The Company

Mikalla Ashmore

Mikalla Ashmore is a New York-based dancer from South Florida. She began dancing at age 10, attended Bak MSOA, and graduated with honors from Dreyfoos School of the Arts in 2018. She attended Alonzo King Lines Workshop, The Ailey School Summer Intensive, and Ballet Hispanico ChoreoLab and graduated from the Ailey School Certificate Program in 2021. Performance credits include Redha Medjellekh’s dance film about Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” for International Women’s Day, a dance scene in the Netflix’s series “Hit and Run, and the 2020 Holland Dance Festival. She also is working on her B.S. in Health Education and Promotion at the University of Florida.

Zoé Badovinac

Zoé Badovinac is a British actor. Trap Ist is her first professional stage role, having come via voice-acting and narration in audio-drama and audiobook productions.

She is known as the voice of Jasnah Kholin in the ongoing GraphicAudio dramatizations of Brandon Sanderson’s “The Stormlight Archive.”  Zoé has the neuro-muscular mobility condition, Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), and her involvement in this production is a unique creative and artistic collaboration, with director Felice Lesser skillfully integrating her characteristic modes of movement into an authentic portrait of an aging and increasingly physically frail choreographer.

Rocka JAmez

Rocka Jamez was born & raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and specializes in free form contemporary infused with the studies of KRUMP. Playing a large role as a street dance community leader, he created a dance platform that unites all dance cultures, called "Roundz Of Flame." Participating in multiple NYFW events he achieved dance awards, features in The New York Times, VOGUE and sponsorship by PUMA, and was recently honored to perform a dance piece for "Rihanna" at Parsons School Of Design | The New School Awards. Rocka has taught dance to youth abroad in Bali, Indonesia, Africa, Sweden & Berlin. His dream is to open schools that specializes in all the different street dance styles, fundamentals, and history.

Amina Konaté

Amina Konaté is from La Rochelle, France, where she began dancing at the age of 5. She studied at the Conservatoire of Music and Dance of La Rochelle. After she graduated from high school in 2019, Amina joined the Rudra Béjart School, in Switzerland. Two years later, she headed to New York, to attend the Ailey School. She spent the last summer dancing in Philadelphia as a Philadanco 2 (D/2) member, as well as in Brooklyn, with Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet. Ms. Konaté has performed works by Maurice Béjart, Julio Arozarena, Tancredo Tavarez, Janice Rosario, Christopher Huggins, Jeroboam Bozeman and Jamel Gaines.

Shannon McCon

Shannon McCon began her dance training in Omaha, NE with Robin Welch and Rachel Vickrey. She graduated from Friends University, training with Stan and Sharon Rogers, and Andrea Vazquez-Aguirre, and worked with choreographers Bethânia Gomes, James Samson, Marlise McCormick, Francisco Martinez, and Felice Lesser (when Lesser was commissioned to create Connections for Friends in 2016). She attended summer intensives at ABT, Parsons Dance, and the Glenda Brown Choreography Project (on scholarship), and performed with the Wheatstate Dance Collective and Metropolitan Ballet Wichita. In addition to dancing, she is currently working on her master’s degree at The New School.

Khadijah Munajj

Khadijah Munajj was born in Manhattan, and started her dance training at the age of eight at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, while also figure skating competitively. At fifteen, she began studying with New York Theatre Ballet and a year later became an apprentice with the company. She attended American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensive, and in 2019 became a student at Dance Theatre of Harlem where she had the opportunity to perform in a number of special works.

Natalie stys

Natalie grew up dancing at a local studio, and later found her passion for performance while dancing with American Repertory Ballet’s Junior Company throughout high school. Natalie received her BFA in dance from Shenandoah Conservatory, and has since performed for BalletNext, the Australian-based Vertical Shadows, Azul Dance Theatre, and Neville Dance Theatre. Other credits include: Fire on the Moon Immersive Theatre Company, NY Jazz Choreography Project, We Heart Dance NYC, Crossroads Theatre Company’s “A Christmas Carol,” and a National Tour with Catapult Entertainment (America’s Got Talent S8).

Josephine Wokurka

Josephine Wokurka (they/them/theirs) is a recent graduate of the Dance Theatre program at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Wokurka was a competition dancer before the age of thirteen, where they took an interest in the concert world of dance. Some of Wokurka’s pre-professional work included being an ensemble member with The Great Russian Nutcracker at The Fox in St. Louis, MO, opening for The Haygoods in Branson, MO, and being a part of the preshow for Jesus Christ Superstar at The Muny in St. Louis, MO. Before the pandemic, they were training at Common Conservatory, a pre-professional contemporary training program, under the direction of Terrence Marling. Wokurka will be making their professional debut with Felice Lesser Dance Theater.