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What's Happening with Xedera Natalia
I am always performing, choreographing, educating, and learning. Feel free to check out my most recent projects below!
The Raw Tales of Distant Bodies
RawArts Dance
Xedera is thrilled to be working with RawArts Dance Company for this upcoming dance short film to be released in 2021. She will be performing a solo choreographed by Founder and Artistic Director DaShown Rawl.
AileyCamp Baltimore
Group Leader
Xedera will be working under former Ailey principal dancer Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell as a Group Leader for AileyCamp Baltimore. She is extremely excited for this new adventure post-graduation. Learn more about AileyCamp Baltimore and its first time virtual at https://www.towson.edu/campus/programs/youth/aileycamp/?utm_source=redirect&utm_content=aileycamp
Coalesce Virtual Dance Collective
Guest Artist
Xedera is thrilled to be part of her first professional dance job. She will be a guest artist, performing with Coalesce Virtual Dance Collective in their June Session. See her in a total of three works on June 27th 8pm EST!
Towson University '20
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance & Choreography
Quarantine will not rain on this parade! Xedera graduated from Towson University on May 21st, 2020 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography. She was also awarded the Outstanding Choreography Award for the Dance Division. She looks forward to starting her performance career as soon as possible, and for all the other opportunities to come.
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Photo by Nick Sibol
American University '21
Master of Business Administration
Xedera was informed on April 7th of her acceptance to American University for their online Masters of Business Administration. Xedera has big dreams of eventually owning her own company and becoming an agent for other commercial dancers, after a long career of performance and choreography. She is excited to use this degree towards her goals in Arts Administration, and eventually towards a law degree in Entertainment Law.
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​Photo by Nick Sibol
Dance Majors Performance Project
Performance & Choreography
See Xedera perform in a variety of pieces in Towson University's Dance Majors' Performance Project. Xedera will be performing in four different pieces ranging from contemporary to tap! She has also choreographed quite a few numbers for the show, including a jazz piece. Stay tuned to see the performances in her video channel on the Home page!
Unshielded: Senior Concert
Senior Capstone Piece
Xedera's Senior Capstone Piece, Healing, debuted in November 2019, during the Unshielded draft concert. It was intended to be presented in Towson Dance Company's Concert, but was postponed to the Company Concert in 2021 due to COVID-19. The work is about sexual assault and the healing process after it happens. The piece highlights the rawness, authenticity, ugliness, and beauty that come with healing from trauma, as well as the importance of those close to her during this journey. You can watch the performance in her videos on the Home page.
American College Dance Association
Choreographer
Xedera will be returning to American College Dance Association (ACDA) in March 2020 to present her work, River Styx, at University of Maryland in College Park, MD. The piece was a trio originally choreographed in October of 2019 for Towson University's Inertia Concert. The work is abstractly based on the River Styx, a place between the living and dead world in Greek Mythology. The piece is set in the 1800s and each of the dancers' characters has a different story and "sin" that landed them there. Some of the movement was also derived from their individual sins.
Carrie: The Musical
Choreographer
Xedera will be choreographing Carrie: The Musical for Actors Anonymous at Towson University. She is choreographing a total of seven numbers for the performance which will debut November 2nd and 3rd, 2019. This will also be her debut into the Musical Theatre world for choreography.
Direction: Jillian Mullin
Choreography: Xedera Natalia Townsend
Musical Direction: Zach Taylor
American College Dance Association
Choreographer
Xedera will be presenting her work, I Am Not, at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) in March 2019 at Seton Hall University in Greensburg, PA. The piece was originally choreographed in February of 2018 for Towson University's Dance Majors Performance Project. The work is a quartet based on the idea that explores their journeys of self discovery, and learning how they truly cannot help each other, until they learn to ask for help for themselves. Additionally, Xedera will be performing in Occupy, an excerpt from Hope Landscape choreographed by Vincent E. Thomas.
College of Fine Arts and Communication
Marketing Intern
Xedera will be working as a marketing intern in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) at Towson University for the spring semester of 2019. She will be working alongside Michele Alexander on promotional work for the Dance Department, as well as advertising and working on new marketing strategies for COFAC as a whole.
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​Photo by Nick Sibol
