Moving Memory: NEXT GEN
A festival devoted to memory and forgetting
continues to nurture emerging artistic voices, foster meaningful creative connections, and create space for the next generation of artists in our community.
This edition invites you to an evening of dance curated by panelists Rebeccah Bogue (dancer, choreographer, and writer), Risa Kantor (SND board director), and Idea Reid (2025 Next Gen artist), featuring original movement-based works that explore themes of memory, erasure, and forgetting.
Fri-Sat, April 24-25, 2026
7:30 pm
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 W 114th St, New York, NY 10025
Selected Artists:
Tricia Dietrick*, Zev Haworth,
Miguel Miranda, Chelsea Thedinga,
Tethered Residents (Taylor Graham & Jerimy Rivera),
Omnivore Dance (Maggie Xiao Liang and Yinqi Wang)
* SND commission
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PROGRAM
You See Ghosts
Choreography by Zev Haworth
Performed by Steven Camacho and Meena Nehme
Music by Friedrich Abel, Anja Lechner, Nils Frahm
You See Ghosts follows two people as they pass from the physical realm to a place beyond, tracing a relationship shaped by an undercurrent of darkness. The work investigates how memory is refracted through grief and loss. Drawing inspiration from the narrative of the classical ballet Giselle, the piece reveals a world that becomes increasingly intangible yet increasingly potent with truth.
Before the Body Knows
Choreography by Tricia Dietrick
Performed by Dawvyn Winters and Tricia Dietrick
Original Score by Jonah Kreitner
A duet that explores internal forces that invite the body to move. What lies beneath the surface of the body, and where does action originate before movement becomes choreography?
This SND commission is based on a movement score drawing from themes and ideas from past repertory, inviting the performers to move through shifting states of identity, relationship, rhythm, and spatial tension, where transformation and relational presence are central.
Se Va
Choreographed by Miguel Miranda
Performed by Ashley Bromfield, Mizuho Kappa, Danielle Gutt, and Mikaela Morisato
Music: Stereogamous and Nick Wales: Learning Year, and Carminho: Lágrimas do Céu
Se Va explores the tension between holding on and moving forward. Set in a dreamlike liminal space where time feels suspended, the performers navigate the lingering presence of what has already left. A single chair anchors the landscape, a silent witness to what remains and what cannot return.
Here.Now.Close
Choreographed by Chelsea Thedinga
Performed by Meenah Nehme, Bryanna Strickland, Bella Donatelli, Carsyn Gekas, Alex Haad, Sam Assemany, Maya Lam
Music: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Roberta Flack, Arching Path II. Sul Basento
Focused on themes of grief, memory, community, and transformation in the aftermath of loss, Here. Now. Close is an embodied meditation on how presence, rather than closure, fosters connection in the face of profound absence.
HOLDFAST (April 24 only)
Choreographed by Tethered Residents (Jerimy Rivera and Taylor Graham) in collaboration with dancers Dareon Blowe and Carlos Franquiz
Performed by Jerimy Rivera and Quaba Ernest
This excerpt from the evening-length work IMAGES explores how memory lives in the body. Two men move through mirroring, resistance, and shifting weight, where gesture becomes archive and movement becomes memory before patterns begin to fracture. Memory emerges not as nostalgia, but as a nervous system response, as two bodies strive to maintain connection while the ground beneath them shifts.
Amor Fati (April 25 only)
Choreographed and performed by Omnivore Dance (Maggie Xiao Liang and Yinqi Wang)
Music: Singanushiga by Joe Hisaishi
Amor Fati moves through loss, departure, reunion, and love, blending tenderness and violence into a visceral journey of resilience and acceptance.
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Launched in 2019, the Moving Memory Project reflects its founder’s vision of uniting artists, caregivers, and seniors to build a community of care around issues of memory loss. At its core, the project seeks to raise awareness and advocate for increased funding toward research to find a cure. This year’s works were selected by a panel of experts, including Rebeccah Bogue (dancer, choreographer, and writer), Risa Kantor (longtime SND board director), and Idea Reid (2025 Next Gen artist). Before the Body Knows by Tricia Dietrick is SND’s first commission.
“Marking 25 years of SND, this edition of the Moving Memory Project looks both backward and forward. Since its inception, the project has brought together emerging voices alongside established, award-winning choreographers and performers such as Kayla Farrish, Rebecca Margolick, and Marjani Sanders, whose work has pushed the conversation around memory into deeply embodied, urgent territory. Next Gen continues that trajectory with a new cohort of artists, shifting the focus without losing the thread. The question remains the same: how does memory live in the body, and how can performance make that visible, shared, and felt?”
