Faustine Lavie Dance Project 

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Faustine Lavie Dance Project is a New York City based dance ensemble founded in 2020 which brings freelance dance artists from different backgrounds together. The company aim to create works fusing contemporary dance and improvisation, in order to bring out the individuality of each dancer and highlight their unique quality of mouvements, as well as transmit strong messages about the human nature and provoke questioning and emotions.


Upcoming Performances


Synergy II - Produced by Erika Keller and Rebecca Allen Aug. 6th and 7th New York City GET TICKETS
New Work Series - Produced by Emerging Artists Theatre Oct. 21th New York City GET TICKETS

Past Performances

⇢ KoDaFe in NYC - July 10th 2022 at KnJ Theater at Peridance Center

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Photographer: John A. Fleming

⇢ Uptown Rising - June 4th 2022 at Bridge For Dance

⇢ 48th Performance of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancer's InHale Performance Series - February 26th 2022 in Philadelphia, PA

Dancers

Manon Bal

Manon Bal is a versatile professional dancer from Marseille, France. She had trained at the IFPRO Rick Odums and the prestigious Ailey School. She toured all around the United States as a principal dancer with Ephrat Asherie Dance. She performed at the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Guggenheim Works & Process, Chatham Dance Festival, etc.

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    She is also the co-founder of Mozaik Dance in collaboration with Sun Kim and Janine J9 Micheletti. The company presented their piece “Sad Hope” at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest and New Victory Theater. She performed with PMT Dance Company at Barclay Center for the Nets Halftime Show. Manon worked for respected choreographers as Ronald K Brown, Tweet Boogie, Jon Rua and Miki Tuesday. She has been involved in various projects such as L’ONE Music Video, Farsali Brand Essentials Video, featured in Sephora outlets across the country and Macy’s Cozy Holiday Dressing Video.

Aurélie Garcia

Aurélie Garcia is s a dancer, dance teacher and young choreographer. She grew up in South of France. In 2018, she graduated from the scholarship program at The Ailey School. Aurélie worked with companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico and, Bloodline Dance Theater, Ann Nuo Spiritual Dance Art, Emphasis.

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    She is currently a company member of MOMIX, OCA Dance, Vanessa Long Dance, and Ntrinsik Movement.

Mathilde Guerrero

Mathilde Guerrero grew up in France and moved to NYC to study at the Ailey School in the Scholarship Program, where she trained with world-renowned teachers. Later, she had the opportunity to perform for Vogue Magazine, Sony Alpha, IBM, Formula-E, Sesame Street, with artists such as Hayley Kiyoko and Isak Danielson, and danced for choreographers such as Marcus Jarrell Willis, Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, Vivake Khamsingsavath, Dolly Sfeir and many more. She is also dancing with Jennifer Muller/The Works The Company.

Rayan Lecurieux-Durival

Rayan Lecurieux-Durival is a young French Guyanese dancer who started dancing from a very young age. He followed his dance course in French Guyana in 3 institutes (Conservatoire de Guyane EPCC, Conservatoire du Larivot and at Adaclam), before flying to Paris in 2016 where he joined the Rick Odums training institute. He has danced in different companies such as the "Jeune ballet jazz" directed by Rick Odums and Christelle Chinonis, the "Jeune ballet moderne" directed by Bruce Taylor and Florence Maregalie.

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    He will also have had the chance to accompany in artists such as: Magali Vérin in 2016 and Saïna Manotte in 2020. In July 2018 he was selected at the end of the auditions at “Alvin Ailey Americain Dance Theater”. He participates in the Summer Intensive Dance in New York. Rayan then left Paris for the United States to join the prestigious "Alvin Ailey Americain Dance Theater" school in New York, where he will have the honor of being able to perform with the 1st company and also with the "Ailey Students Performing Group", while perfecting the Horton technique to teach it later.

Tsubasa Nishioka

Tsubasa Nishioka was born in Japan where he started ballet, then later on modern and contemporary. In 2017, he was accepted in The Ailey School and got into the scholarship program in 2018. Tsubasa performed for the “Ailey Spirit Gala” in Alvin Ailey’s “Battlefield” at Lincoln Center. He also worked with Fumihito Shimizu, NBA Dance Company, Omar Roman de Jesus, Darshan Bhuller and Marcus Jarrell Wills.

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    He is currently a member of i KADA contemporary Dance Company, Vashti Dance Theater and Yu.S.Artistry. Tsubasa also won many awards including 1st place in the Chiba Select Young Dancer’s Performance, 3rd place in the Saitama Dance Competition, 3rd place in the Dance Competition in Sendai and 2nd place in the NBA National Ballet Competition.

Irene Paci

Irene Paci is a professional dancer and a certified Romana’s Pilates Instructor from Pistoia, Italy. She received her early dance training in her hometown at AXE Dance School and Ballet, and in Paris at Institut de Formation Professionelle de Dance Jazz Rick Odums. In 2015 she was accepted into NYC’s renowned school, The Ailey School, and after three years of training, she graduated from the Certificate

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    Program. During her stay in America, she performed works by international artists such as Stefanie Batten Bland, Navarra Novy-Williams, Francesca Harper, Darshan Bhuller, Alessio Silvestrin, Alex Ketley, Alvin Ailey, Earl Mosley, Brice Mousset, Darrell Moultrie and many others. She worked for Albano Ballet Company, Grazia Capri Dance Company, Cross Move Lab directed by Guanglei Hui, and Caterina Rago Dance Company. She recently perform at BRIC Arts Media with Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet in Christopher Huggings’ choreography Mothers Of War.

Caleb Patterson

Caleb began professional training In 2014 at The Joffrey Ballet School where he performed works for several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Sekou McMiller, Rena Butler, Lane Gifford, and Patrick O'Brien. After school he moved on to new media, appearing in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness by Terrance Nance, choreographed by Domani Pompey. 

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    He recently performed at Battery Dance Festival with MATHETA dance, performing excepts from Buya, the company’s full-length piece first performed at Judson Church. Caleb is currently working with Dolly Sfeir&Dancers, MATHETA dance, Alpha Omega, Nathaniel’s Dance Collective, Javi Padilla’s Movement Playground, and Spark Movement Collective.

Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez is a dance artist from France. She is a recipient of many gold medals at French National Dance Competitions. In 2018, she finished second in France at the international hip-hop competition called "Hip-Hop International" with her crew which allowed her to qualify for the world championship finals in Phoenix (Arizona) to represent France.

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    Following this, she moved to New York and graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in 2021. Sarah had the opportunity to perform works by choreographers such as Igal Perry, Vivake Kamsingsavath, Donna Clark, Zendot, and many more. She performed in video clips for artists such as Monotronic, Coral, Ryan Serhant, and Sabrina Lonis or for brands such as Sony alpha, and RSVLT. It is her first season with Faustine Lavie Dance Project.

Erica Welty

Erica spent her early childhood as both a competitive gymnast and dancer, but focused solely on dance from age 8 and on. She moved from Orlando FL to NYC in 2015 to attend The Ailey School for dance and graduated from their certificate program in 2018.

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    She performed works by Winston Dynamite Brown, Amy Hall Garner, Fredrick Earl Mosley, and Darrell Grand Moultrie, amongst others. She is also a certified personal trainer, currently a member of the team at Trooper Fitness.

Annie White

Annie White is an NYC-based dancer and choreographer who began her training at the Pinellas County School for the Arts at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. She continued on as a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School NYC.

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    Since then, she has performed professionally with Jerome Bel, Rena Butler, Brianna Mercado, Lane CoArts, iKADA Contemporary Dance Company, and more.

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