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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Quentin Sledge
Dancer, choreographer, writer, painter, teacher, reiki master
DCDC
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Bio
Quentin ApolloVaughn Sledge is a professional dancer from Chicago, Illinois. He began his training in 2009 under Mr. Homer Hans Bryant, formerly of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA from 2010-2014 and earned a degree in Business Administration. While in Atlanta he began dancing commercially with Daryl Foster, Cici Kelley, Juel Lane and Stephan Wilson all while training at Gotta Dance Atlanta. After a year of intense training he joined the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) in 2014. Since joining DCDC, he has worked with notable choreographers such as Mr. Donald McKayle, Francesca Harper, Donald Byrd, Ray Mercer, and Ron K. Brown. He has performed in the world renowned Joyce Theatre, the David H. Koch stage in New York City’s Lincoln Center and also the famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Mr. Sledge was a featured soloist in the 2016 revival of Donald McKayle’s “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder” which was awarded a Bessie for Most Outstanding Revival of a Modern Classic. He is a certified teacher of the Lester Horton modern dance technique, the Talawa African and Caribbean peoples dance technique, and the Umfundalai contemporary African dance technique. His choreography has received Ohio Arts Council funding and has been featured at the Ohio Dance Festival. His recent work The Body/Remembers was just funded by culture works and presented at the Dayton Metro Library.
Artist Statement
“ I am because we are”, an African proverb. My work is a reflection of the ways in which I am inspired by the resourcefulness and boundless creativity of my African/African American ancestors and contemporaries. I often seek to evade respectability politics and the “white gaze” by zeroing in on that which is truest to our expression of self, of joy, of community, of divinity and philosophical approaches to life. As a Pan-africanist, my work seeks to shake the the narratives of who we became as a result of white cognitive dissonance by boldly protesting who we are, who we have been, and who we will always be. I am a futurist radically imagining black people at the center of our own destinies. I often approach these lofty goals through the medium of dance, but I am no stranger to writing, painting, photography, and costume/jewelry design.