Meet THE PANELISTS FOR THE 2022 REDTAIL ARTIST RESIDENCIES
New York, NY - April 22, 2022 Redtail is pleased to announce this year’s group of panelists for the second round of Redtail Artist Residencies in partnership with Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL)! The panel met on October 29, 2021 virtually and chose four collaborative teams of choreographers and composers to create and develop new work. Artists will present one free public program in coordination with JCAL later in 2022 . Each artist receives workspace at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning plus a $2,000 stipend. Click here to find out who this year’s 2022 resident artists are.
THIS YEAR’S PANELISTS ARE:
Jamaican born, Charmaine Patricia Warren performer, historian, consultant, and dance writer, is the founder/artistic director for "Black Dance Stories" and "Dance on the Lawn: Montclair's Dance Festival," Producer of DanceAfrica, Artistic Associate and Programming Director at BAM. She is the Director of dance at The Wassaic Project, curated E-Moves at Harlem Stage and danced with david roussève/REALITY. Charmaine is on faculty at Empire State Colleges, a former faculty at Ailey/Fordham, Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College and Kean University. She writes for Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine, the New York Times and has served as a panelist for Robert Battle's New Directions Choreography Lab. Charmaine holds a Ph.D. in History/Howard University, a Master’s in Dance Research/City College, and Bachelor Degrees (Dance/English)/Montclair State College. She received the 2020 Bessie "Angel" Award and a 2017 Bessie for "Outstanding Performance" as a member of Skeleton Architecture Collective.
Mai Lê is a French-Vietnamese street/club dance performer, choreographer, educator, dj, curator, and the Founder and Artistic Director of LayeRhythm Productions INC, a NYC-based non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting freestyle voices in performance art. She is a core dancer in the pioneering street dance theater company Rennie Harris PureMovement and in Passion Fruit Dance Company. In 2021, Mai Lê was selected to be artist-in-residence with Bridge Street Theater and with Asian American Arts Alliance, as well as movement curator for Asian Cultural Council’s East West Fest.
Tonika Ayana Custalow-Stuart is a native of Baltimore, MD. She received her training from Peabody Conservatory, Charles Village Performing Arts Center, Baltimore Actors’ Theatre Conservatory, Walnut Hill Performing Arts School, and Thorebecklyceum School/Arnhem Dance Academy in the Netherlands. For over two decades she continues to be an active dancer, performer, and is Assistant Artistic Director and performer with The Vissi Dance Theater. Performances with Vissi include, An Evening with Vissi, Conversations with Nina Simone, and Amazing Grace, among others. She has toured internationally in Italy for the Gran Gala della Danza (2008,2010,2013), Kingston, Jamaica at the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts (2017), and Shizuoka and Choshi, Japan (2012, 2016, and 2020) performing Vissi’s works The Hoarde and Disco Queen. Outside of being an active member of The Vissi Dance Theater Tonika works annually with St. Mark’s Church in a number of projects and productions under the direction of Jeannine Otis including Good Friday Blues, Pride Sunday, among others.