![]() She currently teaches weekly classes in Congolese Dance at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts and is passionately engaged in arts advocacy work in Oakland, CA as a member of the Malonga Arts Collective. Muisi-kongo's projects in the 2022-2023 season include the premiere of “Congo Dance A Nairobi Blues,” a site-specific production commissioned by the Creative Work Fund and "Lufuki!" a collaboration Paris-based AfroUrban Ensemble Ambiance Facil supported the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation. Muisi-kongo has received a number of awards and professional honors including a 2017-18 Emerging Arts Professional Fellowship, several posts as Guest Lecturer in Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies Department (Dance Division) and a 2014 commissioning of her original solo work “Kimpa Vita!” by CounterPulse. One of the next generation’s foremost keepers of Congolese dance traditions, she has passionately sought to preserve Congolese culture through her her role as Artistic Director of Fua Dia Congo, a 45-year-old performing arts organization based at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts (Oakland, CA).Ī gifted dance maker, she aims to capture and transmit the sacred, translate ancient story and create new works that are seeded by tradition. Muisi-kongo is a traditional artist and cultural caretaker whose arts practice is steeped in a staunch Bay Area legacy of cultural preservation, social justice and service through art. Post-retirement she has enjoyed dancing as an “elder” with Sarah Bush Dance Project’s productions and continues to be involved in the dance community by serving on the Izzies. In July 2018 she was honored by Berkeley’s Mayor, declaring July 24th as “Sue Li Jue Day” in the City of Berkeley for her achievement in the arts. She retired from teaching in 2019 after 32 years as a Lecturer in dance at UC Berkeley’s Physical Education Program - the last three years serving as its Director. Li Jue has served on numerous boards and granting committees such as the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, Oakland Cultural Arts Fund, and Alameda Art Fund. She is best known for her full length, multimedia productions: Rice Women, The Nature of Nature, Held So Close: remembering the poets of Angel Island, and East/West Canvases: Questioning Beauty. Li Jue was awarded a California Dancemaker Award, a James Irvine Artist Advancement Initiative, Zellerbach, Ca$H, Clorox, and Hewlett grants locally, which allowed touring nationally and internationally. FEDM won an “Izzie” Award for Best Ensemble, and Ms. 1991) whose achievements include a myriad of performances in Bay Area festivals and in theaters both large and small. Li Jue is the Artistic Director of Facing East Dance & Music (est. Li Jue has danced in works by many local choreographers including: Krissy Keefer, Kim Epifano, Alonzo King, Kimi Okada, Joan Lazarus, and Sarah Bush, and in the companies of Asian American Dance Performances, June Watanabe In Company, Dance Brigade, and Sarah Bush Dance Project. and Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from UCLA and Mills College respectively. Sue Li Jue has been dancing, teaching and choreographing in the Bay Area since 1986. Currently she’s co-producing a Queer dance project of her collaborative work called, "Seeds and Sequins" a dance collaborator of The TRY Project a co-producer and committee member for The Queering Dance Festival, and is a co-producer/writer/actor of The “Chaac + Yum” short-film. She served as the president of the board of directors for Queers United for Intersectional Liberation (QUIL) – a queer non-profit for the LGBTQ community and their allies. ![]() ![]() She is was a member of The Haus of Towers, former host of Revel - a monthly queer fundraiser at The SF Eagle for The Groundswell Institute, has worked with the Bay Area American Indian Two Spirit Powwow (BAAITS) since 2013, teaches somatic movement workshops through an Indigenous perspective, danced for Dancing Earth Creations for seven years, was a principal dancer for Redding City Ballet for 6.5 years, had the privilege of working with several companies (classical ballet, modern, indigenous contemporary) throughout her dance career internationally, and is the former owner/director of The Dance Zone Studio and The Belariz Ballet School. In addition to being a professional dancer, she is a choreographer and dance teacher. She produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social, and cultural activism. In her career she’s a professional dancer, drag performer/event host, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. Snowflake (she/her) is a Two-Spirit (Seve-Ka’a Woi) performance artist of Tzotzil of Simojovel, Yaqui of Sonora, and of Raramuri of Chihuahua heritage. ![]()
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