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.

JANAE MOSES • VASIALYS RODRIGUEZ • SHANIA JONES

Janae Moses

Originally from Long Island, NY, Janae Moses is a multifaceted artist. Janae received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance complemented by a certificate in Arts Management and Leadership from Hunter College. Working alongside notable choreographers such as Jade Charon Robertson, Charles Smith, Chrybaby Cozie. MaiLe, and many more. She has also choreographed for rising artists, hip hop dance studios and college. Janae has traveled to places such as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona to continue her extensive training as a professional dancer and choreographer.

Vasialys Rodriguez

Vasialys Rodriguez’s work reflects their cultural experience as a Latinx woman from NYC. Their movement language echoes my body's knowledge in Afro Cuban, House, Hip Hop, Afro-Contemporary, and freestyle forms. The composition will display ensemble collaboration, partnerwork, call and response, improvisation, body percussion, interaction with plants and reflections, spoken word, and breathwork. Together, we don’t just tell a story; we bring the audience into a collective experience of transformation and revelation.

Shania Jones

Shania Angel Jones is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer. She is a Caribbean American born from Guyanese and Jamaican parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Jones moves from the intersection of the physical and the spiritual, using her body as both an archive and a site of knowledge. Jones’s heritage is the root of the foundation that upholds her experience. Caribbean family parties and dance contests, learning social dancehall movements like the “dutty whine” and developing a relationship with her hips and unlocking blood memory to release expression from the pelvis. Her work as choreographer, artist, and teacher speaks to the nonlinear, improvisational, and interconnected way that diasporic people move through time, memory, and identity.

Friday August 14th, 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.