Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (LA/NYC) is a Creative Capital and Bessie Award winning nonbinary interdisciplinary artist, root and word worker, referred to as “majestic” by the New York Times, and recognized by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer. Whitson has been a student practitioner of Indigenous African and Diasporic ritual/resistance forms for two decades, creating work that critically intersects the sacred in Black Queer and Trans embodiedness, architectures, science, conceptual and interdisciplinary live art.
They are a 2018 MAP Fund recipient, featured choreographer of the 2018 CCA Biennial, 2019 USA Artists Fellowship Nominee, 2018-2020 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellow, and invited presenter at the 2019 Tanzkongress international festival. Whitson is the founder/artistic director of The NWA Project and is an assistant professor of experimental choreography at the University of California at Riverside.

[Image description:dark skinned Black trans artist dancing in a dimly lit indoor space with both arms outstretched and balancing on one leg.]