-Stefanie Nelson, AD
The Moving Memory Project is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the West Harlem Development Corporation.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tricia Dietrick (Choreographer/Performer, Before the Body Knows) is a New York City-based choreographer and performer. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is a Dance Italia alumna. She was selected as a Moving Memory: Next Generation artist in 2024 and received continued support from the initiative. Dietrick has trained with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Dance Italia, and has performed works by Loni Landon, Victor Quijada, and Doug Varone. Her choreography has been presented in Boston and New York City, including Forward (Boston Conservatory, 2024) and Moving Memory: Next Generation in NYC. Her collaborative work includes projects with SND in London and NYC (DEA X DEA w/ Maya Orchin) and a restaging of With Our Shadows for the White Wave International Dance Festival. In 2025, she served as resident choreographer with KTCO The Company, premiering new work in NYC, and assisted Kenichi Katsamatsu at Point Park University. She is a guest artist at Dance Italia in Lucca, summer 2026. Within her artistic practice, Dietrick is committed to challenging form, provoking thought, and expanding the expressive potential of the body, while maintaining a deep sense of joy and celebration at the core of her work.
Dawvyn Winters (Performer, Before the Body Knows) began dancing at age 11 in Tucson, Arizona. Her formal training includes programs with esteemed institutions such as Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Houston Ballet. In 2024, she graduated summa cum laude from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, earning a BFA in Contemporary Dance with a focus in composition. During her time there, she performed works by renowned choreographers including Murray Louis, José Limón, Thang Dao, and Aszure Barton. Alongside performing, Dawvyn pursued her passion for choreography, creating original works and dance films throughout her studies. She also apprenticed with Jacob Jonas The Company in Los Angeles during their 2022–2023 season.
Jonah Kreitner (Composer, Before the Body Knows) is a Manhattan-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator. He holds an economics degree from Tufts University and a jazz performance degree from New England Conservatory, and performs widely on violin and piano/keyboard throughout New York City. At age 15, he recorded an album with jazz luminaries including Ira Coleman, Tony Purrone, and Lenny White. Jonah is a current member of the indie-rock band Good News!, performing on violin, keyboards, and backing vocals, and is a frequent collaborator with Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup.
Zev Haworth (Choreographer, You See Ghosts) originally from Pittsburgh, PA, trained in contemporary ballet under Maria Caruso. He earned his BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently a freelance artist based in Brooklyn. He has performed with companies including Tabula Rasa Dance Theater, Nimbus Dance Works, and The Kennedy Dancer, and has appeared Off-Broadway as well as in Performa’s 2025 Biennial with Lina Lapelytė. Additional performance credits include the WADE Pride residency under Rylan Joenk and Re/venue NYC with various choreographers. Zev has presented work at Battery Dance Festival, Silo Dance Festival, Arts on Site, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Triskelion Arts, and most recently Amanda Selwyn’s Footprints of Dance Festival. In addition to his performance work, he choreographs for film and maintains an interdisciplinary practice as a visual artist and poet. He is an alumnus of Springboard Danse, where he worked with Alexander Anderson and Bryan Arias.
Steven Camacho (Performer, You See Ghosts) is a freelance movement artist based in Brooklyn. He received his BFA in Dance from Montclair State University in 2024. Over the years, he has worked with and/or performed works by Maxine Doyle, Roderick George, Medhi Walerski, Slow Danger, Omar Roman De Jesus, Doug Varone, and more. He joined Pony Box Dance Theater for their 2025 season, where he performed work by Jaime Carabetta. Steven will be joining VERVE (Leeds, United Kingdom) for their 26/27 Season.
Meenah Nehme (Performer, You See Ghosts and Here.Now.Close) integrates movement, performance, and experience. A graduate of NYU's Tisch, Meenah performed Andrea Miller's SAMA (Radio City Music Hall) and Mikee Ellis' A Moment Between Breaths (The Skirball Cultural Center). Recently she was seen in Marla Phelan’s BIRTH + CARNAGE at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre and in Rylan Joenk’s WADE-Pride Residency. Awarded the Collaborative Impact Grant for <dance prompts> Al Choreographer with cari ann shim sham, Demetris Charalambous, and Karsen Tengan. Previously in Los Angeles in Matt Luck's x2 and Chelsea Thedinga's Swan Song.
