Rashaida Hill by Neurodivergent Black Femme Queer

Rashaida Hill

rhill026 — 2023-04-01 18:28:43 UTC

Rashaida Hill is a performance artist, community organizer, social justice worker and arts facilitator. She has had the pleasure of training and performing for many world-renowned artists while attending Old Dominion University (B.A in Theatre and Dance), The American Dance Festival, Todd Rosenlieb Dance, and the University of California, Los Angeles (MFA in Choreographic Inquiry). As a dance maker, the continuous ebb and flow informing her work includes American/Black American/Black diasporic history and cultures, Queer narratives, mental health, and trauma processing. Her work seeks to hold space for reflection, rest, recovery, and healing through invigorating and intimate theatrical displays and community arts practice. Recently recognized by the California Arts Council as a 2023 Emerging Artist, she hopes to continue to hold space for herself and others to investigate our embodied histories and make sense of our ever-changing realities by hosting workshops, classes and conversations with some of our most vulnerable populations and art interventionist.

Neurodivergent Black Femme Queer

rhill026 — 2023-04-01 18:30:11 UTC

Neurodivergent Black Femme Queer (NBFQ) is the identity with which I interact with this world and how I engage in all areas of life. I have taken all of the things that make me a marginalized human and I have found strength and success because of these qualities not in spite of. This umbrella phrase lives as an active LLC and encapsulates my life's work as an individual artist and community organizer. The hope is for my work to grow into a community practice whether in person or virtual! Learn, grow, heal, play, and all of the things with me.

It's still in the baby stages so don't come for me!

Individual Creative Arts Fund

rashaidahill — 2023-07-07 00:36:37 UTC

If you are taking a class, reading my work, or just feeling generous feel free to donate here! Being a community artist is my life's work and the smallest contribution matters.

CHECK OUT MY YOUTUBE HERE!

rhill026 — 2023-07-07 00:39:57 UTC

This channel has a host of performances and clips from my teaching!

CHECK OUT MY MEDIUM ACCOUNT HERE

rhill026 — 2023-07-07 00:40:52 UTC

I like to write sometimes. Read my research and some reviews of Dance in LA!

Past Work ~ AꞰATA

rhill026 — 2023-07-07 00:51:52 UTC

“Black women will save the world” is a saying I hear often. Black American women have become a monolithic figure in the discussion of liberation for all as we have consistently shown up at every turn to confront the crises that plague us. Still, in this modern landscape, Black women withstand a constant barrage of criticism and hate directed to how we look, how we love and where we’re from. There a few questions most prominent in my mind when considering our existence. How do Black American women navigate this negation and still find joy? How can we navigate this negation without shrinking ourselves to fit into our environment? How do we successfully make space for ourselves to reflect, rest, recover and heal?

This is not resilience. It’s innate. Deeper than a code switch, it’s the secret of Black women to navigate the lack of safety in every space. However, Black women are also known to exude a celebratory joy that is specific to us despite these overarching perspectives telling us how and when we can express ourselves. This project explores this negation while juxtaposing and disrupting it with a display of emotion that is infectious, fun, and necessary. Follow three women and their intimate investigations of Black American life.

Reach out for access to the full length work online!

California Arts Counsel Individual Artist Fellowship Grantee

rashaidahill — 2024-03-10 21:29:47 UTC

2023 - I was awarding an emerging tier fellowship through the California Arts Counsel.

Individual Artist Fellowships program recognizes, uplifts, and celebrates the excellence of California artists practicing any art form.

Excellence, for purposes of this program, is defined as an artist’s

Unique artistic vision
Ongoing commitment to creative practice
Engagement with and impact on the larger cultural ecosystem

This program will support artists and cultural bearers at key moments in their careers, elevating their capacity for continued contribution to the field and our state. Fellowship awards support individual artistic practice through unrestricted funding. This program is intended to support a broad spectrum of artists working in all disciplines, from diverse geographies and communities of all sizes across the state of California.

Past Class

rashaidahill — 2024-03-24 23:04:11 UTC

This class debuted at the Long Beach Contact improv festival hosted by Bag Goat Dance at CSULB. It was then hosted at Pieter Performance space. The class was created to assist participants in finding their voice within a partnering structure. I guide partners through exercises to increase vulnerability, honesty, and openness to play while considering capacity and addressing the level of intimacy needed to sustain a connection. Email me if you'd like me to host this at your event, festival, or studio!

Past Class

rhill026 — 2024-03-24 23:22:08 UTC

Release technique draws from an amalgamation of somatic forms (Alexander, Skinner, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Yoga) and fuses contemporary and modern dance to increase the strength and flexibility of the dancer and ease the transitions of the dance. Participants can expect to gain strength, flexibility, and increase their technique and performance skill.

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rashaidahill — 2024-04-18 22:15:22 UTC

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Dancing Through Prison Walls Announcement

rashaidahill — 2024-10-14 01:23:32 UTC

I proudly accepted a position as Administrative Facilitator for Dance Through Prison Walls - a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within embodied carceral landscapes and beyond, amplifying voices of incarcerated folks, and addressing mass incarceration.

Past Work ~ Honey

rhill026 — 2025-03-06 02:17:25 UTC

About

Choreographer: Rashaida Hill

Dancers: Kylie Kaneshiro, Sara Silvis

Music: Delegation - Oh Honey (12” version) Instrumental

About: a visual representation of a femme queer experience. Not necessarily in a gendered way, but in only the way a woman’s perspective can show queerness. The exhaustion, the power, the awkwardness, the sensuality, the spark before the flame, the tension, the surprise. Feel good sensations.

Watch on YouTube Here!

Past Performance

rhill026 — 2025-06-03 03:42:04 UTC

Touch Praxis presents other others // rehearsals in the skin, a four-day exhibition and programming series held May 2–5, 2025 at Human Resources Los Angeles. This programming offers a collision of fleshy proximities, felt theory (Dian Million, 2009) and porous encounters. other others // rehearsals in the skin brings together artists, practitioners, and facilitators to explore how we relate, connect, and feel—together.

Rashaida Hill X Joyful Black Mamas

rhill026 — 2025-06-12 04:56:11 UTC

I have the honor and pleasure of serving as an assistant to this incredible project. If you have a project you need help with don't be afraid to reach out!

Contact Information

rhill026 — 2025-06-12 05:00:09 UTC

Please feel free to reach out to me directly through email or find me on Instagram!

rashaida.hill@gmail.com

@20somethingdancer

Ongoing Studio Session

rhill026 — 2025-06-12 05:04:13 UTC

Join Me!

What do we do when we want to get good at something? We Practice! This studio session series is called Community Practice. If you’re interested in building community, hosting your own community events, or getting to know like-minded people and building relationships, this is the space for you. How does it work? Once a month we will get together for a 2-hour practice. It starts with a discussion topic, our first, what is community? What does community mean to you? Then, a structed movement activity or skill share. As the host I’ll be facilitating an all levels and abilities movement activity or one of our practice mates will lead a skill share as we get to know each other’s strengths! Lastly, open space. The last 45 minutes the space is yours! You can continue to talk, craft, dance, sing, whatever you feel comfortable doing in the space. Let’s practicing being together, sharing, appreciating each other for presence and skill. Let’s organize and see if our community can get some shit done! Let’s get to know each other and find the safety community provides. Meet me at Pieter Performance Space on June 28 at 7pm. Hope to see you there!