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Quentin Apollovaughn Sledge

@apollo_vaughn

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Model. Artist. Revolutionary. Freelance
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Formerly: @daytoncontemporarydancecompany
Morehouse 2014- BA
MLIS-Kent State, MFA-Hollins U.
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The EMERGING process has always been bigger than a showcase. It teaches the skills of production, creative direction, and choreography. This video features choreographers learning the fundamentals of technical theater at UGA, and building out the black box theater for their performance at Georgia Tech.
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Move to Change Artist Spotlight: @apollo_vaughn @apollo_vaughn work sits at the intersection of dance, archival practice, teaching, and cultural reclamation, using the moving body as a site for preserving, questioning, and reimagining Black histories and knowledge. Through choreography, improvisation, and frameworks like Africana Ancestral Improv Intelligence (AAII) and Ibeji, he explores how Black people can become authors of their own histories and create new ways of transmitting what the archive cannot hold. As an American of African descent, he is inspired by the meeting of Africana ways of knowing the body and the Euro-Western contemporary dance traditions he was taught to value. He is interested in what happens when Africana rhythms, polycentric movement, and nonlinear relationships to time meet the staging, composition, and choreographic modes of artists like Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, Juliano Nunes, Thomas “Talawa” Presto, Kyle Abraham, Camille A. Brown, Akram Khan, Crystal Pite, and Azure Barton. @apollo_vaughn -/Rorshack is a black-and-white screendance exploring shadow work, fractured identity, and the excavation of the mind and body. Through a confrontation with anti-Blackness, internalized violence, and the pressure to conform to Euro-Western aesthetics, the film becomes a dance with the self, peeling away constructed personas toward a more integrated sense of being. Tickets to bear witness to -/Rorshack will go on sale Monday, September 28th and will be livestreamed from October 5-25. #MoveToChange #dancefestival #BIPOCChoreographers #ShareCreateInspire
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We’re back in the studio and preparing for New Dance Partners at @midwesttrustcenterjccc ! @chrispagesanders0203 choreographing on Owen/Cox 🤝 @jennifer.c.owen.39 choreographing on @storling_dance_theater This one you don’t want to miss! Dancers @sammypmc and @apollo_vaughn Photography @kennyphotokc
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Throughout the past two summers, I witnessed and experienced the thoughtful research, choreographic and interdisciplinary development, and artistic becoming of a beautifully unique, deeply invested, and earthshakingly talented group of artists. I’m humbled and honored to have been a member of this MFA in Dance cohort at Hollins University. There was a remarkable, magical magnetism that I won’t forget. The care and commitment to each other and our collective energies toward our dance research is a rarity I wish all artists could experience. My thesis, Choreographic Oracles: Artificial Intelligence, Ritual, and Technological Implications for the Future of Dance, allowed me to create a new framework through which to archive, create, learn, and teach movement. In performance, I verbally communicated with an AI movement system I built and trained through my own research. It can measure my body, identify dance shapes and movement, and offer real-time motion capture feedback. Effectively, I bridged the gap between embodied knowledge and embodied technology as a means of research and performance. More content on that to come! All of my coursework is now complete, and I’m putting the final touches on my written thesis. Thank you to my friends, family, professors, and mentors for making this whole process possible… The work and research continue forward. MFA, here I come!!
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Get ready for the opening of our newest exhibition, No Excellent Beauty: Disability Aesthetics! On view from July 9th to November 25th, this exhibition features the work of two digital photographers (@paperdolltrouble and @michaelsvh) who express their invisible disabilities through unique self-portraits. Here’s a sneak peek of our resources corner, which includes relevant literature and videos, braille translations of our title text, wall labels, and gallery guide (courtesy of Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired), and free postcards and bookmarks of the artwork! This is your last chance to come in and see our MFA Dance Lab exhibition, Time to Go: Haint-Blu, and our 2026 Women Working with Clay show! Time to Go: Haint-Blu closes on Thursday and Women Working with Clay closes on Saturday. Come check them out before it’s too late! This is your last chance to come in and see our MFA Dance Lab exhibition, Time to Go: Haint-Blu, and our 2026 Women Working with Clay show! Time to Go: Haint-Blu closes on Thursday and Women Working with Clay closes on Saturday. Come check them out before it’s too late!
