Tendayi Kuumba

Currently a touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi Kuumba is a graduate of North Atlanta High School of Performing Arts and Spelman College. Her training ranges from Buffalo Inner City Ballet, Ballethnic, Callanwolde Fine Arts, and Moving in the Spirit. Tendayi has also internationally toured solo work in collaboration with musician Lenka Dusilova as resident artist of the Czech Center of New York "Prague Effects". She has worked with Marjani Forte', ASE Dance Theater Collective, & Axam Dance Theater Experience. Pasts works include T. Lang Dance, Liberata Dance Theater, Nathan Trice/ Rituals Performance Project "StrangeLove", Laurie Taylor/ Soul Movement, & Jim Findlay's "Electric Lucifer".  Tendayi performs regularly as resident Jazz vocalist at the Williamsburg Music Center with the Gerry Eastman Quartet in Brooklyn, NY as well as various NYC music venues. In addition, she will be rejoining the cast of Philadelphia Opera project "We Shall Not be Moved" with Bill T. Jones in the Summer of 2017.  She gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.