COLLABORATORS
MAIJ ALADESUYI
Maij (b. 1990 in Atlanta, GA), is a cellist, DJ, tarot reader, and sommelier. He began playing classical cello at age ten and studied music at Indiana University Bloomington under the tutelage of the famed Sharon Robinson. As a DJ, he performs house music in various clubs, bars, hotels, fundraisers, and parties throughout New York City under the moniker 'Black Maij.' Maij is also an astrologer and tarot reader, offering personalized readings that combine his deep understanding of cosmic forces with his intuitive insights.
In 2021, alongside Caitlyn Guarano, he founded Mindful Creatives to bring the artistic community together to discuss how different disciplines, such as art, music, wine, photography, and tarot, all speak a universal language. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
EBONY NOELLE GOLDEN
Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally. In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions. Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing. Her practice is rooted in community design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.
IMA IDUOZEE
Of Nigerian and Finnish descent, Ima Iduozee is a choreographer, dancer, performance artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki. His debut work, This is the Title, premiered in 2012 and went on to garner international acclaim, touring in 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia. The solo was selected for Aerowaves Twenty in 2016.
Iduozee´s works are often characterised by poetic and physically rigorous renderings, that meet with notions of fantasy, identity and afrofuturity. In 2015 the annual honorary prize of the Finnish Critics Association, Critics Spurs´, was given to Iduozee, as an acknowledgement for the best artistic breakthrough of the year. His on going series of digital portraits, Adventures In The Sonic Future, celebrates the diversity of black cultural identity in the contemporary African Diaspora.
Photo by Ilkka Saastamoinen
EVERETT-ASIS SAUNDERS
Everett-Asis Saunders, New Music USA grant winner, is the founder and creative director of Flux Innovations, a sound and audio services company. His recent clients include PBS, Sony Music and Columbia Records. Saunders is a producer, composer, songwriter and performer. He has specific knowledge and practice in arranging, editing and mixing for theater, film and music entertainment.
His work spans across genres with original compositions for numerous independent films in the New York/LA Dance community, with his latest commissions including Marjani Forte & Works Bessie award winning Memoirs of a…Unicorn and Urban Bush Women’s recent Hair and Other Stories. Film works include PBS March of Washington (2013), Print Shop (2016) and Project Imagination winner, Transporter.
Photo courtesy of Everett-Asis Saunders
SONG AZIZA TUCKER
Song Aziza Tucker is a project-based movement and writing artist whose works have spiraled out of her love for black women, music, and poetry. Her latest work “After the Flood”, honors the inspirations of many black femme creators she holds close. Placing herself alongside these artists reminds her that dance is not only an expansive and visceral experience, but an intimate and integral way of communication for historically and systemically hushed bodies. Alongside her own art making, Song has had the pleasure of being involved as a performer and collaborator with Katie Swords Thurman, Jesse Zaritt, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Jamal Abrams, Jordan Lloyd, Niall Jones, Abby Zbikowski, Doug Varone, and Mark Caserta, among others. Song is deeply moved by folks who bring their voluminous selves to the forefront, allowing creative collaborators to be seen with open and soft eyes. She is looking forward to continuing her collegiate studies as a Master of Fine Arts candidate under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield at the University of the Arts.
TEAM MEMBERS
Shana Crawford - Production Manager
Michelle Daly - Creative Producer
Stephanie Jacco - Grants and Special Projects Associate
LD - Lighting Designer
Dahlia (Dixon) Li - Dramaturg
Amy Smith - Business and Finance Manager
Alexander Leslie Thompson - Managing Director
Lingling Yang - Grants Manager