Deja Stowers began dancing at the age of four in the drill team African Perfection. She continued to dance throughout her junior high years and began to take interest in West African dance. Deja has studied with the masters of West African dance. She now is a dancer in the West African company Voice of […]
Writer, vocalist, and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna* 2013); the chapbooks Ichi-Ban, Ni-Ban (MOH Press) and Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna*); and the album, Televisíon. Her work has been published in Rattapallax, Black Renaissance Noir, Nocturnes, Fence, Ploughshares, The Black Scholar, Jubilat, Tea Party Magazine, Mandorla: New […]
“I always wanted to be a singer ” says New York chanteuse Pyeng Threadgill. From the time she was four years old Pyeng had melodies swirling through her brain and onto a cassette tape. Playing on a miniature Casio, she would belt lyrics like “Drums are here to save you now! Ohhhhhh!” Weaving from one […]
Lisa Brimmer is a writer and performance artist. She is a two-time Givens Foundation for African American Literature fellow and has received a Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowship. She is a contributing writer for Gazillion Voices Magazine and she is a member of Savage Umbrella Theater Company. Her work has been published in Ishmael Reed’s […]
Danielle Daniel’s career includes a wide variety of theater projects including storytelling programs, and workshops.
