(Updated 1/24)
Upcoming 2024
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival Mid-April
Dollar Bank Black History Month Expo February 20
NACHMO Pittsburgh Showcase Pittsburgh, Pa February 17
Judging Panel- Rhythm City Dance Competition Washington, PA. February 11
2023
Blaktinx Festival Tina Turner Tribute – Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance NYC November 11
Changing the Race Dance Conversations and Showcase Charter Arts Bethlehem, PA September 28-29
DC Summer Dance Showcase – Capitol Hill Arts Workshop July 7-8
Focus on Renewal’s Juneteenth Celebration Ryan Arts Center – June 10
Pittsburgh Pride Festival-Main Stage – June 4
Queer Spectra Arts Festival – Salt Lake City, Utah May 20-21
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival April 28-29
Freshworks Residency – Kelly Strayhorn Theater WIP Showing April 6-7
NACHMO Showcase Pittsburgh Ballet Theater Feb 9
2022
Dance for the Cure December 11
Crossing Paths Movement Collective Bethlehem, PA Nov. 4-5
Pearl Watch/Charette Series Alloy Studios Sept 29th
Art in odd places: Story- NYC Sept. 23-25
Dance Africa Pittsburgh – July 29-30
Stones to Rainbows Queer Cabaret @ Central Square Theater Boston MA. June 18-19
Pittsburgh PrideFest June 5
Venice Experimental Art Festival as part of the 59th Venice Biennale April 23
Art all Night Pittsburgh April 23-24
Pittsburgh Virtual Fringe April 6-8
Crossing Paths Movement Collective’s
CHI Choreographers showcase March 19-20 Philadelphia, PA
Panelist for Mid America Arts Alliance Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant Program- St Louis Missouri
Get Tough Get BAAD- Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance – Feb 5
New Work Commissioned for Nandanik Dance Co. To premiere at Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Panelist for Cambridge Arts Grant Program
NACHMO Pittsburgh Showcase
2021
Recipient of the DEAR Fellowship-Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, NYC
Recipient of Heinz Endowments/ Pittsburgh Foundation Advancing Black Arts Pittsburgh Unrestricted Grant
Art Attack – Northrup Building Minneapolis, MN.
Recipient of Pittsburgh Glass Center’s Idea Furnace Award and Residency
Recipient of Pittsburgh Foundation’s Mac Miller BIPOC Artist Micro grant
Recipient of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Community Based Engagement Award
Dance Africa Pittsburgh presented by Legacy Arts Projects Aug 21
Long Beach Black Dance Festival presented by Cray Project Aug 15
Recipient of the Rosie Simas Danse Studio 331 Residency Program Minneapolis Mn
Featured visual artist Art as Liberation- Celebrating Black Artist in Pittsburgh June 18
Featured artist – Bloomfield Garden Club 2021 Season July 10/11 Grow Pittsburgh Garden Braddock PA.
Appointment to NACHMO Board of Directors
Guest Speaker for Slippery Rock University GIESO – Night Out April 15
GlitterStream2 – Virtual fundraiser for Glitter Box Theater Pittsburgh, PA March 7
Oye! Avant-garde Virtual Festival March 5
Featured performer for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Celebration Feb 12
Nominated for The Young-Howze Theater Award- Movement Artist of the Year
Recipient Creative Learning Network Professional Development Stipend
Creative Learning Network Virtual Teaching Artist Residency
NACHMO Pittsburgh Showcase 2021 February 12
Queer Movie Makers- BAAD!!! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance February 6
Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s Open Air Series Choreographers Showcase May 20
Performance for Fertile Ground produced by Valerie Greene/Dance Entropy at Green Space NYC 2020 May 16
Mark DeGarmo Dance Virtual Salon for Social Change April 1
Facilitating the 4th annual Pittsburgh Dance Week 2021 April 12-18
2020
Curator and Host of The Reparations Show- Kraine Theater /Frigid NYC Nov 13
Orlando Fringe Festival / Fringe Fridays Nov 7
GlitterStream- Virtual Fundraiser for Glitterbox Theater – Oct 4
Recipient of the Advancing Black Artists Pittsburgh Grant
Legacy Arts Project Artist in Residence
The Breath Project Archive- Ongoing
Cray Project-Long Beach Black Dance Festival Aug 14-16 virtual
Aids Free Pittsburgh & True T Pittsburgh Too Hot for July: Black AF Friday August 7
Panelist for Black Theater Roundtable NYC Aug 4th virtual
Panelist in Valerie Greene/Dance Entropy’s ” (Un)Common Ground: Green Space Artists in Dialogue”.
