Concept Director, Choreographer, Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreography in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Artistic Director: Shamel Pitts

SORE | Artistic Team

Concept Direction: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer: Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Artistic Director: Shamel Pitts
Performers: Dominica Greene and Ashley Pierre-Louis
Lighting Designer and Artistic Production Manager: Sarai Frazier
Video Content & Projection Designer: Lucca Del Carlo
Sound Collager: Tushrik Fredericks
Scenic Designer: Nadir Bey
Sound Engineer: Isaac Silber
Costume Embellishments/Tailoring: Kate Williams
Press Agent: Kamila Slawinski
Managing Director: Brittany Wilson
Creative Director: Mirelle Martins
Artistic Administrator: E Katrina Lewis
Development Director: Eric Umble
Digital Creative & Development Associate: Pam Panozzo
Photographer & Videographer: Itai Zwecker

Presented and produced by TRIBE.

Performing Artists

Ashley Pierre-Louis

Ashley Pierre-Louis is originally from Miami, FL. For high school, she attended New World School of the Arts and continued her education at Florida State University, where she earned her BFA in Dance. Now based in New York City, she is a dance artist, choreographer, producer, and cook, whose practice centers pleasure through dancing, communal gathering, and food.

Through her creative work, Ashley invites both herself and audiences to imagine their deepest, strongest, and richest expressions of the self, asking how we might share these collectively to cultivate freedom in both mind and body.

She is a performer and creator with Shamel Pitts’ multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE, and plays a vital role in arts leadership as the Associate Producer at Performance Space New York (PS122) and Dream Partner/Program Manager for Florida State University’s Arts in NYC program.

Ashley has worked as dramaturg for Shamel Pitts’ work Touch of RED (2024 Bessie Award Winner), as the Associate Choreographer for the play Help (2022) by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, and commissioned at The Shed in New York. She has premiered the play Thoughts of A Colored Man by playwright Keenan Scott II and director Steve Broadnax III at Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage as well as performed for the premiere of Donna Uchizono’s work March Under an Empty Reign at The Joyce: NY Quadrille Festival. She is a 2026 NYSCA grantee, a 2021 Gallim Moving Women spring artist–in–residence.

Dominica Greene

Dominica is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator based in Brooklyn, New York.

She values dance as one of the purest forms of expression, utilizing it as an energetic entity capable of affecting real and palpable change. Her company and freelance experience is extensive, having collaborated with, performed, and toured the work of many notable choreographers domestically and internationally. She creates body and time-based work which aims to reflect movement as one of the most fundamental conduits of existential and ancestral knowledge. As a Queer, mixed-race, Guyanese-American woman, she is committed to dreaming up and worldbuilding alternative realities and more expansive futures with her BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Creation & Tour History

SORE is a new live performance work developed with the support of Solace of RED performance art incubator (2022–2026). The solo SORAYA has been presented at JACK (2022), Triskelion Arts as part of Beyond the Black Box's BLACK BLACK BLACK Week (2023), Arts on Site as part of the Made by Women Festival (2023), eden studios***** as part of b12's free radicals program (2023), and The Flea Theater in New York City as part of Luminescence by TRIBE (2025). SORE’s debut performances will take place at The Flea Theater June 4–6, 2026.

Funding Credits

TRIBE’s presentation of SORE is made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation, and SHS Foundation in addition to TRIBE’s community of supporters. Special thanks to Performance Space NY, The Center for Ballet and the Arts (shoutout to Shoey Sun), and The Flea for providing residency and rehearsal space for the continued development of the work. View TRIBE’s complete list of supporters and join our community by visiting itsatribe.org/support.

TRIBE is a Brooklyn, New York based multidisciplinary arts collective founded by Shamel Pitts in December 2019.

TRIBE’s mission is to cultivate a space of discovery and a platform for artists – most specifically artists of color – with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement. This movement states that we have a responsibility through our work to tell new stories and create a brighter future that is different, and shines more luminously, from our past.

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SORE

Live Performance Premiere /// June 4, 5 & 6 in Manhattan.