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Summer Intensive 2025 Faculty

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Françoise Voranger

Françoise comes from generations and a lifetime of dance and acrobatic expression. She began her career as young as 8 years old and continues to work with the some of the greatest and most beautiful dance and circus companies in the world. Her performance and choreographic work has appeared with Universal Circus, Cirque Du Soleil and Benois de la Danse. She has received commissions to create works for Lincoln Center and the New Victory Theater and has been a grant recipient of the Jerome Foundation and the Burning Man Org. Françoise is the Director of Hybrid Movement Company based in NYC where she creates multimedia productions, events and immersive shows. https://www.hybridmovementcompany.com Françoise is Executive Director of the Arts Organization, Hybridity.Org.

Nikki Ortiz

Nikki began exploring movement through dance, rhythmic gymnastics and yoga. In 2015 Nikki won the USA National Yoga Asana championship under the mentorship of Jared McCann. She has been a collaborator with Hybrid Movement Company since 2018 choreographing, performing and working on scenic design, Nikki works as a contortionist and hair suspension artist. She believes yoga is a powerful tool for human evolution. Her teaching integrates elements for various yoga traditions and is centered around alignment, precision and form; often emphasizing backbending and flexibility training to help students proper technique to access their body's natural range of motion while developing a healthy approach towards flexibility.

Chauncie Parchment

Chauncie is a movement artist with over a decade of training and performance experience at the American Ballet Theatre and Dance Theatre of Harlem, where he cultivated a profound understanding of body mechanics and artistry. He is also an 800-hour certified hot and vinyasa yoga teacher, personal trainer, and nutritional coach, offering a holistic approach to wellness. Chauncie seamlessly blends his dance background with expertise in yoga, Capoeira Angola, and contemporary circus arts. Since 2020, he has collaborated with Hybrid Movement Company as both a dancer and choreographer. Chauncie's mission is to inspire others to cultivate strength, balance, and well-being through movement and mindfulness.

Pearl Madnick

Pearl gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Joffrey Ballet School in partnership with New Jersey City University Y.O.G. 2025. Her recent performances include My Art, Joffrey Concert Group works by Tsai Hsi Hung, Thang Dao, Vernand Gilmore and Eryn Renee Young and Bradley Shelver at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, ICONS Dance Festival. Pearl is a Danceartists Honors Graduate who gained high Distinctions in all her Royal Academy of Dance Examinations and was awarded the RAD Darcey Bussel Travel Scholarship from the Genee, now Fonteyn, International Dance competition.