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Experience dance with us!

Experience dance with us!
Classes for children in our Champaign/Urbana community, Ages 4-10
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Directed by Betty Allen
Films by Endalyn Outlaw (Taylor), Rena Butler, and Irishia Hubbard Romaine
Thursday, September 11
Angie Pittman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose work blends movement, sound, and text. Their choreography has been presented at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, Danspace Project, and The Chocolate Factory Theater, among others. As a performer, they have worked with Larissa Velez-Jackson, Tere O’Connor, and currently with Cynthia Oliver and Ralph Lemon. Pittman is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU and a 2024-2025 Center for Humanities Fellow developing their latest project, Holy Defiance.
Leslie Cuyjet is a choreographer, dancer, and writer whose performances explore Black embodiment through text, video, and movement. Her solo work has been shown at EMPAC, The Kitchen, The Chocolate Factory, and The Shed. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received two Bessie Awards, a Princeton Hodder Fellowship, and support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Based in Brooklyn, Cuyjet continues to create layered, research-driven work that bridges personal history and postmodern dance.