Participant in Public Displays of Motion- Duel Dialogues, a component of Stones to Rainbows/ Gay to Queer Lives Boston,
Mass ongoing
Panelist – Queerly Contemporary Festival virtual Panel Discussion at the 14th St. Y NYC
“BOXEDn : a photo project by Olivia Moon Photography/halfasianlens created for Dancing Queerly 2020 Boston, Mass.
Dance Film showing in Morecambre Fringe – Lancaster England
Queerly contemporary Festival presented by John Zullo June 25th Virtual
Queerly presented by Frigid NY June 19 Virtual
BAAD!!! Presents Out Like That Dance Compilation June 13th Virtual
Art all night Pittsburgh
JAM Press Virtual Watch party May 3-9
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival Virtual May 1st
Guest Teaching Artist SUNY Fredonia Ny March 13
Facilitating 3rd Annual Pittsburgh Dance Week April 6-12
2019
Steps Project with H Gene Thompson October Nov 12
Nick M Daniels/ The DANA Movement Ensemble presents Dancers Against Normal Actions @ City Theater’s Lester
Hamburg Theater Oct 4-5
Small Plates Choreography Festival — Honolulu, Hawaii Sept 20-21
Office of Public Art Airport Performance
Grant selection panel for Erie Arts and Culture
Grant selection panel for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
PgHPaF performance art festival – Pittsburgh, PA
Panelist/adjudicator Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council/PA. Council on the Arts
Recipient of New Voices Rapid Response Social Justice Grant
Legacy Arts Dance Africa — Pittsburgh, PA
Dancing Queerly Dance Complex — Boston, MA
Panelist Dancing Queerly Discussion
24hr choreofest/Ignite Green St. Studios — Boston, MA
Recipient Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist opportunity Grant
Hot Wednesdays Teaching Residency Legacy Arts – Pittsburgh, PA
Norma Jean Barnes Golden Talent Showcase — Sheraden, PA
Teaching Residency Nandanik Dance Academy
SlowDanger s LightLab 17 The Space Upstairs — Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly-Strayhorn Theaters New Moves Contemporary Dance Festival – Pittsburgh, PA
Produced Pittsburgh Liturgical Dance Celebration
Curated and Showed at Forbes Digital Plaza — Pittsburgh, PA
Produced Local Choreographers Showcase @Millenium Dance Complex — Pittsburgh, PA
Produced Pittsburgh Dance Week
It’s Liquid Body Language International Art Exhibition — Venice, Italy
Carnival di Venice – Venice, Italy
Recipient Classic Events Heritage Award for excellence in Choreography
City Council of Pittsburgh Recognition for excellence in choreography
National Choreography Month Pittsburgh Showcase NACHMO
Kelly-Strayhorn Theaters MLK Celebration — Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Cultural Trusts Let Freedom Sing Ebenezer Baptist Church
2018
PearlArts Exquosite Corps – Pittsburgh, PA
National Performance Network Convention Pittsburgh Art Slam – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater My People Queer Arts Showcase – Pittsburgh, PA
This Land is Your Land Love Party #notwhitecollective – Pittsburgh, PA
Don’t Call It A Comeback (self-produced) Ryan Arts/Focus on Renewal – McKees Rocks, PA
Dance Shorts presented by Texture Contemporary Ballet Co. New Hazlett Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
Dancing Queerly Dance Complex – Boston, MA
Festival of Us, You, We, and Them Dance Complex – Boston, MA.
Panelist Dancing Queerly Conversation – Boston, PA
Urban Garden Party Mattress Factory – Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Arts Festival Main stage – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly-Strayhorn New Moves Contemporary Dance Festival – Pittsburgh, PA
Producer Pittsburgh Dance Week – Pittsburgh, PA
Recipient Mayoral Proclamation for Pittsburgh Dance Week
Recipient Pittsburgh Foundation/ Heinz Endowments Advancing Black Arts Grant – Pittsburgh, PA
Panelist Point Park University Arts and Entrepreneurship Symposium Pittsburgh, PA
Panelist Pittsburgh Entrepreneurship Forum – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly- Strayhorn Theaters MLK Celebration – Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Kelly-Strayhorn Theaters My People Series Queer Arts Showcase – Pittsburgh, PA
TransPride Pittsburgh Showcase – Pittsburgh, PA
Urban Garden Party Mattress Factory – Pittsburgh PA
EQT Pridefest Main stage – Pittsburgh, PA
Pearl-Arts Charrette Series – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly -Strayhorn Theater Presents @ Google-Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater Freshworks Residency – Pittsburgh, PA
2016
Kelly- Strayhorn Theater Full Bloom Event – Pittsburgh, PA
Kelly- Strayhorn Theater New Moves Contemporary Dance Festival – Pittsburgh, PA