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

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✨Tickets are now LIVE for our Fall 2026 Great Hall Concerts!✨

November 6th-7th

Featuring works by Dual Rivet, Colin Heininger, Sydnie L. Mosley, & Jamal Kamau White

In-person and Livestream tickets are available now through the link in our bio! See you there 👀

Point of Interruption - @mallorygracedobbs ‘26 for Spring 2026 Student Choreography
Photo by @captured.tylerb

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Published for the first time in @dancemagazine!

I’ve dreamed of writing for DM since I was in undergrad. A dream come true or “mountain top” moment as daddy used to say. Thank you to co-writer @sydmosley. I adore you and the beautiful work we do together.
https://dancemagazine.com/sydnie-l-mosley-roxi-victorian/

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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.

📸:
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

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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

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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

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Two days left until April 27. Don’t miss out.

🔥 25 to Watch Live 🔥
‼️ ONE NIGHT ONLY
📅 Monday, April 27, 2026
⏰ 7 pm EDT

📍 The Apollo Stages at The Victoria (233 W. 125 St., New York, NY 10026)

🎟️ Tix: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006473D571FCA9? OR #linkinbio

#25ToWatchLive #25ToWatch #dance

🎥: Footage from previous 25 to Watch Live events.

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TWU Dance is thrilled to welcome Guest Artist Sydnie L. Mosley!

Sydnie L. Mosley is an award-winning choreographer and writer renowned for socially aware creative work with her collective SLMDances. Her repertoire including her critically acclaimed evening length dances PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells (world premiere Lincoln Center 2023, two-time Bessie nominated), The Window Sex Project, and BodyBusiness—as well as their creative processes—are a model for dance-activism. She was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2024 and recognized by former NYC Mayor de Blasio in 2017 for using dance to fuel social change. Sydnie was part of the Bessie Award-winning skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. In addition to her own work—which she has performed from Lincoln Center to the legendary Apollo Theater—she performed with Christal Brown's INSPIRIT (2010-2013) and Brooklyn Ballet (2009-2019). She has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in ESSENCE, Dance Magazine, and The Washington Post. SLMDances has danced across the US including Brooklyn Museum, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, Dance Brigade (San Francisco), Dance Place (Washington DC), Joyce Soho, Harlem Stage, Judson Church, and many more. She recently served as Assistant Choreographer for the first-ever full staging of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk presented by Yale Repertory Theatre, a play that was lost to time until the Library of Congress uncovered the drama in 1997.

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38th revolution PART 1!

This year has been FULL and truly WILD. It has changed me more than I could have ever anticipated. I am grateful to be here, immersed in the realest support and LOVE. And I get to make art with brilliant people (who I also love) all the time. This life!!!!

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Q4 was quite the ride — so much changed yet so much remained the same

grateful for it all 🙏🏾

the fine print:
(who I was unable to tag)
the lucky groom (3) @erickdpatrick
professional photos (6 + 9) by @thecleveragency from the beautiful event @cebocampbell hosted for his novel Sky Full of Elephants (add to your list 👀📖🐘🌊)
stunning table spread (8) from same event by @auntsetuncles + @grlfridayy
historic music (10 ofc) by @mslaurynhill (by way of @johnlegend making everyone’s night even better by bringing her out 🥹🙌🏾😩)

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Congratulations to the Dance/NYC Grantees AND STAFF who were nominated for 2024 and 2025 @bessieawards! 🎉

- Amanda Castro, Arielle Rosales, Brinda Guha
- Mai Lê Hô
- Kyle Marshall
- Sydnie L. Mosley
- Shamel Pitts
- Abdiel Jacobsen
- Edisa Weeks
- Janet Wong
- Fadi Khouri
- Ogemdi Ude
- Camille A. Brown
- Lar Lubovitch
- TweetBoogie
- Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
- Anh Vo

Photo credits: Mike Esperanza courtesy of Soles of Duende; Lauriane Ogay courtesy of Mai Lê Hô; Maria Baranova courtesy of Kyle Marshall Choreography; Travis Coe courtesy of SLMDances; Rachel Monteleone; Christopher Duggan; Rachel Monteleone; Cherylynn Tsushima courtesy of Ogemdi Ude; Andrea Mohin; Photo courtesy of Lar Lubovitch; Photo courtesy of LEIMAY; Evelyn Efreja coutesy of Anh Vo

Video description in comments.

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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

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PRODUCER. DIRECTOR.

To produce is to bring something into existence, to produce the vision, dreams, presence, frequency, and flow.

To be the antidote, medicine, bridge, the in-between,
to support the cultivation and actualizing of an idea embodied.

Thinking of every sense,
touch, taste, sight, listen,
but most of all, love. Radical love.

Considering every detail,
feeling, seeing, honoring. #WeDidIt

*DEEPLY grateful for those who see my wings before I do, always, all ways. Ancestors bear withness and witness.

📸 @dotshotit

#WeAdapt #UnOthr #WorldsOfSky

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