Mora-Amina Parker

Ms. Parker began her formal dance training at 15 years-old while attending the San Francisco High school of the Arts under the tutelage of Reginald Ray Savage. Upon graduation Ms. Parker became a member of the Savage Jazz Dance Company in Oakland, California. She then went on to work with Robert Moses’ Kin, Philadanco II, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Reflections, and Philadanco. In 2009 Ms. Parker began working with Camille A. Brown and Dancers. In 2014, as a member of the company, they were awarded a Bessie Award for outstanding production for Mr. Tol E. RanCE. Currently Ms. Parker is the rehearsal director and repetiteur for Camille A. Brown and Dancers. She has assisted Ms. Brown in staging her choreography for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2019) and has staged Ms. Brown’s works at George Mason University (2021), San Jose State (2022), and the Juilliard School in 2023. In 2022 Ms. Parker assisted Ms. Brown on the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. This production was nominated for seven Tony Awards including best choreography. 

Alongside her continuous work in the dance field, Ms. Parker is an academic in Dance Studies with a concentration in African American modern concert dance. Ms. Parker received her MFA in Performance and Performance Studies in 2019 from Pratt Institute. She is currently a PhD candidate drafting her dissertation, The Expressive Black-Life Worlds of Talley Beatty’s Choreographies: Embodiments of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism at Temple University.