Equus Projects Company Dancers
The Equus Projects dancers are unique. All tremendously skilled dance artists, they are committed to expanding the traditional boundaries of dance performance. Every Equus dancer is trained in Natural Horsemanship.
Grace Cooper
Grace holds a BA in Dance and English from Colorado State University. Grace is a member of Alpine Artist Collective, an environmental arts collective that connects humans to nature through art. She has danced for IMPACT Dance Company, Control Group Productions, and other independent choreographers in Northern Colorado. When she’s not dancing, Grace loves coffee, poetry, and hikes.
Sarah France
Sarah France is a multi-disciplinary artist from Pittsburgh, PA who has extended her lifelong fascinations with movement and creativity into working as a professional dancer, figure skater, choreographer, aerialist, visual artist, author, musician and grant writer. She attended the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minneapolis, MN where she studied visual arts and dance, holds undergraduate degrees in art history and biochemistry, and is in progress towards an additional degree in nonprofit management. She began dancing at age three, eventually studying and performing with Zenon Dance Company before joining the Equus Projects in 2024. A figure skater since age eleven, Sarah is a US Figure Skating triple gold medalist in ice dancing and skating skills, six time US Open Professional Figure Skating Championships competitor, and is internationally regarded as a coach for her deep knowledge of skating skill development and choreography, having coached developmental through Olympic level athletes from numerous countries. She has been performing with ice dance company Ice Theatre of New York since 2018, where she serves as the Ensemble Director and teaches edge classes on behalf of the company. She serves on the boards for The Equus Projects and the Knickerbocker Figure Skating Club. Sarah is proud to represent her intersectional communities as an LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and disabled artist.
Campbell Ives
Campbell Ives earned a B.A. in Dance from Barnard College in 2022. While there, they studied psychology and environmental humanities and performed works by Wesley Ensminger, Arnie Zane, and Caroline Fermin. As a gender non-conforming artist, Campbell aims to rupture other binaries of mind/body and human/nature, through their movement research in improvisation, and site-specificity. Currently they are a House Manager at New York Live Arts, workshop facilitator for Artichoke Dance Company and in collaboration with Gesture Theater a trans-led physical theater company. They are thrilled to be joining the Equus Projects for their upcoming performances in the Fall of 2024.
Jess Michal
Jessica Michal is a dance artist based in the New York/New Jersey. She earned her BFA in Dance Performance from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in May 2021. Jess works is the movement director of 530DancePhotography, co-produces the interdisciplinary collaborative music and dance festival known as When Waves Collide and teaches dance and yoga at numerous local studios in Central NJ. Jess started as a company member with The Equus Projects in 2022
Jordan Patt
Jordan is a Brooklyn based dancer, performance artist and experimental musician. She was born and raised in Nebraska, where in the open countryside she fostered her passion for horses and dance. Jordan graduated with a BA in Dance from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2018 where she was awarded the Porter Award for Creativity in Dance. After graduation, she moved to Brooklyn where she has been creating live performance work and film projects in collaboration with Laura Witsken, dancing for choreographer Christy Funsch and working on her performance art project, Paint Horse, with her life partner JP Davis. Jordan joined The Equus Projects in 2024 and is thrilled at this convergence of two of her great loves: horses and movement.
Madelyn Wansong
Madelyn Wansong (she/her) is a New York City based dancer/artist. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Madelyn began her dance training at Dance Project and continued as a pre-professional company member with Center of Creative Arts (COCA). In May 2022, she received a BFA in Dance from University of the Arts (UArts) under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. While at UArts, she had the opportunity to perform works by Doug Varone, Merce Cunningham, Jordan Lloyd, and Kim Bears-Bailey. Now freelancing in New York, she is currently a company member with Alessandra Corona Performing Works and has performed works by Jelani Taylor, Mystical Feet Company, John Passafiume, and Augie Sherman. Madelyn joined Equus Project in 2024.
Rachel Richman, Guest Performer
Rachael Richman is an actor, writer, and collaborative artist. Works have ranged from ensemble-devised theater and film, to solo performance, poetry, songs, and immersive and site-specific events. Some performance credits include: THEATRE: Innocence (San Francisco Opera), The Karamazovs (New Ohio Theatre), Portrait of an Angel a Lion a Monster (Central Stage, TheatreLab), Aunt Leaf (Hudson Opera, HERE Arts Center), Body Drama (Whitney Museum), Love and Geography (HERE Arts Center), Soulographie (La Mama Theatre), Offending the Audience (Flea Theatre), Are We Here Yet?, AOI (PS 122), Silent Sky, To Kill a Mockingbird (Bristol Valley Theatre), Funeral Game (Potrero Stage), The Speakeasy (Palace Theatre), and Man of La Mancha (Custom Made Theatre) for which she received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Principal Actress. FILM: “The Karamazovs” (NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival award winner), “Janelle’s Baby” (Santiago Film Festival award winner), “A Gentle Art,” “An Aleph,” “Refinery Surveyor Black.” She co-devised immersive mixed-reality adventure Private(i) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard/BEAT Festival, and wrote the libretto for Art Monastery Project’s Prime, which toured internationally.
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 Chiemi Ip |  Emily Chamberlin |  Rachel Keane |
 Taylor Ennen |  Maddie Warriner |  Ray Hinds |
 Audrey Rachelle Stanley |  Jenna Pollack |  Carlye Eckert |
 Debbie Maciel |  Kristen Stuart |  Mariusz Kujawski |
 Meredith Clemons |  Lilja Ruriksdottir |  Fanny Sura |
 Tal Adler Arieli |  Jessica Martineau |  Rebekah Morin |
 Brittany Beyer |  Laurence Martin |  Marcel Dou Roig |
 Luke Gutgsell |  Luke Wiley |  Naomi Wimberley-Hartman |
 Blake Burnham Pearson |  Emily Quant |  Gina Paolillo |
 Asli Bulbul |