I create intentional spaces for Black, LGBTQ2, and Deaf community to discover their own practices toward Healing using Dance, Body Reclamation, and other Healing practices. I believe Dance serves as our connection to ourselves, our communities, and our overall Divinity. I am an African Centered - Healing Artist, Choreographer, Director, and Cultural Healing Curator. DejaJoelle does not find comfort in highlighting where she’s been or what she has “accomplished” but has accepted that life is an everlasting journey that is worth being present for. Multilayered, interwoven, shining light filtered through many cultural layers.ĭejaJoelle is an African Centered artist that focuses on the Healing and Liberation of Black Communities across the globe. My work is acknowledgement and expression of the experiences of African American women. Each performance piece is designed to give a glimpse into the sometimes dark and complex emotional spaces people experience that seem elusive and ever present. I also weave sentiment and storytelling through poetry and monologues. ![]() ![]() I bring athletic agility to vocal performance by singing and dancing in unison, eliminating the boundary between the visual and audio experience. I design theatrical performance experiences that weave all of these mediums. I am a multimodal artist a choreographer, singer, dancer, actress, poet and a writer. She is a Vinyasa, Yin and fitness yoga instructor with her own signature teaching philosophy, CoreKinetics Yoga and a Teaching Specialist in the Dance Department at the University of Minnesota. Boheme’s recent TedxMinneapolis talk, Is Performing Art Worth the Struggle?, is available for viewing. She was a founding member of The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (Top 25 to Watch, Dance Magazine, 2012) and also a former dance artist with Camille A. She received a Cultural Community Partnership Award from the Minnesota State Arts Board in support of her most recent work, CENTERPLAY, and is a former co-creative director, vocal artist, and choreographer for Stokley Williams, founding front man of Mint Condition. Her choreographic work has been presented at Intermedia Arts, the Guthrie Theater, the Southern Theater, the Walker Art Center, Dance Alloy Theater, and the Kauffman Center. Vie Boheme, a Motown native who blossomed creatively in Pittsburgh and refined in Minneapolis, is a multimodal artist, choreographer, dancer, and singer. The underground dance scene and NYC’s complex labyrinth of cultural collisions inspired my hybrid approach to movement, which is integral to my work. Implicit in working in these Latinx and African American vernacular forms is an ongoing conversation around the systemic racism that plagues this country, the struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community, joy as a form of resistance and resilience, and the commodification of culture as a means to make communities of color invisible. ![]() The performers I collaborate with are all part of the underground scene and we share, not only common movement languages (including breaking, hip hop, house, and vogue) but also an interest in exploring unconventional ways of remixing dances in various contexts, including creating for the stage. My work is rooted in the complex rhythmic, physical, cultural, and spiritual lineages of New York City's underground dance community, a community I have been fortunate to be a part of for almost two decades. Asherie is a co-founding member of the all-female house dance collective MAWU and is forever grateful to NYC’s underground dance community for inspiring her to pursue a life as an artist. She is honored to have been mentored by Richard Santiago (aka Break Easy) and to have worked and collaborated with Dorrance Dance, Doug Elkins, Rennie Harris, Bill Irwin, Gus Solomons Jr., and Buddha Stretch. The live performance chapter of her new project UnderScored is being commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum and will premiere in 2021. ![]() Asherie has received numerous awards to support her work including Dance Magazine’s Inaugural Harkness Promise Award, a Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship at the Tilles Center, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and a National Dance Project award. Ephrat Asherie is a NYC based b-girl, performer, choreographer and director, and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance.
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