Created by WADE after a series of listening sessions with the LGBTQA+ artistic community, the project responds to the need for underrepresented and historically marginalized artists for free rehearsal space, professional production opportunities to create work plus logistics and financial support to interact and impact the communities that are important to them.

Inaugural Pride Residency Choreographers:
Ke’Ron Wilson, Anna Caffarelli & Crimson Moeller

Anna Cafferelli (she/they) Anna Caffarelli is a contemporary, modern, and jazz dance performer, choreographer, and teacher. Anna graduated Cumma Sum Laude with her BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in May of 2022, where she studied dance performance, improvisation, choreography, and dance film. In July of 2022, Anna choreographed and performed at the Agropoli Danza Festival in Southern Italy for the WADE Dance Hub. She also recently produced and choreographed her first independent dance show titled Parting at Raisbeck Theater in Seattle, WA. Anna’s work explores the ever-shifting dynamics of human relationships, drawing in audiences through her curiosity, vulnerability, and passion. 

Crimson Moeller (she/they) is a Chicago-based dance artist, choreographer, teacher, composer, and costume designer. Crimson received their B.F.A in dance from Cornish College of the Arts in the Spring of 2021. Crimson is a multifaceted artist, incorporating their aptitude for sound and fashion in their choreography. Crimson’s work has debuted in Cornish productions such as New Moves Showcase and Terpsichore’s Landing, as well as Anna Caffarelli’s production of Parting and the 2022 Agropoli Danza Festival. Crimson creates more than choreography. They create an atmosphere, a macrocosm, a universe.

Ke’Ron Wilson (they/she) is a movement artist, choreographer, and poet currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. A Sam Houston State University Alum, she has set and presented work and performed in the greater Houston Area.They were awarded Dance Source Houston’s Spark Dance Grant in 2021, and have most recently presented work as an emerging choreographer with Mare Nostrum’s Emerging Choreographer’s Series in NYC. Their art, being heavily influenced by their activism, pulls from a wide range of disciplines and seeks to cultivate a shared sensitivity towards the human condition. Each piece of poetry and movement exploration is designed to invite the audience into a realm in which mind, body and spirit are unified towards personal and collective liberation. Ultimately, aspiring to expand our collective perception of gender, sexuality, race and Spirit as they relate to movement, healing, and the arts.