ABDEL SALAAM

Abdel Salaam and Baba Chuck Davis at BAM :Dance Africa 2015

Abdel Salaam and Baba Chuck Davis

Abdel Salaam and Baba Chuck Davis

Founder and Artistic Director Baba Chuck Davis (left) introduces Artistic Director Designate Abdel R Salaam at ‘DanceAfrica 2015: Brazilian Rhythms, African Roots’ at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, New York, May 21, 2015. (Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)

Dance Africa 2023
Photographed by Solwazi Afi Olusola
For some Black People Dance Africa is a reintroduction to African culture. For other Black People it’s a homecoming. But for All Black People Dance Africa represents a spiritual connection to our ancestors through the medium of dance reminding us who we are…AFRICAN!

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 10: In this screengrab released on June 10, Abdel R. Salaam speaks during the 2021 BAM Gala Honoring Sir Patrick Stewart, Shelby White & the Leon Levy Foundation, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar at Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM on June 10, 2021, in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/BAM/Getty Images for BAM)

 

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http://www.forcesofnature.org/

http://harlemworldmag.com/2011/11/04/walters-world-tut/

http://ifetayodanceon.org/judges-performers/abdel-r-salaam-and-dyane-harvey-salaam/

https://iforcolor.org/dyane-harvey/

 

Abdel Salaam, Dyane Harvey-Salaam and Dale Ricardo Shields

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

Website(s)

Iforcolor.org [Research]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Ricardo_Shields [Career]