Urban Bush Women

Happy birthday ! 🥳🎂

Your excellence gleams through your work as an artist and performer. Your presence within the Bush deeply resonates. We hope your day has been filled with an abundance of love and warmth!

ABOUT CAMERON
Cameron Jade Harris is a movement and choreographic artist, native to Richmond, Virginia. Cameron graduated from Howard University in 2024 with a B.F.A. in Dance. Cameron was honored to receive the Liz Cherry Jones Memorial Choreography Commission awarded in 2024. In April of 2025, Cameron’s choreography, Mama’s Chair was commissioned by Dallas Black: Encore!. From 2024 to 2025, Cameron acted as production stage management assistant for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Learn more about Cameron by visiting urbanbushwomen.org/the-company.

Happy Birthday !! 🤩🎉💐

We are honored for your artistry and brilliance to be part of the UBW legacy! Thank you for carrying the mission forward on stage and beyond. We celebrate you today and everyday and we hope today is filled with immense joy and celebration. Keep shining 🧡✨

ABOUT MIKAELA:
Mikaela Sinclair Brandon is a performing artist (SAG-AFTRA) based in New York. Her training includes Fordham University/The Ailey School, Hubbard Street Professional Training Program (HSPro), and Springboard Danse Montréal. She has performed with Life and Trust, Baye & Asa, Hélène Simoneau Danse, RudduR Dance, MATHETA Dance, and SAXYN Dance Works. She has worked with choreographers such as Stephanie Batten-Bland, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Fernando Melo, Matthew Rushing, Amy Hall-Garner, Jennifer Archibald, Gregory Dolbashian, and Adam Barruch. Mikaela enjoys investigating the connection between mind and body, while gathering various tools and practices that support holistic wellbeing. This is her first season with UBW.

Happy birthday to our company member Sade Morgan! 🎂

Since joining the company last year, we have witnessed you gracefully flourish in your artistry. Your presence is undoubtedly felt and we are grateful to have you in the Bush. We wish you a marvelous entrance into this new chapter!

ABOUT SADE
Sade Morgan (She/Her) is a Dance Artist from St. Charles County, Maryland. She is a company member with Urban Bush Women in New York and Moore Contemporary Theatrics in Washington, D.C.—two ensembles committed to storytelling, innovation, and cultural truth-telling. Receiving her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography with a minor in Diverse and Inclusive Representation in Arts Education from Towson University, she has trained with the Dance Institute of Washington’s ALLEGRO Program and MODAS Dance. Her freelance work spans Choreographic festivals, local productions, Samba, and cruise entertainment with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (GEM 16.0).

Learn more about Sade by visiting urbanbushwomen.org/the-company.

Happy Birthday to our Director of Production, Booking & Touring, Michelle Coe! 🎉

Michelle is nearing 9 years with UBW and she has made a lasting impact. From securing amazing presenters, to ensuring our production runs smooth, she does her thing! We thank her for contributions and wish her an amazing day!

ABOUT MICHELLE
Michelle has worked in the worlds of performing arts and independent film for more than two decades. Prior to joining UBW in 2017, she was Director of Booking at MAPP International Productions for 6+ years, overseeing booking and touring of all of MAPP’s multi-disciplinary projects. Artists included: Nora Chipaumire; Marc Bamuthi Joseph; Okwui Okpokwasili; Ralph Lemon; Samita Sinha; Dan Hurlin; Lars Jan; Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theater; Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten (ICK Amsterdam).

Learn more about Michelle C. by visiting urbanbushwomen.org/staff

Urban Bush Women continues to hold legacy as an active, ongoing practice that asks each of us to participate in the making and remaking of our shared story. This work is only possible through a community that believes in the power of what we build together.

UBW has always been guided by our belief that dance is a crucial part of any social justice movement and has the ability to shift our perspectives for the better. We acknowledge that the current time we’re living in requires us to move in bold, audacious ways which is nothing new to us. Centering Black Women and the stories of the African Diaspora continues to be our mission both onstage and in our community engagement and partnering with others nationwide.

Your support helps sustain and carry this work forward in immeasurable ways.

Visit urbanbushwomen.org/support or link in bio to support the continuum of UBW’s ongoing practice of legacy.

Urban Bush Women in “Batty Moves” | Photo by Stephen Cohen Photography (2026); “I Don’t Know, But I Been Told If You Keep On Dancin’ You Never Grow Old” | Photo by Cylla Von Tiedmann (1992)

The Urban Bush Women Archive: Preserving 40+ Years of Black Dance History

Join us Thursday, May 7, from 12pm to 2pm ET as UBW Archivist Camille Lawrence and UBW Director of Marketing & Communications Makeda Smith discuss their journeys preserving more than 40 years of Urban Bush Women dance history.

This webinar reflects on a preservation practice that began four decades ago and shares the five-year initiative to recover, organize, and provide access to archival materials across multiple media formats.

Attendees will gain insight into how materials were identified and restored, what preservation looks like in practice, as an ongoing, collective practice rooted in memory, movement, and responsibility.

Learn more & register by visiting urbanbushwomenorg/calendar.

For over 40 years, Urban Bush Women has embodied a legacy of defiance, ingenuity, challenge, triumph, and endurance. Through shifting economic, political, and social landscapes, we have remained steadfast in our belief in the transformative power of dance and performance as a vital tool to encourage social responsibility and civic engagement in our communities.

As a Black women-centered organization, we navigate systems that have historically been under-resourced and inequitable, making your support not only meaningful but essential. Your financial support, no matter how small, holds the power and ability to make an impact from the micro to the macro.

UBW will always be an organization rooted in ensemble and our community, and we are forever grateful for the role you play within that.

Visit urbanbushwomen.org/support or link in bio to sustain UBW’s transformative legacy.

Urban Bush Women in “Shelter” by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Photos by Stephen Cohen Photography (2026) & Cylla Von Tiedmann (1989)