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A freelance dance artist based in New York City. She has collaborated and performed with Hilary Easton, Natalie Green, Ryan McNamara, Jillian Peña, Stacy Grossfield Sperling and Ani Taj/The Dance Cartel, among others. She appeared on “Conan” (2013) and “The Late Late Show” (2015) with Reggie Watts and The Dance Cartel. She was a dancer for the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographic Residency at The Yard in the Summer of 2007 and curated Dance at The Tank from 2009-2012. Alexandra moonlights as a personal chef. She holds a BFA in Dance and BA in Journalism from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and College of Arts and Science. nicHi douglasAn actor, dancer, choreographer and writer. she has performed all over New York and the country as an actor/dancer in the freelance capacity, in addition to performing nationally with The Dance Cartel and literacy-focused children’s theatre company The Story Pirates. She currently teaches Movement and Choreo in the NYU: Tisch Drama Department – Playwright’s Horizon Theatre School studio. Recent/Upcoming credits: Blue Plate Special (Ars Nova ANT Fest, Choreographer), Runaways (NY City Center, Associate Choreographer), Pharma Bro: An American Douchical  (The Player’s Theater, Choreographer). BFA in Drama, NYU; MFA in Creative Writing, The New School. Thomas GibbonsA native Bostonian, Thomas Gibbons is a multidisciplinary artist whose work applies performance and dance tenets to fashion, photography, film and design. Recent collaborators include Band of Outsiders, Document Journal, MiLK Group, Tom Ford, NOWNESS, Vogue Ukraine and artists Penny Arcade, Ryan McNamara, Sigrid Lauren and Anne Imhof. His choreographic work, Every Man’s Home Is His Wife’s Castle, has been shown at Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Graduate of NYU. www.thomas-gibbons.com Audrey HailesA dance-theatre artist raised in Washington DC. Committed to public performance as a necessary tool for wellness and revolution, she received a BFA in Experimental Theatre from NYU and is a 2013 Laundromat Create Change Fellow. Audrey is a teaching artist, performer with The Dance Cartel and co-host of the women-run radio show Hip Hop and Her Family. Her work was recently commissioned by Gibney Dance and Dance Theatre Etc. Sunny HittA NYC-based performer and teaching artist. She currently teaches movement classes at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU and at Abrons Arts Center. In 2014 she performed the iconic solo Heartbeat at the Gramercy Theater, originally conceived by sound artist/architect Christopher Janney (MIT, Janney Sound/PhenomenArts) and choreographer Sara Rudner. In 2015 Sunny performed with the ensemble of The Tempest, as part of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park. She is also a certified yoga instructor, coffee junkie, and avid cyclist. Sunny has been a proud member of The Dance Cartel since 2013.  www.sunnyhitt.com Ani TajNative New Yorker Ani Taj is a choreographer, performer, music-head and founder of The Dance Cartel. Ani choreographs art parties, music videos, contemporary musicals, plays, concerts, flash mobs, gallery happenings and more. Her work is fueled by research trips to Brazil and loves to make dances inspired by Carnaval. While bridging gaps between dance and music scenes, Ani keeps one foot in the world of live theatre and experimental musicals. Recent projects include RUNAWAYS (NY City Center), Lazarus (NYTW – Associate to Annie-B Parson), NOIR (NY Stage & Film), The Nomad (The Flea), Good Men Wanted (Arena Stages, Ars Nova), and Jesse Eisenberg’s Asuncion (Rattlestick Theatre). As a performer, Ani has worked with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Les Freres Corbusier, David Dorfman Dance, Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith, Jenny Koons, Liz Swados; she is currently performing with Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 on Broadway. She is an Adjunct Professor of movement and dance at NYU.

An actor, dancer, choreographer and writer. she has performed all over New York and the country as an actor/dancer in the freelance capacity, in addition to performing nationally with The Dance Cartel and literacy-focused children’s theatre company The Story Pirates. She currently teaches Movement and Choreo in the NYU: Tisch Drama Department – Playwright’s Horizon Theatre School studio. Recent/Upcoming credits: Blue Plate Special (Ars Nova ANT Fest, Choreographer), Runaways (NY City Center, Associate Choreographer), Pharma Bro: An American Douchical (The Player’s Theater, Choreographer). BFA in Drama, NYU; MFA in Creative Writing, The New School.

A native Bostonian, Thomas Gibbons is a multidisciplinary artist whose work applies performance and dance tenets to fashion, photography, film and design. Recent collaborators include Band of Outsiders, Document Journal, MiLK Group, Tom Ford, NOWNESS, Vogue Ukraine and artists Penny Arcade, Ryan McNamara, Sigrid Lauren and Anne Imhof. His choreographic work, Every Man’s Home Is His Wife’s Castle, has been shown at Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Graduate of NYU. www.thomas-gibbons.com

A dance-theatre artist raised in Washington DC. Committed to public performance as a necessary tool for wellness and revolution, she received a BFA in Experimental Theatre from NYU and is a 2013 Laundromat Create Change Fellow. Audrey is a teaching artist, performer with The Dance Cartel and co-host of the women-run radio show Hip Hop and Her Family. Her work was recently commissioned by Gibney Dance and Dance Theatre Etc.

A NYC-based performer and teaching artist. She currently teaches movement classes at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU and at Abrons Arts Center. In 2014 she performed the iconic solo Heartbeat at the Gramercy Theater, originally conceived by sound artist/architect Christopher Janney (MIT, Janney Sound/PhenomenArts) and choreographer Sara Rudner. In 2015 Sunny performed with the ensemble of The Tempest, as part of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park. She is also a certified yoga instructor, coffee junkie, and avid cyclist. Sunny has been a proud member of The Dance Cartel since 2013. www.sunnyhitt.com

Native New Yorker Ani Taj is a choreographer, performer, music-head and founder of The Dance Cartel. Ani choreographs art parties, music videos, contemporary musicals, plays, concerts, flash mobs, gallery happenings and more. Her work is fueled by research trips to Brazil and loves to make dances inspired by Carnaval. While bridging gaps between dance and music scenes, Ani keeps one foot in the world of live theatre and experimental musicals. Recent projects include RUNAWAYS (NY City Center), Lazarus (NYTW – Associate to Annie-B Parson), NOIR (NY Stage & Film), The Nomad (The Flea), Good Men Wanted (Arena Stages, Ars Nova), and Jesse Eisenberg’s Asuncion (Rattlestick Theatre). As a performer, Ani has worked with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Les Freres Corbusier, David Dorfman Dance, Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith, Jenny Koons, Liz Swados; she is currently performing with Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 on Broadway. She is an Adjunct Professor of movement and dance at NYU.