Dance Theatre: Afro-Latin Immersion | Creative Team Member
Dwayne Beach, an interdisciplinary artist, Violist, Violinist, Singer-Songwriter, Ballroom Dancer, and Belizean American, is the first afro-latino and black musician to have played in the Sarajevska Filharmonija, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. After being offered a seat in the orchestra in 2017, he had the chance to perform at the Opera House at Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar, Bosnia’s Nivea Fashion Week, and for the House of Grimaldi of Monaco. He has also made appearances performing in Italy, Serbia and all around the United States. Ballroom dance offered Dwayne a very competitive environment. He won various championship level ballroom/latin dance competitions, notably in the collegiate and professional circuit, District of Collegiate Dancesport Invitational (DCDi) 2013, Harvard Invitational 2014, Caribbean DanceSport PR 2014, and Mid Atlantic National Championship 2015. As of present, he has been working to invite ballroom into other traditional styles he has been practicing. Through working with Maria Torres Dance Company, and choreographers like Wayne Daniel and Princess Lockerooo, he has been doing roots work incorporating African dance, Afro-Cuban, Orisha Dance and Waacking into his movement vocabulary for his works. During the civil discord brought to the mainstage by the pandemic, he lent his creative voice in his first politically driven Black Lives Matter (BLM) anthem Right to Liberty, which has been played on over five international stations, for which he latter developed a dance video celebrating black and african excellence in the diaspora. Recently, he had the most successful respect with his interdisciplinary display in his unique performances with Ode to The Black Fiddler Festival 2021 displaying compositions of his own, the release of an epic cover of Annie Lennox’s Sweet Dreams and had the opportunity to compose a composition titled Esperanza Viva for award winning Choreographer Maria Torres for her namesake dance company. This year also afforded Dwayne multiple grants from City Artist Corp and New York Foundation of the Art to support his upcoming works.