Honors & Recognitions

 

• 2024 Co-Choreographer with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Scat! The complex lives of Al and Dot…Dot and Al Zollar
• 2024 Workspace for Choreographers Residency, Gardens of Clay
• 2023 Black History Month Honoree, Richland District Two in SC
• 2023 Associate Choreographer, INTELLIGENCE Opera, Houston Grand Opera
• 2023 Office Hours Residency, REACH at the Kennedy Center, Gardens of Clay
• 2019 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity
• 2017 Best of Baltimore – Dance Production, What’s Going On, MD
• 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, DC
• 2016 Baker Awards Finalist
• 2010 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award- Solo Dance Performance
• 2009 Best of Baltimore- Choreographer Award
• 2009 MetroDC Dance Award Finalist for Overall Production
• 2009 Baker Artist Award- Baltimore Choice
• 2009 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist- Choreography Award
• 2009 Source Festival Mash-Up Artist (DC)
• 2007-2008 Artist Scholar in Residence at Michigan State University (MI)
• 2008 Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts Award
• 2008 Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Local Dance Commission Award
• 2007 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist- Choreography Award
• 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards
  – Emerging Choreographer
  – Outstanding New Work (Grandmother Project)
• 2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist – Choreography Award
• 2005 City Arts & Humanities Individual Artist Grant from the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts

• 2005 Omi International Dance Residency
• 2004 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Solo Dance Performance
• 2003 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Arts and Cultural Heritage Division Twentieth Annual Choreographers’ Showcase).
• 2002-2003 Finalist for the Metro DC Dance Awards