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About the artist 

Shani Collins a.k.a. SNIC/ mother/artist/scholar/healer is crowned “Contemporary Revolutionary” by Thomas Lax in The Studio Museum Harlem Summer Magazine and featured in Dance Magazine as “Warrior Woman” by Eva Yaa Assentawa who says:

“ It’s a sure bet that when she takes the stage, she will deliver not only the movement but the core, the bedrock, the very meaning and spirit of a dance.”

A recipient of the Martha Myers Choreography Award and a 2006 “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance Award, she has choreographed and performed in the NYC Off Broadway Production of The Vagina Monologues at New World Stages and has participated, as a choreographer, in the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Her dance projects through SNIC/ Eternalworks DANCE, is dedicated to fostering women’s healing em(power)ment through performance and community engagement. Her work has been commissioned throughout the East coast and abroad at Performatica’ Dance Festival in Cholula, Mexico and at the Kaay Fecc Dance Festival in Dakar, Senegal including special teaching workshops in Seoul, Korea and Dakar, Senegal and Accra Ghana. Shani is currently Associate Professor and former Chair in the Department of Dance at Connecticut College, where she has served on faculty since 2009.