S. AMA WRAY (Updated)
Artist
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S. Ama Wray is a choreographer, teacher, researcher, writer, director, performer, and inventor. A TEDx speaker, she has presented at the United Nations, Princeton, Harvard, The Institute for Advanced Studies and Dance USA, she has similarly taught dance for prominent institutions, including the Martha Graham, The Royal Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Her collaborations in dance, theatre and music have been with Wynton Marsalis, Mojisola Adebayo, Bobby McFerrin, Nicole Mitchell; and for Jane Dudley, she is the custodian of her seminal work, Harmonica Breakdown (1938). She is creator and custodian of Embodiology®®, an award-winning practice - an embodied systems thinking approach to improvisation – rooted in African knowledge systems. In theatre, she co-directed Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey, winning a British Offie Award for Best New Play. a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, A California Artists Awardee and A UCI Newkirk Fellow.Try it!
