Dance Works

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No Haven depicts the childhood of two Bronx raised preteens in 2003. While highlighting their innocence and excitement for reggaeton and pop culture, the work explores how some memories of childhood are tied to the most traumatic ones. The young women use dance to nature themselves and navigate their circumstances as victims of abuse.

This work speaks to the ways in which we adjust and

sacrifice parts of ourselves to accommodate people in professional and public settings. It also questions what we sacrifice  in our own  culture/communities. How are  we code switching to live up to the standards of “our own people”?  How does white supremacy reflected  in different spaces?

Beverly Lopez is a Bronx native dancer, choreographer, and educator. She is the founding Artistic Director of REDi Dance Company, which comprises a professional adult dance-theater company as well as educational programming, notably the Dance Bridge Workshop for Bronx youth. Beverly earned a BFA in Multimedia Performing Arts at CUNY Lehman College. She continues to build her community with an urgency to form healing connections and supportive platforms for BIPOC artists. She worked as the Dance Education Associate at the AATT Academy at BAAD!, and as the Program Manager for Daniel Fetecua Production's youth program at iD Studio Theater. She currently works as a teaching artist at the DreamYard Project and Pentacle. 

Beverly’s contemporary dance work fuses a variety of social dance forms, including House, Bachata, and Salsa. She most recently debuted her latest live work, “Mientras Tanto” and concept video, “Bloom”, with the ongoing support of the arts collective Dancing La Botanica: La Tierra Vive, produced by Pepatián Bronx. Beverly choreographed the play Electricidad (2018), by Luis Alfaro, at Lehman College and A Grave is Given Supper (2021), by Mike Soto, at New Ohio Theatre, both under the direction of Claudia Acosta. She has presented work at Dixon Place, Groundswell Series, Bronx Artists Now 2020/2021 APAP showcase, Triskelion Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, Oberia Dempsey Theater, and BAAD! ASS Women Festival. Beverly has performed in dance works by Desiree Godsell, Beatrice Capote, Sekou McMiller, Luis Salgado, and Leah Tubbs. 

Madelyn Sher is a multidisciplinary artist and producer, born and raised in New York City. Her choreography has been presented at Theater for the New City, SMUSH Gallery, MERDE at The Footlight, annex:art (New Mexico), Downtown Art, The Baumann, Triple 9 Festival, and Triskelion Arts. She has collaborated with composers including Daniel Johnson, Leo Hardman-Hill, and Adam O'Farrill. Madelyn has danced for Vangeline Theater, Svea Schneider, Rina Espiritu, Beverly Lopez/RediDance, Ni'Ja Whitson, and others. Madelyn is a member of Zoo City, an interdisciplinary New York-based art collective & production team that recently produced Groundswell Series, a site-specific outdoor dance festival. She has been an artist-in-residence at annex:art (San Fidel, New Mexico) and at Triple Nine Festival (Gowanus, Brooklyn). Madelyn's short dance film, Looking Inwood, won her the Promising Filmmaker Award at CUNY Film Festival 2018. She currently dances for Amirov Dance Theater and Molly Gorin. 

Jajoné Cuff is pursuing her undergraduate degree at Montclair State University. She trained in New Jersey Performing Arts Center and is an aspiring artist, focusing on photography, clothing design, and other areas of visual art.