Kashia Kancey

Kashia Kancey, photo by Tina Perez

Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born, Brooklyn-based 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, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, and CreateART Performance. Kancey has performed in spaces such as Perez Art Museum Miami, South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, Dance Place in Washington, DC, the American Dance Festival, The Yard, and New York Live Arts. She has danced with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility. She was most recently an apprentice with Urban Bush Women and is a company member with David Dorfman Dance. She is also a 2023 Gallim Moving Artist in Residence.

Instagram: @kashiakancey

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