Enya-Kalia Jordan, PhD ABD, is a choreographer, dance studies scholar, and DEI Innovator from Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in Arts & Letters Dance from Buffalo State University and an MFA from Temple University in choreography and performance. She is doctoral candidate at Texas Woman’s University. Her dissertation entitled “Ebonic Bodies in Motion” contributes to the field, the use of hood logic to center Black women’s embodiment and knowledge systems through AAVE. Enya-Kalia is also the proud founder and artistic director of Enya Kalia Creations (EKC), a movement-based artistic collective established in 2016. EKC brings ‘flava’ to conceptual art by creating and performing untold movement narratives of emerging revolutionaries. Working in African Diasporic movement forms, the company reimagines what it means to be unapologetically Black, a woman, and free. Enya-Kalia is as also the co executive-director of Bashi Arts and has been dance faculty at various cultural institutions across NYC.
