MFA Students
Alyah Baker
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
As a Dancer, Entrepreneur, and Community Activator, Alyah Baker leads a multifaceted life that exists at the intersection of art, activism, and social justice. In 2003 she received a B.A....
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Courtney Allen Crumpler
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Courtney Allen Crumpler moved home to North Carolina to start the MFA in Dance at Duke after six years living and working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is interested in public art that brings...
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Amanda L. Edwards
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Hometown: Mount Vernon, NY
Degree: B.F.A. Dance, with honors, University of the Arts, 2015
Amanda began her dance training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and participated in summer...
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Ayan Felix
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Ayan Felix (Gulf Coast) is a contemporary movement artist searching for methods of acknowledging black femme experiences in public spaces. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in...
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Juliet Irving
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Juliet Irving is from Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina where she took dance classes at an early age, cultivating her love of movement and choreography. She is a recent graduate of Appalachian...
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Amari Jones
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705
Campus Box: 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Degree: B.A. Dance; minor Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2019
Amari has been dancing in the public school system since the fifth...
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Courtney Liu
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Courtney Liu is a performer, dance teacher, choreographer, and researcher who is currently pursuing her MFA at Duke University (Expected Graduation 2021). She has taught dance nationally and...
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Ife Michelle Presswood
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Ife Michelle, a native of Charlotte, NC, began her dance training through the North Carolina Performing Arts Academy at age 7, continuing through college via the University of North Carolina at...
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Davian “DJ” Robinson
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705
Campus Box: 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Hometown: Newton, NC
Degrees: B.S. Exercise Science; B.A. Dance, both with honors, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020
DJ has studied ballet, hip-hop, tap, and...
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Naomi “Namajala” Milagros Washington Roque
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Namajala Naomi is a teacher and community worker who is dedicated to working with adults and young people of the African diaspora to help them realize their greatest potentials as worthy,...
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Susan D. Webb, M.D.
MFA Student
Office: 2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90686
Phone: 919-660-3354
Originally from New York City, I grew up dancing ballet in a vibrant artistic community. After receiving a B.A. in English literature from Rice University, a desire to delve deeper into the human...
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