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Founder/ Co- Producer
Phakiso Collins is a Producer and emerging multi-media arts-activist residing in Brooklyn, NY. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Phakiso has always had a fierce passion for bringing the stories of marginalized peoples to light, specifically in urban communities. She is Founder and Co-Producer of Breakin' Out!, an arts/ healing initiative that is education and performance based; providing workshops designed for women and girls to break silence surrounding body image, self-esteem, womanhood, & sexuality. Using her television production experience as a platform for social change, she is now developing the project “Guilty Flesh”, a multi-media performance that speaks bluntly on the politics of sex, shame, and silence. Phakiso earned her B.A. in Television Production from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She now freelances within the entertainment industry as a Producer and Unit Manager for MTV, BET, VH1, BRAVO Networks, and is a Graphics Operator at MSNBC. She has also worked with Powerhouse Productions on their multiple programs airing on TV One; including "G. Garvin Road Tour", "Living it Up w/ Patti Labelle", and "Makeover Manor" hosted by Mikki Taylor. Phakiso is a proud graduate from the 2009 class of We Got Issues! Young Women’s Leadership Institute, where she gained the tools, vocabulary, and visioning that will help inform and continue her arts activism and commitment to healing & empowerment.
Co- Producer
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins is a New York based performing artist. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, she earned her BA in Dance from Hollins University and her MFA from Hollins University/ American Dance Festival (ADF)at Duke University. SNIC has taught and performed nationally/internationally with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Urban Bush Women, Bill T. Jones,/Arnie Zane Dance Company, The National Dance Company of Mozambique, and in Trinidad with the “Roots and Wings” Movement. She is a recipient of the “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance Award and Founding Artistic Director of Eternal Works Inc, an emerging dance company that produces “Breakin’ Out!,” women’s healing/ empowerment workshops in Brooklyn and at the ADF; Her work has been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, Kumble Theater, Joyce Soho, Judson Church, Lincoln Theater, Aaron Davis Hall, BRIC Studio, Dixon Place, "Inside/Out" Jacob's Pillow, St. Marks Church, Bates Dance Festival, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, and at the Performatica' Dance Festival in Cholula, Mexico with specials workshops in Seoul, Korea and Dakar, Senegal. She choreographed and performed in the 2008 NYC Off Broadway Production of The Vagina Monologues at New World Stages and has participated in the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. SNIC is featured in Dance Magazine’s October Issue 2008 as "Warrior Woman" by Eva Yaa Assentawa and crowned “Contemporary Revolutionary” by Lax Thomas in The Studio Museum Harlem Summer Magazine Issue 2008. She has served on the ADF faculty since 2006. In spring 2009 she was a Visiting Teaching a Artist at MIT and a featured performance artist at Kaay Fecc Festival in Dakar, Senegal. SNIC is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Connecticut College.
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Founder/ Co- Producer
Phakiso Collins is a Producer and emerging multi-media arts-activist residing in Brooklyn, NY. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Phakiso has always had a fierce passion for bringing the stories of marginalized peoples to light, specifically in urban communities. She is Founder and Co-Producer of Breakin' Out!, an arts/ healing initiative that is education and performance based; providing workshops designed for women and girls to break silence surrounding body image, self-esteem, womanhood, & sexuality. Using her television production experience as a platform for social change, she is now developing the project “Guilty Flesh”, a multi-media performance that speaks bluntly on the politics of sex, shame, and silence. Phakiso earned her B.A. in Television Production from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She now freelances within the entertainment industry as a Producer and Unit Manager for MTV, BET, VH1, BRAVO Networks, and is a Graphics Operator at MSNBC. She has also worked with Powerhouse Productions on their multiple programs airing on TV One; including "G. Garvin Road Tour", "Living it Up w/ Patti Labelle", and "Makeover Manor" hosted by Mikki Taylor. Phakiso is a proud graduate from the 2009 class of We Got Issues! Young Women’s Leadership Institute, where she gained the tools, vocabulary, and visioning that will help inform and continue her arts activism and commitment to healing & empowerment.
Co- Producer
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins is a New York based performing artist. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, she earned her BA in Dance from Hollins University and her MFA from Hollins University/ American Dance Festival (ADF)at Duke University. SNIC has taught and performed nationally/internationally with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Urban Bush Women, Bill T. Jones,/Arnie Zane Dance Company, The National Dance Company of Mozambique, and in Trinidad with the “Roots and Wings” Movement. She is a recipient of the “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance Award and Founding Artistic Director of Eternal Works Inc, an emerging dance company that produces “Breakin’ Out!,” women’s healing/ empowerment workshops in Brooklyn and at the ADF; Her work has been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, Kumble Theater, Joyce Soho, Judson Church, Lincoln Theater, Aaron Davis Hall, BRIC Studio, Dixon Place, "Inside/Out" Jacob's Pillow, St. Marks Church, Bates Dance Festival, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, and at the Performatica' Dance Festival in Cholula, Mexico with specials workshops in Seoul, Korea and Dakar, Senegal. She choreographed and performed in the 2008 NYC Off Broadway Production of The Vagina Monologues at New World Stages and has participated in the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. SNIC is featured in Dance Magazine’s October Issue 2008 as "Warrior Woman" by Eva Yaa Assentawa and crowned “Contemporary Revolutionary” by Lax Thomas in The Studio Museum Harlem Summer Magazine Issue 2008. She has served on the ADF faculty since 2006. In spring 2009 she was a Visiting Teaching a Artist at MIT and a featured performance artist at Kaay Fecc Festival in Dakar, Senegal. SNIC is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Connecticut College.
*BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR OUR COMPLETE BREAKIN' OUT! BROCHURE & THE BREAKIN’ OUT MOVEMENT! WEBSITE LAUNCHING IN THE SPRING.
We are very excited to reconnect with YOU and want to keep you in the loop as the journey and movement continues... |