Eva Yaa Asantewaa (she/her) was born in New York City of Barbadian immigrant heritage. First published in 1976, she spent decades as a respected arts journalist, critic, blogger, podcaster, editor, curator, and educator who won the 2017 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance. In 2016, for Danspace Project’s innovative Lost and Found platform, Ms. Yaa Asantewaa conceived and curated the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds, an evening of group dance improvisation featuring 21 Black women and gender-nonconforming performers. Her cast won a 2017 “Bessie” for Outstanding Performer.
Her parallel work explores the personal and communal power of creativity, clair-sensitivities, Tarot imagery, and body-mind-spirit practices from an animist, Spirit-informed perspective. She guides a monthly Zoom Séance community gathering and is currently working on a Black queer contemporary fantasy novel. She is a proud member of the new cohort of students in One Spirit Learning Alliance’s Interspiritual Foundations program.
Learn more about Eva and her work on her Substack page at.https://evayaaasantewaa.substack.com/ and her BioSite page at https://bio.site/evayaaasantewaa.
