Dyane Harvey-Salaam

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Dyane has choreographed for the theatre community Love’s Fire for The Acting Company, Yerma, and The African Company Presents Richard the Third (director Reggie Montgomery) for New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and Ramapo College (director Shona Tucker), Lavender Lizards, Lilac Landmines, Layla’s Dream for the University of Florida at Gainesville and at the Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (writer Ntozake Shange- director Dr. Mikell Pinkney), Great Men of Gospel for the New Federal Theatre (director/writer Elizabeth Van Dyke), Harriet Returns for The Acting Company (director Shona Tucker) and for the Education Department of the McCarter Theatre, a young peoples’ audience-interactive play with music and movement Sunjata Kamaleyna (writer/director Chris Parks) highlighting the history of the Mali Empire. She was also an original cast member of the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of The Great MacDaddy directed by Douglass Turner Ward and choreographed by Dianne McIntyre. She choreographed Samm Art William’s The Sixteenth Round for the legendary Rosalind Cash.

The WIZ (Film)

Timbuktu!   [Broadway] Original Broadway Production, 1978

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She also appeared in the Paris Company of Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Mogador Theatre. Her choreographer has been seen most recently in the AUDELCO award-winning production The Great Men of Gospel Music (New Federal Theatre), Loves Fire (The Acting Company), The African Company Presents Richard IIIYermaand Flying West‚ (NYU Graduate acting program), SpunkThe Me Nobody KnowsRunawaysThe Women of PlumsThe Cosby Show (dance mania Episode), Shakin‚ The Mess Outa Misery‚ (Capitol Repertory Company), DonSee My Bones and Think I am Dead (Urban Youth Troupe of the Henry Street Settlement), Bones of Our Ancestors (PBS Special)and served as a three-year judge for the NAACP National Act-So Awards competition in the dance category.

She choreographed the world premiere production of Ntozake Shange’s newest choreopoem, Lavender Lizards and Lilac Landmines: Layla‚ Dream at the Constans Theatre for the University of Florida graduate training program and for Jomandi Theatre of Atlanta.

 

 

PERFORMANCE CREDITS 

 

Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival
Delacorte Theatre
New York, NY
Various Venues in New York
New York, NY
July 20 – August 6, 1972
Dancer

 

The Great Macdaddy

St. Mark’s Playhouse

02/12/1974

 

 

The Wiz
  [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1975
Field Mouse [Replacement]
Munchkin [Replacement]
Performer (Swing) [Replacement]

 

 

 

Timbuktu!
  [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1978
Ensemble/Other Roles
Citizen of Timbuktu
Bird in Paradise (Understudy)
Najua (Understudy)

 

 

Spell # 7

Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater

07/15/1979

Player #4

 

 

Dunbar  [Off-Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1980
Performer

 

 

Sunjata Kamalenya
McCarter Theatre Center Education
Various Venues
February 1 – April 27, 2011
Choreographer.

 

 

Love’s Fire: Fresh Numbers

by Seven American Playwrights Inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Hydraulics Phat Like Mean
The Public Theater, The Acting Company
The Public Theater
New York, NY
June 22 – July 5, 1998
Choreographer

 

Going To The River 2007
Boscoe and the Devil
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
September 21 – 30, 2007
Choreographer