Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Some of her choreographic history includes having work presented in The Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center through commissions by Peter London Global Dance Company. She has also had work presented throughout NYC at CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia has performed in spaces like Perez Art Museum Miami, South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. Kashia has had the pleasure of working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. She has also worked with artists like Marcella Lewis, Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie-B Parson. Kashia was most recently an apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Kashia has been grateful to have been a recipient of residencies like GALLIM Moving Artist (2023), Triskelion Arts Split Bill 42 (2024), and Baryshnikov Arts Center (2024). She is currently the 2025 Triskelion Arts Fellow and is a 2025 Fresh Tracks Residency Artist with New York Live Arts.
Photo by Maria J. Hackett.