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Instructor Bio:
I have been studying and performing Afro-diasporic dance for eleven years. My core practice is Mandé dance of the Bamana people from present-day Mali, but I have also spent years practicing Yorùbá and Afro-Brazilian dance in Los Angeles, CA. I have studied Guinean, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Haitian dance in New York, NY; Durham, NC; Cambridge, MA; and Los Angeles, CA. My teachers have included Omowale and Francis Awe, Tania Melendez, Silfredo La O, Kimberly Miguel Mullen, Seydou Coulibaly, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Rachel Hernandez, Linda Yudin, Luiz Badaró, Samantha Blake Goodman, Vera Passos, Gisella Ferreira, Vida Vierra, Amen Santo, Ana Laidley and Jean Appolon. I have taught and choreographed for Beneficent Congregational Church, Barrington Congregational Church, Providence Public Schools, Global Dance Arts, the Providence Parks and Recreation Department, Brown University Recreation, and the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. I have performed with the New Works/World Traditions Dance Company, The Axé Collective, Swing Brazil Tribe, The Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble, and Ballet Folclórico Do Brasil. As a non-Black person, I commit to redistributing at least 20% of any resources I receive for teaching Afro-diasporic movement to Black communities.
At Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have completed Self-Healing QiGong, Harmony Tai Chi, InfiniChi levels 1 and 2a, Crane Style Qigong, and Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention. I am currently in the eight-month Level 1 program offered by the International Taoist Meditation Institute and studying Qigong Meditations for Weight Management with Amira Kusala. My father taught me Yang Style Tai Chi as well.