SADEIZM Movement Alchemy

@sadeizmbemoved

Dancer | Creative Doula | Movement Alchemist
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Rehearsal has officially begun for the world premiere of THE BLACK FEMINIST GUIDE TO THE HUMAN BODY! I’ve been in many rooms during my 25 year career as an artist/scholar but none of them have looked like this. So many talented and committed Black women are holding me down as we put this precious story on stage. So many allies are with us too. We are a month from opening @vortex_rep and I’m floating (see last pic!). Come see about us! #blackfeministguide #newplay #madeatmacdowell
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15 days ago
CADD: Thé Collegium for African Diasporic Dance In 2022 with an obliterated heart and an upended life…I followed Spirit. Told me go to a place I’d never been to meet people I’d never met at a conference I didn’t know existed. Best thing about being cracked open is that space is created to receive something you ain’t even know you needed/wanted. Once there I followed another invitation…and another…and another…and last week CADD 2024 I helped coordinate as an MFA candidate. The people I met in 2022 are now my faculty, advisors and guides. A decade of work in Austin on my blood sweat and tears informs the grace with which I move now. And it’s a trip to recognize my blessings in real time…while seeing the next ones already comin. Arriving…In Process, Sadé ♥️
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1 month ago
1st semester at Duke MFA in a nutshell. So grateful for the opportunity to convene & commune w/my selves and their influences. [long and fantastic read]. _______________ The work of “resurrecting lives from the ruins”, as Hartman puts it, is ancestral work. If we learn to read, study, listen to and decode our own bodies, what has been hidden can resurface. Even more violent than repeating horrific events for sensational satisfaction and/or enlivening the acuity of regard of oppressors and their descendants is the burying of the actual lives. No matter the reason, the benefit is at the expense of lost nuance of Black lives and humanity. Black people become synonymous with violence. An entire episteme has been created regarding the Black body and its personhood. Black people are no longer human beings, but sites of violence - mundane horror houses. My work is in a lineage of others who openly grapple with the possibility of telling the stories between the atrocities without reinflicting violence and without escaping to a place of fantasy for consolation. This is where the dance and other ways of knowing are helpful. I’m not pledging to write a new story - but rather to tell the fuller story through methods of seeking outside of the idea of what valid research, knowledge, fact, evidence, archive are considered to be. I argue that theater-making allows more of a possibility due to its inherent nature of making the lines between perceived realities porous.... but I can show you better than I can tell you - Sadé (version 5.0)
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1 month ago
Pleased to announce the new leg of my journey is now located in North Carolina at Duke University 🥳🥂 Check the photos to learn about: How I’m using my MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis @dukedanceprogram SoulFULL Somatics and my other workshops join @dukearts Joining @blackandbrownballet for the @npnarts funded development of ‘Quare Dance’ 😳😩😢BUT WAIT! What does that mean for you?!!! This is an expansion. Not a shift. My services are being offered as usual with one caveat….more! More depth, more strength, more wisdom and light. You get the direct benefit of my new endeavors right into private sessions, workshops, trainings and creative direction. So keep those bookings comin! So excited to share, 💋Sadé
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5 months ago
37 WHERE?! It always astonishes me how old I am, how young I look and how much life I’ve lived 🤯🤯🤯 This rotation hit different. Stepping into a new lifetime within this lifespan. Looking in the mirror and realizing that’s the version of me I prayed/worked/reached so hard for. I love her. So glad to be able to shed light and show so much love and inspiration for others. This is my season to receive just as much and MORE! Shouts to my chosen family for showing allll the way out! Big things poppin 😉 I love you all 🥰😍😘 Enjoying the continued celebrations through the summer! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 The best bday gift is supporting my big moves!!!!!!CashApp/Venmo: sadejones1111
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8 months ago
Pulled up on Jean Claude tonight to dance on honor of my mother on her bday 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 We learned a traditional dance of the northern Ivory Coast. It included planting seeds and harvesting what grew. Can someone say alignment? 🙌🏾 What I love about the teacher is that he takes time to correct the movements. I wish the students paid more attention to the details. 🤦🏾‍♀️ These dances really mean something. I’m beginning to mature as a dancer. No longer flailing at full speed, but really taking the movement and rhythm into my body. Check the auntie hips in the beginning 😂 A little goes a looonnng way hunny 🫰🏾💦🍑 How are you moving intentionally and pacing yourself? ————— #africandance #ivorycoast #drumming #movementismedicine #healingrhythms #tunde #selfcultivation #itsamarathonnotasprint #bodywisdom #agegracefully #likefinewine #melaninpoppin
