sarAika movement collective is excited to present Double Bind 2.0, a compelling evening- length contemporary dance performance that delves into the emotional complexities of womanhood, with a special focus on Latinx women's history and their journey toward empowerment. This impactful performance will be featured at IATI Theater as part of the PAM Festival on October 13th, 2024, at 5:30 PM, located at 64 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003, during Hispanic Heritage Month. Double Bind 2.0 is inspired by the concept of the "double bind," an emotionally distressing predicament where conflicting messages create a no-win scenario. This condition, often rooted in misogyny, cultural gender stereotypes, and societal roles, forces women into difficult choices, leading to significant emotional distress and confusion. The performance explores how these double binds affect women, with a particular emphasis on themes from Latinx women's history and their path to empowerment. Synopsis "Double Bind" refers to an emotionally distressing situation in which an individual or group receives conflicting messages, leading to a no-win scenario. This dilemma presents two unacceptable choices, causing significant emotional distress and confusion. Due to misogyny, cultural gender stereotypes, and societal roles, women often encounter double binds, making it a common theme among different women. "Double Bind 2.0" is an evening-length contemporary dance performance that brings awareness to the double bind experienced in womanhood, especially focusing on common themes rooted in Latinx women's history and emancipation. Using braids as a symbol of empowerment and finding identity, the performance portrays the braids as an escape route, where women come together to fight for their voices and nurture the seed of hope for a brighter future. By translating voices into movement, this work aims to deliver a universal message of equity, diversity, inclusivity, and human connection for those who identify as or resonate with the qualities of being a woman.
In this performance, braids are used as a powerful symbol of empowerment and self-discovery, representing a metaphorical escape route. Double Bind 2.0 portrays how women unite to assert their voices and foster hope for a brighter future. By translating these voices into dynamic and expressive movement, the work aims to deliver a universal message of equity, diversity, inclusivity, and human connection, resonating with all who identify with the experience of being a woman.
Cast and Creative team for Double Bind 2.0 at IATI Theater
Cast
Khaila Espinoza
Dancer
Khaila Marie Espinoza (She/Her) is a freelance dancer and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York City. She Started Her professional dance career in Jacksonville and Miami Florida. And earned scholarships to the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham certificate programs. Throughout her career she’s learned different dance styles and techniques that pushed her creativity and artistic potential. Some of the dance studios that Khaila has worked with and grown with throughout her career are Suzanne Saltmarsh Dance, Jacksonville center of the arts, Cooper Morgan Dance, Riverside Dance studio, Peter London Global Dance Company and Currently in two New York based companies, The Dynamite Experience and Clymove. Khaila is inspired by learning from choreographers that explore different ways of movement, teaching philosophies and project based in collaboration and community in New York City. Her aspirations include starting her own works choreographing and teaching a various range of ages sharing the Joy and passion she has for dance.
Avery Boose
Dancer
Avery is a graduate of New York University where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance. She began her training at The Hive studios under the direction of Seth Robinson and Jeff Wolfe in Chicago, Illinois. She worked as an assistant for Tribe Dance Intensive and has toured with Streetz National Dance Convention. During her
time at Tisch School of the Arts, she has performed repertoire by Andrea Miller and José Limon. Avery has learned repertory from Sidra Bell, Doug Varone, Gibney dance company, and other New York based companies. Since moving to New York she has completed Gibney Dance’s independent summer study, the European workshop B12, and has become a certified yoga instructor. Since graduation Avery has been working as a freelance dancer in New York City. She has recently performed with Tabula Rasa Dance theater and has also performed work in the Spark Theater festival.
Casey Leyden
Dancer
Casey Leyden is a freelance dancer based in New York City. She recently graduated in May from Adelphi University obtaining a BFA in Dance with a minor in Environmental Studies. Casey has worked with various choreographers such as Omar Román De Jesús, Doug Varone, Larry Keigwin, Isaac Lerner, Murray Louis, Paul Taylor, Sloan Pearson and more. She has also done additional training with Gallim and Doug Varone and Dancers Intensives. Casey is so excited to be working with SarAika Movement Collective in their upcoming performance!
Olivia Caldeira Holston
Dancer
Olivia Caldeira Holston was born in São Sebastião, Brazil and was raised in California. She is a freelance dancer, teacher, and choreographer who recently moved to New York from San Francisco. She received her BA Honours degree from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2019. She has attended summer intensives such as the Alvin Ailey Professional and Junior Divisions in New York as well as P.A.R.T.S. and Eastman in Belgium. Since graduating, Olivia has had the opportunity to dance with many Bay Area dance companies such as Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Garrett+Moulton Productions, David Herrera Performance Company, Kristin Damrow & Company, and Fullstop Dance, among others. She is thrilled to be dancing with sarAika Movement Collective and choreographer Audrey Thao Berger. In addition, Olivia has taught at the Oberlin Dance Commons and Shawl Anderson Dance Center as well as master classes at Marin Academy and the College Preparatory School in Oakland.
