ERA DANCE COMPANY / SUZZANNE PONOMARENKO DANCE

JELANI TAYLOR is a choreographer and founder of ERA DANCE COMPANY. Jelani and the company were artist/company in residence at Norfolk State University and a part of the Digging in Group, Artist Residency program at Green Space Studio. He is currently a 2024/25 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement. Jelani graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with a B.F.A in Dance and Choreography in 2019 where he was the recipient of the African American Studies Department’s “Black History in the Making” Award. @eradanceco / @Jelanireality

SUZZANNE PONOMARENKO DANCE will be showing vignettes #6 and #7 of a larger work entitled,

Tapestries, to be fully realized during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center in May.

Tapestries will be guided by the curious narrative of The Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505)

reimagined through lesser known Ukrainian Folk Tales which interrelate with the dialogue of

The Hunt of the Unicorn. It consists of seven short…