Cecly Placenti, originally from Belleville, NJ, received her MA in Dance Education from New York University and her BFA in Dance from Montclair State University. She has had the good fortune to perform with freelance choreographers Julie Batson Carter and Sean Scantlebury and companies including Chris Ferris and Dancers, Lauren Beirne Dance Works, Catherine Gallant Dances, The Next Stage Project, and ESS/Danceworks. As a writer, Cecly has been published in Critical Dance and is currently on staff at The Dance Enthusiast where she writes previews, interviews, and reviews covering a wide variety of movement artists and initiatives. Cecly was a guest choreographer and teacher at Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts as well as Raritan Valley Community College and is currently a full-time dance teacher at The School at Columbia University.

Eilish Henderson (B.S. Hofstra University | M.A. New York University) is a movement artist working with subjects of the body based in NYC. She is interested in nourishing the practice of translation through interdisciplinary methods. Her work seeks to explore resonance, discord, decay and healing. As a choreographer, she draws upon butoh, contemporary floorwork, Capoeira, and release technique. Through movement she navigates the infinite patterns of a body’s relationships— negotiating touch, desire, intimacy and disgust. She develops the nuance of the movement work through accessing visual art, words, and fleeting images. Her work has been presented as a part of the Emerging Artists Festival: New Works Series, Smush Gallery, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, and Agropoli Dance Festival in Italy. As an educator, she works as a teaching artist for Dancewave, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Notes in Motion. She is the Director of Community Engagement with Six Degrees Dance and has been a company dancer since 2018.

Shuning Huang, born and raised in Nanjing, China, received her MA in Dance Education with a focus on Teaching Dance in the Professions from New York University, and her BA in Dance Studies from Beijing Dance Academy. She started formally studying Chinese dance and ballet at the age of 6, and shifted her focus to modern dance in undergraduate school to continue her studies. Her training encompasses Chinese (classical and folk), Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, and Jazz Dance. Her performances have taken her to China and the United States, among other places. As an educator, by combining various teaching methods to stimulate her students' potential, Shuning strives to create a more effective learning environment for her students. She believes that dance is a form of expression that has no boundaries and allows for different sparks to emerge.

Faustine Lavie was born in Toulon, France, where she started ballet training at 3 years old. She studied at the Paris Opera Ballet School and ESDC Rosella Hightower. In 2015 She moved to NYC to attend The Ailey School and graduated from their Certificate Program in May 2018. Faustine has had the opportunity to perform works by choreographers such as Winston Dynamite Brown, Amy Hall Garner, Fredrick Earl Mosley, Clifton Brown, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Manuel Vignoulle and Shay Bland.
Faustine worked with An Nuo Spiritual Dance & Art, with whom she performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2018 and 2019. She is currently a company member with i KADA Contemporary Dance Company, Footprints Dance Company, Arim Dance, Keiko Fujii Dance Company, The DynamitExperience, and Nathaniel’s Dance Collective. Faustine is thrilled to be a part of Six Degrees Dance since February 2020.

Sara Pizzi (she/her) from Italy, began her dance studies with Urban Dances performing in concerts, music videos & TV shows. In 2017, Sara moved to NYC with a scholarship from Steps on Broadway; later joining the Certificate Program, Contemporary/Ballet Track at Peridance Center, graduating in 2020. Sara is a company member of The Next Stage Project, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Light Painting NY, Six Degrees Dance, sarAika movement collective co-founded with Aika Takeshima & She define her creative space/identity S|R|P|Z in 2020. She was a guest artist/choreographer at CreateArt, Dixon Place, Green Space, City Center Studios, Lincoln Center Plaza, Movement Research, Gibney, HERE, The Brick & more; in 2022 she premiered her first commission for “Et Alia”. Sara is also educator for Musicamente, dance program for people with disabilities and Woodside on the Move, a preschool program for seniors and kids besides being teaching artist for Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and sarAika movement collective for community classes and residencies. Lastly, Sara is a photography/videography assistant for BECCAVISION.