#  Sydnie L Mosley 

Visiting Lecturer, TDM 182CD: Dance Composition: Community Engaged Dance Making (Fall 2024)

 

 

 



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 Sydnie L. Mosley​ is an award winning artist-activist and educator who is interested in creative work that is both artistically sound and socially aware. ​She produces experiential dance works with her collective [SLMDances.](https://www.sydnielmosley.com/the-collective) Through their choreographic work, the collective works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice. Her evening length dances [The Window Sex Project](https://www.sydnielmosley.com/the-window-sex-project) and [BodyBusiness](https://www.sydnielmosley.com/body-business), their creative processes and performance experiences are a model for dance-activism. ​​​Her dances have been performed extensively throughout New York City and she was listed by [TheRoot.com](http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/young-hustle) as one of twenty-five “[Up and Coming: Young Minority Artists and Entrepreneurs](http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/young-hustle).”​

 ​A versatile dancer, Sydnie is a part of the [2017 Bessie Award winning](http://bessies.org/the-bessie-awards-announce-2017-nominees-and-recipient-for-outstanding-emerging-choreographer-award/) cast of [the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds](http://www.culturebot.org/2016/10/26390/congregation-of-survival-lost-and-found-platform-continues/) curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Sydnie danced with Christal Brown's ​INSPIRIT, a dance compan​y (2010-2013) and continues to appear as a guest artist for [Brooklyn Ballet](http://brooklynballet.org/) since 2009.

 As a [dance educator](https://www.sydnielmosley.com/teacher), Sydnie's technique classes pull together orientations from the African diaspora, attention to the architecture of traditional modern dance, and the language of Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals grounded in the use of breath, voice, and personal choices. She teaches babies (really!), K-12, undergraduates, non-dancers and professionals alike, with the motto: every body can dance! She has been an Adjunct Lecturer with the Barnard College Dance Department, and in 2012 designed the College's [Dance in the City](http://barnard.edu/pre-college/summer-in-the-city/programs/danceinthecity), Pre-College Program which she continues to teach.​

 She graduated from Barnard College in Dance and Africana Studies and earned an MFA in Dance Choreography from the University of Iowa.​​​​​

 Sydnie resides in Harlem, New York City. When she isn’t dancing, she is writing, listening to music, and cooking.



 

 

 





 

 

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