Artists

Veronica Cheeseboro

Home City: Roosevelt, Long Island
Current Borough: Harlem/ Bronx
How long have you been dancing? 21 years
What inspires you to move? Dance is an antidepressant. It gives me a voice, a means to create multiple solutions, and is the most freeing experience as a human.
Inspiring word, phrase, or quote: “As an artist’s duty, as far as I am concerned is to reflect the times.” Nina Simone

Shoshana Mozlin

Home City: Encinitas, California
Current Borough: Manhattan
How long have you been dancing? Since I was 4
What inspires you to move? Movement can convey the most stunning, the most raw, the most significant realities of life through a universal language. I am constantly energized and inspired by dance's ability to heighten human connection.
Favorite way to listen to music: live, in a tiny underground venue

Sharayah Spruill

Home City: BayShore
Current Borough: Suffolk County
How long have you been dancing? 25 years (since age 2)
What inspires you to move? My emotions based on my situation or where I am, as well as the beauty I see in something or someone and the story I want to tell.
Favorite music: Smooth Jazz because it soothes my anxiety

Courtney Stewart

Home City: Queens, NY
Current Borough: Queens
How long have you been dancing? Since 6 years old
What inspires you to move? It’s all about the melody and bass for me. It doesn’t take much time for me to be wrapped into a song and get moving.
Favorite food: Crab cakes & Chips. Together or Apart

Matthew Ting

Home City: Born Philadelphia PA, grew up El Paso TX
Current Borough: Manhattan
How long have you been dancing? 18 years
What inspires you to move? Sheer joy in the movement, the constant search for bettering myself, & the impending sense of my mortality.
Inspiring word, phrase, or quote: “There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Imani Michael Vieria

Home City: Boston, MA
Current Borough: Manhattan
How long have you been dancing? Since I was 12
What inspires you to move? Music! And the connection I feel to GOD and the universe when I dance. My curiosity to discover my body's capabilities and limitations through movement.
Favorite time of the year: FALL!