Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. As a performer, Kashia has had the pleasure of working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, and Urban Bush Women. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie-B Parson, Symara Sarai, and Cristina Moya-Palacios. Her choreographic history begins in Miami by making work on herself and the Peter London Global Dance Company.
Since moving to NYC, she has had work presented in spaces like CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia is grateful to have been a recipient of residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center(2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY.
My current artistic practice is rooted in honing in on my voice as a dance-theater artist. I am curious about my work in its most expansive form, thinking about the many ways I can exist as an artist and continue to grow inside of my own work and process. I am always trying to listen to what I need and what the work is calling for. I find influence by many forms of art through musicians, visual art, film, writers, live performance, nature, and society. The fusion of these influences informs my creative process greatly, allowing me to bring to life the intricate stories within myself and those in the room with me. Through gut-feelings and immense will is where I find my motivation to create. I am driven to make work that embraces curiosity, fantasy, vulnerability, and imperfection. My artistic process is rooted in making out of necessity and passion. In my process, I try to maintain a space for myself that allows me to dream without any limits. I like art that makes space for myself and my collaborators to be wild, explosive, and quiet. I adore deep exploration, where the answers are not always found right away, or at all.
Top photo by Maria J. Hackett. Bottom photos by Laura Carella.