RESUME
about me
Kesha McKey is a choreographer, educator and performing artist from New Orleans. After graduating from NOCCA she received her BS from Xavier University of LA and her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the founding Artistic Director of KM Dance Project and is currently the Dance Department Chair at NOCCA and a UBW BOLD Facilitator.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dance Performance
KM Dance Project | Raw Fruit (work in progress showing) | 2019 | Singer/Dancer
Urban Bush Women | Hair and Other Stories Tour | 2018-19 | Singer/Dancer
Junebug Productions | Homecoming Project "Water" | 2019 | Singer/Dancer
Junebug Productions | Gomela: to return Tour | 2018-19 | Singer/Dancer
Choreography
KM Dance Project | Raw Fruit (work in progress) | 2019 | Ashe CAC
National Performance Network Conference | Boschimanne: living curiosities | 2019 | CACNO
Women In Dance Festival | Boschimanne: living curiosities | 2018 | Danspace @ St Mark's
Theater/Directing
Goat in the Road Productions | Playwrite | 2009 - 2020 | Director
Ashe CAC | The Vagina Monologues | 2012 - 2019 | Director / Performer
The NOLA Project | Midsummer Night's Dream | 2019 | Titania/Hippolyta
teaching / Education
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | Dance Department | Chair / Instructor - Modern Dance
Dancing Grounds | DG performance Group, Dance for Social Change | Instructor - Modern Dance
Ashe Cultural Arts Center | Kuumba Institute Youth Cultural Arts Program | Program Coordinator
Honors / Awards
Contemporary Arts Center N.O. | SweetArts Award Honoree | 2020
Urban Bush Women | Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowship | 2019 - 2020
New England Foundation for the Arts | National Dance Project Production Grant | 2019