Black Artists Dance Collective's Summer Program Gives Back to the Atlanta Community

Dance Magazine: At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, a group of professional dancers who’d grown up training together in Atlanta joined forces to talk about how to support young Black dancers in their hometown. Those conversations eventually led to the formation of The Black Artists Dance Collective, whose founding members—Shonica Gooden, Jamal Kamau White, Amber Jackson, Terrance Martin, Wendell Gray, Brianne Sellars, Takia Hopson, Danielle Swatzie, and Vinson Fraley—are veterans of concert dance, Broadway, and the commercial industry. Together, they have worked to inspire and empower Atlanta’s next generation of performers.