Description / Biography

Adanya Gilmore (they/them) is a movement artist, writer, and educator based in Chicago. They hail from Washington, D.C., and have been inhabiting the Midwest for some time now creating, teaching and dancing. Their work is inspired by Black post-modern artists and trailblazers, generated heavily with improvisation. Currently they are interested in the movements of the internet, Black femme studies and how the digital age has transformed their knowledge of gender and divergence. They earned a BA in Dance from Beloit College and graduated with an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where they met incredible people, performed in cool dances and learned how to teach. They have worked with artists such as Jennifer Monson, Tere O’Connor, Dr. Cynthia Oliver, Gina T’ai, Christine Johnson, Ching-i Chang and jess pretty. Their writing has been published by the Chicago publication Sixty Inches From Center and the Humanities Research Institute at UIUC.