danah bella
danah bella, is the artistic director of d a n a h b e l l a DanceWorks, a modern dance company focused on reclaiming evocative movement as social practice. danah is an award-winning choreographer who has performed & presented her work throughout the country including the Red Rock Dance Festival, Cool New York Festival, United States Asian American Festival, Bates Dance Festival, American College Dance Association’s National Dance Festival, ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, as well as in Mexico and Italy. She has taught workshops and has been artist in residence in festivals and universities throughout the United States and abroad; including, Pro Danza Italia, Bates Dance Festival, Monterey Dance Fest, the American College Dance Association's Regional and National conference, Western Michigan University, University of Virginia, Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, Santa Barbara City College and Goose Route Dance Festival. danah is also a founding member of Colectivo Caliban, an artist collective that transgresses disciplinary borders through sound and movement. She has worked in higher education since 2002 teaching modern dance technique, dance theory, and history. danah is currently the Director of the BFA Dance program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded an MFA in performance from the Ohio State University and a BA in Dance from the University of California in Santa Barbara.
danah bella, is the artistic director of d a n a h b e l l a DanceWorks, a modern dance company focused on reclaiming evocative movement as social practice. danah is an award-winning choreographer who has performed & presented her work throughout the country including the Red Rock Dance Festival, Cool New York Festival, United States Asian American Festival, Bates Dance Festival, American College Dance Association’s National Dance Festival, ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, as well as in Mexico and Italy. She has taught workshops and has been artist in residence in festivals and universities throughout the United States and abroad; including, Pro Danza Italia, Bates Dance Festival, Monterey Dance Fest, the American College Dance Association's Regional and National conference, Western Michigan University, University of Virginia, Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, Santa Barbara City College and Goose Route Dance Festival. danah is also a founding member of Colectivo Caliban, an artist collective that transgresses disciplinary borders through sound and movement. She has worked in higher education since 2002 teaching modern dance technique, dance theory, and history. danah is currently the Director of the BFA Dance program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded an MFA in performance from the Ohio State University and a BA in Dance from the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Katie Bruce
Katie Bruce is a dance educator, choreographer, photographer and cactus nerd from Northern California. She earned her BFA in Dance with an Emphasis in Teaching from Cornish College of the Arts in 2008. While in school, she evolved her photo skills into creating dance films, and continued those studies at UC Irvine's MFA program. Katie relocated to Utah in 2012 where she teaches dance and freelances in the film community. She has been the Event Director for Utah Dance Film Festival for 5 years. Katie's passions are speaking film to dancers, teaching filmmakers about bodies, and the choreography of building a global network for artists to meet, collaborate and tell stories.
Ashley Carter
Both internationally as well as in the U.S., Ashley is passionate about her work as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Primarily trained in New York, she has studied and worked in many different styles from ballet to lyrical, modern, tap, hip-hop, contemporary, and musical theatre. She has had the opportunity to perform and/or choreograph at venues such as Jacob's Pillow, Teatro Madrid, Battery Dance Festival, The Barrow Street Theater, SummerStage, The Highline Ballroom, Webster Hall, and BB Kings. Ashley is also on faculty at Ballet Academy East, and Ellison Ballet in New York, various schools in Mexico and Spain; former faculty at Peridance, and has taught at Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, and Ballet Arts in New York City, the Barcelona Jazz Dance Festival, Lines Dance Center in San Francisco, Tony Williams Dance Center and Green St Studios in Boston; Punahou, University of Hawaii, Kailua Dance Academy and the Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii, Bender Performing Arts in Phoenix, , and Tarrytown Dance in Austin. Most recently she has worked with Michele Assaf, teaching for Broadway Teaches Kids.