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Join us for our 20th Anniversary Season! Creative Intersections Directed by Olivia Emert @olivia_emert New Dance Partners with Choreographer Christopher-Page Sanders @chrispagesanders0203 (Jennifer Owen to choreograph for Storling Dance Theater) For the Love of Dance- the Owen/Cox annual fundraiser with special performance by Calvin Arsenia @calvinarsenia The Nutcracker and the Mouse King in partnership with The People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City and the Midwest Trust Center @midwesttrustcenterjccc Bach Moves in collaboration with the Bach Aria Soloists @bachariasoloists for one night only at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art @nelsonatkins 20th Anniversary Retrospective Concert and Celebration reuniting dancers and musicians from our two-decade history with works spanning the company’s diverse repertoire! Photography by @kennyphotokc Second slide photo by @ryanandrewbruce
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Our biggest and best season yet is coming! Celebrate our 20th season with six can’t miss events culminating in a fabulous Retrospective concert next April! Season ticket packages go on sale July 1, and can be purchased on our website owencoxdance.org or through @midwesttrustcenterjccc Photography @kennyphotokc Dancer @mashaaaa
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Tomorrow is the opening night of Quentin Sledge’s multimedia film installation, Time to Go: Haint-Blu, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. Ibeji, Sledge’s opening dance performance, will take place on Thursday, June 18th at 7:30 PM in the museum’s Main Gallery. Sledge’s installation examines the museum as a site of self-reflection, memory, and colonial contradiction. Through his exploration of Blackness and the colonial fictions of race, gender, sexuality, and selfhood, Sledge invites viewers into an evolving process of reflection, embodiment, and collective remembrance. Time to Go: Haint-Blu will be on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum from June 18 - July 9, 2026.
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Had the best of times dancing at @springboarddanse Thank you @alexandrawells.dance for everything that you are and do ❤️ Met the most amazing artists and reconnected with so many old friends and mentors I just wished I had taken more pictures 😭
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First international artist residency 🙏🏾 Grateful for the opportunity to have served as a guest artist in residence at Oberlin College in Ohio. During this residency in May, I performed as a featured ensemble dancer in the Oberlin Dance Company Spring 2026 production Laugh and Cry Can Live Same House, directed by Dr. Talawa Prestø. I also had the privilege of facilitating a Carnival-inspired movement workshop with students from the Africana Studies cohort. It is an honour to represent Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean in this capacity. There is a deep and undeniable beauty in cultural exchange—where movement becomes language, and difference becomes connection. I thank God for opening new doors of opportunity and for intricately guiding each step along this journey. Deep gratitude to Dr. Talawa Prestø for the trust, guidance, and for holding space for me within this project, to the beautiful artists I shared space with and the entire cast for the generosity, energy, and shared artistry, and to my loving friends who flew in and drove for hourssss just to come and witness me perform ❤️❤️
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A look back at Let's Dance International Frontiers 2026 (LDIF26) The sixteenth edition of LDIF26 featured 64 artists, representing 15 countries including Barbados, Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, France, Gabon, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, UK, USA and Zimbabwe. Over 11 days the festival showcased seven world premieres and five UK premieres taking place across three venues in Leicester City Centre. By exploring the theme Reimaging Tomorrow: New Work, Afrofuturism and Technology, LDIF26 shined with an eclectic programme of dynamic performances, discussion, masterclasses and networking opportunities. Join us for Let's Dance International Frontiers 2027 and save the date! 29 April - 8 May 2027 Keep an eye out on our social media and newsletters for programme announcements and be amongst the first to book your tickets for LDIF27 when tickets go live. Video credits: Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage and Leesha Williams, @leeshawilliamsphotoandfilm @onyxbrandingco #LetsDanceInternationalFrontiers
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Eight days to go until the launch of Let's Dance International Frontiers 2026. Today we highlight the Reimagining Tomorrow: New Work, Afrofuturism and Technology conference taking place on Tuesday 5 May. The conference is inspired by the spirit of Sankofa, a reminder to look back and honour the past to build the future. The conference features the voices of pioneers who have paved the way for Black dance and Black dancers internationally, whether that is though being the first to train, perform, teach or lead within mainstream dance institutions whilst ensuring they are not the last, or though forging new work and new spaces that holistically embrace and define Diaspora dance practice today. Contributors include: • Pawlet Brookes MBE • Brenda Dixon Gottschild • Julie Felix MBE • Marlène Myrtil • Shamel Pitts • Quentin Sledge • Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE Tuesday 5 May 2026 10.00am - 5.00pm Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage £80 Find out more and book your tickets today by clicking the link in our bio Image credit: Quentin Sledge photographed by Scott Robbins, GeekWithALens.
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