequently collaborates with cross-disciplinary artists, including a neuroscience researcher, transmedia playwright, hybrid writer and puppet designer. These collaborative works have been showcased at the New Museum, New York Hall of Science, Open Source Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, City University of Hong Kong, House of Yes, the Chocolate Factory and beyond.
Kappa is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company ‘25 Season, and a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency '25, Mark Morris SharedSpace Residency '26 and Triskelion Art Split Bill '26.
Her choreographic voice is recognized for conveying narrative through raw expression, unexpected physicality, and striking surrealistic tableaux, described as “evoking and unhinged” by Brooklyn Magazineand “potent” by The New York Times.

Robert Rubama

Robert Rubama (They/Him) is a Brooklyn-based dancer & choreographer. They graduated from George Mason University with a BFA in Dance and is currently pursuing a BA in Social Media Management from Point Park University. He has been able to work with dance companies such as Agora Dance, Haus of Bambi, Groundworks Dance Theater, PrioreDance, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, LaneCoArts, and Orange Grove Dance. They are the Founder & Artistic Director of Terre Dance Collective.

Richard Sayama

Originally from Honolulu, Hawai’i, Richard Sayama graduated early from Marymount Manhattan College with a double major in B.F.A Modern Dance and B.A Business Arts & Management. He is currently pursuing his MFA Dance from Hunter College while also teaching as an adjunct lecturer.
Post undergraduate, Sayama performed with companies such as Limón Dance Company, Jon Lehrer Dance Company, LaneCoArts, and H.T Chen & Dancers where he toured domestically and internationally for over 5 years to countries such as Japan, Austria, Germany, Scotland, and Colombia. He is also Associate Founder of Obremski/Works and Associate Director of Feathers Dance Company.
Sayama’s choreography has been showcased at KnJ Theater at Peridance, SoloDuo Dance Festival, Steffi Nossen Choreography Showcase, and was also featured in Tokyo, Japan and Guadalajara Mexico. He is currently a resident choreographer at Feathers Dance Company and General Mischief Dance Theater.

Juan Viveros

Juan Viveros is a Colombian dancer and performing artist based in New York City. He has worked with companies and artists including Alessandra Corona Performing Works, WHITE WAVE Dance Company, Living Story Lab, and Kiribumba, among others. His practice explores movement, identity, cultural memory, and the relationship between the body and space. As a performer, he brings a dynamic physicality, versatility, and a strong commitment to collaborative and interdisciplinary processes.

Annie White

Annie White is an NYC-based dancer and choreographer who began her training at the Pinellas County School for the Arts at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. She continued on as a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School NYC. Since then, she has performed professionally with Jerome Bel, Rena Butler, Brianna Mercado, Lane CoArts, iKADA Contemporary Dance Company, and more. She also has a bachelors degree in psychology.