Black Voices in Dance

• Currently a dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Assisted Kyle Abraham in setting & creating work for Barnard College, Princeton University, Emory University, and more
• Selected to participate in Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event

• Currently appearing in Broadway’s Just In Time
• Broadway Cast of Chicago and Lempicka
• Part of the Broadway casts of Aladdin and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’

• Currently appearing in Broadway’s Just In Time
• Broadway Cast of Chicago and Lempicka
• Part of the Broadway casts of Aladdin and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’

• Currently, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Member Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance where she received a Princess Grace Award in Dance
• named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2021

• Tony-nominated Choreographer
• Broadway credits include Choreographer for Ragtime, Anne of Green Gables, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Titanique
• Performance credits include numerous television shows (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Smash, Glee!) and was a finalist and All-Star on So You Think You Can Dance?

• Made his Broadway debut in A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, as Banjo Ben/Lincoln Perry u/s
• Appeared in the New York Times Critics’ Pick production of Jelly’s Last Jam at New York City Center
• Served as an associate/assistant choreographer at many theaters, including the Lexington Theatre Company and Forestburgh Playhouse

• Choreography credits include: Mad Apple – Cirque Du Soleil, Disney Cruise line, Norwegian Cruises, MSC Cruises, Footloose, Dream Girls, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, among others
• Released a visual entitled “Brand New Day” featuring NYC’s finest dancers, inspired by the iconic film, The Wiz during the pandemic in 2020
• James has taught all over the world in places like France, Norway, and Los Angeles

• Adjunct professor of ballet & pointe technique for the BFA Dance Program at Montclair State University
• Danced five seasons with The Boston Ballet under Bruce Marks & Ana Marie Holmes
• Spent six seasons with Ballet British Columbia

• Principal Dancer for The Martha Graham Dance Company
• Broadway credits include DANCIN’, Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid, Big Deal
• National Tours of Sweet Charity, Honky Tonk Nights, Guys and Dolls, among others

• Resident choreographer and movement director of Netflix’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway
• Recently in the Off- Broadway Production of Little Shop of Horrors as an Urchin Cover
• Broadway credits include: Tammy Faye (OBC, Dance Captain), & Juliet (OBC, Dance Captain), Mean Girls (OBC), and Billy Elliot

• Dance Captain and member of Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies
• Founding member of the critically acclaimed New York-based tap company Music From The Sole
• Recently performed with Dorrance Dance at The Ford in Los Angeles and toured with the company for “Nutcracker Suite”

• Direction/Choreography: Day After Your Departure (HBO) – Choreographer, Lady In The Lake with Natalie Portman (Apple +)
• Film Performance Credits include: In The Heights, Tick Tick Boom with Lin Manuel Miranda, Bolden
• Television Performance Credits include: Succession (HBO), Vinyl (HBO), The Get Down (Netflix), Tell Me a Story

• Has been a member of Camille A. Brown and dancers for 5 seasons
• Assistant choreographer to Camille A. Brown at the Metropolitan Opera for her directorial debut for Fire shut up In my bones
• 2022 Princess Grace Award Winner in Choreography

• Premiered her first work for The National Ballet of Canada celebrating the music of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams in March 2023
• Recipient of the prestigious 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Award for Choreography
• Created works for BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Summer Program, and many more

• Recently appeared in the White Christmas at Theater Under the Stars and Broadway Revival of Funny Girl
• Other credits include The Tap Dance Kid, Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, 42ND Street, Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life
• Television credits include Law & Order SVU, the PBS specials Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future & The Kennedy Center at 50

• Awarded the New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellowship at the School of American Ballet in 2024
• Featured dance soloist in “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution” created by actress Glenn Close and musician Ted Nash
• Commissions include work for Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, Philadanco-The Philadelphia Dance Company

• Tony-nominated Choreographer
• Broadway credits include Choreographer for Ragtime, Anne of Green Gables, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Titanique
• Performance credits include numerous television shows (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Smash, Glee!) and was a finalist and All-Star on So You Think You Can Dance?

• Choreographer: A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
• Choreographer  for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (MET Opera), A Wonderful World pre-Broadway Tour
• Associate Choreography: Hell’s Kitchen (Broadway), The Hippest Trip, Once on This Island

• Currently appearing in Broadway’s Just In Time
• Broadway Cast of Chicago and Lempicka
• Part of the Broadway casts of Aladdin and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’

• Performed works by Earl Mosley, Ronald K. Brown and Tony winner Hinton Battle
• Choreography commissions include: Marymount Manhattan College, The Harvard Ballet Company, General Mischief Dance Theatre, The Boston Tea Party Opera, and more
• Artistic director of the xodus dance collective

Collaboration w/ Daughter Lessons

• Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for the Radio City Rockettes
• Appearances include The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, among others
• Recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was a featured dancer in Town & Country Magazine

• Performed nationally and internationally with companies such as The Von Howard Project, Forces of Nature, Ballet INC and Continuum Contemporary/Ballet
• She can be seen on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) and is featured on Season 2 of POSE (FX network)
• Assistant Company Manager for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2015-2018

• Direction/Choreography: Day After Your Departure (HBO) – Choreographer, Lady In The Lake with Natalie Portman (Apple +)
• Film Performance Credits include: In The Heights, Tick Tick Boom with Lin Manuel Miranda, Bolden
• Television Performance Credits include: Succession (HBO), Vinyl (HBO), The Get Down (Netflix), Tell Me a Story

• Danced with artists such as Big Sean, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Ne-Yo, Flo-Rida, Kendrick Lamar, Prince Royce, and Hailee Steinfeld
• As a choreographer Keenan has worked with Cardi B, Meek Mill, David Guetta, J Balvin, Bebe Rehxa, Yo Gotti, and Kelly Rowland
• Has taught internationally in Japan, South Korea, China,Peru, Spain,Germany, France, Argentina, England, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Canada and South Africa