Chelsea Thedinga (Choreographer, Here.Now.Close) is a New York City–based choreographer, educator, and performer whose work spans film, concert dance, and commercial projects. Her credits include feature films La La Land, In the Heights, IF, and Vox Lux, as well as music videos for Sara Bareilles and Carrie Underwood. She toured nationally for six seasons with Shaping Sound Dance Company under Travis Wall and has performed with companies led by Peter Chu, Sonya Tayeh, Stacey Tookey, and Jenn Freeman, with work presented at Jacob’s Pillow, New York Live Arts, Cape Dance Festival, 14th Street Y, and Hudson Valley Dance Festival. Her choreography has been presented in New York through Greenspace’s Take Root, Interim Dance, and the Joffrey School, with additional commissions for SALT2, Novea Linea Dance Company, and graduating dancers at Juilliard, NYU, USC, Purchase, and Pace University. She has served as associate choreographer to Sonya Tayeh for Malpaso Dance Company at The Joyce Theater and to Will Loftis for Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?” and the television series The Girl from Plainville. A faculty member with Adrenaline Convention and nominee for Industry Dance Awards’ “Convention Teacher of the Year,” she currently teaches at Mark Morris Dance Center and Steps on Broadway.
Sam Assemany (Performer, Here.Now.Close) studied her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at Western Michigan University. In 2015 she moved to New York City, NY as a freelance artist. Since residing in NY, she’s had the opportunity to work for various artists including NOW Dance Project, Shawn Bible Dance Co., Christopher Ralph, Alma Collective, Michelle Ulerich, Jaclyn Walsh, and Hannah Weinmaster. Sam is currently dancing for BARE Dance Company and Chelsea Thedinga, and has performed in several New York based shows including Bryant Park Presents: Contemporary Dance, hosted by ITE Dance, and the Mr. Abbott Awards. Most recently, Sam had the privilege of performing at the Neues Globe Theater in Schwäbisch Hall Germany under the direction of Alice Klock and Florian Lochner of Flockworks Dance.
Bella Donatelli (Performer, Here.Now.Close) is originally from Colorado. She earned her BA in Dance and Classics from Connecticut College, where she fostered her interest in movement as a facilitator of interdisciplinary study, storytelling, and community building. She furthered her artistry through programs such as SpringBoard Danse Pittsburgh, London Contemporary Dance School, Orsolina, B12, and more. Throughout her training, she performed in repertory by choreographers Sharon Eyal, Ronald K. Brown, Crystal Pite, Bebe Miller, and David Dorfman. Bella is currently performing with White Wave Dance Company and Arch Danse Ensemble, and is an apprentice for Tethered Residents Theater.
Carsyn Gekas (Performer, Here.Now.Close) is a freelance dancer/creator currently based in New York. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College SUNY, with a concentration in Composition. Carsyn received her early training at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Dance Industry Performing Arts Center (Dallas, TX). She has performed works by Crystal Pite, Troy Schumacher, Micaela Taylor, Peter Chu, Kyle Abraham, Martha Graham, and Mark Caserta, among others. Her choreography has been presented at Battery Dance Festival’s Young Voices in Dance and the 2020 Mobile Dance Film Festival.
Alexandra Haag (Performer, Here.Now.Close) is a Brooklyn-based dance artist originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance in May of 2024 and also had the opportunity to study abroad at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts).Upon graduation, she was awarded 2024 Outstanding Senior. As an artist and human alike, she is most fulfilled by the relationships developed between people within a creative process and strives to cultivate work built around this care as a means to build community through dance. Most recently, she was a dancer/performer for “Duel” performed at Kaatsbaan under artist-in-residency, Elinor Kleber-Diggs.
Maya Lam (Performer, Here.Now.Close) is a New York–based Asian American dancer and interdisciplinary artist. She graduated summa cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance, a BA in Business, and a minor in Biology. Maya has worked with Sidra Bell, Jessica Lang, Jenn Freeman, and Yin Yue, and currently performs with Ballet Nepantla, J CHEN Project, Synchronous, and Aslin Projects. She has danced with Nimbus Dance Works and Periapsis Music and Dance, received a City Artist Corps Grant, was commissioned by The Kennedy Center, and served as a Resident Artist with Moulin/Belle in France.
Bryanna Strickland (Performer, Here.Now.Close) originally from Haledon, New Jersey, is a malleable mover and performer. She studied at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Since then, she has worked with choreographers such as Jermaine Spivey, Chantelle Good, Carlos Franquiz, Chelsea Thedinga and more. To further her training, Bryanna also attended Springboard Danse Montreal where she performed repertoire by Maxine Doyle, where she found a deep love and interest in physical theater. She also immerses herself in house and hip-hop forms to gain a deeper understanding of her roots and culture.
Omnivore Dance (Choreographers and performers, Amor Fati) began as a collaborative creation by Maggie Xiao Liang and Yinqi Wang, two Chinese-born choreographers and dancers based in Columbus, Ohio, who draw on diverse artistic influences, creating performances as acts of metabolism that transform myth, thought, and labor into movement research. Omnivore Dance’s works have been presented at dance festivals across the United States and China, including 92NY Future Dance Festival, Dumbo Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, OhioDance Festival, and Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in China.