She can be seen working alongside artists such as Ricky Martin, NeYo, Lady Sovereign, Nicki Minaj, Cam'ron and Mila Kunis, for companies like Pilobolus, Derek Mitchell, Daniel Gwirtzman, Hanna Q Dance, Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Expressions, RTG Dance Collage, Ruddur Dance, Momentum Dance Theater, Variations Theatre Group, the Little Opera Theatre of NY, Moochaloo and Balasole, and for brands such as Netflix, Nike, Athleta, Nokia, Pixar, Microsoft, Heineken, Yahoo, Ameriprise, the Rachel Ray Show and Lush Cosmetics. She has been seen off-Broadway in shows like West Side Story and 3 to 1. She was invited to Madrid to teach at the Association of Dance Professionals and choreograph for Spanish recording artist Nuria Elosegui. Ashley performed in Sia's music video "Soon We Will Be Found", in Central Park Summerstage, in a Boost Mobile commercial, danced in a feature film with Justin Timberlake, and is credited with choreographing independent feature film "The Ride of Tom and Valkyrie". She has performed with the European show "Compradores de Sueños", premiered the Legendary Dance Project at the Museo del Barrio and has completed her fourth season of New York City's Summerstage. Recently, Ashley was featured in the original dance film "Here We Go Again" (dir. Nathan Cohen), has performed two seasons as Fritz/Rat King/Russia in "DIY Nutcracker", danced in "The Barber of Seville" with the Amore Opera, and worked on a production of "Peter Pan" for Broadway Asia. This past year, she collaborated with the award-winning Taiwanese sculptor Yutien Chang to choreograph and perform in the NYC premier of his latest exposition.
Ashley has choreographed several full-length shows for the company DoubleTake Dance (www.DoubleTakeDanceCo.com) that she co-directs with Vanessa Martínez de Baños, and is very proud of DoubleTake's performance in the City Parks Summerstage festival, Battery Dance Festival, the ACLU's 100th birthday celebration, Carnival Choreographer's Ball, etc. Additionally, with the company, she is credited with directing/choreographing a benefit for Japan and commercials for Fuse TV and Dropps laundry detergent. Also, she routinely travels to the West Coast, Europe and Mexico to teach contemporary workshops. Recent credits include choreographic commissions for the world-renowned Dancing Wheels Company, HT Chen's NewSteps, JPAC's Next Stage Residency, and the Montclair Performing Arts program; choreography for the new musicals "Dragula" and "Parallel Lines", and was also a choreography grant recipient from Eryc Taylor Dance.
Ashley's choreography has been featured in the YAGP finals 2 years in a row, has won many awards at regional and national competitions, and is in high demand in New York, throughout the US, and abroad.
Both internationally as well as in the U.S., Ashley is passionate about her work as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Primarily trained in New York, she has studied and worked in many different styles from ballet to lyrical, modern, tap, hip-hop, contemporary, and musical theatre. She has had the opportunity to perform and/or choreograph at venues such as Jacob's Pillow, Teatro Madrid, Battery Dance Festival, The Barrow Street Theater, SummerStage, The Highline Ballroom, Webster Hall, and BB Kings. Ashley is also on faculty at Ballet Academy East, and Ellison Ballet in New York, various schools in Mexico and Spain; former faculty at Peridance, and has taught at Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, and Ballet Arts in New York City, the Barcelona Jazz Dance Festival, Lines Dance Center in San Francisco, Tony Williams Dance Center and Green St Studios in Boston; Punahou, University of Hawaii, Kailua Dance Academy and the Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii, Bender Performing Arts in Phoenix, , and Tarrytown Dance in Austin. Most recently she has worked with Michele Assaf, teaching for Broadway Teaches Kids.
She can be seen working alongside artists such as Ricky Martin, NeYo, Lady Sovereign, Nicki Minaj, Cam'ron and Mila Kunis, for companies like Pilobolus, Derek Mitchell, Daniel Gwirtzman, Hanna Q Dance, Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Expressions, RTG Dance Collage, Ruddur Dance, Momentum Dance Theater, Variations Theatre Group, the Little Opera Theatre of NY, Moochaloo and Balasole, and for brands such as Netflix, Nike, Athleta, Nokia, Pixar, Microsoft, Heineken, Yahoo, Ameriprise, the Rachel Ray Show and Lush Cosmetics. She has been seen off-Broadway in shows like West Side Story and 3 to 1. She was invited to Madrid to teach at the Association of Dance Professionals and choreograph for Spanish recording artist Nuria Elosegui. Ashley performed in Sia's music video "Soon We Will Be Found", in Central Park Summerstage, in a Boost Mobile commercial, danced in a feature film with Justin Timberlake, and is credited with choreographing independent feature film "The Ride of Tom and Valkyrie". She has performed with the European show "Compradores de Sueños", premiered the Legendary Dance Project at the Museo del Barrio and has completed her fourth season of New York City's Summerstage. Recently, Ashley was featured in the original dance film "Here We Go Again" (dir. Nathan Cohen), has performed two seasons as Fritz/Rat King/Russia in "DIY Nutcracker", danced in "The Barber of Seville" with the Amore Opera, and worked on a production of "Peter Pan" for Broadway Asia. This past year, she collaborated with the award-winning Taiwanese sculptor Yutien Chang to choreograph and perform in the NYC premier of his latest exposition.