Angélica Barbosa
Dancer
Born and raised in Colombia. A graduate with honors from the BFA in Performing Arts with an emphasis in dance at Pontificia Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia), and the last semester abroad at Institut del Teatre (Barcelona, Spain) in Dance Pedagogy & Choreography and Interpretation. She moved to New York to continue her professional training at the Ailey School and as a scholarship trainee in Limón Pro. She received supplemental training at institutions such as P.A.R.T.S (Brussels, Belgium), Dart Dance Company (Berlin, Germany), Martha Graham School (NYC)) and GALLIM School of Movement. She is currently working with GALLIM Dance Company as an administrative and marketing intern. She is a teaching artist with Notes in Motion, Ballet Hispánico and Dancewave. Angélica is thrilled to be joining SarAika in Double Bind project.
Daniella Macre
Actress & Dancer
Daniella Macre is an afro-latina actor, dancer and poet from Panama and The Bahamas. Her early exposure to art through her training in various dance styles catapulted her into Acting. She is a recent BFA graduate from UNCSA School of Drama (World’s 2nd Best Undergrad program, Hollywood Reporter.) Daniella has trained under Bob Krakower, Peter Hedges, and Scott Zigler. She dreams of one day having a successful and diverse film-acting career. Professional credits include Measure for Measure as Isabella in Shakespeare in Paradise (The Bahamas.) and short films such The Judas Project and For the River to Take. Her credits at UNCSA include “Dance Nation” (Amina), “Barbecue” (Adlean), “Polaroid Stories” (Persephone/Semele) and “If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be A Muhfucka” (Kaya). Website: daniellamacre.com Contact: Zuri Agency (David Gilbert) @daniella.macre
Creative Team
Sara Pizzi
Co-choreographer & Co-director
Sara Pizzi (she/her) from Italy, began her dance studies with Urban Dances performing in concerts, music videos & TV shows. In 2017, Sara moved to NYC with a scholarship from Steps on Broadway; later joining the Certificate Program, Contemporary/Ballet Track at Peridance Center, graduating in 2020. Sara is a company member of The Next Stage Project, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy,, Six Degrees Dance, Kaleid Collective, Faustine Lavie Project & sarAika movement collective co-founded with Aika Takeshima. She was a guest artist/choreographer at Buglisi Dance Theater, Reza Collective, Julia Eshrand Collective, Stony Brook, MCNY, Dixon Place, STH, MDG, JCAL and more ; in 2022 she premiered her first commission for "Et Alia'', in 2023 she was awarded with “RedTail Residency” in collaboration with JCAL and “Spoke The Hub Director Choice”; and in 2024 She was awarded with University Settlement Performance Project 24-25 . Sara is also educator for Dalton and DanceWave, dance schools and Woodside on the Move, a preschool program for seniors and kids besides being teaching artist for Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and sarAika movement collective for community classes and residencies. Lastly, Sara is a photography/videography assistant for BECCAVISION.
Aika Takeshima
Co-choreographer & Co-director
Aika Takeshima(she/her), from Japan, is a dance artist with a 10+ year career, a DEI practitioner, and a co-founder of the sarAika movement collective. In 2014, Aika attended the International Dance Program at the Academy Peridance Center in NYC, working with Amy Jordan “Victory Dance Project Company,” Ashlé Dawson, Julia Eshstrand, Elisabetta Minutoli, and Light Painting New York by Chanette Manso, and more. She began her dance education with hip hop and locking, expanding further to ballet, jazz, contemporary, and dance theater; now her major is contemporary, with substantial floor-work, fluid, dynamic, and irregularly shaped movements made possible by joint utilization from her long-term research and forever passion for joints and torso, and using each skill from various dance styles. Aika is currently a performer for The Next Stage Project and sarAika movement collective co-founded with Sara Pizzi. She was a guest artist for Dance Parade NYC, 7MPR, Dixon Place, The Craft, IKADA, JCAL, and BAAD! The Bronx, Movement Research, Dance Parade, NYC Pride March, Japan Day, SJAC, Creative Performances, The Dynamite Experience, Crossmove Lab, Queensboro Dance Festival, Turnout NYC, Liberty Hall Dance Festival, ESTIA, 3:33, 4533, Honey’s Brooklyn, EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, HERE, JCAL, Red Tail Residency, The Brick, Spoke The Hub, IATI Theater & more. She is also a founder of “LIVABALL,” a DEI (Diversity Inclusion Equity) consultant whose ultimate goal is to help people find more freedom and possibilities in themselves, aiming to make society more livable.
Takeo Suzuki
Hair Artist
Hairstyling for many celebrities, ELLE, VOGUE, W and other global magazines, UNIQLO, SONY, TOYOTA and international brands. Takeo Suzuki(he/him) is a founder of ROOM SALON NY and ESHK Hair Brooklyn.
Federica Borlenghi
Costume Designer
Federica Borlenghi (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary italian-born and raised artist now based in Brooklyn. Some prop/set/costume design credits include Saudades (Laguardia Performing Arts Center) Big Green Theater (The Bushwick Starr), Stella, Come Home (Et Alia Theater at HERE), Reminiscence (Italytime Cultural Center) and Wolf Play (Soho Rep) & Addressless (Rattlestick) as Associate Designer to Patricia Marjorie.
Clara Wiest
Associate Costume Designer
Clara Wiest (she/they) is a Swiss stage director, conceptual and fabric artist, currently living aon unceded Lenapehoking territory (Brooklyn). They co-created a clothing brand that focuses on repurposes and upcycled materials, re_gussy, creating new out of the old.
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