Graduate of Spelman College w/ a BA in Drama & Dance, Tendayi Kuumba is an international singer/ dancer & performer in Brooklyn, NY by way of Atlanta, GA. A Creator and collaborator, she is has produced various works of movement and sound under the alias UFlyMothership with partner Greg Purnell since 2018, including recent visual/sonic album U.F.O “The Mixtape”.Platforms for choreography include Dancespace, Harlem Stage E-Moves, Czech Center of New York, Hi-ARTS, Park Armory 100 Years / 100 Women, & Dance Mission Theaters’ D.I.R.T. Festival “Harriets Gun”. Tendayi is a BOLD Facilitator and former touring company member of Urban Bush Women as well as FLUXX w/ former collaborator Courtney Cook. Currently a performer of Ase Dance Theater Collective, she recently made her debut in David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway and HBO special Directed by Spike Lee. Kuumba has embodied works of Marjani Forte'-Saunders,Nathan Trice/ Rituals Performance Project "StrangeLove", the Illustrious Blacks, Jim Findlay's "Electric Lucifer" workshop & Philadelphia Operas’ "We Shall Not be Moved" directed by Bill T. Jones. Diving deeper into her teaching pedagogy, Tendayi explores movement meditations and sonic portals, specifically mapping how sound and vocalizing invokes momemory and spiritual conjuring through the body. She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.