“My passion for the arts, my passion for stage and theater, was something that I inherited honestly because I saw it every single day of my life.”
Abdel
“We were competing doing disco dancing in the club. I would spend five hours of my extra time not in school..we would just be making up these dances and making up these dances and making up these dances, and that really began my sense of choreography.”
Marlies
Marlies Yearby
Choreographer Director
Marlies Yearby is an artist activist, choreographer and director with a global perspective. She creates original works across various platforms including theater, film and diverse multimedia. Ms. Yearby developed her “In Our Bones Creative Process” as an acknowledgement of the legacies, lived experiences, memories, and day to day...
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Artistic Director / Choreographer
Abdel R. Salaam is the Executive Artistic Director/Co-Founder of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre (FONDT) founded in 1981. Born in Harlem, New York, Abdel, is a critically acclaimed choreographer and in the past, served as a dancer, teacher and/or performing artist in five continents throughout his 49 year career in the Dance World. He has...
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