Ashley has choreographed several full-length shows for the company DoubleTake Dance (www.DoubleTakeDanceCo.com) that she co-directs with Vanessa Martínez de Baños, and is very proud of DoubleTake's performance in the City Parks Summerstage festival, Battery Dance Festival, the ACLU's 100th birthday celebration, Carnival Choreographer's Ball, etc. Additionally, with the company, she is credited with directing/choreographing a benefit for Japan and commercials for Fuse TV and Dropps laundry detergent. Also, she routinely travels to the West Coast, Europe and Mexico to teach contemporary workshops. Recent credits include choreographic commissions for the world-renowned Dancing Wheels Company, HT Chen's NewSteps, JPAC's Next Stage Residency, and the Montclair Performing Arts program; choreography for the new musicals "Dragula" and "Parallel Lines", and was also a choreography grant recipient from Eryc Taylor Dance.
Ashley's choreography has been featured in the YAGP finals 2 years in a row, has won many awards at regional and national competitions, and is in high demand in New York, throughout the US, and abroad.
Diedre Dawkins
Diedre Dawkins is a 2003 Bessie Award winner and founder of “Dance is Healing” mentoring for middle school girls through dance. Dawkins graduated from the New York City High School of the Performing Arts and received her BFA in dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA in choreography and performance from The University of Maryland College Park. She is currently pursuing her K-12 Teacher Certification at Towson University. She was a member of Ronald K. Brown /Evidence Dance Company for eight years where she had the privilege of teaching and performing throughout the United States, Senegal West Africa, Switzerland, Greece, France, London, and Cuba. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has worked with artists such as Bill T. Jones (FELA), Bebe Miller, Kevin Iega Jeff (Deeply Rooted Dance Theater), Jawole Zollar (Urban Bush Women) and Amaniyea Payne (Muntu Dance Theater).
For the past three years, Dawkins has been a faculty member of the BFA Dance Program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She is also the arts director at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School, where she has been named ConneXions 2016-17 Teacher of the Year. She is the founder and director of ConneXions Repertory Company, which is comprised of ConneXions students and alumni. This fall, the repertory company humbly accepted an invitation to perform at the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her accomplishments as a program facilitator/dance director includes statewide dance performance exposure and exceptional audition preparation for students resulting in entry to elite arts institutions throughout the United States.
Dawkins is the modern dance instructor at Alvin Ailey Camp/Towson. She has been an adjunct professor in dance at Towson University and a visiting artist at Howard University. She’s a teaching artist with Young Audiences of Maryland and has worked as a consultant, artistic director, and dance program facilitator for various arts institutions throughout the United States. Dawkins has created a highly successful “Literacy through the Arts Curriculum” for grades pre-k through 8 and was the co-chair of the committee working to revise the dance curriculum for Baltimore City schools. She is the director of Dance is Healing Performing Arts Preparatory where she provides summer dance instruction with a concentration in health and political awareness and is also the founder of the DPAP six-week summer intensive which culminates in a week of dance immersion in New York City. Dawkins has a deep love for children and the art of teaching and as a result youth and the betterment of her community is her life work.
Diedre Dawkins is a 2003 Bessie Award winner and founder of “Dance is Healing” mentoring for middle school girls through dance. Dawkins graduated from the New York City High School of the Performing Arts and received her BFA in dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA in choreography and performance from The University of Maryland College Park. She is currently pursuing her K-12 Teacher Certification at Towson University. She was a member of Ronald K. Brown /Evidence Dance Company for eight years where she had the privilege of teaching and performing throughout the United States, Senegal West Africa, Switzerland, Greece, France, London, and Cuba. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has worked with artists such as Bill T. Jones (FELA), Bebe Miller, Kevin Iega Jeff (Deeply Rooted Dance Theater), Jawole Zollar (Urban Bush Women) and Amaniyea Payne (Muntu Dance Theater).
