Performers: Alondra Balbuena, Kashia Kancey, Lakeria Robinson, Kyla Thomas
Sound Design: Cristina Moya-Palacios
I Believed It Too is about a performer trying to find her way out of a destructive false reality. She takes us on an unraveling journey as she reveals the many ways she has given her life to a world that fails to reciprocate. This work is a boisterous, sweaty, and glamorous concert about the blurred lines of passion, labor, and love.
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Kashia Kancey (Choreographer/Director/Performer) is a Miami-born performer and dance-theater choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Kancey creates work surrounding themes of joy, nostalgia, urgency, power, indulgence, intimacy, and reclamation of space through the black queer femme lens. Kancey has worked with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, Urban Bush Women, and the Metropolitan Opera. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, Larry Keigwin, Valentina Baché, Cristina Moya-Palacios, and Symara Sarai.
Kancey’s work has been presented around NYC at CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York Live Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Ars Nova. Kancey has been a recipient of residencies such as the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency (2023), Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency (2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Most recently, Kancey was recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” 2026 as a choreographer and performer. Currently based in Brooklyn, she is excited to continue making work where she can exist unapologetically and dream without any limits.
Photo by Emily Farthing.