Black Voices in Dance

• Most recently Lewis danced in the Lin Manuel Miranda movie, In The Heights
• Assisted Jae Man Joo in creating Circular for Ailey 2
• Assisted Jill Johnson on choreographing the opera Crossing which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

• 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

• Associate Choreographer, Dance Captain and Ace in THE OUTSIDERS on Broadway
• 2024 Chita Rivera Award Recipient for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Musical
• Broadway credits include: Moulin Rouge! Off Broadway credits include: Illinois; The Wrong Man; Working: A Musical; The Lucky Ones and Nutcracker Rouge.

• 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

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• Former Resident Choreographer Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Won the 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer
• Director’s Fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in the 2020-2021 season

• 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

• Dance with companies including, the Australian Ballet Company, Grand Rapids Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Diverse repertoire, from classical masterpieces such as Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, and The Nutcracker, to contemporary works
• Broadway National tour and Australian tour of An American in Paris, I Married An Angel by Joshua Bergasse, and more

• 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

• Doja Cat X VMAs
• Hamilton on Broadway, Tour, and Chicago as “The Bullet”
• Once Upon a One More Time on Broadway

COMMERCIAL JAZZ

• with FATIMA WILSON, Agent
• Fatima Wilson is currently representing artists working in Choreography & Dance at United Talent Agency
• with MAYTE NATALIO, Choreographer/Teacher
• Choreographer credits include Suffs, How To Dance In Ohio

• Emmy Award Winning Choreographer
• Joined Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet as the company’s first African American female dancer
• Other credits include In the Heights (film), Jagged Little Pill (Broadway)

• Recently appeared in the 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

• Trained at institutions such as Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, PMT and EXPG.
• Credits include Saturday Night Live, FX’s POSE, and 2018’s VMA‘s with Travis Scott.
• Has taught throughout NYC and in various schools in Brooklyn through CORA dance based in Red Hook Brooklyn

• 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

• Faculty, Point Park University
• Concert and Theatrical performance credits include: Dreamgirls 1st National Tour PHILADANCO, Westside Story International Tour, Donald Byrd/The Group
• Choreographic works have been presented at Nabla Festival NYC: In The Liminal Space, Point Park University, PHILADANCO- “Danco on Danco” Company Showcase

• Currently performing in MJ The Musical (Broadway)
• Off-Broadway credits include: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Freddie Falls in Love (directed/choreographed by Al Blackstone), Regional: ALIEN/NATION (directed by Michael Arden)
• Danced for artists including JLo, Snoop Dogg, H.E.R., and Gary Clark Jr.

• Broadway Cast of Chicago and Lempicka
• Part of the Broadway casts of Aladdin and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’
• Other credits include In the Heights (Kennedy Center), The Color Purple (National Tour), King Kong

• Recently seen on Broadway in Once Upon A Mattress
• Also on Broadway in White Christmas, On the Twentieth Century, Shuffle Along…and all that followed, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, among others
• Worked with nearly every Broadway Tap choreographer, including Savion Glover, Randy Skinner, Warren Carlyle and others

• 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