Spotlight in PURPLE: The Podcast Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/spotlight-in-purple-the-podcast Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances) presents Spotlight in PURPLE, a podcast that shines a light on themes and questions in our creative work PURPLE, through virtual and analog experiences. PURPLE is a multi-project universe that illuminates the power of “deep sisterhood for social change” through storytelling and movement. This sisterhood is how we thrive: we invest in one another, we honor and celebrate each other's brilliance, and we hold ourselves accountable to experiencing radical joy. The podcast is an offering of poetry, music, mindfulness, and an invitation to join our story circle. We invite you to listen to this offering as a way to care for yourself. Find a comfortable seat, grab a cup of something warm and delicious, inhale, exhale, and enjoy. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip © 2025 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 80abf363-c4a4-5197-8a14-c07210e35538 no Spotlight in PURPLE - Season 2 Trailer en Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:35:53 -0400 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:07:46 -0500 http://slmdances.com/sip https://img.transistor.fm/7ck-fBpHaNH3w-RQCI-hB8y4oY3PINpMQMs4R8ICzO0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQyNDExLzE2ODY1/MDY5MjItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg Spotlight in PURPLE: The Podcast http://slmdances.com/sip serial Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances) presents Spotlight in PURPLE, a podcast that shines a light on themes and questions in our creative work PURPLE, through virtual and analog experiences. PURPLE is a multi-project universe that illuminates the power of “deep sisterhood for social change” through storytelling and movement. This sisterhood is how we thrive: we invest in one another, we honor and celebrate each other's brilliance, and we hold ourselves accountable to experiencing radical joy. The podcast is an offering of poetry, music, mindfulness, and an invitation to join our story circle. We invite you to listen to this offering as a way to care for yourself. Find a comfortable seat, grab a cup of something warm and delicious, inhale, exhale, and enjoy. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip Sydnie L. Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist Sydnie L. Mosley Dances kiryatraber@gmail.com No No Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! 1 1 1 1 Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! full 2d3d00d9-6140-418f-9351-fd1c30fcadf1 https://share.transistor.fm/s/ab45e085 Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! This is a gift for you from SLMDances. This podcast is a companion to handmade zines - analog and digital - created for you, our treasured community. With both the zines and podcast, we invite you to indulge in an at home sensory experience. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip

The inaugural podcast episode includes storytelling with SLMDances Creative Partners and a poem by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte created as a literary contact-improvisation between our ensemble dancing and Timothy's writing.

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This podcast features SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Angelica Mondol Viana, Bianca Paige Smith, and Maya Simone Z. in conversation. The poetry is written and spoken by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte, with Noah Jackson on bass and Ebonie Smith on drums and production.

Spotlight in PURPLE has been produced and edited by Jessica Lee, Bianca Paige Smith and Lorena Jaramillo, and funded in part by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement.

SLMDances is directed by Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley, Strategic Visioning Partner A. Nia Austin-Edwards, and Artistic Visioning Partner Allegra Romita.


Follow SLMDances on social media.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! This is a gift for you from SLMDances. This podcast is a companion to handmade zines - analog and digital - created for you, our treasured community. With both the zines and podcast, we invite you to indulge in an at home sensory experience. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip

The inaugural podcast episode includes storytelling with SLMDances Creative Partners and a poem by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte created as a literary contact-improvisation between our ensemble dancing and Timothy's writing.

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This podcast features SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Angelica Mondol Viana, Bianca Paige Smith, and Maya Simone Z. in conversation. The poetry is written and spoken by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte, with Noah Jackson on bass and Ebonie Smith on drums and production.

Spotlight in PURPLE has been produced and edited by Jessica Lee, Bianca Paige Smith and Lorena Jaramillo, and funded in part by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement.

SLMDances is directed by Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley, Strategic Visioning Partner A. Nia Austin-Edwards, and Artistic Visioning Partner Allegra Romita.


Follow SLMDances on social media.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:22:56 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 2875 Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! This is a gift for you from SLMDances. This podcast is a companion to handmade zines - analog and digital - created for you, our treasured community. With both the zines and podcast, we invite you to indulge in an at home sensory experience. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip

The inaugural podcast episode includes storytelling with SLMDances Creative Partners and a poem by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte created as a literary contact-improvisation between our ensemble dancing and Timothy's writing.

--

This podcast features SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Angelica Mondol Viana, Bianca Paige Smith, and Maya Simone Z. in conversation. The poetry is written and spoken by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte, with Noah Jackson on bass and Ebonie Smith on drums and production.

Spotlight in PURPLE has been produced and edited by Jessica Lee, Bianca Paige Smith and Lorena Jaramillo, and funded in part by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement.

