KINesphere World Wetlands Day 2025 Playbill

 

Welcome to KINesphere 

Concept and Curation:  Nicole Perry

Funding for the project was provided  by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division.

There is no music in this program. You may wish to check out our Spotify playlist here, or observe the dancer in silence. 

Program

Performances will occur at 3, 4, and 5pm ET. 

Please meet at the sandwich board inside the gate.

Entrance: Preparation

Land Acknowledgement*

This performance is happening in Broward County, Florida, which is the occupied land of the ancestral stewards of the land, the Tequesta and Taino, as well as the current home to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Despite occupation and displacement, The Seminole and Miccosukee peoples still live, work, and create in South Florida, while maintaining their culture, traditions, and sovereignty. Your donations to this performance today will support the efforts of the Miccosukee led "Love the Everglades" movement, support Everglades conservation efforts. 

As dancers and creators, we know that there is value in embodied ways of knowing and taking action. This performance is part of how we do that, and we invite you to join us as you reflect, move, and respond today. 

Order of Performance

S(h)ift

Performer: Daniella Coby
Choreographer: Daniella Coby and Nicole Perry

Move and Reflect: 

We are using this walking time to shift, to come into our embodied sensations. 
As you walk name: 

5 things you can see
4 things you can hear
3 things you can touch
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste 

What do you notice as you tune into your body? 

Together

Performer: Mélanie Martel
Choreographer: Mélanie Martel and Nicole Perry 

Move and Reflect: 

We each have our own kinesphere. Yet, as we move through this experience together, the group creates its own kinesphere. Additionally, every living creature on earth shares the kinesphere of the earth. 
As we walk, oscillate your awareness between your personal space, group space, and world. How does your energy change with your perception? 
What do you notice in your body? 
What stories do you tell yourself? 

Discover

Performer: Ricky Morisseau
Choreographer: Ricky Morisseau and Nicole Perry

Move and Reflect: 

Make a gesture or movement that means "letting go" to you, or means "mine".  
What do you let go of when you step into nature? 
What do you let go of when you step back into our urban, clock-time life? 
What do you need to let go, for your own peace?
What do you claim when you step into nature? 
What do you need to claim, for your own peace?

Home

Performer: Kalin Basford
Choreographer: Kalin Basford and Nicole Perry

Move and Reflect: 

Legacies, ancestries, trees, and plants all come into being because of roots.
Try walking toe-ball-heel for a few steps, and then heel-ball-toe. Feel your feet making momentary roots to the earth to support you. 
What would this feel like in a mangrove? 
On sand? 
In the grass? 
As you move today, reflect on your own roots, how you have uprooted, or planted new roots.

Share your experiences with us!

Each performance offers a moment for you to create your own art based on what you have witnessed, observed, felt, and experienced through this time. This is a space for you to honor your kin for what they have taught you or given you. It is a space to give back a gift of creativity to nature, who is constantly creating for us. You can: 
  • Draw
  • Write
  • Record- we have an iPad available at the end of the performance to record your thoughts or movements!
  • Dance

Consider sharing your movement phrases, reflections, photos, videos (If you post photos or videos on IG please tag the dancers using their handles in their bios!), or other artwork with our iPad or in this Drive folder (you can do that now, or upload it when you get home), leave it with Nicole, or send it to Nicole later at nicoleperydance@gmail.com . 

We would also appreciate your feedback via this survey. In fact, some of the questions here might be a great way to jump start your own creative making at this time. Plus, it really helps us with our grant reporting.  

You may leave in your own time, to explore, play, sit in reflection or leave. 
Thank you for joining us!

If you'd like to make a donation to the dancers and the Love the Everglades, you may do so by purchasing a ticket via our Eventbrite page for today's event!

Upcoming Events

KINesphere can be an arts residency experience of dance, writing, and ecosystems with middle or high school students!
Contact info@momentumstage.org to request.

About the Creative Team of KINesphere 

(in order of encounter): 


Nicole Perry


Nicole Perry, MFA, CLMA, CID/C is an award-winning intimacy director, as well as intimacy coordinator and dance choreographer. Career highlights include 3 Broward County Artist Investment Grants for KINesphere (site-inspired dance), intimacy coordination for God Forbid (Hulu), and a Carbonell nomination for the intimacy direction of To Fall in Love (Theatre Lab). 

