DOUBLES #5

THURSDAY, JULY 23RD @ 7:30 PM

FRIDAY, JULY 24TH @ 7:30 PM

bullshit, ballet

syd thiebaut

performers: Celine Bassman, Louise Coleman, A.J. David, Taylor Jones, Syd Thiebaut, Abbey Winiger 

this is a ballet but it is bullshit. it’s sort of like a regular ballet but it is not. it’s bullshit. 

it’s about this colonial thing being part of me. it’s about loving this thing that doesn’t love me. it’s about embracing this thing i tried to suppress. it’s about all these things we are forced to do and resenting those things and finding yourself wanting those things when no one is around to force you to do them. 

Syd Thiebaut is a dance artist from Cadillac, Michigan. They graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 2021. In 2024, they relocated to New York, where they currently work as a freelance dancer and choreographer. Since moving to New York they have performed in works by Celine Bassman and Amina Kolenc. They have also presented work at Arts on Site, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and Triskelion Arts. Syd has previously presented two works in Green Lung’s 4:15 series. 

Taylor Jones is a performer based in the NJ/NYC area. A graduate of the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program, Taylor has grounded her artistic roots within the Horton technique and has had the opportunity to perform the works of Ron K. Brown, Hope Boykin, and Takehiro Ueyama. She is dedicated exploring the potential of the “mind’s eye,” and the role that it plays in movement.

Addison James (A.J.) David is a dancer, collaborator, and choreographer. He currently dances with Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo, performing en pointe in comedic twists of classical and contemporary ballet around the world. A.J. holds a BFA from the George Mason School of Dance in Fairfax, VIrginia. While in school he had the joy of dancing in works by Christina Robson, Doug Varone, Robert Battle, Susan Shields, Robyn Mineko Williams, and Christopher d’Amboise. Additionally, he has created several works on the Mason Dance Company and collaborated with his artistic collaborator Sky Vitetta to create interdisciplinary works.

Celine Bassman is a Queens native, dancer, and multidisciplinary choreographer. Fundamental to Celine's work is an understanding that everyday life is a site for play and choreographic inquiry. Her work engages with spatial patterns, repetition, and pedestrian choreographed phrase work to attend to how the dancing body can explore questions of gender, performance, and agency. Celine has worked as an assistant choreographer for Douglas Elkins. She has shown work at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (WIP), Green Lung Studio (4:15), Arts on Site, Green Space (Fertile Ground), and at Neville Dance Theater’s “On Pointe” Dance Festival. She has upcoming shows at SUPR OMEN (Pitch Series) and Green Lung (Doubles). Celine earned her BA in dance and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies from Wesleyan University.

Louise Coleman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer. Founder of LoCo Dance Company (2026), Louise’s work questions the relationship between mundane gestures and human desires, internal improvisational research and performance, and task-driven play and character building. Her work has been performed at Arts on Site, Green Space, The Craft, and Jack Crystal Theater. She also has presented work in the Pohler Dance Festival and Spark Theatre Festival (2026). She had the pleasure to be the 2025 fall artist in residence with the “Study Series”. During this residency she gained the confidence to found dance company, LoCo Dance Company. With the support of the B. Wilson Foundation Grant, she premiered her first sold out evening length work, WAKE UP, in May 2026.  Louise received her high school education from Interlochen Arts Academy and received her BFA in Dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2025). 
In school she had the pleasure of performing works by Annie Rigney, Sean Curran, and BeBe Miller as well as having her professional debut at LaMama, performing "Distances" by Ashley Chen. Since graduating Louise has performed works by Alexis Vinsons, Smith and Co, City Dance, Salvatore LaRussa (NYLA), Celeste Goldes, and Marissa Chen. She looks forward to continuing her journey as a dancer and choreographer in the city

Abbey Winiger is a New York-based dance artist originally from Dallas, Texas. She currently works as an arts administrator in the development field for American Ballet Theatre. Abbey holds a BFA from the George Mason School of Dance in Fairfax, Virginia. She has had the pleasure of performing various works and collaborations in these spaces, with a focus on movement generated in joy and trust.

Original score by Sarah Linsly and Asa Schiller 

Set design by Lena Weiman 

Lights and Sound by Jesse Zhang 

to open and then to close again

sara thoreson

performers: Sonya Speizer, Storm Stokes, Rylan Joenk, Alexis Von Maluski

a contemporary work centering renewal and return. this iteration combines home video and movement, exploring cyclical natures in ecosystems around us and within us. investigating through endings how we find many beginnings, of one essence, the work invites the audience to discover what it feels like to reconnect to the self, to home, to earth, and to each other, as we continually begin again. 

