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Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, and mama based in Philadelphia, PA. She is grateful for her life in dance, performing for a decade with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and in projects with Susan Marshall, Moriah Evans, David Gordon, James Allister Sprang, Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos, Yvonne Rainer, Yanira Castro, Yara Travieso, and Yaa Samar! Dance Theater among others. She is a 2024 PEW project grant recipient, currently in collaboration with theater artist Ang(ela) Bey to create On Buried Ground for Philadelphia’s Christ Church Preservation Trust. Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of the Arts. She received her BFA from Ailey/Fordham and MFA in Choreography from Smith College.