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🤸🏽‍♂️✨Dancer. Writer.
💚✨Lover. Foodie. Plant Mama.
🎭✨Artistic Director @slmdances.
🖤✨#sayhername
💌✨Please *EMAIL* for biz inquiries.

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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 @sydmosley

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In the summer of 2006, I interned in the @jacobspillow Education department — a pivotal experience that helped prepare me for my dance career.

A new 21 years old, I learned how to have a job, that is, how to manage a role and responsibilities toward a clear goal. I built relationships with an array of wonderful humans who have supported me throughout my journey.

*AND* I learned what to do if you see a bear roaming around. (Extend your arms up to make yourself as big as possible, then slowly, back away. 🐻✨)

It was the second time I found myself at a summer dance festival feeling affirmed that I wanted to have a life in dance. (The @amerdancefest won me over when I was 14.)

So it is a full circle moment to celebrate SLMDances’ 15th Anniversary at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. We will present a program spanning years of our work: excerpts from PURPLE (2023) will provide a spiritual grounding, while an excerpt from The Window Sex Project (2012) will be our protest dance. We’ll indulge our call for Black girls’ pleasure and joy with CAKE (2014), and I will dance audience favorite I Wished On The Moon (2012).

Our team is fully in production mode and plot twists have begun!

I’m feeling grateful to be working from a grounded, spacious place, as we prepare over the next couple of weeks. 🙏🏽✨ by @sydmosley

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Today, @nytimes highlighted @slmdances collective leadership practice amongst many other dance organizations.

I’m so grateful for the Creative and Visioning Partners who make up the core of our collective. Without their investment and commitment, none of our creative and community work would be possible.

I’m also so so grateful for those who forged this way of working, both outside and inside the dance field. Shared leadership, distributed leadership, collective leadership — whatever you wanna call it — is ancient practice, especially amongst Black and indigenous folks.

To specifically name my lineages inside of the dance field, I learned directly from @browngirldance / INSPIRIT and @palomamcgregor / @angelaspulse, who learned from @ubwdance and @danceexchange. A. Nia Austin-Edwards / @purposeproductions guided SLMDances in refining this practice during their four year tenure as Strategic Visioning Partner, working alongside myself and Artistic Visioning Partner @allegromita.

And now, our team of Visioning Partners including @marvngaye and Creative Partners including @well_banne @jdlee1135 @joanina.bradford @_likecandy @guallygual @lorejrm have defined our collective:

The SLMDances collective is a network of visioning partners, creative partners, creative partners in development, guest artists, advisory board, and a visioning board moving as a poly rhythmic ensemble.

Our collective is an individually owned, cooperatively run organization with intentional concentric circles of support and leadership.

Our collective practice holds space for you to dream radically and to show up as your full self with accountability to the collective as we grow into leadership.

Thank you @margaretfuhrer for sharing a bit of our story. by @sydmosley

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4 years ago

A quarterly meme dump is proving easier to post than thoughtful offerings, exciting news, and life recaps.

Q2 2026 in review.

Sources:
@ocd_and_positivity
@drmarkhyman
@yusawillie
@newyorkermag
@going_with_grace
@nycferry
@timyfreaksunit
@theantoinettethomas
@going_with_grace
@thebaltimorefoodie by @sydmosley

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This deserves main grid real estate. White people should not get the day off of work on Juneteenth. Pay a Black person today. Capitalize the B in Black. by @sydmosley

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4 months ago

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.

📸:
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 @sydmosley

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“Justice is not always loud,” write collaborators @sydmosley and @roxitheresearcher. “Sometimes it looks like two Black women—choreographers, educators, and community builders—laughing over the phone, refining choreography between rehearsals, or reflecting with students in a circle. Sometimes it looks like rage softened into rhythm, grief metabolized through sweat, or joy held deliberately in the middle of exhaustion.

“For us, justice is practiced in the body—through African diasporic movement structures that allow us to gather, respond, refuse, and survive together. The circle. Call-and-response. Improvisation. Rhythm as grounding. Practices rooted in African diasporic traditions that continue to shape contemporary dance communities. These are not just stylistic elements; they are structures of care. These practices invite bodies often excluded from classical aesthetics—different shapes, histories, and movement vocabularies—to take up space and author their own stories. The curriculum of our engagements—how we gather, structure the circle, move, reflect, and iterate—becomes essential to the sharing itself. The process is not separate from the performance; it too is the performance.

“As artists shaped by lineage and community, we have come to understand that dance is not separate from the world’s crises—it is how we move through them.”

Continue reading at the link in our bio. 🧡

📸: Roxi Victorian (center) teaching in community. Photo by Walt B, @thesafehavenmedia, Courtesy Victorian.
📸: Sydnie L. Mosley (center) leading a community workshop as part of The Window Sex Project. Photo by @iamjesuscalixto, Courtesy Mosley.
📝: @sydmosley and @roxitheresearcher

#dance #socialjusticeart #embodied

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1–4) Text in caption.
5) Above: Roxi Victorian dances, surrounded by other women moving with her. She wear a t-shirt, camo pants, and a baseball cap. Below: Sydnie L. Mosley leading an outdoor dance class. She stretches her arms overhead and her students follow along. Text: Learn more at dancemagazine.com by @sydmosley

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#qotd: “As artists shaped by lineage and community, we have come to understand that dance is not separate from the world’s crises—it is how we move through them.”
—Sydnie L. Mosley, choreographer and founder of SLM Dances

Tap the link in our bio for the @dancemagazine article.

#Choreographer #SLMDances #Inspiration @sydmosley @slmdances by @sydmosley

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6 months ago

Soooo grateful that I got to spend this past weekend with my Stister on the occasion of her 40th birthday!

By the grace of God, Greer is here loving on all of us generously and being a brilliant guiding light. How blessed we are to walk the earth at the same time.

By the grace of God, I was able to be present and celebrate with her.

And by the grace of God, family and friends who showed up? Showed out! Understood the assignment. 70s. Disco. Playas Ball. 🪩

Happy 40th my dear sister. Love you always. by @sydmosley

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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 @sydmosley

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7 months ago

Winter ‘25-‘26 has tried to take me out.

And still I rise, meme dump.

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Sources in order:
@mytherapistsays
@bellesaco
@forgoodcode
@foodandwine
@yourbrain_onmoney
@jadewarshaw
@vintagelawgirl
@memesonbway
@blkandgrn
@iamthirtyaf
@panpsyche
@danijlee by @sydmosley

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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!

📸:
✨ 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 @sydmosley

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