Photo by Dyane Harvey Salaam; Photo: Courtesy of Artist
Dyane Harvey Salaam
Dyane Harvey Salaam is a performing artist, dance educator, choreographer, assistant to the director of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, and Pilates instructor.
Her performing arts career spans over 50 years having worked with some of the most influential choreographers of her time, Eleo Pomare, George Faison, Joan Miller, Dianne McIntyre, Margie Beals, Ze’Eva Cohen, Fred Benjamin and Abdel R.Salaam. Courses taught at both Princeton and Hofstra Universities have been met with high student acclaim.
A published author, she contributed a chapter, “The Goodness of Sweet Honey In the Rock” to Melony McGant’s book “Goodness Is Powerful Beyond Measure”. In honor of her collaborations with Ntozake Shange, she wrote “Making Movement As An Act of Listening, Riding With The Muse”, for the College Language Arts Journal.
The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division has included her life stories in their “Dance Historian Is In” and “Oral History Project”.
Ase to the Ancestors!
