Dance Faculty
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Roxi Victorian, M.A. Assistant Professor of Dance Program Coordinator, Dance Minor Program Office: Hayden Hall Room 15 (225) 771-4061 Roxi Victorian is a dance scholar, choreographer, educator, and performance artist whose work is grounded in Black dance traditions, embodied research, and culturally responsive teaching. She is a classically trained dancer with extensive training in ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, and Black vernacular dance forms. Victorian earned her BFA in dance and theatre from Howard University, and holds a Master's of Arts in Dance Education from Texas Woman's University. Her doctoral research, also at Texas Woman's University focuses on Black girlhood, digital dance cultures, embodiment, and Black social and vernacular dance practices. She is also the founder and artistic director of Nyama Contemporary Dance Company in Baton Rouge and the Southern University Dance Ensemble. |
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Kelly White, M.A. Dances of the African Diaspora, Instructor Dance Minor Program Office: Hayden Hall Room 15 kelly.white@sus.edu Kelly White is a New Orleans born, second-generation educator, performer, choreographer, and researcher with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MA in Dance Education from New York University. She has trained and performed with Jean Leon Destine and Aussettua Amor Amenkum, Plaza Cuba, New Waves Trinidad, Jacob’s Pillow, Ase Dance Theater Collective, Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective, and Nia Love’s Blacksmith’s Daughter. Her choreography has been performed in venues and productions such as Dance Africa, Feast: A Yoruba Project, and Voices of Congo Square New Orleans, where she also served as the associate director. Kelly co-founded and is the Director of EVOLVE Diaspora, where she creates weekend intensives, cultural immersion trips, and community classes for professional dancers, researchers, scholars, and educators to intensely study dances of the African diaspora.
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