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EDUCATION 2015, Sarah Lawrence College, MFA, Dance Bessie Schonberg Scholar 2013, Trinity College, BA, Double Major: Educational Studies / Theatre and Dance. Minor: Africana Studies, POSSE Scholar (summa cum laude) 2012, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, One Year Programme, Dance Theatre 2009, LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, Classical Vocal Performance, Advanced Regents Diploma AWARDS & HONORS Board Member, Performance Space New York (2021 – ) Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artist in Residence (2021– ) WaveFarm Media Fellow (2021-2022) Advisory Council, Young Dancemakers Company (2021 – ) Center for Afro-futurist Studies, Artist in Residence (2021 – ) Trinidad Performance Institute Fellow (2022) 02020, Performance Space New York (2020) Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists, Performance Art (2020) Art Matters Grantee (2020) BRIC Arts, Video Art (2020-2021) Shandaken Project/Governors Island (2019-20) Loghaven Artist-in-Residence (2020) Soul Fire Farm BIPOC Fire (2019) Bessie Awards, Breakout Choreographer (2019) Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Visiting Artist (2019) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council – Workspace Artist (2018-19) Mertz-Gilmore Grantee (2019) Jerome Foundation Fellow (2019) Abrons Arts Center Fellow (2018-19) NARS Foundation, Artist-in-Residence (2018) AUNTScamp, Mount Tremper Arts (2018) Bessie Awards, Outstanding Production, ZERO (Danspace Project, 2018) BAX/Submerge! Artist-in-Residence (2017) Bessie Awards, Outstanding Performance, Minor Matter : Ligia Lewis (HAU, 2017) New York Live Arts, Fresh Tracks (2015-16) WRITING Resonances from the Third Event, Ear | Wave | Event (2021) DANCE/NYC Symposium, Thematic Justice Workbook (2021) Kinstillatory Mapping, First Nations Dialogues (2021) Region(es) CENTRAL (2020) Fugitive Interlocution, Cultured Magazine (2020) On Black/Indigenous Food Sovereignty, DEEM Journal (2019) On Lucifer Landing, Movement Research: Critical Correspondence (2019) Violet Memory (OPERA news, 2019) Maroonage: Elaborations on the Stage and Staying Alive (Contact Quarterly, 2019) Black Bodies, White Boxes (Dancing While Black Digital Journal, 2018) On Documenting your Work (The Creative Independent, 2017) Collaborative Curiosity (Contemporaryand, 2016) TEACHING + LECTURES University of the Arts – Adjunct Professor, Dance Studies (2021 – ) Courses: • CRIT-310 - Identity, Multiculturalism, Empire • DANC-380 - Improvisation to Choreography • DANC-350 - Critical Dance Studies II CUNY Queensborough – Department of Dance, Lecturer in Dance Studies (2018 – ) Courses: • DAN-111 - Introduction to the Art of Dance Fordham University, Department of Dance, Junior Repertory Faculty in Performance Practice (2019-2021) Amplify Arts, Who Needs Who Most? Artists and Institutions (2021) Dance/NYC Symposium, On Abolition Collectivities (2021) Cranbrook Academy of Art, Visiting Faculty, Sculpture Department (2021) Dia Arts, Mentor Fellowship (2019-2020) Rutgers University, Graduate MFA, Guest Lecturer (2019) Sarah Lawrence College, Guest Artist (2019) Lion’s Jaw Dance Festival, Guest Artist (2019) LANDING, Gibney Dance, Guest Artist (2019) School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, Guest Artist (2019) RECESS Gallery, SESSIONS: Guest Artist (2019) Queens Museum International, the Agora Panelist (2018) University of Chicago, Guest Artist (2018) Trinity College, Guest Artist (2016) CURATION Upcoming: Trophallaxis, Vox Populi Gallery, Curatorial Fellow (2022) Dance/NYC Symposium, Justice Curation Workbook (2021) Deeds for AIRs for LLC, The