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Our Story
Who We Are
Black Is… Boundless is an art collective that aims to bring exposure and provide a platform for artists to present their work with hopes of receiving funding, support, and new opportunities. Our goal is to create a safe space for emerging and established Black movement artists to thrive.
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As a choreographer myself, I have found that often for emerging dance artists, particularly choreographers, the opportunities to showcase our own creations require us to “compete” with more established artists. This project presents a unique opportunity because emerging Black dance artists, which could range from a recent high school graduate to someone well into their adult life, are being given a platform to display their gift of composition.
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Our Mission
Create space for Black Emerging Artists who are not established, who are underfunded, and/or have not taken the traditional route in making a name for themselves in the concert world.
Offer new opportunities for the choreographers to receive commissions, gain mentors, secure new funders, etc.
Network Expansion
Quality Representation
Our Mission
Our Team
Siani Nicole | Founder & Artistic Director
Siani Nicole is a New Castle, Delaware native. She began her pre-professional dance career at Christina Cultural Arts Center and Eleone Dance Unlimited studying under Dara Stevens-Meredith and LaCeda Nelson. She later joined Eleone Connection, Eleone Dance Theatre’s second company. Siani obtained her B.F.A. in Dance from Howard University in 2021. Throughout her college career, she has worked with artists such as Tommie-Waheed Evans, Maleek Washington, Sidra Bell, and Breathe Dance Project (BDP). Siani's theater and choreography credits include: "A Chorus Within Her" at Theater Alliance (2021); the Helen Hayes nominated production, "Beastgirl" at The Kennedy Center (2022); "Show Way" at The Kennedy Center (2022/2024); and the Helen Hayes nominated production, “Passing Strange” at Signature Theater (2023).
Outside of performing, Siani has taken on many roles in arts administration working with organizations such as the International Association of Blacks in Dance, Fringe Arts, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, and Ladies of Hip Hop. In 2023, Siani created Black Is… Boundless, a dance showcase for Black emerging choreographers. Siani is striving to build her own legacy and create space for artists to thrive.
Tiana Jackson | Assistant Director
Tiana Jackson is from Newark, Delaware where she began training at the Christina Cultural Arts Center. Tiana attended Howard University as a dance major; however, she found that giving back to her community, specifically young children, was what she wanted after returning home for the summer. Earning her degree in Early Childhood Education, currently, Tiana is an Assistant Preschool Teacher at the Early Childhood Education Arts Academy and a dance instructor of teaching youth ballet, jazz, and early childhood movement. Throughout the years, she has performed at the Pentagon, Delaware Art Museum, and other areas. Tiana has performed works by Hinton Battle, Assane Konte, Chris and Alma Law, Dara Meredith, Ella Rothschild, and others. Most recently, she was given the opportunity to dance for BREathe Dance Project Inc. ORIGINS and Black Is…Boundless.
Bre Seals | Operations & Selection Committee
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Bre Seals continued her pursuit of Dance by studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and Howard University in Washington D.C. BREathe Dance Project was founded in 2013 as a professional dance company and platform to serve as a living testimony for the Black artistic community. Her most recent presentations as Artistic Director of BREathe Dance Project have been The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in 2020, New Releases Commission at Dance Place in 2019, Leap Without Limits produced solely by BREathe Dance Project in 2019. BREathe Dance Project was featured in the International Association of Blacks in Dance Festival and Conference performance in 2018 and was named a 2021 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council grant. Bre has also been featured in the Bounce. Pivot. Reach. issue of Black Dance Magazine Spring/Summer 2021.
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Cierra Woods | Operations
Cierra Woods is a dancer, choreographer, and creative assistant born on the unceded land of the Susquehannock people, now called Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Cierra earned her degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, where she received the Rose Vernick BFA Choreography Award. Her artistic journey has led her to stages, including the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Harrisburg Fringe Festival, Grounds For Sculpture, Judson Memorial Church, and the Brooklyn Museum. Along the way, she has had the privilege of collaborating with esteemed artists like Sidra Bell, Dara Meredith, BREathe Dance Project, Merian Soto, MICHIYAYA Dance, André Zachery and Black Is... Woods is driven to fortify sustainable systems that create nurturing environments, allowing both artistic and diasporic communities to thrive.
Tiana Sanders | Production
Tiana Sanders is a teaching dance artist and choreographer from Wilmington, Delaware. Currently, she is the dance educator at the Edward Gideon School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tiana received her Associate’s degree in General Business from Delaware Technical Community College and she is a graduate of Temple University, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance. She is in her third season as the Hip-Hop dance instructor at Christina Cultural Arts Center (CCAC), in Wilmington, Delaware. Tiana was one of the choreographers in The University of Delaware’s Suite Blackness: Black Dance in Cinema, (2023). At Temple University, she received the Rose Vernick BFA Choreography Award and she was the winning choreographer for The Wilmington Public Library’s 1st annual Dancing With The Delaware Stars gala in March 2022. She trained under Dara Meredith, LaCeda Nelson, Raye Jones Avery, Kyle Clark, Kun-Yang Lin, Shawn Lamere Williams, and Charon Mapp and has worked with various choreographers including Ephrat Asherie, Megan Bridge, Marion Ramirez, and Dr. Lynnette Young Overby.
Craig Kirby | Selection Committee & Communications
Craig is a Brooklyn, New York native who was partially raised in Raleigh, North Carolina where he began his training with Tyrone Short at SPARC Academy. While attending Millbrook High School he joined Precision Dance Company under Kate Oliver when he was 16. He has performed In Pieces of Gold, Sparkcon, & Raw Artists Talent Exhibition. In 2015, Craig began college at Howard University’s dance program and has been training under the instruction of Royce Zackery and Jocelyn Isaacs. He joined BREathe Dance Project in 2017 after performing in the 13th Awakening by Bre Seals for the TedX Foggy Bottom in Metamorphosis Panel and How We Got To Now for ICONS Choreographic Showcase and is now the company’s rehearsal director. Craig has performed in pieces composed by The Seldoms, Baba Assane Konte, Mia Hisaka, Edward Franklin, and the tribute show for Louis Johnson. He intends to dance and bring that expression everywhere he goes and through all his artistic endeavors.
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