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Founding and artistic director: @sydmosley
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GOOD NEWS! SLMDances has been nominated for TWO @bessieawards for our production of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells at Lincoln Center.

Outstanding Choreographer/Creator
Sydnie L. Mosley, et al.

Outstanding Performer
Dyane Harvey

PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells has been and continues to be shaped by MANY hands. The following credits name those whose creative collaboration contributed specifically to the *world premiere performances* at Lincoln Center in June 2023.

PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells (World Premiere 2023)
an evening length choreopoem devised by the SLMDances collective

with Lead Choreography and Direction by Sydnie L. Mosley Associate Direction by Amy Shoshana Blumberg  
in collaboration with A. Nia Austin-Edwards, Joan Bradford, Natasha Calixte, Alexis DeVance, Havana Fisher, Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Justina Kamiel Grayman, Brittany Grier, Rebecca Gual, Dyane Harvey, Kadie Henderson, Lorena Jaramillo, Rosamond S. King, Ziiomi Law, Jessica Lee, Counterfeit Madison, Stephenni Miller-Allen, Halima Mossi, Jessica Ray, Veleda Roehl, Allegra Romita, SEHAY, Bianca Paige Smith, Ianne Fields Stewart, Candance Sumpter, Angelica Mondol Viaña, Charmaine Warren, Christine Wyatt, Maya Simone Z.

Original Dramaturgy by Connie Winston

Text by Ntozake Shange
with additional text by Amy Shoshana Blumberg, Justina Grayman, Rebecca Gual, Dyane Harvey, Lorena Jaramillo, Rosamond S. King, Sydnie L. Mosley, Veleda Roehl

Spanish Translations by Lorena Jaramillo

Music composed by Counterfeit Madison
with additional music by Koko Taylor and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah

Set and Installation Design by Shani Peters
Quilts on loan by Kim F. Hall: Fall/Spring and Untitled Coral
Floral Arrangements by Handel Leon, Baezas Flowers And Decorations

Lighting Design by Alexandra Vásquez Dheming

Costume Design by Hopi Lynn Burrows and Annie J. Le

Audio Description by Kayla Hamilton and Joselia Rebekah Hughes
American Sign Language Interpretation provided by SignNexus

Stage Management by Sarah Herdrich and Becca Pickett

Technical Direction by Carl Whipple and Tony Crawford

Created alongside Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center & Amsterdam Houses Elders by @slmdances

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SLMDances has been building something beautiful for 15 years!

In the midst of the political storm we’re in with both the private and public defunding of the arts, we do not take a single moment of SLMDances’ story for granted.

It’s literally because you share your time, energy, networks, money, space, skills, food, car rides, and even the moments reading this post, that we have accomplished all we have. NONE of where Sydnie L. Mosley Dances is today would be possible without you Supporter. 🙏🏽

THANK YOU. 🥂🍾

At this moment in SLMDances’ story, our vision remains clear:

We are moving the stories of Black-femmes at the intersection of many marginalized identities to the front through our performances, education work, and organizational structure. 🖤

Audience participation and community collaboration is central and essential to this work. ⭕️

SLMDances is a catalyzing force.💥

Take a moment to reflect on our impact over the last 15 years: What We’ve Done, Where We’ve Done It, and Who Made It Possible.

We can’t wait to celebrate with you this summer at @jacobspillow !

#SLMDances15 #iheartslmdances by @slmdances

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News! 🥰✨

#25ToWatch by @slmdances

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May 16 | 2PM @bethanyartsorg
40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562

Join SLMDances for a public offering as the culmination of their @worksandprocess at Bethany Arts Community for their new work in development, A Side Of The World For A Canvas, based on the work of Zora Neale Hurston.

This informal sharing will include a performance of their work-in-progress developed during their residency week, and invite participation and feedback from witnesses.

Free and open to the public.

Register @bethanyartsorg.

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Image ID 1: Six SLMDancers. They each wear vibrant colors of green, pink, yellow, blue, and orange. Some wear dresses and others wear mixed tops and bottoms. The dancers stand gathered in a clump, and in unison, their bodies face the camera while their focus and their right arms extend toward the sun in the sky. They are outside in the grass at the park with trees in the background. This image is framed with a black border and text that reads ‘Works & Process 2025-2026 Open Call Residency Artist. Sydnie L. Mosley Dances In partnership with Bethany Arts Community.’ Credit: @shocphoto / @worksandprocess

Image ID 2: 1937 black and white photo of Zora Neale Hurston, half-length portrait, standing, smiling, facing slightly left, beating the hountar, or mama drum. Credit: New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Library of Congress by @slmdances

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Work-In-Progress Showing with @slmdances
A Side Of The World For A Canvas
Based on the work of Zora Neale Hurston

📅 Saturday May 16
⏰ 2-4PM
🎟️ FREE Community Program! RSVP at the link in our bio.

A Side Of The World For A Canvas is a site-responsive dance-theater work crafted to highlight Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as a dance and theater maker, a foremother of Black feminism, and an artist whose work across media amplified the stories of everyday Black folks. The title is a quote drawn from her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God that describes the ease with which men could shoot the breeze and tell stories to one another crafting their own version of reality. In this work, women and femmes assume this agency through story telling creating their own possibilities.

This informal sharing will include a performance of their work-in-progress developed during their residency week, and invite participation and feedback from witnesses. Open to all ages.

