Company Bios
JAY CARLON, Associate Director & Performer is a Filipinx American movement artist and community organizer based between Los Angeles, NYC, and the Philippines. Their work is inspired by growing up a competitive wrestler and the youngest of 12 in a Filipino, Catholic, and agricultural migrant-working family. Carlon is committed to connecting his art practice to sustainability and decolonization. Named Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2020, Carlon’s site-specific and theatre work has been presented in Los Angeles at REDCAT, The Broad Museum, LA Dance Project, Annenberg Community Beach House, Union Station, and homeLA; in New York at 92ndY and The CURRENT SESSIONS; in Phoenix at Breaking Ground Festival; in Monterrey, Mexico at Espacio Expectante; and in Bangkok, Thailand at Creative Migration. Carlon has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Bill T. Jones, jumatatu m. poe, The Industry Opera, Palissimo, Oguri, Solange Knowles, and Rodrigo y Gabriela. They have choreographed works for Kanye West and Mndsgn. Carlson has been performing with SWAY since 2013. Tour highlights include the 2014 Olympics and the 2018 Super Bowl. ANGIE CASSIMIRO, Performer , is a freelance dance artist, performer, choreographer and teacher. As a company member of SWAY, she has toured internationally and throughout North America. Performance highlights include engagements at: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (where she was awarded the Star Ledger Scholarship), Alvin Ailey CitiGroup Theater (NYC), The Academy of Music, Merriam Theater (Philadelphia), and L’Espace Louis Jouvet de Rethel (France). Angelica has also served as shipwide dance captain and mainstage performer on Disney Cruiselines. She has a BFA in Dance Education from the University of the Arts (PA), a Masters in Physical Education from Brooklyn College, and is Member of Actor’s Equity Association. When not on tour, Cassimiro teaches both adult and children’s dance classes. Philosophy: “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
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