Michelle Grant-Murray
Teaching: African, Movement
Homeland: American
Location: Miami, FL
Michelle Grant-Murray, a Georgia Peach and a hybrid Florida
Mango, has trained extensively in the areas of Choreography,
Ballet, Modern Dance and African Diaspora Dance Movement
forms.
Grant-Murray she is an independent choreographer, performer
and Artistic Director of Olujimi Dance Theatre. She has
performed and presented work in Asia, South America, the
United States and the Caribbean.
Currently she is the Director/Coordinator of Dance at Miami Dade College/Kendall Campus. Her technique class, Olujimi Dance Technique, is a blend of contemporary and traditional modern dance techniques infused with elements of African -Diaspora Dance Movement Forms.
Her choreographic technique, Ancestral Dance Movement Memory (ADMM), explores movement that seeks to go beyond the collective memory of the present physical body.
ADMM is movement form which Celebrates, Heightens, Authenticates an individual’s Intuitive way of moving. Grant-Murray resides, choreographies, performs and teaches in Miami, Florida. She has studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem and with notable artist such as Reginald Yates, Jawola Will Zollar, Carole Boyce-Davis, Christina Teague-Mann, Donald McKayle, Michael Vernon, Linda Spears-Bunton, Jean Loppo-Martinez and Nora Chipaumire. She has the distinct honor and pleasure performing alongside and with Nora Chipaumire, Giovanni Luquini, Mohammed DeCosta, Yaniv Abrahams and the legendary Miss Katherine Dunham. Mrs. Grant-Murray holds a MA degree in African Studies with a concentration in Pedagogy and Cultural Studies from Florida International University.
Michelle Grant‐Murray is in charge of the Miami Dade College (MDC) third annual Artistry in Rhythm: Engaging the Community (AIR Dance Conference) in an effort to create an innovative training program for dance artists and a laboratory for choreographers. will present UnEarthing Dance: Perspective, Pedagogy, and Perspective, a synopsis of her new book entitled, Beyond the Surface: American Dance History
