Dr. S. Ama Wray
Alex Tsado
Dr. Jackie Berry
Dr. José Cossa
Dr. Jasmine Blanks Jones
Saidah Nash Carter
Dr. Sela Adjei
Femi Omere
Dr. Reginold Royston
Ashley Baccus-Clark
Dr. Dele Olajide
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Dr. Mamadou Kaba Traoré
Martha Shaka
Comfort Arthur
Kishau Rogers
Nana Opoku
Dr. Funmi Arewa
Essa Mohamedali
Mustapha Diyaol Haqq
Marcia Brock
Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz
Tawanda Chabikwa, PhD.
Dr. Marketus Presswood
Nyasha Mugavazi
Azeddine Elhassouny
Grisha Coleman
Amaria Stern
Teki Akuetteh Falconer
Anatola Araba
Alexander Otuka
Dr. Elen Nas
S. Ama Wray, PhD.
Dr. S. Ama Wray is an associate professor of dance and the University of California, Irvine. She is a former U.K NESTA Fellow (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts – similar to the MacArthur Awards)—an improviser, choreographer, director, teacher and scholar. She self-titles as a 'Performance Architect', receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Surrey where she developed her theory and practice of Embodiology®, a neo-African approach to contemporary dance improvisation. Her TED talk articulates its distinctions and philosophy.
In 2016 an essay on her neo-African approach to dance improvisation is in Black Dance British Routes, edited by Adair and Burt, 2017 published by Routledge. In 2014 two essays on jazz dance were published in the anthology Jazz dance: A History of its Roots and Branches, edited by Guarino and Oliver.