Brooke Rucker

Artist | Arts Administrator

Brooke Rucker is a Brooklyn-based artist and arts administrator, specializing in dance. She began her arts training in her hometown Cartersville, GA and went on to earn her BFA in Dance at Florida State University in 2018. She has performed with Charles Anderson’s dance theatre X (2018-2019) and Gaspard & Dancers (2019) as a company...

Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Thinker | Maker | Performer | Educator | Social Entrepreneur

Recently acknowledged as 2021 Pricess Grace Award Reciepient in Choreography, Johnnie Cruise Mercer is a queer black thinker, maker, performer, educator and social entrepreneur born in Richmond, VA and based in New York City. He is the founder and Company Director of TheREDprojectNYC (TRPNYC), a multidisciplinary arts ensemble dedicated...

Cortney Taylor Key

Dancer | Trainer | Teacher

CORTNEY TAYLOR KEY is a native of Charlotte, NC. Just shy of 3 years old Miss Key started taking ballet, tap and Jazz at Miss Donna’s school of Dance. Her training expanded under the instruction of Susan Thorsland Plaza Kim Hotchner and Chandra McCloud at The Northwest School of the Performing Arts middle and high school. She graduated...

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Makeda-Lily Love-Roney

Makeda-Lily Love-Roney (she/her/we) is a fourth generation indigenous American Indian artist from unseated Lenape Nation land, known as New York. She’s a life, body, & energy alchemist, creative, dance artist, model and Body Alignment/Pilates coach. Makeda has worked/performed with nia love, Urban Bush Women, Liz Lerman, Debbie Allen,...