Movin' Legacy: A Living Archive

Movin' Legacy celebrates the human body as a repository of knowledge and history, embodying our ancestral legacies and the wisdom of dance. Our commitment extends beyond performance to deeply engage with themes of social justice, challenging systemic inequalities through the power of artistic expression.

Our mission, approach, impact, and support

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Preserving, Celebrating, and Evolving Dance Traditions

Movin’ Legacy uses Celebration, Cultivation, and Preservation to build a radical living archive of African and African diasporic dance, movement, and embodied knowledge.

We recognize the body as a repository of memory, history, spirit, and imagination. Through research, documentation, artistic practice, education, and cultural exchange, we preserve this knowledge, celebrate its significance, and cultivate its evolution.

We work toward a future in which Black people are fully present, powerful, complex, and central. We do not preserve these traditions simply to remember them. We carry them forward so the future can learn from them, be changed by them, and be built with them.

These traditions do not merely survive the future. They help author it.

Movin' Legacy Leadership

  • Portrait of Jeffrey Page

    Jeffrey Page Founder and Chief Executive Officer

  • Portrait of Regina Charly-Beth

    Regina Charly-Beth Chief Operating Officer

Board of Directors

  • Debon Lewis, Chair
  • Kirsten West Savali
  • Imoh Akpan
  • Dr. Patricia Carver
  • Jeffrey Page