She is currently the Miami Unit Intimacy Coordinator for three new 24-25 TV series. She is on the SAG-AFTRA Intimacy Coordinator pre-registry.

Nicole has taught Movement and Dance for several South Florida institutions including the Palm Beach County School District and the University of Miami. She teaches Intimacy and Movement for Intimacy Professionals Education Collective. She is a founding member of Intimacy Direction in Dance and Florida Intimacy Professionals and the founder of Momentum Stage, a professional development company for dance and theatre educators. With Momentum Stage, she is a recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Arts and Technologies Grant. 

Her book on consent in movement pedagogy will be published by Routledge in 2026. 

 

Daniella Coby

 


 Daniella is a passionate and versatile dancer with over 11 years of experience in various styles, including hip-hop, contemporary, ballet, jazz, and musical theatre. Known for her dynamic movement and creative expression, Daniella has choreographed countless musicals including Xanadu, Firebringer and Spring Awakening and she currently works with Innergy Dance Company as a choreographer. 

TikTok, instagram, and YouTube: @iamdaniellacoby

 

Mélanie Martel

 

Mélanie is originally from France. She trained in France at the Conservatory of Valence and at the Ecole de danse Olivier Coste in Ballet, Modern Jazz and Contemporary. She came to Miami and attended New World School of the Arts, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2014. While at New World, she performed works from Peter London, Gerard Ebitz, Ana Sokolow, José Limon, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Darshan Singh Buller. Some of the works were performed at the Joyce Theatre (NYC), the Alvin Ailey Theatre and in Puerto Rico for the Festival Internacional de Baile (2013).

She participated in many summer intensives but the most impactful was at the Henny Jurriëns Foundation in Amsterdam where she had the opportunity to learn and perform Jiří Kylián’s repertory and deepen her understanding of movement in a William Forsythe’s Improvisational Technologies workshop. She continued to develop her improvisation skills by taking Gaga classes in Europe, New York and Miami. 

Mélanie has worked with international choreographers such as Maurice Causey (Amsterdam) and Paolo Mohovich (Bologna, Italy) to name a few and has performed in the US and Europe with The Tattooed Ballerina, Godoy/Pradera Projects, National Water Dance Projects, CoreDance Atlanta, Miami Contemporary Dance company (Ray Sullivan), The Dancers’ Space and iMEE (Infinite Movement Ever Evolving). She is currently a part of Ballet Florida in West Palm Beach. 

Mélanie teaches Modern, Contemporary, Floorwork, Contemporary Ballet and Improvisation throughout South Florida.

Ricky Morisseau




Ricky comes from Delray Beach, FL. Graduating Florida A&M University with a bachelor’s in Theatre Performance and a concentration in Dance from Florida State University. They perform, dance, model and teach. Ricky has collaborated and performed with numerous arts organizations nationally— Momentum, Lake Worth Playhouse, BRÉVO Theatre included. As a company member, Ricky recently performed on the Schell Stage at the Minnesota State Fair in “History on Schtick”. 

When they are not on stage you can follow them on Instagram @thatsreallyrickyky

Kalin Basford



Kalin Basford is a classically trained ballerina, having been mentored by Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate Zinaida Khazonova since age 13. She graduated from Florida Atlantic University with her bachelors degree in May 2024, double majoring in Film Multimedia and Theatre Studies. She is a dance teacher at Creative Heart Dance Studio with a focus in teaching ballet, contemporary, and choreographing for ages between 4 and 18 years old. She is a Pilates instructor at Reforming Pilates in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. Her passion is performing! 

About the Love the Everglades Movement

LOVE THE EVERGLADES MOVEMENT

a Full Spectrum Movement
advocating for Improved Water Quality
and the Integrity of the Circle of Life
in the Greater Everglades 

Facebook:  LoveTheEverglades
Twitter:  @EvergladesLove
SoundCloud:  Love The Everglades
Mobile:  1-786-897-4582
*This land acknowledgement was adapted from the land acknowledgement for Momentum Stage.

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