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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, Monica L. Williams, and the late Blondell Cummings in various capacities. She leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC), producing movement-based multidisciplinary performance works that include community engagement and audience interaction as an artistic practice. She is the creator of BLACK DAISIES, an interdisciplinary project that centers joy as political activism. Pia was a 2022 LMCC Artist-in-Residence, a 2023 ICAC Artist-in-Residence with BRIC and University Settlement, and a 2022-23 Urban Bush Women CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow. She is still Associate Producer of Haint Blu by Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis, co-producer of When Black Women+ Speak, and Associate Producer of the company’s 40th Anniversary season.

Much of Pia’s producing and creative work is concentrated in Bedford-Stuyesant, Brooklyn and aims to engage those residents. Pia is Creative Producer of Kendra J. Bostock’s KJB Works company and STooPS Summer Festival in Bedford-Stuyvesant. 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. Most recently she began developing the Free Friends’ Fest, a festival hosted by the Friends of Jackie Robinson Park Playground that offers art activities, exhibits, and performances, alongside free tennis lessons and farm-grown produce.

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.