For the past three years, Dawkins has been a faculty member of the BFA Dance Program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She is also the arts director at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School, where she has been named ConneXions 2016-17 Teacher of the Year. She is the founder and director of ConneXions Repertory Company, which is comprised of ConneXions students and alumni. This fall, the repertory company humbly accepted an invitation to perform at the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her accomplishments as a program facilitator/dance director includes statewide dance performance exposure and exceptional audition preparation for students resulting in entry to elite arts institutions throughout the United States.
Dawkins is the modern dance instructor at Alvin Ailey Camp/Towson. She has been an adjunct professor in dance at Towson University and a visiting artist at Howard University. She’s a teaching artist with Young Audiences of Maryland and has worked as a consultant, artistic director, and dance program facilitator for various arts institutions throughout the United States. Dawkins has created a highly successful “Literacy through the Arts Curriculum” for grades pre-k through 8 and was the co-chair of the committee working to revise the dance curriculum for Baltimore City schools. She is the director of Dance is Healing Performing Arts Preparatory where she provides summer dance instruction with a concentration in health and political awareness and is also the founder of the DPAP six-week summer intensive which culminates in a week of dance immersion in New York City. Dawkins has a deep love for children and the art of teaching and as a result youth and the betterment of her community is her life work.
Angela Ingram
Angela Ingram, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, is a life-long dancer and for the past 20 years an instructor in the DC area. Starting ballet at the age of 9 where she was trained in the Cecchetti Style of ballet in Pittsburgh, PA, Angela also learned jazz, tap, and hula. Angela built her jazz experience through training in New York City to include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater , Fred Benjamin, Frank Hatchet, Luigi and Bob Fosse Style of Jazz, and Martha Graham, where she trained directly with jazz great Luigi. Angela then became interested in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian dance, upon seeing how folkloric dance influence contemporary dance styles, such as jazz. She traveled to Havana, Cuba and Bahia, Brazil several times, studying the folkloric (Orisha) dances of Cuba as well as rumba, salsa and son, and folkloric (Orixa), samba, and samba-reggae dances of Brazil. In the DC area, Angela studies Flamenco and other Gypsy folkloric dance techniques, modern jazz with Maurice Johnson, and modern and ballet with Danilo Rivera. Angela has taught at the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Naval Intelligence, Sports Club LA, National Capital YMCA, DC Dance Collective, and the Flow Yoga Center, George Washington University, and the Joy of Motion. She has performed at Fiesta Latina at the White House for President Obama, lectured on story of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban dance, as well as the anthropological relationships of rhythms and dances to contemporary dance styles, lectured on dance at the Washington Health Expo, Black Family Reunion, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) universities and colleges, and was featured on MTV’s The Real World. She applies traditional and folkloric techniques, and her experiences to her instruction of Pilates, ballet, modern Afro-Cuban contemporary, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, samba, Fosse and Luigi-styles of jazz, in her youth and adult classes throughout the DC area. Angela encourages her dancers to understand the cultural context of their dance style to reach a higher quality of movement and to connect with the experiences that originated the dance technique they are bringing to life.
Angela Ingram, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, is a life-long dancer and for the past 20 years an instructor in the DC area. Starting ballet at the age of 9 where she was trained in the Cecchetti Style of ballet in Pittsburgh, PA, Angela also learned jazz, tap, and hula. Angela built her jazz experience through training in New York City to include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater , Fred Benjamin, Frank Hatchet, Luigi and Bob Fosse Style of Jazz, and Martha Graham, where she trained directly with jazz great Luigi. Angela then became interested in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian dance, upon seeing how folkloric dance influence contemporary dance styles, such as jazz. She traveled to Havana, Cuba and Bahia, Brazil several times, studying the folkloric (Orisha) dances of Cuba as well as rumba, salsa and son, and folkloric (Orixa), samba, and samba-reggae dances of Brazil. In the DC area, Angela studies Flamenco and other Gypsy folkloric dance techniques, modern jazz with Maurice Johnson, and modern and ballet with Danilo Rivera. Angela has taught at the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Naval Intelligence, Sports Club LA, National Capital YMCA, DC Dance Collective, and the Flow Yoga Center, George Washington University, and the Joy of Motion. She has performed at Fiesta Latina at the White House for President Obama, lectured on story of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban dance, as well as the anthropological relationships of rhythms and dances to contemporary dance styles, lectured on dance at the Washington Health Expo, Black Family Reunion, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) universities and colleges, and was featured on MTV’s The Real World. She applies traditional and folkloric techniques, and her experiences to her instruction of Pilates, ballet, modern Afro-Cuban contemporary, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, samba, Fosse and Luigi-styles of jazz, in her youth and adult classes throughout the DC area. Angela encourages her dancers to understand the cultural context of their dance style to reach a higher quality of movement and to connect with the experiences that originated the dance technique they are bringing to life.
Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee is a dance and teaching artist, arts administrator and organizer whose dance training started at Connecticut Dance School in Fairfield, Connecticut. She holds a BA in Dance and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College, where she performed works by Christal Brown, Andrea Olsen, Trebien Pollard, and worked with Penny Campbell. In NYC, Jessica teaches at BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Bay Ridge Ballet, dances with Paloma McGregor|Angela’s Pulse, and is an Organizer for PURPOSE Productions. Jessica is also a Co-Director of The Sable Project, an alternative off-grid summer artist residency in Vermont. Her artistic work and teaching practice are grounded in gender, racial, and environmental activism, fueled by the joy of movement, and dedicated to inclusive community building. This is Jessica's fourth season as a Creative Partner with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances.
Jessica Lee is a dance and teaching artist, arts administrator and organizer whose dance training started at Connecticut Dance School in Fairfield, Connecticut. She holds a BA in Dance and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College, where she performed works by Christal Brown, Andrea Olsen, Trebien Pollard, and worked with Penny Campbell. In NYC, Jessica teaches at BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Bay Ridge Ballet, dances with Paloma McGregor|Angela’s Pulse, and is an Organizer for PURPOSE Productions. Jessica is also a Co-Director of The Sable Project, an alternative off-grid summer artist residency in Vermont. Her artistic work and teaching practice are grounded in gender, racial, and environmental activism, fueled by the joy of movement, and dedicated to inclusive community building. This is Jessica's fourth season as a Creative Partner with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances.
R. Lamont Mitchell
R. Lamont Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University. He began his training at Bethel A.M.E. Church under the mentorship of Beverly Barber, PhD., and former Associate Professor of Dance Studies in the Department of Physical Education at Florida A&M University. He furthered his training on scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance Summer Intensive. In 2010, he was among 15 student dancers from New World School of the Arts Dance Program chosen to go to the Czech Republic for the International Dance Festival of Prague, where he danced BATTLEFIELD (Robert Battle). The cast of BATTLEFIELD won three awards including the main overall first place award from the festival. He has preformed in the companies of The Tallahassee Ballet, Brazz Dance Theater, and Bethel Liturgical Dance Company. Mr. Mitchell has also had the privilege of working with world-renowned choreographers and Artist performing both classical and contemporary repertoire. Most notably the works of Ronald K. Brown (Evidence/ A dance Company), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Augusto Soledade (Brazz Dance Theater), Peter London (Former Principle Dancer with Martha Graham Dance Company), choreographer & Basie Award winner Darrell Jones.
As a teacher he has mentored and coached many young artist from the Miami-Dade County area (Miami, Fla.), Leon County (Tallahassee, Fla.), St. Louis, MO., and Baltimore. These young dancers have gone on to dance in some of the most prestigious performing arts magnate schools and conservatories, college programs both regional and national. Some of these students have gone on to join prestigious dance companies and other arts organizations. Mr. Mitchell’s approach has been seen as bridging the gap between traditional and twenty-first century pop culture, preparing students to be successful in both the commercial dance and concert dance world.
As a choreographer Mr. Mitchell’s research has been focused on the black male identity as it relates to LGBTQ culture in our society in the twenty-first century. He believes that living in a hyper-masculine male dominated society has impacted both male sensibility and the perception that follows men who may or may not necessarily subscribe to such norms. Informed by his background as a female impersonator and vogue dancer, he has created choreography that utilizes theater components and club dance performance as a vehicle for story telling. Interested in telling these stores, which have a historical and personal significance allows him to create an atmosphere within his work whereby research and scholarship are approached methodically.
