Grand Opening!
Brooklyn-born and Twin Cities based dancer-choreographer, educator and artist organizer, opens the Roots and Wings Institute for Embodied Wisdoms with dance classes for children and movement practice for adults.
After 16 years of solid investment in her artistry both as an ensemble dancer with TU Dance from 2007-2017 and later as an independent artist excavating her own voice around narratives around archive, memory, performance, masquerade, self love, pleasure, and Black liberation–through deeply courageous works of performance art (Dreams: A SOLO; “Yam, Potatoe and Fish!,” Black Light Research’s multi-year work and many other commissions for ensembles such as Minnesota Dance Theater, the Penumbra Theater, Springboard Danse Montréal, and TU Dance. )
After 16 years of creating pedagogy that develops the whole child through the creative arts– in dance schools, church ministries, street festivals, public schools, community centers, youth shelters, non profit organizations, corporations, community arts programs, colleges and universities.
After 16 years of building community through the arts (helping to establish community vision around the new 825 Arts) and delivering public arts workshops and retreats through her non profit, I A.M. Arts that resource BIPOC creatives.
Roots and Wings Institute for Embodied Wisdoms offers programming in partnership with at the Oshun Center for Intercultural Healing, located within the Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis.