Dance & Choreography

The following dancers and/or choreographers have been selected by the editors.
Click on photo to view videos of phenomenal dance performances.

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Brianna Mercado is the October 2019 Featured Artist of the Month. Brianna is  a professional dance artist, teacher, choreographer, and speaker based in New York City. Her journey is a study in contrasts – having experienced the deepest challenges and the greatest rewards. Brianna survived life-threatening bone cancer at the age of 15, then went on to receive a full-ride scholarship to UC Berkeley. After graduation, she pulled up California roots for a move to the Big Apple and ignited a career as a professional dancer, only to find out shortly afterward that a second aggressive cancer had invaded her body at the age of 22. Brianna’s performance credits include: TEDx, Isn’t It Romantic, MUNY’s Jesus Christ Superstar, MUNY’s Aida, Fuerza Bruta: Wayra, & a PHISH concert performance. She is represented by McDonald/Selznick Associates Talent Agency and teaches weekly dance classes at Peridance Capezio Center in Manhattan.

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Photo Credit: Svelta Atanasova

Karen Bernard is the September 2018 Featured Artist of the Month. Karen is a cross-discipline performance artist, choreographer & founder of New Dance Alliance, an arts service organization whose mission is to actively promote emerging forms of innovative dance, music, video and interdisciplinary performance. She has been invited to tour in Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, St. John’s, Montreal, Toronto, Ottowa and Quebec City. Karen received a BAX 10 award for her invaluable service to artists in the founding and development of the Performance Mix Festival. She is a co-founder of E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency at Earthdance.
Jennifer Dunning, a critic for the New York Times, has described Karen as a “spellbinding performer with unusual themes.”

Heather Harrington is the September 2017 Featured Artist of the Month. Heather is an award-winning dancer and choreographer. She has danced with several renowned companies, including the Doris Humphrey Repertory Company, the Martha Graham Ensemble, and many others. She ran her own modern dance company, Heather Harrington Dance Company, in New York City for nine years, performing nationally and internationally with a focus on site-specific dance. Heather  has received numerous grants for her work and has been a resident choreographer for the Yard’s Bessie Schonberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency, Kaastbann International Dance Center, and the Hotel Pupik series in Austria. Heather is currently an adjunct professor of modern dance and theory at Kean University, and she also teaches at Seton Hall University.