DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
DraftWork: Annie MingHao Wang + Dorchel Haqq
Saturday, October 25 | 3PM
ANNIE MINGHAO WANG
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Annie MingHao Wang is a choreographer/dancer immigrant based in New York. They are a 2025 Fellow of the Bogliasco Center as a Van Cleef & Arpels Fellow in Dance. Recent residencies include Movement Research, Topaz Arts, and Marble House Project. They have been presented by Pioneers Go East, Movement Research @Judson, Leimay, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie is deeply grateful to dance for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Maho Ogawa’s 水素co., Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.
Ching-I Chang is made in Taiwan. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has worked with Punchdrunk, Susan Marshall, Gesel Mason, Michel Kouakou, Wendy Jehlen and many brilliant artists. She received her MFA from University of Utah in 2017. She is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Yoga and Yoga Nidra Meditation Facilitator. And she loves bananas.
SUPPORT FOR THIS WORK
This work has been developed, in part, in residency at the Bogliasco Foundation, Topaz Arts, and the Marble House Project, with further support through the Van Cleef & Arpels Bogliasco Fellowship in Dance. Additionally, the work was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in- Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
DORCHEL HAQQ
THANKS
SUPPORT FOR THIS WORK
Dorchel has received support through the Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship, which is supported by the New York Community Trust through the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund. This movement duet was generated through Contact Improv NYC classes, jams and was in part supported by NYLA Fresh Tracks Residency.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dorchel Haqq is a world builder who creates work with attention to intention. Her physical theater work serves as a vessel through which she and her collaborators navigate the complexities of being who they are in this present moment while reflecting on how their collective history and lineage shapes the future. As a Reiki practitioner, Dorchel shapes memories into movement creating stories and characters that explore time, space, and form in conversation with sociopolitical responses in the nervous system.
Raised in Harlem, Dorchel began her journey embodying history at LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre and the Dance Theater of Harlem. She studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. While at Purchase, she studied abroad at the Korea National School of Arts and at B12/Berlin, which broadened her perspective in her field. These following organizations have supported Dorchel in find herself again and again through singular and collaborative investigations: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency (inaugural resident), Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator AIR 2021, Center for Performance Research AIR 2024, Baryshnikov Arts Center AIR 2024, Triskelion Arts 2019+2026, Beyond the Black Box 2021+2023, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons 2024, MADE BY WOMAN Festival 2023, Estrogenius Festival 2025, Arts On Site 2019+2021, ART CAKE 2021, Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellow 2025, DraftWork by Danspace Project 2025, Battery Dance Festival 2020+2025, Fresh Tracks NYLA 2025/2026, City Artist Corps Grant 2021, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Dorchel has performed in works by AIM by Kyle Abraham, Kayla Farrish, Loni Landon, Vanessa Goodman, Maya Lee-Parritz, Stefanie Batten Bland, Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. Dorchel is in her first season with David Dorfman Dance. She is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, where her work has also been commissioned. Through her Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship, she is mentored by Nora Chipaumire.
Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Bronx. He is a 2025 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award recipient for Choreography in Performing Arts, supported by the Bronx Council of the Arts. He trained at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and earned his BFA in Dance Performance and Composition from SUNY Purchase; toured both nationally and internationally with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham from 2022 to 2024, then joined Battery Dance Company in 2025. Kar’mel has been on set for HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, TELFARTV, and UNIVISION. Kar’mel has performed works by Kevin Wynn, Damani Pompey, Kayla Farrish, Roderick George, Martha Graham, Sidra Bell, Merce Cunningham, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Jerome Robbins, Eleo Pomare, Faizah Grootens, and many more notable choreographers and collaborators.
Eryn Danielle is a filmmaker and movement director whose work explores how bodies carry story, memory, and design. With over two decades of experience in classical and contemporary dance, she trained at the Peabody Institute, Alvin Ailey School, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and earned her B.A. in Human Rights and Media Studies from Columbia University.
Her movement direction bridges choreography, film, and cultural storytelling, with projects for Google, Levi’s, CUUP, Canon, and NOAH Clothing. Born in Baltimore, Eryn’s foundation in Ballet, Graham, and Horton techniques, along with international study in Paris and Mexico City, continues to shape her practice at the intersection of embodiment, social inquiry, and visual narrative.
CHIMI is a Nigerian-American interdisciplinary artist working within the realms of sound, performance, installation, and visual art. She inspects the spiritual and psychological legacies/evidences of community, rest, inheritance, and transcendence on the fem body and the land. Drawing from ancestral knowledge of rhythm, ritualistic collaboration, psychological understanding, and learned traditions, CHIMI treats art as a living act of remembrance. Her voice converses with diverse materials and subject matters to build immersive, altar-like environments that honor the present moment and give reverence to the past.
Her installations and performances have been presented through, Spaces Gallery (Cle, OH), Waterloo Arts (Cle, OH), Harlan Levey Projects (Brussels, Belgium), Gallery Papillon (Paris, France). She was awarded the Premiere Fellowship by Cleveland Public Theater in 2024. And in 2025 took 1st place at the Groundhog Show for her visual art works.
As an educator and community collaborator, she develops programming that sets out to improve emotional well-being and cultural memory in communities that are often overlooked. Integrating investigation and need based interventions, her work seeks to be a bridge towards spiritual, emotional, and physical harmony through creative communion.
Arianna “Kala” Brame is a multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, producer, poet, MC and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Trained in classical and jazz piano at Westminster Conservatory and Sarah Lawrence College, Kala is also a student of West African and Afro Latin percussion. Kala’s band, Kala and The Lost Tribe, has performed at numerous venues in the NYC metropolitan area including Baby’s Alright, The Bowery Electric, C’mon Everybody, National Sawdust, Brooklyn Museum and Blue Note.
Danspace Project pays respect to Lenape peoples. We acknowledge that this work is situated on the Lenape island of Manhattan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. We pay respect to Lenape land, water, and ancestors past, present and future.
ABOUT DANSPACE PROJECT
Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences. For 50 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative has commissioned nearly 600 new works since its inception in 1994. More about our staff, our mission, and values For information on our funders, visit danspaceproject.org/support FOLLOW US @danspaceproject danspaceproject.org