Hellooo Addlifers! As the season changes from summer to fall, Addlife! is rapidly growing and transforming... This blog -- Addlife! Studio -- has long been the online home, where I publish announcements for Addlife!'s numerous events, concerts, and programs. Now, I'd like to introduce you to the parent company -- Addlife! World -- a global African entertainment company. The site is still undergoing...

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Hark! As the demand for African entertainment surges worldwide, I'm inspired to work with great teams to create and be a part of bold endeavors to enliven people's lives, to add life to venues, events, conferences, and stages everywhere. This past April & May, I had the ultimate pleasure of performing and co-choreographing for the Vegas-based Cirque Zuma, a prolific, top-touring African Circus,...

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Thank you to all walks of life, hot-stepping babies, pro dance titans, big mammas, and firecracker teens came who out to my FIRST MEGA class in New York this past Saturday -- at the groundbreaking Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center in Brooklyn [DSPAC]! Take a look! The babies alone will just make your heart do a happy dance!! New York & east coast,...

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Greetings! For the last few weeks, I’ve been kicking into an even higher gear, working with the international firecracker and dancer Dwana A. Smallwood, at her new performing arts center in Brooklyn, fiercely propelling dancers in New York and worldwide. We’ve opened the doors of the new center, welcoming old friends and making new ones!   As the hard work continues, we are ready...

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Friends! This is a long time coming!! I've accepted a full-time position with the groundbreaking Dwana Smallwood​ Performing Arts Center, [DSPAC] Inc., a new, state-of-the-art Brooklyn-based center developing elite leaders through dance and performing arts! Talk about dreams coming true. I’ll be helping manage the office, strategically grow the business, and most exciting, choreographing & teaching African dance every day! Now, I want...

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A few months ago, I received the divine call and embarked on the effort to kick-start Africa United Ballet International -- an unprecedented and unparalleled music and dance entertainment venture. My business partner, grandmaster drummer and performer Bolokada Conde, from Guinea, and I set out to raise oodles of money and fuel the forward motion of a company which has brought together Africa's...

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This February, I had the incredible honor of touring with Cirque Zuma Zuma, one of the most exciting African acrobatic, music, & dance companies on the planet. For the first time, I worked with the world’s top mind-boggling acrobats, I’m talking epic pole-climbers, super jugglers, head-standers, limboers, and flippers, hailing from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania! Throughout our wild and gut-wrenching showcase, I provided...

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