Moving Waters: A Choreographer’s Showcase

Flow into the current of change

Duye presents Moving Waters, a curated showcase of dance as a living, breathing current of connection. Exploring heritage, identity, or the liberating act of simply being, featuring a diverse cohort of 7 boundary-pushing dancers and makers. Movement is a vehicle for change, and water is fluid, powerful, and unstoppable as it carries us away or changes us gradually.

SHAKUN DAVI DANCE • JULLIANNE LAO • AMANDA EGAN • RACHEL REPINZ

Shakun Davi Dance

A dance collective founded by Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist Christopher Bisram, Shakun Davi Dance unearths the parts of the human experience we often bury—identity, grief, trauma, and environmental crisis. Rooted in a fusion of House, Waacking, Post Modern, and Dunham Technique, their site-specific works center water and the environment as metaphors for the self. The collective brings together a diverse, experimental ensemble of dancers to create collaborative, thought-provoking work that makes dance accessible to all.

Jullianne Grace Lao

Jullianne Grace Lao is a Filipino dancer and choreographer from Queens, New York. She began her formal dance training in 2013 at Ballet Tech, where she developed a strong foundation in ballet and modern dance. She later joined the Hunter College Dance Department, broadening her movement vocabulary through studies in jazz, contemporary, Chinese folk, and Afro-diasporic forms.Her choreographic work explores a Graham-inspired movement language while critically engaging with the form’s historical and cultural roots—acknowledging the influence of Asian bodies and philosophies in its development. Deeply committed to authenticity and cultural heritage, Jullianne creates bold, theatrical, and atmospheric works that invite audiences to reconsider the origins of movement and the narratives embodied through dance.

Amanda Egan

A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Fordham/Alvin Ailey, Amanda Egan is a powerhouse who has performed with Modern, Ballet, and Jazz companies across NYC. She represented Team USA at the World Tap Dance Championships, taking home the Gold Medal as a soloist. Her choreography—like her solo based on Jazz legend Chet Baker—captures the duality of life, weaving together love, loss, and celebration.

Rachel Repinz

A visually impaired multidisciplinary artist-scholar, Rachel Repinz is a Ph.D. in Dance candidate researching blindness in contemporary dance. She directs RACHEL:dancers, a multi-sensory performance company committed to advancing disability aesthetics and making dance accessible for visually impaired audiences. Her work, rooted in the postmodern tradition, weaves together movement, text, time, and sound through a Disabled worldview.

Friday July 31st, 2026

6:00 PM- 8:00 PM

DuYe Moves

The BEAM Stage on Colonels Row, Building 408B

New York, NY, 11231 (map)

About the Curator

Chris Bisram is an Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist with a primary focus in dance and theater. Bisram is an EmergeNYC Fellow at BAX, a Street Style Ambassador for City Center, and an Artichoke Ambassador for Artichoke Dance company. Bisram is a part of Cumbe Community Dance Company: Rise, MV Dance Project and The Remote Theater Projects Thank You For Listening cast. Alongside this Bisram is the demonstrator for the Dunham technique class at the Ailey extension for Marcea T. Daiter. Bisram is currently enrolled at CUNY Hunter's BA program in Dance Education. Currently, they are a Dance Specialist for Beacon, Variety Boys and Girls Club and Producing Moving Water: Emerging Artist Dance Showcase for Duye Moves.