
Tonya Pennie
Managing Director / Booking / Dancer
Tonya Pennie believes in the power of dance to unite community, heal historical trauma, and raise body as voice to a transcendent communal artform....
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Daniela Vargas Calvo
Dancer
Graduate of Universidad Nacional Costa Rica, UNA. Class of 2015 · Danza · Heredia, Costa Rica. Bailarina. Contemporary Dance. Artista. Performer. Teacher. Director, professor...
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Chantell Moody
Apprentice Dancer
Chantell Moody is a singer, dancer, artist, activist, and performer currently residing in Austin, TX. She began dancing in her youth at Tanya Ogden’s...
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Jamie Vallejo
Dancer
Jamie Vallejo is a native of Houston, TX and has been studying various styles of dance for 25 years. Growing up as a competitive performer,...
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Hope Folarin
Dancer
Illinois native, Hope Folarin, was formally introduced to dance in adolescence when her mother forced her to take ballet lessons to improve her posture....
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Semente
Apprentice Dancer
Semente is an artist, scholar, capoerista originally from São Paulo, Brazil. Semente focuses on making multi-medium and multimedia art that (re)presents, reflects and resonates...
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Brandon Grant
Multi-percussionist
Brandon Grant first started learning West African drumming in late 2009 at Youth Villages campus in Douglasville, Georgia. Under the tutelage of Youth Villages...
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Owen Towles
Multi-percussionist
Owen Towles has been a percussionist for over 15 years. He has spent time learning rhythms from two different continents, having traveled to Brazil,...
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Dave White
Multi-percussionist
Dave White has been playing percussion for over 25 years, and West African percussion since 2000. He has studied with numerous West African drummers...
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Noah Mosgofian
Multi-percussionist / Arranger / Composer
Noah Mosgofian has been drumming for over 20 years. His performance career includes 6 years of touring with the international percussion sensation STOMP, and...
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Rudy Rexx Canales
Multi-percussionist, Conguero
Born in South Texas, Rudy started drumming at a very young age. His musical studies started with rhythm guitar and eventually latin. Studying the...
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t. negresco lyles / Tonya Lyles / Gbeda Acupuncture and Sound Medicine
Multi-percussionist / Sound Therapist
t. negresco lyles/gbeda is an innovative multicultural world percussionist whose musical background is rooted in African, Latin American, and Middle Eastern traditional rhythms. Her...
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Gidi Agbeko
Percussionist
A native of Ghana, West Africa, Gidi Agbeko began learning traditional music and dance styles of his village before he was old enough to...
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