Dance For Every Body
Dance Workshop with Urban Bush Women
Join a workshop hosted by celebrated dance company and arts organization Urban Bush Women. Get inspired to tell your own story and advocate for social change through movement. You’re encouraged to wear comfortable workout clothes and bring a water bottle. Space is limited; RSVP to Melissa Mistry at MMistry@trinitywallstreet.org.
An initiative of Urban Bush Women BOLD (Builders, Organizers & Leaders Through Dance).
Kendra Ross — Teaching October 20
Kendra J. Ross is a proud Detroit native working as a dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and community organizer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. As a dancer in New York City, Kendra has worked with Urban Bush Women, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks, Ase Dance Theater Collective, Monstah Black/ Motion Sickness, MBDance, Moving Spirits Dance Company, RAKIA!, Melanie Green, and as a guest artist with Oyu Oro. Kendra also completed a European tour dancing with Adira Amram and DJ Kid Koala in Vinyl Vaudeville 2.0 and performed with Gyptian at the MTV Iggy awards.
Tendayi Kuumba — Teaching October 27 & November 3
International dancer, choreographer, singer, & songwriter, Tendayi Kuumba is a graduate of North Atlanta High School of Performing Arts and Spelman College.
Former touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi recently made her Broadway debut in “David Byrne’s America Utopia on Broadway'' and is a featured dancer/vocalist in the DBAU on Broadway film directed by Spike Lee released in fall 2020 on HBO. In other spaces she is generating and co-creating artistic collaborations and spaces such as “The Golden Ratio Project ” & UFlyMothership, alongside partner Greg Purnell. She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu — Teaching November 10
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu is a spiritualist, movement artist, choreographer, and facilitator with roots from Hampton, Virginia and Wusuta Anyigbe Ghana, West Africa. She is committed to holding space for youth, facilitating a learning environment of self discovery, restoration, and liberation through dance for over a decade. Her choreographic work reflects the sacred in performance and focuses on exploring the complexities of black womanhood, lineage, and spirituality. She is a proud recipient of Angela’s Pulse Dancing While Black Fellowship and a member of Urban Bush Women as a BOLD Facilitator (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance). She collaborates with artists who explore performance at the center and edges of dance, theater, and ritual. She holds a B.F.A in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides on the unceded Indigenous land of the Lenape peoples. Jaimé gives gratitude to all that came before her and who gather to create ceremony.
Join a workshop hosted by celebrated dance company and arts organization Urban Bush Women. Get inspired to tell your own story and advocate for social change through movement. You’re encouraged to wear comfortable workout clothes and bring a water bottle. Space is limited; RSVP to Melissa Mistry at MMistry@trinitywallstreet.org.
An initiative of Urban Bush Women BOLD (Builders, Organizers & Leaders Through Dance).
Kendra Ross — Teaching October 20
Kendra J. Ross is a proud Detroit native working as a dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and community organizer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. As a dancer in New York City, Kendra has worked with Urban Bush Women, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks, Ase Dance Theater Collective, Monstah Black/ Motion Sickness, MBDance, Moving Spirits Dance Company, RAKIA!, Melanie Green, and as a guest artist with Oyu Oro. Kendra also completed a European tour dancing with Adira Amram and DJ Kid Koala in Vinyl Vaudeville 2.0 and performed with Gyptian at the MTV Iggy awards.
Tendayi Kuumba — Teaching October 27 & November 3
International dancer, choreographer, singer, & songwriter, Tendayi Kuumba is a graduate of North Atlanta High School of Performing Arts and Spelman College.
Former touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi recently made her Broadway debut in “David Byrne’s America Utopia on Broadway'' and is a featured dancer/vocalist in the DBAU on Broadway film directed by Spike Lee released in fall 2020 on HBO. In other spaces she is generating and co-creating artistic collaborations and spaces such as “The Golden Ratio Project ” & UFlyMothership, alongside partner Greg Purnell. She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu — Teaching November 10
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu is a spiritualist, movement artist, choreographer, and facilitator with roots from Hampton, Virginia and Wusuta Anyigbe Ghana, West Africa. She is committed to holding space for youth, facilitating a learning environment of self discovery, restoration, and liberation through dance for over a decade. Her choreographic work reflects the sacred in performance and focuses on exploring the complexities of black womanhood, lineage, and spirituality. She is a proud recipient of Angela’s Pulse Dancing While Black Fellowship and a member of Urban Bush Women as a BOLD Facilitator (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance). She collaborates with artists who explore performance at the center and edges of dance, theater, and ritual. She holds a B.F.A in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides on the unceded Indigenous land of the Lenape peoples. Jaimé gives gratitude to all that came before her and who gather to create ceremony.