Tethered Residents is a New York City–based dance collective co-directed by Jerimy Rivera and Taylor Graham (Choreographers, HOLDFAST; Rivera also performs in the work). Their work interrogates the fragile architecture of human connection—where intimacy collides with conflict, perception fractures reality, and care emerges through rupture. Rooted in a hybrid movement language that fuses contemporary movement and partnering, breaking-influenced floorwork, and contact improvisational forms, they create physically rigorous, emotionally charged performances that unfold as living systems between bodies. Their process draws on personal histories, improvisation, and psychosomatic research, building worlds that feel both cinematic and immediate. Their evening-length work Images, supported by the MAP Fund (2024), investigates the instability of relationships within a shared domestic space and premiered in February 2026. As Artistic Co-Directors, Rivera and Graham prioritize equitable, collaborative structures that foster artist development and expand access to their work. Through community engagement and performance, Tethered Residents maps the fault lines between us—dancing through collapse, confrontation, and the stubborn hope to belong.
Quaba Ernest (Performer, HOLDFAST) is a St. Lucian-American dancer, choreographer, musician, filmmaker, and teacher, originally from Brooklyn, New York. He began his training at Dance Theatre of Harlem under the direction of Arthur Mitchell and later Robert Garland. He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia Arts High School before attending the Purchase Conservatory of Dance, where he was selected as a recipient of an Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts for Choreography/Dance. Quaba began his career at Ballet BC in 2019 and later began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2021. Ernest is a performer, teacher, and collaborator with the Dual Rivet, a dance company co-founded by fellow Purchase alumnae Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth. He has danced in works by Kimberly Bartosik, George Balanchine, Ronald K. Brown, Sidra Bell, Ohad Naharin, Jerome Robbins, Ted Shawn, and many more.
Miguel Miranda (Choreographer, Se Va) is a Peruvian multidisciplinary dancer and choreographer based in New York City. He has performed in acclaimed productions, including Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC, Life and Trust, as well as with Company SBB. His choreographic work has been presented at 92nd Street Y, New York City Center, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the American College Dance Association, and other venues across the U.S.Recent commissions include McKoy Dance Project and the José Limón Dance Company’s Limón2. He will premiere two new works with Alessandra Corona Performing Works and Tabula Rasa Dance Theater later in the summer of 2026.
Ashley Bromfield (Performer, Se Va) is a Kingston, Jamaica–born dancer, choreographer, and creative director. She is a company member of Urban Bush Women, a Martha Graham Dance Apprentice Fellow, and a former soloist with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. She has performed works by Hope Boykin, Juliano Nunes, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Derick McKoy, and Rex Nettleford, and has appeared in commercial projects including a pilot dance series for Disney/National Geographic and music videos for Sean Paul. Bromfield holds a BBA in International Business from Florida International University, graduating magna cum laude. Her interdisciplinary practice spans choreography, poetry, and community programming. She is the creator of “Ballet Dancehall,” an experimental fusion of dancehall and classical ballet that reflects her cultural heritage, technical training, and hybrid artistic approach.
Danielle Gutt (Performer, Se Va) is a New York City–based dance artist. She trained at Dance Expression Dance Arts and earned a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Montclair State University, where she performed works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Miguel Miranda, Paul Taylor, Urban Bush Women, Christian von Howard, Gregory Dolbashian, and Jessica Dimauro Marks. As a freelance performer, she has presented work at the Moving Forward Emerging Artist Festival, Hoboken Dance Festival, WestFest, and the 92Y Future Dance Festival, and performed in an evening-length production with KTCO The Company at Arts On Site NYC. In 2025, she toured to Alberta, Canada with KTCO The Company in collaboration with Good Women Dance Collective. She is currently a guest artist with Graham 2.
Mizuho Kappa (Performer, Se Va) is a choreographer and performer from Osaka, Japan, currently based in New York City. She holds a degree in entomology and works across dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance. As a performer, she has collaborated with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Zvi Dance, and Ballet Collective, among others. Her choreographic work has been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Ars Nova, TheaterLab, The Brick, and NOoSPHERE Arts, and in cross-disciplinary contexts at venues including the New Museum and New York Hall of Science. Kappa is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company’s 2025 season and a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency. She was a resident artist at Experimental Film Virginia, where she performed lead roles in award-winning films presented at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival. Her work is noted for its surreal imagery and physically driven narrative form.
Mikaela Morisato (Performer, Se Va) is a New York City–based multidisciplinary artist and founder of the dance collective MORISATO. Their practice spans performance, movement direction, digital media, and film. As a performer, they have worked with artists affiliated with the Batsheva Dance Company, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Tanztheater Wuppertal (Pina Bausch), Barak Marshall Dance Theatre, and Cullberg. Their work explores the intersection of physical language and visual storytelling across live and screen-based formats.
