Keisha Janae
Graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s Dance program, Keisha Janae (KJ) has experience in performance, choreography, and teaching artistry. She is excited to be in her first season with Red Clay Dance Company and has also danced with BraveSoul Movement and Project Tool. Versatile in her movement vocabulary, she teaches House dance at Red Clay Dance Academy and Crown Academy.
KJ is humbled to be Artistic Director and Founder of Eternal Resolve, a grassroots initiative and dance company that utilizes movement to process pathways toward self-realization and healing. Honored as a 3Arts Make A Wave Artist in 2020, she is skilled in dance improvisation and has performed with several collaborators and groups including: Instigation festival, a Chicago and New Orleans music, movement, and visual arts festival curated by Marie Casimir and Steve Marquette; “Freedom From Freedom To” hosted at Elastic Arts and curated by Cristal Sabbagh; “Afro-Town” composed and directed by Angel Bat Dawid; and with Black Monument Ensemble, composed and directed by Damon Locks.
This is her year for expanding and building her artistic practice. Currently she is in residence at Links Hall and awarded a scholarship to attend Afropolis 2022 in Marseille, France. Aligned with her most high, she chooses to plant seeds and walk in her purpose.
About Eternal Resolve
"Eternal” represents the observance of inner soul and spirit. “Resolve” considers the experiences of the present. Eternal Resolve was established in the Summer of 2020 by Artistic Director and Founder,Keisha Janae and Co-FounderTrell Whatley. The Eternal Resolve curriculum and performances are based on investigations of self within society. It gathers insights from the “Resolve Think Tank,” a cohort of arts and education practitioners dedicating themselves to remembering, researching, and rebuilding truth within themselves. The movers in their creative process use creative investigations designed by Keisha Janae, Think Tank research, and movement improvisation to re-evaluate the nature of their lived experiences. In performance, the practice their research to restore the connection to their mind and body. This platform permits us to inspire our community to free themselves. Excited about the newfound expansion in dancers and community members, Eternal Resolve is debuting Trust in Life with performers Keisha Janae {KJ}, Kolin Smith {Reflex}, Sasha Vulovic, Kierah {KIKI} King, Dion Randle {iCrisis}, Tuyeni Akanke Smith, and Dasaun Sanford.
Featured Artworks
- Seat and Chase Suns Photography: Philip Dembinski The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
- I am digging, I am haunting Tori Rice
- Breath of Life DESIGNSINPHOTOS by: Gloria Joan
- I call upon my sphinx to protect my riddled soul, I unclench my soul to unveil my. Photography: Idalia Cardona
- Freedom From and Freedom To Founder and Curator: Cristal Sabbagh, Photography: Ricardo E Adame
- Keisha Photography: Jovan Landry, Edits: Jibri Wright
- Founder and Curator: Cristal Sabbagh, Photography: Ricardo Adame
Keisha Janae has crowd-funded a project with 3AP
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With a community of movers and thinkers, we’re creating a Spring performance called Trust in Life that puts trust at center court as a way of envisioning self-realization and collective healing. Guided by play and improvisational training, this piece will …
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