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Essence. A love letter to Umfundalai @umfundalai_naaadt . 8 works. A revelation of truth. An evening deeply personal to my heart. We’re leaving it all on the stage. See you there 🤎

@dancecenterccc October 23 at 7:30 PM
October 24 matinee — abbreviated program
Direct ticket link in my bio!
(I couldn’t tag everyone but I have love for each of you to no end 🫶🏾) by @lenelle.ann

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Still learning. Still teaching. Still loving. Forever blessed to be in conversation with such a wonderful thing. Nanigo 2026 was wonderful. 📸 @aeriacharles taken in Long Beach, California by @lenelle.ann

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4 months ago

and then two become one… plus Kota. #simplyselkridge 📸: @photosbydouley by @lenelle.ann

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7 months ago

come out with your hands up. December ‘25. My most recent work. Truly took an unexpected turn. Grateful for the ability and space to be unfiltered. by @lenelle.ann

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10 months ago

another year of moving mountains. heavy are my feet to the earth. strong is my heart to the sky. by @lenelle.ann

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a year ago

learning, teaching, understanding, breathing. Being. Planning chair of Nanigo 2025 was no small feat and I did it in stride. 🤎
📸: @aeriacharles
Nanigo 2025 @umfundalai_naaadt @dancecenterccc @dancecenterpresents by @lenelle.ann

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a year ago

residue of a thing. Putting this bombshell together was such a wonderful and intense journey. Twice it’s hit the stage. I’m speaking that this work will go up over and over again because baby…. They are dancing and the world deserves to see it. 26 dancers. And all of them- in both casts, both versions, worked so hard making it happen….. so thankful for each of them still and always. 📸: @aeriacharles and Julie Lucas so sorry I couldn’t tag everyone/ had to re post it because it disappeared completely. by @lenelle.ann

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Residue of a thing. This work has been like no other…. And baby this cast….. I know Mama is grinning down on us for this one. Nanigo was such a success, and to cap it off with this work was well… perfect. Umfundalai, I thank you everyday for letting me be a vessel. Asè @umfundalai_naaadt by @lenelle.ann

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I’ve spent the last two years shying away from making work outside of my “job”. Post grad school, I had this feeling that I needed to prove that I’m researching. I felt like I needed to prove that I was making- and searching- and wondering… To know me is to know that if I feel like I have to prove my right to be somewhere or do something OR EVEN TO BE SOMETHING… chilleee, I just won’t do it. So I didn’t. I’m happy I didn’t. It forced me to finally, after all of this life as “the dancer”, explore what life is like outside of this fruitful art. What that did, brought me to my humanness in a different way than I’ve found it inside of dance. I learned I like to cook and run by lakes. I learned that I enjoy hosting friends at my home and making mocktails. Most of all, I learned that my incessant need to care for and cover the people around me didn’t only exist in dance spaces. It existed in the everyday conversations I had about food, or the way I curated my home… And in all of this learning I did, I made this not so spectacular conclusion.. I can be the research too. That by living my life, and learning myself, the way I come in contact with others, the way I’m in relationship with the earth… is research too. And this little finding has fueled a whole new space of making ( in literally the last month) that I feel so held in. I’ve always talked about being covered and held externally in my research. But to hold self. To hold space for self. TO COVER MYSELF…. TO DANCE FOR MYSELF has made me see the way others find themselves in the material I make so much more abundant… And then after that you realize., it’s all research. To breathe is research baby.
BĀLA DANCE PROJECT performing “In Every Lifetime, Cover Me” At Links Hall November 2nd 2024. taken in Links Hall by @lenelle.ann

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2 years ago

In every life time… at every moment.. you will be covered. 📷: @aeriacharles by @lenelle.ann

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2 years ago

This one has been in my drafts for a few years now lol I kind of forgot it was there. by @lenelle.ann

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Can I post a little throwback of my first film as I prepare to start working on my second (and continue to work on this one via submission lol)What a time this was. I have such a special place in my heart for every single light being that worked with me on this one. 🫶🏾 🎥 @dredirect_ by @lenelle.ann

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3 years ago