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This Residency and Community Program are made possible through BAC’s partnership with @worksandprocess at the @guggenheim

Photo 1: by Effy Grey
Photo 2: by Shoc Photo
Photo 3: by Christopher Dugga

#bethanyartscommunity #dance #artistresidency #openrehearsal @thedanceconservatoryny @rivertowndanceacademy @purchasedance @pacedanceteam @pace_hhdc @pacecommercialdance @blackcowcoffeeco @blackwestchester @juneteenthcouncil @enubuilds @neweracreativespace by @slmdances

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This weekend I had the privilege of being honored by the Patapso River Maryland Chapter of The Links (@prclinks) as a part of their annual Women in the Arts program @morganstateu.

Their theme, Leading The Change: Women Shaping A Sustainable Future, honored me amongst a company of Black women who are both artists and change makers in their respective fields.

It was especially meaningful to receive this honor at home because may folks never forget, I’m from Baltimore.

Congratulations to all the honorees (listed below) and many thanks to The Links for this recognition.

@biglyss_
@joicartermusic
@leslieking_hammond
@holliehoodmincey
@created.byjoy
@starmakersdance
@ptts430
@tanearenee
April Ryan
@noreenjustissmith
@nicashiacreates
@kyoungteacher by @slmdances

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This week I had the pleasure of being a Guest Artist at @twudance. I had such a good time sharing with their undergrad and grad students.

From teaching @slmdances rep in technique classes, sharing creative practice in composition and through a lecture with performance video, to sharing thoughts on dance education, and sharing 15 years of personal and professional history with MFAs because I *wish* someone had told me a REAL, unfiltered story of life as an artist when I was imagining my life post-grad school.

Many thanks to the division faculty and staff for your hospitality. I hope to see you again!

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✨ repost from @twudance
✨ in good company with this month’s guest artists
✨ a busy schedule
✨ guest lecture in Contemporary Issues In Dance
✨ spotted: @ladydy161 and @fon_dance_theatre
✨ a quick catch up with Sky Full Of Elephants collaborator @leoncarlo
✨ in the presence of ESTEEMED alum @kayla_hamilton903 by @slmdances

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So often, movement of the body is excluded from our Black liberation stories and strategies. But @cebocampbell gets it — in his novel Sky Full of Elephants he writes that “our unison is holy” and describes Black folks dancing together en masse as the literal key to our liberation.💥

Thank you Cebo for entrusting @slmdances to bring that to life. 🙏🏽

Last week at Mryia Gallery we transformed the lower level into Mobile, Alabama sparkling at night. Just as the novel’s characters Nona and Seraphin guide Sidney and Charlie to release, laugh, sweat, and let go through movement, @__victoriaprice as Nona and @sydmosley as Seraphin invited witnesses to imagine themselves as a part of a Mobile street party moving toward the “swell of joy and freedom.”

Choreography, Script Adaptation, and Direction: Sydnie L. Mosley
Performers: Victoria Price, Sydnie L. Mosley
Music: Leoncarlo Canlas @leoncarlo and Jason B. Lucas @bizdrummer
Dramaturgy: Amy Shoshana Blumberg @amyshoshanablumberg

Special thanks to @ambitiousjaze, @yari.mercedes and Cebo for your production support, and all the artists whose offerings made this such a special evening including our closing conversation with @lenawaithe.

Photography by @thecleveragency
Event by @unothrone taken in New York, New York by @slmdances

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Today SLMDances had a great chat about what it means to exchange and share resources.

We talked a lot about what it means to give from your OVERFLOW, to give what ENERGIZES you, to give what EXCITES you!

Check out our stories and the *Resource Sharing* highlight on our page to see what our community is offering.

And please share in the chat: What do you have to give? 💚 by @slmdances

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Ten years ago, SLMDances produced BodyBusiness, a work that called for folks to take care of one another through bartering and resource sharing. We are heartened to see the current flurry of resource exchange in the wake of the government’s shutdown and abandonment, and grateful that SLMDances’ BodyBusiness Resource Sharing events on Instagram Live can contribute to folks meeting their needs.

In our practice, we start from a place of abundance by naming what we have to give. Among us collectively, we have all we need. When we know what is available amongst our community members, we can connect with them to exchange those offerings.

Love. Joy. Momentum. Gratitude. These words were final takeaways during our last event where folks across the U.S. shared a myriad of offerings from garden-fresh food in Columbus, Ohio to rehearsal space in Washington, D.C. We hope you’ll join us for the next gathering.

Tuesday, November 11 @ 1PM
@slmdances by @slmdances

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SLMDances welcomes Victoria Price @__victoriaprice for tonight’s We Adapt: Sky Full of Elephants Immersive!

In collaboration with @leoncarlo and @bizdrummer, Victoria and Artistic Director @sydmosley will bring the characters NONA and SERAPHIN to life as they guide tonight’s witnesses toward the “swell of joy and freedom.”

Victoria Price (she/her) is an actor, dancer, singer, social media manager, podcast host, and breast cancer survivor and advocate. she recently closed the world premier Zora Neale Hurston play Spunk at Yale Repertory Theatre where Sydnie L. Mosley was the assistant choreographer + Victoria was dance captain. While Chicago is home, Victoria has curated a beautiful life in nyc + spent the past couple years on Broadway National Tours, performing at regional houses, + also being the social media manager for brands like Marriott and Google (Android). Victoria is so grateful to be here with you all—thank you to Cebo for his beautiful work + bringing us all together + thank you for Sydnie for continuing to give me the opportunity to create through dance. by @slmdances

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We Adapt: Sky Full Of Elephants Immersive

Two floors of immersive art: poetry, dance, painting, film, photography, VR, music, and food inspired by the novel Sky Full of Elephants. Eight visionary artists will interpret the story’s most powerful emotional arcs, showing how one novel can unfold in infinite ways.

SLMDances is excited to share as a part of this experience. by @slmdances

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