ongoing collaborations
Strategic and artistic/curatorial planning, direction and management of:
Managing Director, SLIPPAGE
SLIPPAGE is a think-tank, an interdisciplinary performance research group that explores connections between performance, history, theater, and emergent technology. Under the direction of Northwestern University professor Thomas F. DeFrantz, SLIPPAGE builds on the urgent need for intentional, critical, and timely interaction among artists, researchers, audiences, engineers, faculty, students, and general publics in the arts. . SLIPPAGE produces conferences, symposia, workshops, and artist exchanges in events that mark social progress via research in performance.
Director, OKRA Dance Company
OKRA Dance Company explores the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora from various world viewpoints; and how our aesthetics and histories have influenced arts and culture in the United States. Drawing on the varied personal and professional experience of the performers, our shows seamlessly weave storytelling, audience interaction, and truly superior dancing into an awakening and community-building experience.
Founding Executive Board Member and Conference Director
Established in 2012, The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity. The organization’s work considers the ways that Black dance affirms, confers, cleaves, or potentially binds Black lives through cross-generational creative explorations into Black dance (studies). In addition to lectures, publications, and mentoring groups, CADD produces a biannual conference with such themes as THE AFROFUTURE (2016), BLACK JOY (2018), and FLUIDITY (2020).
