2022 Momentum Choreographic Showcase
Featuring works by Ambar Cesari, Khasilan, Kinsey Vaughen
Propelling Dance Artists Forward
Momentum: Choreographic Mentorship is a five-month program that culminates in the showcase for emerging artists, both from within and outside of academia, to create artistic works in the Tampa Bay Area. This mentorship offers budding artists the opportunity to receive creative, financial, and administrative support toward a fully produced weekend of performances at The Studio@620.
Private Property
Choreographer and Dancer: Kinsey Vaughen
Music: “Private Property” by Kinsey Vaughen
An amazing thing about life is that everyone has different perspectives, outlooks, and opinions. But when taken in a negative direction, sometimes these end up being controlling of who I am or who you are as a person. It is crucial to be able to relinquish the control that I wish the outside world (and even myself at times) would let go of on me, and to just be free.
Dancing with the Dao
Choreographer and Dancer: Khasilan Riley
Music: “Kingdom, Aots2m #3, You see big girl, Attack on D Hiroyuki Sawano” “Time flies Luv.Ly” “Fódlan Winds ROZEN”
Product of opposites no matter the form
Time is my Impression
Choreographer: Ambar Cesari
Dancers: Kayla Castellon, Ryan Kenson, Lysbeth Hernandez, Jesibell Davila, Camila Camacho
Music: “In the Mirror” and “Truth of Touch” by Yanni
The idea was created from the term sugar and salt. You may not be able to tell the difference between the two unless you taste them. Correlation to people, someone can represent one of the words until you get a taste of their character, in which showing their true selves throughout time. I never understood first impressions, even in the professional world, and their accuracy. How can you trust one’s persona just by the first time you encounter them? “Time Is My Impression” is the story in which I encountered two sugars who throughout time evolved into salts. Never knowing the purpose of change, I now know to judge their self in time rather than the first look. Join me in my story of how time impacts one’s impression. Think of the question: are you sugar or salt?
2022 Momentum Artists
Kinsey Vaughen
Kinsey Vaughen is a current senior at Florida Southern College with a major in dance performance and choreography and a minor in exercise science. She is graduating in December of 2022 and plans to continue her passion of dance and choreography after school. Kinsey is from Spring Hill, Tennessee and grew up dancing from the age of three years old. Her favorite styles include contemporary, jazz funk, tap, hip hop, musical theater, and heels. She has performed for multiple Florida Southern Dance shows, assisted So You Think You Can Dance Dancers at the convention Excel in Motion, and has choreographed school musicals and operas. Most recently, one of her own works was chosen to be showcased at the American College Dance Association at Florida State University. Kinsey has always loved performing, but she has found a recent spark with choreography, and she is so excited to explore more of it through Momentum.
Khasilan
Tampa Bay Area-based director and dance artist, Si Renaissance (Sai) has been evolving his craft continuously for the past 12 years. Originally a solo improvisational dancer, he extended his reach branch by branch to incorporate various styles, mediums, and inspiration into his realm as an artist. He combines multiple dance styles with storytelling via screenwriting, acting, sound design, and effects to bring his inner world outwards. His themes intuitively explore the duality and dichotomy of the boundless human experience.
Ambar Cesari
Ambar Cesari is currently a Senior student and will be graduating from Osceola County School for the Arts (OCSA) in spring of 2022. She has been dancing since the age of 5 and has studied in ballet, modern, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical and musical theater. She was introduced to the art of choreography at the age of 14 and has gotten lots of recognition from her pieces and projects. The art of dance became her passion and decided to go to high school and learn more about it, starting her high school experience in dance major in 2018. She has trained in ballet, contemporary and modern dance for the last 4 years, and while at school, she has been introduced more into the choreography world. Ambar created her first project as freshman, in high school, and ever since, every year she has been involved in projects collaborating and choreographing for musical shows, teachers, other students and for her own performances. Also gaining other people’s trust with her work, she has been involved in choreographing for main stage performances for non dance majors. Ambar was a student choreographer for her school's entry for the Florida Dance Performance Assessment (FDPA) and the performance has won a superior ranking.
Support Local Dance Artists
rojectALCHEMY's Momentum Choreographic Mentorship is all about propelling dance artists forward. Since 2019, we have had 10 dance artists pass through our five month mentorship program with Artistic Director Alexander Jones, where they have presented work shown first at The Studio@620 and then beyond. Artists participating in this mentorship receive sponsored studio time to create their work, professional headshots to give them a jumpstart to their future endeavor, and one-on-one time with our Artistic Director to bounce off creative ideas and receive choreographic coaching. Additionally they receive $200 stipend to use towards their artistic endeavors--all of this at no cost to the dance artists. Make a generous donation today and help propel a future dance artist forward on their artist journey.
projectALCHEMY presents MIXed
A House Party meets Dance Concert
Featuring works by
Emily Curry
Heidi Brewer
Evan Smith
Kirsten Standridge
and more
November 4th and 5th @7p
The Studio@620
Special Thanks to
The Studio@620, Danielle Garcia, Heather Goldman, Amanda Thompson Jacquez, Leigh Davis, Carla Bristol, Helen French, Erica Sutherlin, Brian Melton Lisa Walker, Susannah LeMarquand, Marni Vaughen, Eric Vaughen, Nicole Vaughen, Parker Vaughen, Alex Harris, Hiroyuki Sawano, Quentin Riley, April Harley, Chris Nguyen, The Cesari-Taylor Family, Kayla Castellon, Ryan Kenson, Camila Camacho, Jesibell Davila, Lysbeth Hernandez, Nealya Brunson, and all other family, friends and future friends that attended the showcase.