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Pia Monique Murray is a choreographer, performer, installation artist, teacher, and creative producer. She has worked with nora chipaumire, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Camille A. Brown, Dianne McIntyre, Chanon Judson, Mame Diarra Speis, Monica L. Williams, and the late Blondell Cummings in various capacities. She performs contemporary dance with RAKIA! and leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC). Pia is a 2023 ICAC Artist-in-Residence with BRIC and University Settlement and an Urban Bush Women CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow/Associate Producer of Haint Blu by Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. As Bailey’s Cafe’s Producing Artistic Director she produces and curates As Quiet as It’s Kept, a multidisciplinary ethnography project about longtime residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is also the creator of Black Daisies, an interdisciplinary project that centers joy as political activism.

PIA MONIQUE MURRAY DANCE COLLECTIVE (PMMDC) celebrates the powerful potential of collaborative art. PMMDC was created by Pia Monique Murray to connect like-minded artists of various disciplines who are committed to making valuable artistic contributions to the world. Together they fuse artistic expressions of movement, video, sound, and installation art until the boundaries no longer exist.