Kentoria Earle was raised in Winter Haven, Florida, and is the proud daughter of Kent Earle and Victoria Wilson. She recently graduated from The Florida State University where she obtained her Master of Arts in Dance/ Studio Related Studies. Since graduating she has had the opportunity to work with choreographers/ artists such as Renegade Performance Group, Abigail Levine, and Urban Bush Women as an apprentice. Kentoria has spent her first few years post-grad entering the field as a Brooklyn-based performing artist and collaborator. She is working to build an artistic process that looks at solo/improvisational practices as a way to tap into ancestry and lineage-based movement exploration. Kentoria believes these practices support and open up spaces where artists can be fully present for what often results in holistic & sustainable approaches to our healing, individually and collectively.

Makeda-Lily Love-Roney (she/her/they) is a fourth-generation artist from unseated Lenape Nation land known as New York. She’s a life, body, & energy alchemist, creative, dance artist, and Body Alignment/Pilates coach. Makeda’s previously performed with BalletNext, Nimbus Dance Works and nia love | Blacksmith’s Daughter, Liz Lerman, and Debbie Allen.

She’s currently a freelance dance artist, nia love’s teaching/choreographic assistant and movement collaborator of 10 years, the Producer and Co-Host of Black Dance Stories, and an apprentice of UBW.

Makeda’s features include The New Yorker, Cake and Whiskey Magazine, A Ballerina’s Body Book, KT-LA Debbie Allen’s Hot Chocolate Nutcracker Excerpt, Ritual: Short Film, and more. mroney-love.com