angel shanel edwards is a blackqueerandtrans first-generation Jamaican and Philly-rooted artist. They utilize the creative modalities of movement, poetics, filmmaking, and photography to witness and re/member blackness as it moves through daily life, love, intimacy, and transitions [*gendered and otherwise]. angel is being moved and led by the beautiful cartographies of black life.
angel is a Headlong Performance Institute Alumni. Vox Populi, the Center for Performance Research, The William Way Center, Icebox Project Space, and Black Arts Matter Alberta have featured their choreographic and visual works. The Leeway Foundation, Cannonball and Fringe Festival, Small But Mighty Arts, Mural Arts Philly, and Queer Art’s Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant have supported their creative works. and most recentlybecame a 2021 Pew Fellow. Angel is currently a MFA candidate at the University of the Arts for Dance.
