Shoni Currier

Director, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival

Congratulations to Shoni Currier, who has recently received two grant awards. A from the will support a weekend of Hip Hop events, including a battle, performance showcase, and panel discussion at the 2024 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival. This event is a collaboration between the BDF and  CRÄ€V, and seeks to create a holistic experience and understanding of Hip Hop culture by offering discussion, history and context in addition to the opportunity to see those practices in action and to learn how to embody the practice.

An award will support bringing Gesel Mason to the 2025 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival to develop and present her work “Yes, And”, a collection of performance experiments that place an expanded vision of Black Womanhood at the center of the creative process.

Congratulations to Shoni on both of these awards!

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance festival dancer performing choreography next to a tree trunk
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Award No. 23-24-09, $7,500.

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Award No. 1919913-33-24, $35,000. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.