Faustine Lavie Dance Project
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 |
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| 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
Photographer: John A. Fleming
⇢ Uptown Rising - June 4th 2022 at Bridge For Dance
Photographer: Dj Fralin
⇢ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.