Mission
Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances) works with communities to organize for gender and racial justice through experiential dance-theater performance and education.
SLMDances works reflect real life experiences central to our identities, and pulls focus
to the stories of women and Black folks.
SLMDances engages audiences in the artistic process.
Our dances provoke a visceral reaction to the physicality on stage and incite conversation toward community action. The movement vocabulary fluidly integrates modern dance techniques and movement of the African Diaspora, while dancers frequently use their voice with spoken text and audible breath.
SLMDances performances, workshops, and community engagement programs appeal to a sense of humanity. Through this work artists, audiences, and attendees feel more empathy and compassion, connect with ourselves and each other, and activate the practice of imagining.
SLMDances works nationally, with deep relationships in Harlem, New York City, and Baltimore.
We have worked across the U.S., including at The Apollo, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bowdoin College, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University, Cornell University, Dance Brigade (San Francisco), Dance Place (Washington DC), Duke University, Joyce Soho, Harlem Stage, Lincoln Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Spelman College, Triskelion Arts, Utah Tech, 92nd St. Y, among many others.
SLMDances actively partners with local artists and organizations driving community-based initiatives that amplify our mission for social change through dance theater and Black feminist performance art.
“community-engaged, joyfully interactive works”
Siobhan Burke, Dance Magazine
Core Values
Vision
SLMDances is a creative home for trans, cis, nonbinary, queer, disabled, fat, masculine presenting, Black women and femmes of many generations.
We are dreaming of the liberation of these humans. We understand that by centering and prioritizing their story - they who fall at the intersections of many oppressions - that we may have the tools ultimately free all human beings.
Inspired by SLMDances' 2014 work CAKE, we developed a clear statement and approach to race and gender for our artistic work, articulated and documented during SLMDances' 2017 strategic planning process. Learn more about who our work is for and how we work to manifest that.