MEET THE FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR!
MAKAYLA MONÉT PETERSON
Makayla Monét Peterson is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, teaching artist, and Founder & Artistic Director of Monét Movement Productions: The Collective. She is a 2020 Temple University graduate with a BFA in Dance. A 2019 Temple University Diamond Research Scholars Grant recipient, Makayla has presented research at national and international conferences. Her scholastic achievements earned her the Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance Rose Vernick Scholar Award. Choreographic presentations include Mare Nostrum Elements Emerging Choreographer Series, COCO Dance Festival, Collective Thread Dance Festival, Making Moves Dance Festival and more! Makayla currently dances with Enya-Kalia Creations and OKRA Dance Company. Artistically, Makayla seeks create a space for artists to connect, share the unique voice of herself, her dancers, the communities she belongs to/represents, and become a pillar within the dance community.
CURRENT DANCE ARTISTS
MAKAYLA ANDERSON
ANIKA BAPTISTE
RU CABRALIS
FATOU DIOUF
ASHLEY FIELDS
JANYAH HARTE
KAELYN HUNTE
BELLINI JOHN
REYANNA MEYERS
NERISSA McCOLLIN
MALEYAH PETERSON
CAMISHA PRINCE
KADIJAH SUTTON
SERENA THOMAS
TATIANA TURNAGE
WORDS SPOKEN ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS
MAKAYLA ANDERSON
CHRISTIAN ALFARO
JERMAINE S. CARROLL
AVA-CELESTE DUJON
ASHLEY FIELDS
TYLER LEWIS
JEVON SURALIE II
OTHER PRODUCTION COLLABORATORS
TREVON COERBELL
TYRI COERBELL
SARAI FRAZIER
JAMES PITTS JR.
KAYLA WAITE
FUZION ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS
Poets Provided Through Collaboration with Brown Sugar Lit
DONDI DANCY
KAMILAH VALENTIN DIAZ
MICHELAN LE’MONIER
SHANILLE MARTIN
AMANDA ROSAS
SHANIA REYES
MARIAH THOMAS
FUZION RIDDIM SECTION
KELVIN CUMMINGS
CLARENCE PETERSON
FEATURED YOUTH ARTISTS
(Frank Sinatra School of the Arts Dance Majors ft. in the 2022 Atlantic Antic Festival)
JASMINE DAVIS
MADISEN EDWARDS
SAABRIAH MAPP
CHLOE MITCHELL
ISABELLA RAVELO
STELLA TILLERY
ARTISTIC MENTORSHIP
KYLE MARSHALL
KIARA ROSS PAIGE
PAST ARTISTS
DESTINY BETTS
WREN COLEMAN
JEANINE HAMPTON
RILEY NEWMAN