By creating a vocabulary that fuses Vogue dance, Ballet, Modern, Afro-Caribbean, and Theater, his choreographic work provides a platform to educate audiences about diversity while also exploring universal themes.
R. Lamont Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University. He began his training at Bethel A.M.E. Church under the mentorship of Beverly Barber, PhD., and former Associate Professor of Dance Studies in the Department of Physical Education at Florida A&M University. He furthered his training on scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance Summer Intensive. In 2010, he was among 15 student dancers from New World School of the Arts Dance Program chosen to go to the Czech Republic for the International Dance Festival of Prague, where he danced BATTLEFIELD (Robert Battle). The cast of BATTLEFIELD won three awards including the main overall first place award from the festival. He has preformed in the companies of The Tallahassee Ballet, Brazz Dance Theater, and Bethel Liturgical Dance Company. Mr. Mitchell has also had the privilege of working with world-renowned choreographers and Artist performing both classical and contemporary repertoire. Most notably the works of Ronald K. Brown (Evidence/ A dance Company), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Augusto Soledade (Brazz Dance Theater), Peter London (Former Principle Dancer with Martha Graham Dance Company), choreographer & Basie Award winner Darrell Jones.
As a teacher he has mentored and coached many young artist from the Miami-Dade County area (Miami, Fla.), Leon County (Tallahassee, Fla.), St. Louis, MO., and Baltimore. These young dancers have gone on to dance in some of the most prestigious performing arts magnate schools and conservatories, college programs both regional and national. Some of these students have gone on to join prestigious dance companies and other arts organizations. Mr. Mitchell’s approach has been seen as bridging the gap between traditional and twenty-first century pop culture, preparing students to be successful in both the commercial dance and concert dance world.
As a choreographer Mr. Mitchell’s research has been focused on the black male identity as it relates to LGBTQ culture in our society in the twenty-first century. He believes that living in a hyper-masculine male dominated society has impacted both male sensibility and the perception that follows men who may or may not necessarily subscribe to such norms. Informed by his background as a female impersonator and vogue dancer, he has created choreography that utilizes theater components and club dance performance as a vehicle for story telling. Interested in telling these stores, which have a historical and personal significance allows him to create an atmosphere within his work whereby research and scholarship are approached methodically.
By creating a vocabulary that fuses Vogue dance, Ballet, Modern, Afro-Caribbean, and Theater, his choreographic work provides a platform to educate audiences about diversity while also exploring universal themes.
Sydnie L. Mosley
Sydnie L. Mosley is an award winning artist-activist and educator who is interested in creative work that is both artistically sound and socially aware. She produces experiential dance works with her collective SLMDances. Through their choreographic work, the collective works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice. Her evening length dances The Window Sex Project and BodyBusiness, their creative processes and performance experiences are a model for dance-activism. Her dances have been performed extensively throughout New York City and she was listed by TheRoot.com as one of twenty-five “Up and Coming: Young Minority Artists and Entrepreneurs.”
A versatile dancer, Sydnie is a part of the 2017 Bessie Award winning cast of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Sydnie danced with Christal Brown's INSPIRIT, a dance company (2010-2013) and continues to appear as a guest artist for Brooklyn Ballet since 2009.
As a dance educator, Sydnie's technique classes pull together orientations from the African diaspora, attention to the architecture of traditional modern dance, and the language of Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals grounded in the use of breath, voice, and personal choices. She teaches babies (really!), K-12, undergraduates, non-dancers and professionals alike, with the motto: every body can dance! She has been an Adjunct Lecturer with the Barnard College Dance Department, and in 2012 designed the College's Dance in the City, Pre-College Program which she continues to teach.
She graduated from Barnard College in Dance and Africana Studies and earned an MFA in Dance Choreography from the University of Iowa.
Sydnie resides in Harlem, New York City. When she isn’t dancing, she is writing, listening to music, and cooking.