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10 months ago
“The journey isn’t about where you’re going. It’s about who you’ll be when you get there.” The Alchemist is my name. The Chrysalis is my plane. Iteration is my game. Link in the bio if you want some of the same. Drop a ♥️ if you like the new vibes. Thinking of adding my voice narrative in the mix. Whatcha think? ———— #transformationtuesday #energyhealing #selfawareness #selfworth #selfcompassion #grace #healingjourney #movementismedicine #somatichealing #alignment #innerpeace #innerguidance #leavealegacy #bodywhisperer #lightworker
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10 months ago
It gets better with time 🤗 I used to be bummed if I didn’t have lots of dances with different people. I thought the night was a fail. But as I get better, the more I welcome dances with my regulars. People shift song to song, week to week, and in our case, year to year. The way Raul dances with me has been a reflection of my growth as a woman over time. Just when I think he’s gonna repeat an old trick, he throws something new or does something old differently. He listens to where I’m at energetically. And I’ve learned not to assume I know where the lead is going. Salsa continues to teach me about myself in relation to others…..and gives a safe space for my sexy 💦🍑 Enjoying the posts? Is the new look hittin? Drop a ♥️! Leave a comment! ———— #dancereels #salsadancing #socialdance #melaninpoppin #danceislife #movementismedicine #energyhealing #relationships #innerwork #emotionalintelligence #beautifulblackwomen #sadeizms
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10 months ago
I came with my headwrap on and no makeup lookin like the ancestors who created this but… There’s still colorism in salsa 🙄 And Austin is more ballroom than the Puerto Rican/Cuban house parties and NYC nightclubs. So I tend to dress up to combat the dismissing. But last night I got off of a long day teaching and was too tired for alladat. I wrapped my head and threw my shoes in the back seat. My hips said you gon get this salsa tonight 🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♀️ People stared as usual…and I sat. And laughed with friends and enjoyed the music. Only 3 dances. But they were with an amazing salsa DJ from Puerto Rico @denzelsincere and two decades long maestros 💯The one I’m dancing with said: “Most people here are great dancers, but you are a joy to watch because you have natural talent” Energy is energy. And my vessel was built for this 💃🏾Some people will engage and some people won’t. But best believe ALL are watching. And that’s just life. I’m learning that people see you. THEY 👏🏾 SEE 👏🏾YOU. How they react to your light is on them. …Do YOU see you? ————— #dancereels #salsadancing #socialdance #melaninpoppin #danceislife #movementismedicine #energyhealing #selflovetips #throwbackthursday #aboutlastnight
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10 months ago
Oh heyyyyyy May! 🌺🌸🌺 Check out what’s bloomin… FRESH. Remember when I told y’all the new year is in spring? Well…here’s a season worth of goodies rolling out. Enjoy this vibe while you can 😉 🧘🏾‍♀️ SoulFULL Flow Yoga 🧘🏾‍♀️ Wednesdays at 10am @chfitness 2nd Saturdays @muellerlakepark 🔥Throwback Music Video Class 🔥 Mondays at 6pm @chfitness Wednesdays 11:30am @chfitness 🪘Afro Modern Dance 🪘 Wednesdays at 6pm @chfitness 3rd Saturdays 10am @muellerlakepark You excited? I am! See you soon ♥️ ————- #danceclass #danceatx #yogapractice #blackyogi #90sdance #90snostalgia #movementismedicine #connection #austinevents #thingstodoinaustin #wellnessjourney #letyourlightshine #sadeizms #may
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10 months ago
…and then it dawned on me… the color purple is a love letter from black women to black women. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ My Granny don’t ever miss. Each year on her bday I am to do art. This is the first year since 2013 I haven’t been on stage for her bday. I felt bummed till I realized I was sitting across the table from this phenom in a different version of myself headed to an even MORE version of myself. HBD. You never miss. I AM the gift.
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11 months ago
He said: “Dancing with you is like cutting butter with a knife” 🔥♥️🔥 After 12 years of dancing salsa 💃🏾 I was able to dance with the man who I started out stumbling over. He’s so smooth and strong simultaneously. I never know what he will do next but I know he got me. Also….💦🍯🍑🤭…..but seriously: Salsa is such a reflection of relationships. He verbally and non verbally expressed my safety with him so I could let go and do the crazy tricks 🤩 It’s also a reflection of the the person too. In salsa you are allowed to refuse offers to dance. If you have a notion that a partner is not going to be safe or satisfying, it’s okay to say no thank you. 🫶🏾🙏🏾 Others see that and better quality begins to step up because you made space for that. —————— #mondaymotivation #dancereels #salsadancing #socialdance #melaninpoppin #danceislife #movementismedicine #energyhealing #relationships #innerwork #emotionalintelligence #divinefeminine #divinemasculine
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11 months ago