Education

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

MS in Dance/Movement Therapy

Thesis: Transgender Experiences of Embodiment and Identity and Implications for Dance/Movement Therapy

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.

BA Dance, Africana Studies

Additional Education 

2021 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture, New York, NY.

Sculpture Marathon with Brandt Junceau

2011, 2010, 2008 Les Ballets Malien, Bamako, Mali.

Dance Apprenticeship

Exhibitions

2023 Blue Pajama Series, Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)

2023 Topophilia, Henry Earl Estate Winery, Walla Walla, WA (solo show)

2022 Restful Spaces, Roots Café, Brooklyn, NY (solo show)

2022 Select pieces, Sounds of the People Festival, Walla Walla, WA (group show)

 Awards/Residencies

2017 Graduate Student Engagement Fund from Pratt Institute.

Dance film project Vague Material, a collaboration with dancers Jason Rodriguez, Joel Marchan, and sound artist Cornelius Byrd.

2017 The Scythe Prize

Essay/Creative Nonfiction Winner for“Body Snatching/A Love Letter”

2015 The GhostStory

Supernatural Fiction Award for“Guede”

2022 Homegrown Residency in Walla Walla, WA

Three-month multidisciplinary residency.

 Publications

The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, November 2021: Blue Pajama Series.

 Alien Literary Magazine, September 2021: Blue Pajama Series (premier).

 Yanvalou. Essay. Currently published at angelinegragasin.com.

 “Guede.” Short story. 21st Century Ghost Stories, edited by Paul Guernsey, published July 11, 2018.

 Vague Material: Transgender Experiences of Embodiment and Implications for

Dance/Movement Therapy. Submitted February 2018 for completion of M.S. in

Dance/Movement Therapy, Pratt Institute.

 Body Snatching/A Love Letter. Short story. Published July 2017 online in The Scythe Prize.

 Splitting the Pole. Short story. Published April 2016 online in The Raven’s Perch.

 Guede. Short story. Published June 2015 online in The Ghost Story.

Selected Dance Performances

Urban Pastoral (Chris Ferris) October 2021

            Central Park, NY

Ditched (Corinna Brown) September 2018

            Rosekill Performance Art Farm in Rosendale, NY

Moonlit Electric Air February 2016

            Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY

Kotchegna Presents Felani at the 92nd St. Y (Vado Diomande) May 2015

            92nd St. Y in New York, NY

Drums Along the Hudson Pow-Wow (Vado Diomande) June 2014

            Inwood Hill Park in New York, NY

Kekene VII -- The Fetisheur King and the Leper (Vado Diomande) October 2013

            Riverside Church Theater in New York, NY

The Channel (Derrick Adams) September 2012

            BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) in Brooklyn, NY

Video Performances

Yanvalou, short film (dir. Angeline Gragasin)

Symbiosis, music video with BeroBero (dir. Brittin Richter)

Never Gonna Work, music video with Jeremiah Meece (dir. Angeline Gragasin)