Sydnie L. Mosley Dances

​​Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances) is a New York City-based dance-theater collective that works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice through experiential dance performance. SLMDances' works engage audiences in the artistic process; our dances provoke a visceral reaction to the physicality on stage, and incite conversation toward community action. The works reflect real life experiences central to our identities, and pulls focus to the stories of women and Black folks. The movement vocabulary fluidly integrates modern dance techniques and movement of the African Diaspora, while dancers frequently use their voice with spoken text and audible breath. Through dimensional compositions, specific, textured movement, humor and character development, choreographed works appeal to a sense of humanity.

Eva Yaa Asantewaa of Infinitebody writes that Mosley’s work:

… addressed misogyny, violence, oppression, shaming, body policing, internalized negativity and the like, but also contained sections where Black women celebrated the power and wonder of their bodies and supported one another in doing so. Our bodies belong to us, and we are meant to take joy in them outside of society’s strictures. Sydnie’s work is dense with imagery and references. She and her terrific dancers make it all work. This is really revolutionary stuff, fundamentally revolutionary stuff, and its message is valuable for all women.

SLMDances has presented work at Harlem Stage’s The Takeover, The Performance Project @ University Settlement, The Chen Dance Center newsteps program, the FIGMENT Festival on Governor’s Island, RoofTopDance, The Actor’s Fund Arts Center, the Harlem Arts Alliance Artz, Rootz & Rhythm Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), Triskelion Arts, The Red Carpet Theater at Taino Towers, as a part of the New York Foundation for the Arts Boot Camp Arts Festival at Joyce SoHo, The New School for Hollaback!’s HOLLA:Revolution, Barnard College, Cornell University, Penn State, Duke University, the Exponential Finance Conference, in addition to the annual NYC anti-street harassment rally, and many other outdoor performances.

The company situates itself amongst the Harlem arts community by creating and presenting dance uptown; partnering with other Harlem artists and businesses; and focusing on community-based initiatives within Harlem.