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Ife’s artistic work is currently centered around the creation and sustaining of “emancipated spaces” that can provide a location for Black Woman Artists to unpack the effects of misogynoir…
An artist and educator dedicated to learning, integrating, embodying and sharing the medicines of Afro-Atlantic diaspora movement and music through a spiritual framework.
...explores identity and sexuality as a route to creating inclusive immaterial space wherein Black femmes are self-possessed agents acknowledged for defining the multiplicity of their worlds…
Stilt walker, political organizer, North Carolina native, Princeton alumnus and dancer Courtney Crumpler brought a capacious appetite for collective movement as a political technology…
“My time in the Dance Program has meant that I have been able to keep dance central to my life, allowing me to learn new things—not just about the technique—but also about the history, the…
A trans-disciplinary movement artist and graphic designer who creates interactive and immersive experiences that emphasize modes of embodiment. Her thesis, "I Am. We Are.", is a series of…
"The Dance Program has allowed me to work in the technical mindset of an engineer by day while simultaneously prioritizing creativity by letting the left-brain roam free in the place I will…
...a dance artist and scholar working at the intersection of art and embodied activism. Her thesis project, “Quare Dance: Fashioning a Black, Queer, Fem(me)inist Aesthetic in Ballet,”…
Choreographer, teaching artist and performer. Building on a foundation of progressive, feminist and critical pedagogy, her thesis project brings relevant literature into a toolkit for ballet…
"My time in the Dance Program allowed me to healthily balance the stress of my other academic pursuits."
“The Dance Program has allowed me to think about dance in a completely different way by providing some of the most unique classes, like ‘Dancing States of Mind’ and ‘Performance and Technology…
Her works are rooted in the idea that art is the tool necessary to forward the dialogue surrounding social injustice and change
...passionate about the ways in which movement and dance build and strengthen community.
....I am passionate about the performing arts, especially the expression found through dance.
Monica Hogan Danceworks, Director: "In so many ways, the Duke Dance Program truly helped me to grow into myself as a performer, a choreographer, and as a person."
I learned how to analyze dance from multiple aspects, studying the history, structure, and concepts of dance, in addition to the physical movement.
