Upon graduation from The Juilliard School she was offered a spot in Ailey II. A year later Ms. Reed auditioned and was accepted into The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater where she performed as a Principal Dancer for sixteen years. Ms. Reed has performed works by Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty, Ulysses Dove, Lester Horton, Hans Van Manen and Billy Wilson. She has worked with and performed works by world-renowned choreographers Kyle Abraham, Karole Armitage, Robert Battle, Mauro Bigonzetti, Anthony Burrell, Camille Brown, Ronald K. Brown, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Donald Byrd, George Faison, Rennie Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Judith Jamison, Bill T. Jones, Abdul Latif, Jonathan Lee, Alonzo King, Jaquel Knight, Wayne McGregor, Donald McKayle, Earl Mosley, Ohad Naharin, Benoit Swan Pouffer, Redha, Dwight Rhoden, Matthew Rushing, Twyla Tharp, Shin Wei and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

In 2010 Ms. Reed was honored to perform at The White House in tribute to Judith Jamison and in 2013 First Lady Michelle Obama invited her to speak to the mentees of the White House Leadership and Mentoring Initiative at the Kennedy Center. Ms. Reed is a two time recipient of the Key to the City of St. Petersburg, FL. Ms. Reed is an ABT Affiliate Teacher, of the ABT National Training Curriculum and has successfully presented students for examinations, earning her the distinction ABT Teaching Fellow. Ms. Reed has been honored to perform on Good Morning America, ELLEN, Carmen and Geoffrey a documentary that chronicles the lives of historic African American icons Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for designer Tracy Reese, NETFLIX The Get Down, MTV VMAS with Beyoncé and Saturday Night Live.

Ms. Reed choreographed and was the lead actor in a short film titled The Miracle Twerker directed by Nick Minas screened at The Directors Guild and Steiner Studios. Ms. Reed was honored to perform a solo she choreographed for 5050 by 2020 co-founded by Joey Soloway. Ms. Reed choreographed Tonya Pinkins’ Womyn Working It Out a collection of 8 plays performed at The Tank NYC.

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Mr. Mosley has applied his philosophy of “giving back” in the creation of a winter program called Earl Mosley’s Dancing Beyond, A benefit for Dance Against Cancer. Following EMIA 2020 ONLINE’s outstanding summer, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance presented EMIA FALL 2020 ONLINE, which offered10 weeks of classes for dancers during these struggling and virtual times. In 2021 EMDOD also established the Dance Is Activism Film Festival in response to the push for change in our social, racial, gender inequitable built-in systems that target mostly black and brown citizens. The festival gave a platform for dancers, choreographers and film makers to come together and express their art and voices of activism to stand up, speak out and make change. EMIA 2021 In person nonresidential program will take place in NYC, June 21- july3.

Mr. Mosley believes in diversity, not only in art, but also the life experiences that each dancer brings to the process of creating dance that entertains, educates and heals the human spirit. For more information please visit diversityofdance.org.

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Credits include: Off-Broadway productions of Spider Dance, Annie Get Your Gun and Rocky Horror Picture Show; Theatre By The Sea’s Chicago, and visuals for Maroon 5’s Hands All Over Tour. Company credits include Graham II, Twins and Artists, Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company, Caterina Rago Dance Company, and Ko-Ryo Dance Theater.

Class Description:

This class blends Graham and Release techniques to improve alignment and versatility. Emphasis on core strength and musicality.

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Milton has been an Artist-in Residence at the Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Brown University, Howard University in Washington DC, the New York LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in Canada, and the Dance Masters at Wesleyan University. City College of New York, Marymount Manhattan College and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Milton is currently on faculty at the Juilliard School being the first Horton teacher and first African American male on dance faculty, the Ailey Fordham University program, Steps on Broadway and Peridance in N.Y.C. He is preparing to return to the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival where he has been director of the modern and contemporary programs for twenty six years.

Milton teaches extensively throughout Europe, Israel, South America, Canada and the United States. He has taught at several prominent festival in Vienna, Moscow, Paris, Germany, Italy, Greece, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, South Africa and Israel.

Milton has choreographed for the Trisler Danscompany, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey, Carmen de lavallade, Judith Jamison, New Danish Dance Theatre, Philadanco, Kansas City Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Cleo Parker-Robinson Dance, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Wylliams Henry Dance Theatre, David Taylor Dance Theatre, Ballet Creole and various universities in the United States.

Milton was commissioned to choreograph Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert for Philadanco and the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, the 55th anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Philadanco at Academy of Music and for Ailey 2 and Jessye Norman at Carnegie Hall. His choreography has earned him recognition and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council, CAPS Choreography Award (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), Phillip Morris New Works Fund, Dance USA/Philadelphia Dance Alliance and Jacob’s Pillow. The International Association of Blacks in Dance honored Milton Myers for his artistry and contribution.

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Ms. Maffei participated in the Beta Group and holds an Inaugural Certification from the Ailey Horton Pedagogy program which launces to the public this summer, 2025.

Ms. Maffei served as the choreographic and teaching assistant to Milton Myers from 1988-98, demonstrating the Horton Technique, teaching, and assisting in setting his work at festivals and companies throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Ms. Maffei has had an extensive performing career dancing in and directing the Maffei Dance Company and the East/West Repertory Ensemble. She performed with Milton Myers Dance Company, the Larry Richardson Dance Company, Soulskin, The New York Ballroom Company in the work of Gary Pierce and Christian Holder, East\West Repertory Dance Ensemble where she appeared in her own work and the works of Milton Myers, Lonne Moretton, Rod Rogers, William Adair, Leni Williams among many others. In 2000 Ms. Maffei premiered a solo choreographed for her by Robert Battle entitled “Infirm” for Maffei Dance Company.

As a choreographer, JoLea Maffei has premiered work at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Theatre of The Riverside Church, the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, the Clark Studio Theater, The Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts, the Cunningham Studio, and Hofstra University and Steps on Broadway and has participated in showcases throughout NYC. In 1997 she formed Maffei Dance Company which featured her choreography and continues on a project basis.

Originally from Michigan, Ms. Maffei graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance performance from the University of Michigan where she received the Gertrude Heubner Award for excellence in dance.

Class Description
Come and discover why the modern dance technique of Lester Horton is a classic technique uniquely suited for training today’s dancer. Through the study of Horton, strength, flexibility and a balanced body can be attained without imprinting the dancer with a discernable style. In the beginning level class, we will be examining the fundamentals of this powerful technique and using them explore the anatomy, expand flexibility, solidify placement and to move through space. In Advanced/Beginning Level Horton, we focus on exploring studies and fortifications and incorporating them into choreographic phrases both in the center and across the floor. In the Intermediate/Advanced class we will reinforce familiar studies and explore the lesser-known and most challenging elements of the technique with a goal of blending them with other choreographic influences in order to explore how this technique can create a dialogue with a range of dance vocabulary. Musicality will also always be a primary focus as we work in tandem with a live percussionist in every class, every level. For the Beginning level class, no previous experience with the Horton technique is required. I approach every class as an opportunity to create a welcoming dance community!

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