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somewheres a world in progress
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January - March 2020 / NYC
The Performance Project's Emerging Guest Artist

NOVA CYPRESS BLACK

Year of 2023 / Atlanta, GA
Sequoia Ascension's Artist-in-Residence

June 2023 / East Point, GA
Fly on a Wall's Artist-in-Residence

"POST-OP: a well-in-progress" 

a solo performance honoring the process of recovery after top surgery. 

"somewheres: a world-in-progress"

when Z uses plant magic to summon their post-apocalyptic self, they discover a wondrous realm in which Black queer & trans people are the last living beings.

head choreographer
director
writer

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October - December 2018 / Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Arts Exchange's Performance Art Fellow

March - June 2017 / NYC
another goddamn lesbian movie / a choreopoem.

Brooklyn Arts Council’s 2017 Local Arts Grant Recipient

choreographer
director
Producer
writer

a group of Brooklyn-based Black queer friends navigate their love lives during a period of political calamity.

another goddamn lesbian movie / a chorepoem.

Summer 2020 / Atlanta, GA
Co-choreographer, Yani Mo's "Life U Choose"

Summer 2020 / Atlanta, GA
Dancer, Yani Mo's "Life U Choose"

Photos: Christina Massad

Photo: Muse Dodd

Photo: Imani Dennison

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