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🌻 @mindfulmovementwithshanzell
🌀 @umspresents @umflint Artist in Residence
📚 @michigantradarts Mentor
🌱 @smithsonianfolklife Teaching Artist
📍Detroit

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Thankful for another year of sound, study, and possibility with my brilliant apprentice, Khyri Porter. 🥳

Here are few more outtakes from our site visit captured back in July.

@michigantradarts has given us the time and freedom to deepen his study of tap as sound expression, musical practice, and living tradition. Alhamdulillah for another season of growth and open doors.

BIG UP to @micah_ling for your continued advocacy of #tapdance, to @livingartsdetroit for the studio and wonderful hospitality, to @nicgareisslfi for sharing his knowledge and thoughtful conversation, and to @cory.marie.photography for the gift of making visible our joy and the relationship we have built within this art form.

Still learning from the dance and letting it teach me how to lead. Bless!

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Getting to learn from my mentor, Ms. Shanzell, through the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program has been such a great experience.

This site visit shown in these photos was a fun experience that gave me another chance to learn, ask questions, and take in more of the history and culture behind the art I’m studying. I’m grateful for every opportunity to keep growing and learning through this apprenticeship.

Thank you to @michigantradarts for making experiences like this possible.

📸: @cory.marie.photography - Thank you for taking such amazing photos!

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Honored to join Sharese Nichole’s Saved by Silk alongside my apprentice, Khyri Porter. 💛

“Worship 101”
Shanzell Q. Page + Khyri Porter
Saved by Silk, created by Sharese Nichole
Videography: Jordan Gee @youronly_friend
Song: @jordan.g.welch
Tap Floors: @omarafloors

Khyri and I have spent the year investing in sound expression, cultural identity, representation, and responsibility together by way of tap dance as part of our Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship @michigantradarts so sharing call & response within this offering was especially sweet.

Grateful to Sharese for inviting us into her testimony and for continuing to follow where her gifts lead.

Full Video Link in Bio 🔗

#tapdance #SavedBySilk #MindfulMovementwithShanzell #michigantraditonalarts #gospelmusic

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#SavedBySilk served its purpose, glory to God! I’m beyond honored to have served the Lord with this production, and with the ministering Army of Angels who walked with me on earth. People cried, they rejoiced, and they left feeling stronger in Him, and honestly, that’s one of my heart’s biggest desires; for people to feel better in progression of being their best. We cast out demons, and blessed His holy name, in spirit and in truth, with song, dance, and thanksgiving.

And once the hearts were softened, @kemaralynn and the iBelieve Warriors filled us with the good news of what Christ has already done. Freedom is available to all of those who believe. That’s the message. Photography by @angeldemetriaa

💐#ThankYouJesus #ApplyPressure #iBelieve

GOD DID THAT! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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A week of quantum leaps & seeing Detroit with new eyes. 🧘🏽‍♀️

What an honor to have spent this time with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s For the People cohort artists, educators, and beautiful humans from across the country, holding space for how our traditions are taught & shared!

Being with good company over the last seven months refined and amplified necessary ways to articulate her-stories through my own practice FULLY.

After [often], sharing heavy thought sessions with these incredible keepers of the flame, meant we left feeling expanded by the depth of our personhood, and to be witnessed without shrinking. Affirming that all our experiences remain alive not only because they’re worth preservation, but due in large by the gift of respectfully practicing [traditions], remaining critical of how power moves through them, and responsibly paying it forward. We are the vessels.

There is still *much* to process and unpack, but another door has opened inside of me! Peace be upon Ishmael Ahmed, and the ancestors for the evidence and labor of paths made manifest!

I give thanks now and always for fellowship, the @diadetroit , and any reminder that being held in community can change how we see ourselves by making room for one another inside of it.

Home is where the heart is!

#Detroit, with love. 💜

@smithsonianfolklife
#ForThePeople2026 #SmithsonianFolklife #ConcertOfColors

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Shanzell Page, the Flint Artist in Residence for the 2025-26 academic year, concluded her campus residency with performances during UM-Flint’s Spring Dance Concert. During her residency, Page held various workshops with UM-Flint students and faculty and collaborated with students to develop and perform her original dance performance, “Seeds & Fruit.” Hear about the impact this experience had on both Page and Ariel Crowder, a sophomore theatre and dance student at UM-Flint.

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Black American Princess.

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Words cannot describe the blessing and opportunity to impact the community I come from.

Flint has played such an important role in my life, introducing me to some of my greatest influences and experiences that helped shape who I am today. It’s also the place where I’ve experienced some of my greatest challenges.

All of which made this honor even more meaningful.

Like many artists, this season has stretched me beyond what I thought was my capacity. Between building Mindful Movement with Shanzell, creating new work, caregiving for family, and continuing to bet on myself, there were moments when simply deciding to continue felt like an accomplishment.

So to be recognized by my community as a 2026 Unsung Hero is something I do not take lightly.

To be one of fourteen incredible individuals whose work continues to uplift and invest in communities throughout Flint, Detroit, Pontiac, and beyond is so very special and I am truly honored to stand alongside and witness our city holding us up during such challenging times.

Thank you to The Evon Price Memorial Foundation, Whitney, and the nomination committee, for seeing value in the work I do and entrusting me with this honor. Whether scared, prepared, ready, or not. The call remains the same, and that is to SERVE.

For in liberating others, we liberate ourselves.

Most of all, thank you to those who believed in me long before there were any awards, or recognition. Your investment continues to bear fruit.

1 Peter 4:10 says: “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”

I am proud to be a 2026 Unsung Hero. 🌹

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Happy Tap Dance Day! Thankful for the shuffles with some of my favorite people over the weekend :)

Same time, next year? ☺️💛

#tapdance
📸 @st0ryofmylyfe

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BLESSED TO DO WHAT I LOVE.
GOD IS GOOD.
THANKFUL.
📸 @st0ryofmylyfe

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Dancers, musicians, students, and community members are invited to gather for a free Tap Dance Day celebration on Friday, May 22, at the University of Michigan-Flint Dance Studio inside the Northbank Center.

Hosted by @zelldoesitwell of @mindfulmovementwithshanzell , the event will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 432 S. Saginaw St. and is free and open to the community.

Read now at www.flintside.com or click the link in bio.

#flint #tapdance #artsandculture #music #mindfulmovement

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National Tap Dance Day is May 25th and I couldn’t let it pass without celebrating together💐

Excited to hold space on Friday, May 22nd at the UM-Flint Dance Studio. Gathering to honor the birthday of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and the rich legacy we all share.

Dancers and musicians, come through!
Free and open to all.

📍 416 Saginaw St., Flint MI (North Bank Center)
🗓 Friday, May 22nd
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 PM

RSVP in bio. See you on the floor!

Photo by Rayford Gray @st0ryofmylyfe

#TapDanceDay #MindfulMovementwithShanzell #TapDance #UMS #UMFlint

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