LELA AISHA JONES MOVEMENT

Collaborator

Lela Aisha Jones (LAJ) (she/her) is a movement performance artist and embodied researcher. For her elegantly daring offerings, LAJ has earned a New York Dance and Performance | Bessie nomination, Leeway Transformation Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Some of her most recent artistic engagements and projects include a feature film and virtual ceremony titled Revivals of Blackness (2021) commissioned by World Cafe Live, Olney Embrace Project Revival Walks (2020/2021) commissioned by Ambrose Liu for Olney Culture Lab, commissioned work titled we all gon’ die into revivals for Red Clay Dance in Chicago, IL (2021). LAJ serves as the Associate /Artistic Director of Brownbody, a St. Paul Minnesota-based Ice/Stage dance company. LAJ earned a BS at University of Florida, an MFA at Florida State University, a PhD at Texas Woman’s University, and is the Director of Dance at Bryn Mawr College. In her performance career, LAJ has been part of nia love’s UNDERcurrents team since 2019 and is a collaborator with The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance, led by Raja Feather, Yolanda Wisher, and Philadelphia Contemporary. LAJ was born and raised in the wonderful Tallahassee (a Muskogee word for old fields), FL and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

JEREMIAH KAL’AB BASS

Jeremiah Kal’ab (he/him) is a 18 year old bassist born in Detroit Michigan, and raised in the DMV area. He has been playing music all his life, starting on African drums as a baby and bass when he was 8 years old, Mentored by music legends such as Antoine Roney, Rodney Whitakker, John Clayton, Rufus Reid, Buster Willams, Lenny White, Kenny Garret, Donald Harrison and Ralphe Armstrong, he currently resides in Harlem, NYC. On the scene playing and learning from the greats!

marco farroni leonardo MOVEMENT COLLABORATOR

marco farroni leonardo (he/they/we) is a movement & performance artist, from Bonao, Dominican Republic & based in Seattle and New York. They hold a BFA in dance from The University of the Arts. Their work engages with themes and ideas around home, the body as archive, the Diaspora and memory. Artistic collaborations include nia love, dani tirrell, David Rue, Aisha Noir, Nia-Amina Minor, Amanda Morgan, and Donald Byrd amongst others. They have presented work in various venues in Seattle, WA including Velocity Dance Center, Wa Na Wari, Base Arts Space, 10 Degrees Arts, The School of Spectrum Dance Theater, and The Aids Memorial Pathway.