Sara Thoreson

Sara is a dancer and artist with North Idaho roots. She also lived in San Antonio, Texas before coming to NYC for the Fordham/Ailey BFA program. She’s trained in ballet, contemporary, modern, partnering, and holds her BFA in Dance & Sociology. At Ailey, she performed works by Alexander Anderson, Maleek Washington, Rebecca Margolick, and Georgia Usborne. Since graduating, she has worked with companies like Tabula Rasa Dance Theater, Dishman & Co Choreography, Zehnder Dance, and as a freelancer; performing around NYC and New England. She has deepened her practice through work-study opportunities at Gallim and B12, collaborating with artists like Raja Feather Kelly, Scott Jennings, Marion Sparber, Kayla Farrish, and more. As a creator she has been presented by Unbound Dance Collective, Creaturespace Commonspace alongside STORMWRKS, and Green Lung amongst other opportunities. At the core of her work is a commitment to the evolving nature of creative practice, finding entry points to collapse the spiritual, social, and political selves. Her movement resides at the intersection of contemporary dance, visceral improvisation, and narrative storytelling. Using these tools she strives to connect deeply with our human nature. 

Dancers

Sonya dances to listen, connect, and tell stories. She is from Chicago, where she began her training in ballet at Ruth Page. She then received a degree in Dance and Anthropology from Fordham University and The Ailey School in New York City. While in New York, she danced in original works by artists including Annie Rigney, Ingrid Kapetyn, and Alexander Anderson and performed in Bad Binch TongTong’s New York Fashion Week show with Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup. She continued her practice at Nuova Oficina della Danza in Italy, under the direction of Tom Weinberger. There, she had the opportunity to collaborate with international artists including Ella Rothschild and Paxton Ricketts, and later went on to work closely with Ella Rothschild on her latest creation for Festpielhuas Baden-Baden and Kammerballeten. At the core of Sonya’s practice is an open heart and a deep connection to her inner stillness. 

storm stokes (she/they) is a contemporary improviser, choreographer, and performer from Northwest Detroit. she earned her B.A. in African American Studies & Dance from Princeton University, and has since performed with Davalois Fearon Dance, Dancers Unlimited, Camryn Stafford/ Turning Tables, stormwrks; been presented by Andy Arts Detroit, LEIMAY, Stephen Friedman Gallery, SidewalkFest, RADFest; interned with the Movement Research Performance Journal; and worked administratively with Peridance Center, Gina Gibney Dance Center, and various fitness studios between NYC & MI

Rylan began dancing at the Joffrey Ballet Chicago before attending high school at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. As a student at NYU Tisch School Of The Arts, Rylan performed work by Dana Ruttenberg, José Límon, and several peers, valuing most the collaborative process and experimental nature of being a part of new work. Since receiving their BFA in dance, Rylan has presented work dedicated to dissecting and questioning the expectations of contemporary dance performance through displays of impenitent queerness and expansive physical experiments grounded in narrative metaphor and critical research. Not interested in regurgitating the work of predecessors,  Rylan invests in building something irreverent and vulnerable, not by simply inheriting nor ignoring dance traditions, but reshaping them to hold what they have historically excluded. Existing at the intersection of absurdity and sincerity, she uses the body as a site of both rebellion and truth by reclaiming instinct.

Alexis Von Maluski (she/her) is a Filipino-American dance artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and Rhode Island. Her earliest introduction to movement was learning traditional Filipino dance, which sparked her passion for celebrating cultural identity through embodied performance and artistic collaboration. Alexis is a recipient of the Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship, a scholarship supporting diverse artists from underrepresented communities. She has performed works by a diverse range of choreographers, including David Dorfman, Adrienne Hawkins, Jessica T. Pearson, Kat Pantos, Shani Collins-Achillle. Her performance credits also include appearances in Marta Renzi’s short films, Tumult 2019, Through Mabel's Eyes 2020, and A Day’s Work 2023. In 2024, she performed The Encounter, an intergenerational physical-theatre project choreographed by Kimberkly Bartosik. Most recently, Alexis performed with Zehnder Dance at Jacob’s Pillow. She is currently a company member of Samaw Dance Company, an all-Asian American dance company, while also maintaining an active freelance performance career throughout NYC.

Set Designer: Cam My Nguyen 

Cam My is an architectural designer and the founder of SLAM (Social Lubricant Architecture Media). Her experiential design practice works through scenography, art, and events.a 

Lighting Designer: Talia Shoshani

Talia Shoshani was born and raised in New York, training primarily with Hudson Youth Ballet before attending Skidmore College. There, she studied various forms of dance, psychology, and the intersections of the two disciplines, graduating Summa Cum Laude with honors in both psychology and dance. While attending Skidmore, Talia worked with resident faculty and choreographers, with BalletX, and danced as a trainee with Hudson Ballet Theatre. Her love of dance also inspired extensive exploration of lighting design, dance production, and psychological research into the cognitive benefits unlocked by dance. Talia now performs with Hudson Ballet Theatre, Smith & Co., and Galen Mae Productions as well as on a freelance basis.

Film Credits

Shot, edited, and “directed” by Sara Thoreson
Features: Sara’s entire family, Jean Davis, Barb, Nate, Luke, Sierra, Gabrielle, Eden, and Amira Thoreson with a special shoutout to Kiana Thoreson (dancer) 

Music

Waves I Remember by Piotr Wiese

Ashes by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka

Soleil by Adrien Anviér

Round Glass and Concrete Prism by r beny 

The Romantic Image of Ruins by r beny

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