Sydnie L. Mosley is an award winning artist-activist and educator who is interested in creative work that is both artistically sound and socially aware. She produces experiential dance works with her collective SLMDances. Through their choreographic work, the collective works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice. Her evening length dances The Window Sex Project and BodyBusiness, their creative processes and performance experiences are a model for dance-activism. Her dances have been performed extensively throughout New York City and she was listed by TheRoot.com as one of twenty-five “Up and Coming: Young Minority Artists and Entrepreneurs.”
A versatile dancer, Sydnie is a part of the 2017 Bessie Award winning cast of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Sydnie danced with Christal Brown's INSPIRIT, a dance company (2010-2013) and continues to appear as a guest artist for Brooklyn Ballet since 2009.
As a dance educator, Sydnie's technique classes pull together orientations from the African diaspora, attention to the architecture of traditional modern dance, and the language of Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals grounded in the use of breath, voice, and personal choices. She teaches babies (really!), K-12, undergraduates, non-dancers and professionals alike, with the motto: every body can dance! She has been an Adjunct Lecturer with the Barnard College Dance Department, and in 2012 designed the College's Dance in the City, Pre-College Program which she continues to teach.
She graduated from Barnard College in Dance and Africana Studies and earned an MFA in Dance Choreography from the University of Iowa.
Sydnie resides in Harlem, New York City. When she isn’t dancing, she is writing, listening to music, and cooking.
Lauren Putty
Lauren Putty White has performed internationally with the world-renowned Parsons dance company, PHILADANCO, and has choreographed for Ballet X , Grace Dance Theatre, Bryn Mawr College and Drexel University. She has taught adjunct at University of the Arts, Stockton University and Temple University. Lauren co-founded Putty Dance Project, with her musician husband, producing socially conscious critically acclaimed works. They have presented at the Kimmel Center, the K Dance Yes Invitational, American Dance Guild Festival, Baltimore Dance Invitational, and virtually in Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and San Francisco’s Virtual Pathways. Lauren recently received her MFA in Dance from Montclair State University.
Lauren Putty White has performed internationally with the world-renowned Parsons dance company, PHILADANCO, and has choreographed for Ballet X , Grace Dance Theatre, Bryn Mawr College and Drexel University. She has taught adjunct at University of the Arts, Stockton University and Temple University. Lauren co-founded Putty Dance Project, with her musician husband, producing socially conscious critically acclaimed works. They have presented at the Kimmel Center, the K Dance Yes Invitational, American Dance Guild Festival, Baltimore Dance Invitational, and virtually in Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and San Francisco’s Virtual Pathways. Lauren recently received her MFA in Dance from Montclair State University.
TSU Terry
I am Terry Wedington and I go by TSU Terry. I’m From Baltimore City, MD. I grew up in the West Baltimore area. I started dancing at the age of 14 to stay off the streets and began teaching at the age of 21 to give back to the youth. I am the leader of the three time We Run This City Group Competition Champions TSU Dance Crew. We have two New York Apollo Theater appearances, opened Up for Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Durk, Meek Mill Miami Tip from Love in Hip-hop Miami. TSU Dance Crew has opened for the UniverSoul Circus Red bull Dance your style and I have toured with TT the Artist and Rye Rye. I recently had a big break teaching at one of the top dance studios in California, Movement Lifestyle Dance Studio. I Have taught classes in Maryland, California, Florida, Atlanta, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, D.C, and North Carolina. I started TSU Dance Academy to give the youth formal training from local artists and traveling choreographers.
I am Terry Wedington and I go by TSU Terry. I’m From Baltimore City, MD. I grew up in the West Baltimore area. I started dancing at the age of 14 to stay off the streets and began teaching at the age of 21 to give back to the youth. I am the leader of the three time We Run This City Group Competition Champions TSU Dance Crew. We have two New York Apollo Theater appearances, opened Up for Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Durk, Meek Mill Miami Tip from Love in Hip-hop Miami. TSU Dance Crew has opened for the UniverSoul Circus Red bull Dance your style and I have toured with TT the Artist and Rye Rye. I recently had a big break teaching at one of the top dance studios in California, Movement Lifestyle Dance Studio. I Have taught classes in Maryland, California, Florida, Atlanta, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, D.C, and North Carolina. I started TSU Dance Academy to give the youth formal training from local artists and traveling choreographers.
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