Mindful Movement with Shanzell

Thank you to Flintside for this feature and for sharing and helping us celebrate tap dance and community in a special way🎉

Tap Dance Day celebration to honor rhythm, history, and community at UM-Flint – Flintside A free Tap Dance Day celebration invites Flint dancers and musicians to gather at UM-Flint.

MOVING THROUGH MEANING (Dancing in the Streets Photo Gallery Flint’s movement, dance and performance artists came together April 11 at the Flint Institute of Arts for “Dancing in the Streets: Thresholds.”

Shanzell Page brings rhythm and legacy to Flint as UMS/UM-Flint Artist in Residence – Flintside Read more in the comments.

'Seeds & Fruit' is a new evening-length work by Shanzell Page, created during her time as the 25/26 UMS/UM-Flint Artist in Residence. Blending tap dance and Black vernacular movement, it moves through rhythm, memory, and transformation.

Learn more at ums.org/seedsfruit

🌱✨ Honored to officially share that I’ve been named the 25/26 UMS/University of Michigan–Flint Artist in Residence! Thank you to everyone who has poured into me along the way. I can’t wait to grow this work with you all. 🍊✨

Introducing Shanzell Page, 25/26 UMS/UM-Flint Artist in Residence University Musical Society

✨The third edition of the Mindful Movement with Shanzell newsletter is here!

Inside you'll find April + May birthdays, National Tap Dance Day, and current offerings from artists and organizers in our community.

It highlights the lineage we stand on and the work continuing now.

There's a tribute to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
Features on Dulé Hill, Maurice Chestnut, Derick K. Grant, and Dr. Robert L. Reed.
A birthday post honoring Ted Louis Levy.
Movement and announcements from Ayodele Casel, Dormeshia, Michela Marino Lerman, and lan Berg with Subject:Matter.

🔮There are also invitations to partner, new work in process, weekly class info, and a moment of gratitude as I share that Mindful Movement with Shanzell is a FedEx Entrepreneur Fund recipient.

This issue speaks on obedience, artistic process, and the communal pulse that continues to guide our steps.

📖 Read the full newsletter here👇🏾

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What a journey.

Mindful Movement with Shanzell was chosen as a recipient of the FedEx Entrepreneur Fund, and the support has been next-level. From mentorship to financial strategy to branding gems, it's been a full-circle reminder that our stories matter and deserve to be resourced.

Now and over these past few months, I continue teaching, creating, dreaming up new work, building partnerships from the ground up, and still dancing in my living room just to keep the rhythm alive.

Thank you FedEx and Hello Alice for seeing me. I am so moved and so ready for what's to come.

https://helloalice.com/grants/fedex-entrepreneur-fund-and-boost-camp-program/