Education Offerings
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Staging Creative
Work + Technique Class
Virtual and In Person Options
SLMDances stages iterations of its signature creative works — PURPLE, The Window Sex Project, CAKE — on high school and college dancers, as well as adult community members. Commission Mosley to create new work for pre-professional and professional companies.
Technique Classes can be provided in a variety of movement styles including modern/contemporary dance, improvisation, somatic practices, West African and other Diasporic dance forms.
Who We've Worked With
Being able to learn a repertory piece and rehearse it intensively was an invaluable opportunity. It gave me hope and confidence that I can apply to whatever ways that I may choose to pursue dance in the future. It gave me an experience that I will remember physically, mentally, and emotionally. I cannot thank Sydnie enough for the time, energy, care, and technical guidance she gave us.
Oberlin College Dance Major
Who We've Worked With
Community Workshops
Virtual and In Person Options
Community Workshops engage the people most affected by the race and gender issues tackled in our work. We facilitate creative problem solving and empower people to trust and use their embodied knowledge.
SLMDances community workshops cover topics such as responding to gender-based harassment, resource-sharing, negotiation between artists and institutions, and defining practices of liberation.
I just wanted to say that workshop changed my life! I still keep pondering over I see you, I support you, I lift you up. Those exercises made me look deeper into myself. Being in that workshop helped me see me.
BodyBusiness Resource Sharing Workshop Participant
Speaking + Lecture Demonstrations
Virtual and In Person Options
Lecture Demonstrations are audience interactive talks that often include a performance and provide an opportunity to dialogue critically about the SLMDances creative process, current repertory and organizational practices.
Mosley also offers keynotes, and is available for fireside chats and invited panel discussions.
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Courtesy HAA and Dance/NYC
Duke University
Photo Credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Who We've Worked With
It was so impressive to see how succinctly you navigated these topics in ways that were digestible, grounded by your personal experiences, and yet still so expansively applicable. I really appreciated your down-to-earth, candid and thoughtful responses to all the questions in ways that broadened the conversation.
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
on Making Community Engaged Art Talk
Who We've Worked With
Professional Development
Virtual and In Person Options
Tailored to the needs of your team or company, SLMDances offers single session and multi-session workshops that center the wisdom of Black women, promote wellness, and move anti-racist dialogues into embodied practices.
PD for the People! -- our most popular workshop series -- shares our praxis of self-development, community building, strategic visioning, decolonized organization building, and the embodiment of our values.
We facilitate this peer learning and leadership development in workplaces and professional gatherings.
I'm already recommending PD for the People to all my friends. It's well organized, accessible, revelatory, and packed with tangible resources to transform and grow your practice.
PD for the People! Participant
Design Your Residency
SLMDances collaboratively designs residencies that combine any of our core offerings. Our residencies are responsive to the needs of diverse participants, curricula, and communities.
Savor The Impact
How did our collaboration meet your communities' needs?
What ideas, practices, and relationships will you carry forward and nurture?
What ongoing work will you continue to realize a more just world?
Organizations engage with SLMDances as a catalyzing force to further existing institutional goals and deepen community relationships.
Some Past Residencies
Middlebury College
Goals + Impact
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Provide graduating senior dancers with the experience of rehearsing and performing in a professional dance company
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Build skills through creative practice and community collaboration for navigating conflict and repairing harm
Offerings
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Daily technique class for student dance company
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Create and perform a new work that features both student dance company and SLMDances artists
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Campus-wide community workshop in honor of MLK Jr. Day with 100+ participants
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Lunch time Q+A with current dance students + faculty
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Life changing and soul cleansing.
PD for the People! Participant