Sydnie L. Mosley Dances

Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances) works with communities to organize for gender and racial justice through experiential dance-theater performance and education. SLMDances works reflect real life experiences central to our identities, and pulls focus to the stories of women and Black folks.

SLMDances engages audiences in the artistic process. Our dances provoke a visceral reaction to the physicality on stage and incite conversation toward community action. 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. SLMDances performances, workshops, and community engagement programs appeal to a sense of humanity. Through this work artists, audiences, and attendees feel more empathy and compassion, connect with ourselves and each other, and activate the practice of imagining. 

SLMDances works nationally, with deep relationships in Harlem, New York City, and Baltimore. They have presented work across the U.S., including The Apollo, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bowdoin College, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University, Cornell University, Dance Brigade (San Francisco), Dance Place (Washington DC), Duke University, Joyce Soho, Harlem Stage, Lincoln Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Spelman College, Triskelion Arts, Utah Tech, among many others.

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.