Tendayi Kuumba

TENDAYI KUUMBA 

One of Dance Magazine's "25 to watch 2023" & Chita Rivera Outstanding Female Dancer on Broadway 2022 as Lady in Brown in the Tony Nominated Broadway Revival of "For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf". International dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, & Spelman College grad. Tendayi formerly performed as a background vocalist/dancer & original cast member of Specal Tony Award Winning David Byrne's America Utopia on Broadway as well as its World Tour since 2018 and HBO Film adaptation directed by Spike Lee. 

Previously a touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi is longtime collaborator with partner Greg Purnell as the alias UFLYMOTHERSHIP. Their sonic/choreographic projects include, The Mixtape, Incog-negro, and other works that have been featured at AfroPunk, Gibney Dance, Stephen Petronio Residency Center, New York Live Arts, Movement Researches’ Spring Festival, Czech Republic of NY, “ Prague Effects” , Dancespace "Collective Terrains " platform, Spelman Colleges' "Toni Cade Bambara Scholar- Activism Conference, Harlem Stage, Hi-ARTS, BRICLab, Dance Mission Theaters' D.I.R.T Festival 2021 & Park Armorys' 100 Women/ 100 Years and Lincoln Center's Restart Stages.

She's also worked with choreographers T. Lang, Marjani Forte'-Saunders (7NMS), ASÉ Dance Theater Collective, Nathan Trice, & Philadelphia Operas’ We Shall Not be Moved directed by Bill T. Jones. She continues to build her pedagogy as a teaching artist & B.O.L.D Facilitator for Urban Bush Women. Currently, she is set to premiere a new choreographic work Dec 2023 at the PerlmanArtsCenter alongside Big Dance Theater,  Annie-BParson, & Donna Uchizono. She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.