06/12/2022
Three dance artists that will join us on the other side of the world!
Ara Kocharyan ( ) is a professional acrobat, choreographer, performing artist, show director and writer. In 2014 he was selected to participate in the opening ceremony for Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia as a professional dancer. Most recently he worked with Disney on Ice show "Mickey's Search Party" as an acrobat and a figure skater. Ara currently lives in New York.
Jess Adams (._.adams ) is a performing artist from Oreland, Pennsylvania. She tours nationally and internationally with MOMIX as a company dancer, and recently performed in Pietrasanta, Italy at Teatro Grande and in Verona, Italy at Teatro Romano. She is a dancer/aerialist/acrobat for Brian Sanders’ JUNK. After receiving her BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts she became a dancer/aerialist for Norwegian Cruise Lines. Jess performs, teaches and choreographs as a freelance artist in Philadelphia and the tri-state area, and she has performed for Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, Project Moshen, Matthew Schuler, Jim Bunting, Kevin Sullivan & Dancers and more.
Ben 'Heartbreaker' Chi ( ) originally from Hawaii has been part of the Seattle street dance community since 2015 and dancing since 2007. His main styles include waacking, popping, and breakdance but also incorporates an array of other movement forms including ballet, contemporary dance, EDM dance styles, flow arts, martial arts, and gymnastics. He has actively battled, performed, and taught freestyle dance through out the US and Canada. He is also a member of the Korean fusion dance group, Miyoung Margolis Dance Company having recently performed in the O-Jak Bridge Festival with them