Performers 

​Tria Smothers
ETY • GTW
​Tria Smothers hails from Baltimore, MD and is currently living in the Durham area.  She always had a passion to dance and had the opportunity to study the art during college.  She continues to dance as self-expression and healing.  She hopes to incorporate movement and other art therapies into her future counseling practice.

Oesa Vinesett
ETY • GTW
​After ten years of practicing capoeira with Capoeira Brasil, Oesa Savionne Vinesett transitioned her love of movement to dance.  She has spent her time performing salsa and bachata with Sabor: Columbia University’s First Latino Dance Troupe, studying Afro-Cuban Orisha dance and rumba under her phenomenal mentor, Rebecca Bliss, and performing as a member of the Duke African Repertory Ensemble and Indigo Yard Gals
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C.C. Croxton
 ETY • GTW

Chanelle ‘C.C.’ Croxton was born and raised in Washington, D.C. (not the DMV) and has now resided in Durham, NC for over 11 years. C.C. is a full time labor organizer fighting to improve working conditions for Black workers in the South, and is a freedom fighter working towards a more liberatory future. Her main resilience practice since youth has been dance which has profoundly shaped her life. She has studied an array of dance techniques including forms of the African Diaspora under the direction of Ava L. Vinesett, and has had the opportunity to perform numerous productions with both Ava and Andrea E. Woods. C.C. has also studied modern dance techniques under Andrea and the likes of Marjani Forté and Rodger Belman during a season at the American Dance Festival, as well as guest artists that she's had the pleasure to work with! ​

Beverly Botsford - infooo
CC Croxton - infooo
Medina Johnson -
Najla McClain –
Amoke Ocean –
Khalid Saleem –
Tria Smothers –
Richard Vinesett ​–

Collaborators

Luis Bran - infooo 
Juan Garcia - infoooo

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