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.
Margaret Brackey
Margaret Mighty Oak Brackey (she/her) is an NYC-based dancer/choreographer/artist. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, she grew up studying Graham Technique, Ballet, and Dance Composition at Kanopy Dance Company. In 2022, Margaret graduated with a BFA in Dance from Adelphi University. Her Honors Thesis, “Birds Into Bodies: Synthesizing Research and Dance”, which mitigated bird/window collisions on campus, was awarded the Levermore Prize for Best Senior Thesis. Currently, Margaret is a performer with The Equus Projects, where her training in natural horsemanship and passion for improvisation come together. Since 2022, she is also a company member of the Anna Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble. A collaborative choreographer, Margaret has shown works around NYC and Wisconsin, and holds open monthly Playdays to generate new ideas. IG: @Margaret_Mightyoak
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.
Cambell Ives, Guest Performer
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.
Sarah France, Guest Performer
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 figure skater, dancer, choreographer, aerialist, visual artist, author and musician. She attended the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minneapolis, MN where she studied visual arts and dance, and holds undergraduate degrees in art history and biochemistry from Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota. She began dancing at age three, eventually studying and performing with Ballet Arts Minnesota, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Jawaahir Dance Company and Zenon Dance Company. 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 for her deep knowledge of skating skill development and choreography. Sarah currently serves as the director of outreach, a professional ensemble performer, master edge class instructor and choreographer for the Ice Theatre of New York.
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.
Grace Cooper, Guest Dancer
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.
Clement Mensah, PT Company Member
Clement is a performer, choreographer and an educator. He is a third culture kid who was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa. After living and going to school in the Netherlands, U.S. and the UK, he did a postgraduate degree at Trinity Laban conservatory. Clement has been a member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance group since 2012 and taught and traveled with Battery Dance to forty-nine countries. As founder of Off the Radar Creative Project he aims to use the gift of creativity to bridge different cultures and bring generations together through self-expression. Clement joined The Equus Projects in 2019.
Kat Reese, PT Company Member
Kat Reese is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist working in the New York City and New Jersey. Kat is a teaching artist for the Kennedy Dancers, Monteleone Dance, and 10 Hairy Legs, has worked with choreographers including Brit Falcon and Donnell Oakley, teaches dance for preschool through 12th graders, college dance majors, adult beginners and dance professionals and senior citizens and presents her own choreography throughout New York City.She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Kat joined the Equus Projects as a company member in 2017, performing in numerous projects on stage, on film, and in the pasture.
Audrey Rachelle, Fomer Company Memeber, Guest Performer
Guest Dancer: Born in Portland, Oregon, Audrey began her formal training in the Vaganova technique and attended the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, graduating as salutatorian in 2009. Audrey went on to dance professionally with Ballet Tucson, Nashville Ballet, Winifred Haun & Dancers, and NewFangled Dance Company. She spent a year at Netherlands Dance Theater and then on scholarship at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In NYC Audrey has danced with BodyStories:Teresa Fellion Dance. She has guested with Hubbard Street, Chicago. Audrey joined The Equus Projects in January 2015. In 2021 she moved to Seattle but comes back to NYC to join the cast of Sleep No More, often playing Lady Macbeth and continues to work with the Equus Projects in selected projects.
Past Dancers
 Chiemi Ip |  Emily Chamberlin |  Rachel Keane |
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 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 |