About the artist:
American Choreographer and Dance Artist from Kansas City, Missouri. Kostas attended the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory of Music and Dance along with training abroad at The London Contemporary Dance School. Haley’s choreographic works have been presented and commissioned by Kansas City Ballet, UMKC Dance Conservatory, University of Kansas, Charlotte Street Foundation, Making Moves, Creative Intersections x Owen/Cox Dance Group, MashUp Dance Company, tbd Dance Collective and Laguna Dance Festival.
A recipient of a two year residency at Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2021 Studio Residency, Sidra Bell’s Module residency at Center for Performance Research in New York, Hofesh Shechter Company intensive at Sadler's Wells in England and Akram Khan’s movement program at Orsolina28 in Italy. Kostas is also a past winner of ArtsKC’s Inspiration Grant for her film, “Conversation Between Bodies,'' which premiered at MdW Fair at MANA Contemporary in Chicago 2022. Along with being a past winner of Rocket Grants, funded by Andy Warhol Foundation for RubiX, a collaborative performance outlet merging music, movement and visual arts, which landed a 2019 residency at 21c Museum Hotel in Kansas City. Most recently Kostas was nominated for the 2024 United States Artist Fellowship and the 2024 Princess Grace Award for her work ‘Weye’. She was also the winner of this years Charlotte Street Foundation’s Generative Performing Artist Award and the Bemis Centers 2025 Residency Award.