People’s Space @ Performance Space New York (2020) Invisible Material, Movement Research Fall Festival (2017) Sunday Service, Knockdown Center (2017) PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, River to River Festival (2022) (r-2)2 + z2-LIFE = 1STILL, Little Island NYC (2021) The People’s Space for Abolitionist Thinking, Performance Space New York (2020) Trio Experiments, Public Records, NY (2020) Weather, Paragon Arts Gallery, homeschoolpdx, OR (2019) Working on Water, in collaboration with Mario Gooden x Columbia GSAPP (2019) • Second Performance: BARD Graduate Center (2020) Lucifer Landing II, Abrons Arts Center (2019) Lucifer Landing I, MoMA PS1 (2019) Illusion Procedures #4 w/o Angie, Park Avenue Armory x Studio Museum in Harlem (2019) Cancel, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (2019) • NARS International (2018) • The Current Sessions, wild Project (2017) black MoMA, Pop Rally: Studio Visit, Practice As Ritual, Museum of Modern Art (2018) ZERO, Danspace Project, Jerome Grant Comission (2018) (Bessie-Nomination Outstanding Production) Eurythmics in the Southern Burn, Danspace Project, Platform: Dancing + Praying Grounds (2018) Obeah, La MaMa Experimental Theater, La MaMa Moves! (2018) • Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Submerge! Festival (2017) How To Play Under The Sun, Center for Performance Research, New Voices in Live Performance (2017) Lyric baby, Triskelion Arts (2018) • Danspace Project Platform: Lost & Found Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now (2017) Dutchman, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Performance Residency (2016) FILM Blues Time, Exhibition: Beneath Tounges, Sable Elyse Smith, Swiss institute (2022) The Smallest Unit is Eachother, BRIC Arts (2021) Jose, Joao, John, Lion’s Jaw Dance Festival (2019) Obeah, Anthology Film Archives (2019) cancel, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (2019) SOUND 11368, Queens Museum x Montez Press Radio (2021) Deeds for AIRs @ Montez Press Radio (2020) The Spiral @ Radio Bonita (2020) The Spiral @ Yale Union x homeschool PDX (2019) The Spiral @ Montez Press Radio (2019) EXHIBITION The Smallest Unit Is Each Other, BRIC Arts (2022) 11368, Queens Museum x Montez Press Radio (2021) Who Knows, But That On The Lower Frequencies, I Speak For You?, Shandaken Project on Governors Island (2020) s/H: Jonathan González, in collaboration with SB Fuller, CICCIO Gallery (2019) Not Total, Paragon Arts Gallery, homeschoolPDX (2019) Lucifer Landing I: Museum of Modern Art, PS1 (2019) COLLABORATOR We Hold Where Study, WU Tsang x Fred Moten, Ligia Lewis, DOCUMENTA x Museum of Modern Art (2020) The Case of Ana Mendieta, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dixon Place (2020) Black + Bluised, NIC Kay, Abrons Arts Center (2019) Water Meditations, Rena Anakwe, Issue Project Room NY (2019) Minor Matter, Ligia Lewis, International Tour (2017-2019) The Tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Palaias De Tokyo x Chisenhale Gallery (2018) Unttitiled (Havana), Tania Bruguera, Museum of Modern Art (2018) Tongues Untied, Ni’Ja Whitson, Brookyln Arts Exchange (2018) Occassions, Isabel Lewis, Dia Art Foundation x Tate Modern (2016-18) Virago Man Dem, Cynthia Oliver, National Tour (2017-2019) #negrophobia, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, International Tour (2018) Untitled, Kelly Nipper, PERFORMA (2018) being here this time, Marjani Forte, National Tour (2017-18) Four Solos, Patricia Hoffbauer, Gibney Dance (2016) Echo::system, Grisha Coleman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2016) Field Dances, Young Dancemakers Co x Merce Cunningham Trust, Dance Theater Workshop (2008)