Photographer Tess Mayer captures the nine Knicks City Dancers who command the court at Madison Square Garden.
Dayne Board, Kaycee Dominguez, Sophie Pittman, and Nneka Irobunda high-five teeny tiny young Knicks fans while waiting in the vom before performing “NY Let’s Work.”The moment just before is the scariest. The strobe lights snap to darkness, and the arena, filled with nearly 20,000 rowdy fans, goes quiet for a second, maybe two. A promo video plays above, shouting lofty phrases like “Change the game” and “KCD have arrived” at the faceless crowd.
“I’m fresh off the team, so it’s kind of like I’m one of them in a way. I understand them, and I relate to them in a lot of ways,” says Brooke Fera, a digital content specialist for KCD and former dancer on the team. “But we’re constantly throwing ideas in the pool: We have a group chat, and we’re going back and forth all day long sending each other videos. But mostly, I guess their social-media presence is just the way that I experience them.
“Most NBA dancers are some version of part time, which the KCD were previously. But the sheer amount of work they put into this is really insane. The amount of rehearsals, auditions, coming up with all the TikToks … It’s sweet to watch how close they get in between auditions and opening night, which is usually about one to two months,” says photographer Tess Mayer. “They’re spending every day or every other day together prepping for opening night. They do each other’s hair, trade shoes.
Nallapaneni and Dominguez hold up Collins backstage right after they performed Collins’s spotlight dance, “Miss NY.”
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