SLMDances is directed by Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley, Strategic Visioning Partner A. Nia Austin-Edwards, and Artistic Visioning Partner Allegra Romita.


Follow SLMDances on social media.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No Spotlight in PURPLE - Season 2 Trailer 2 2 1 1 Spotlight in PURPLE - Season 2 Trailer trailer a118d086-cd39-49fe-a312-6b67e5bfa891 https://share.transistor.fm/s/242104e1 Spotlight in PURPLE, season 2 will be a three episode series following the unique creative process of the world premiere of the creation of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells - an ensemble performance premiering at Lincoln Center in June 2023.


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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law. 

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison


Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: @Kiryatraber

IG: @KiryaT

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Spotlight in PURPLE, season 2 will be a three episode series following the unique creative process of the world premiere of the creation of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells - an ensemble performance premiering at Lincoln Center in June 2023.


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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law. 

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison


Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: @Kiryatraber

IG: @KiryaT

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:33:37 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 135 Spotlight in PURPLE, season 2 will be a three episode series following the unique creative process of the world premiere of the creation of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells - an ensemble performance premiering at Lincoln Center in June 2023.


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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law. 

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison


Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: @Kiryatraber

IG: @KiryaT

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: http://twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD 2 2 1 1 Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD full 3ae38120-553b-4ca9-bbad-f08ed21250ca https://share.transistor.fm/s/08f6786f We learn about the history of how Sydnie L. Mosley Dances became a collective, the values that guide the work and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells. [Correction: SLMD was founded in 2010. In the episode, the host says 2014]


This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Candance Sumpter, Rebecca Gual and Lorena Jaramillo; Collaborating Artists: Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Dyane Harvey, Counterfeit Madison (Sharon Udoh), Rosamond S. King, Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Ianne Fields Stewart.


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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> We learn about the history of how Sydnie L. Mosley Dances became a collective, the values that guide the work and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells. [Correction: SLMD was founded in 2010. In the episode, the host says 2014]


This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Candance Sumpter, Rebecca Gual and Lorena Jaramillo; Collaborating Artists: Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Dyane Harvey, Counterfeit Madison (Sharon Udoh), Rosamond S. King, Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Ianne Fields Stewart.


–

Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:58:26 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 3695 We learn about the history of how Sydnie L. Mosley Dances became a collective, the values that guide the work and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells. [Correction: SLMD was founded in 2010. In the episode, the host says 2014]


This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Candance Sumpter, Rebecca Gual and Lorena Jaramillo; Collaborating Artists: Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Dyane Harvey, Counterfeit Madison (Sharon Udoh), Rosamond S. King, Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Ianne Fields Stewart.


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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No A Place for PURPLE: Revisiting the Community of San Juan Hill 2 2 2 2 A Place for PURPLE: Revisiting the Community of San Juan Hill full dfc68aa3-c35d-4ed9-8c7e-f72b60e140b0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9d3c6b84 We continue the journey and hear about the place where PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells was developed: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is also the neighborhood formerly known as San Juan Hill, and the community engagement process with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood center.



This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Brittany Grier and Candance Sumpter; and Community partners Jacqueline Wright and Marie Stephen. Additionally featuring excerpts from interview footage recorded in 1985 by New York City’s municipal broadcast television station, WNYC-TV, for Neighborhood Voices, a limited series on changing city neighborhoods, archived by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services.


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: nstagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> We continue the journey and hear about the place where PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells was developed: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is also the neighborhood formerly known as San Juan Hill, and the community engagement process with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood center.



This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Brittany Grier and Candance Sumpter; and Community partners Jacqueline Wright and Marie Stephen. Additionally featuring excerpts from interview footage recorded in 1985 by New York City’s municipal broadcast television station, WNYC-TV, for Neighborhood Voices, a limited series on changing city neighborhoods, archived by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services.


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

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IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: nstagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:10:39 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 1309 We continue the journey and hear about the place where PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells was developed: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is also the neighborhood formerly known as San Juan Hill, and the community engagement process with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood center.



This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Brittany Grier and Candance Sumpter; and Community partners Jacqueline Wright and Marie Stephen. Additionally featuring excerpts from interview footage recorded in 1985 by New York City’s municipal broadcast television station, WNYC-TV, for Neighborhood Voices, a limited series on changing city neighborhoods, archived by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services.


–

Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: nstagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com


]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No Reverberations of PURPLE - Black femmes in conversation 2 2 3 3 Reverberations of PURPLE - Black femmes in conversation full f9d4f245-b136-4198-a156-fd0e966a2d17 https://share.transistor.fm/s/096bcc34 Sit in on an intimate conversation between Ebony Noelle Golden, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Sydnie L. Mosley about four works of Womanist literature that have influenced PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells.


Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally.  In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions.   Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing.  Her practice is rooted in community-design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.  www.bettysdaughterarts.com IG: @ebonynoellegolden


Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Her books include: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018), Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). In 2020-2021 Alexis was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis recently won the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry.  Alexis and her partner Sangodare have received many honors,including an Advocate 40 under 40 feature for their decade of work to create an intergenerational living library of Black LGBTQ brilliance called Mobile Homecoming. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina where she nurtures and is nurtured by a visionary creative community while scheming towards her dream of being your favorite cousin.


Sydnie L. Mosley​ is an artist-activist and educator who produces experiential dance works with her New York City-based dance-theater collective Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances). She won The Bessie for Outstanding Performer as a part of the ensemble of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds, and received a special citation from Mayor Bill de Blasio for using her talents in dance to fuel social change. As an educator, she designed and teaches Barnard College's Dance in the City Pre-College Program. She sits on the Advisory Committee to Dance/NYC. Her writing has appeared in Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dance Magazine.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


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Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com



]]> Sit in on an intimate conversation between Ebony Noelle Golden, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Sydnie L. Mosley about four works of Womanist literature that have influenced PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells.


Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally.  In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions.   Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing.  Her practice is rooted in community-design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.  www.bettysdaughterarts.com IG: @ebonynoellegolden


Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Her books include: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018), Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). In 2020-2021 Alexis was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis recently won the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry.  Alexis and her partner Sangodare have received many honors,including an Advocate 40 under 40 feature for their decade of work to create an intergenerational living library of Black LGBTQ brilliance called Mobile Homecoming. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina where she nurtures and is nurtured by a visionary creative community while scheming towards her dream of being your favorite cousin.


Sydnie L. Mosley​ is an artist-activist and educator who produces experiential dance works with her New York City-based dance-theater collective Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances). She won The Bessie for Outstanding Performer as a part of the ensemble of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds, and received a special citation from Mayor Bill de Blasio for using her talents in dance to fuel social change. As an educator, she designed and teaches Barnard College's Dance in the City Pre-College Program. She sits on the Advisory Committee to Dance/NYC. Her writing has appeared in Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dance Magazine.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


–

Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com



]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:41:09 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 6535 Sit in on an intimate conversation between Ebony Noelle Golden, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Sydnie L. Mosley about four works of Womanist literature that have influenced PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells.


Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally.  In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions.   Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing.  Her practice is rooted in community-design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.  www.bettysdaughterarts.com IG: @ebonynoellegolden


Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Her books include: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018), Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). In 2020-2021 Alexis was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis recently won the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry.  Alexis and her partner Sangodare have received many honors,including an Advocate 40 under 40 feature for their decade of work to create an intergenerational living library of Black LGBTQ brilliance called Mobile Homecoming. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina where she nurtures and is nurtured by a visionary creative community while scheming towards her dream of being your favorite cousin.


Sydnie L. Mosley​ is an artist-activist and educator who produces experiential dance works with her New York City-based dance-theater collective Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances). She won The Bessie for Outstanding Performer as a part of the ensemble of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds, and received a special citation from Mayor Bill de Blasio for using her talents in dance to fuel social change. As an educator, she designed and teaches Barnard College's Dance in the City Pre-College Program. She sits on the Advisory Committee to Dance/NYC. Her writing has appeared in Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dance Magazine.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster


–

Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/Kiryatraber

IG instagram.com/kiryat

Website: kiryatraber.com


Follow SLMDances on social media

Twitter: twitter.com/slmdances

Instagram: instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com



]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No An Announcement 2 2 4 4 An Announcement bonus 3a7d2d11-ccaa-43ff-862e-78e66d41fc52 https://share.transistor.fm/s/d3601258 We're going on hiatus! We'll be back for Season 3. Please subscribe to the show feed, share with friends and family, and follow SLMD & Kirya on social media for more updates!

]]> We're going on hiatus! We'll be back for Season 3. Please subscribe to the show feed, share with friends and family, and follow SLMD & Kirya on social media for more updates!

]]> Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:06:09 -0400 Sydnie L. Mosley Dances Sydnie L. Mosley Dances 57 We're going on hiatus! We'll be back for Season 3. Please subscribe to the show feed, share with friends and family, and follow SLMD & Kirya on social media for more updates!

]]> Dance, Black, Black Women, Radical joy, Mindfulness, Healing, Feminist, Womanist No