We are asking for your help to produce five two Dance Company at The Mark O'Donnell Theater, an evening of contemporary dance featuring the entirety of five two's repertoire. Revolving around themes of relationships, humanity, identity, and vulnerability, we will showcase four works that we have created since our debut in 2021.

In our initial fundraising campaign, we raised $6,965. All of these funds are going towards compensating our talented collaborators for their outstanding work, dedication, and artistry.

We are still $3,000 away from our final goal to bring this performance to fruition, as projected production fees total over $10,000. Your contributions would support the following components of production: 

Any contribution is essential to making this production happen and fuel upcoming five two projects. 

We are extremely grateful for the warm reception of our work in the NYC dance community and beyond over the last two years. We would like to extend a special thank you to our family, friends, mentors, multimedia collaborators, and supporters who have made this all possible. We would also like to share our gratitude to current and past collaborators, including Emma Dulski, Khalid Dunton, Jalyn Gill, Rachel Ha-Eun Lee, Daniel Ricardo Rocha, and Aaron Smith, for their artistry and commitment shared with five two from its early days. We aim to keep sharing our creativity and connecting with new artists and audiences!

five two Dance Company is a women-led dance collective that shares highly physical contemporary movement rooted in feminine and queer perspectives. We aim to present legible and accessible work that inspires empathy, imagination, and reflection, imparting movement with great expressive agency and exercising viewers’ innate kinesthesia.

Featuring six emerging performance artists, our dance practice strives to unearth deeper understandings of physical and emotional intersubjectivity. five two's movement language draws on the human experience – balancing strength, individualism, and tension with softness, symbiosis, and malleability. 

New York City based dance artists, Olivia Passarelli and Sophie Gray-Gaillard, began collaborating in 2021 to form five two Dance Company. five two’s work has been featured in both the 2021 and 2022 Steffi Nossen Dance Showcases, White Wave’s SoloDuo Dance Festival, KoDaFe International Dance Festival, American Dance Guild Performance Festival, and Spark Theater Festival. Additionally, they have performed in various showcases at Ailey Citigroup Theater, Mark Morris Dance Center, the Emelin Theater, Peridance’s KNJ Theater, Studio 3R at Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts, Tufts University, KYL/D’s Dance Center, 28th Street Theater, Dixon Place, Green Space, i KADA Dance Center, and Balance Arts Center. The company appeared in Kai Tsao’s “Red” music video titled Anything You Want and has been collaborating with the women-led, global fashion brand, Hope Sews. They have set works on the Paul Taylor School Professional Division as well as the Steffi Nossen Pre-Professional Division. Most recently, five two was awarded the Directors’ Choice Award at the Spring for Spring Dance Festival and participated in the SharedSpace Program at Mark Morris Dance Group in 2023. 

Visit our website to learn more about us and our talented collaborators –  
Greenspace and MOtiVE choreography grant recipient Emma Dulski, Montclair Dance alumna Jalyn Gill, and NYU Tisch Dance alumni Rachel Ha-Eun Lee and Daniel Ricardo Rocha!

We are really excited to share this evening of dance with you all, but we need your help to make it happen! Every contribution makes a difference, and we are extremely appreciative of the support. We hope to see you in September! 

Warmly, 
five two