Let It Happen House

"Working with Dominic has been a pleasure. His patience, clear communication, and attention to detail made the onboarding process feel supportive and empowering. I felt genuinely cared for and well-guided at every step." — OsongoSupported in Strategic Planning and Coaching for Let it Happen House (Norah, Yarah, Rosa)

Gesel Mason Performance Projects

"We’ve had such a high success rate with our grant applications thanks to your support!" — GeselGrant writing and project support for No Boundaries and Yes, And

Darling Squire

" I am deeply grateful for Dominic’s support with my grant applications. His dedication and skill in articulating my ideas clearly, while fully preserving my thoughts, have been profoundly helpful throughout my application process. " — DarlingSupported with grant writing and project support.

Jessica Walker
Walker Movement Company

"Dominic’s intellect, insightfulness, and wisdom played such an integral part to this project. A pleasure and a joy to work with, and can’t wait to embark on another project with him again in the future." — JessicaProvided support for the ACE project application, Stomping Ground, contributed dramaturgy, and performed in the TREAD project.

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Dominic's ☎️ momentum calls support individuals and organizations to bring purpose into meaningful practice.

reflective dialogue

Witness your work from a fresh perspective

funding & project support

Turn your dream project into a funded reality — from strategy and fundraising to project management, without the headache

critical consciousness in practice

Cultivate awareness and the practical tools for a more just and ethical working practice

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INVESTMENT

rates for momentum calls

The Community & Individual Rate is intended for independent artists and freelancers, early-career practitioners, self-funded individuals, and those without access to an organisational budget.The Standard Professional Rate applies to educators, producers, project leads, and mid-career practitioners, as well as work that is partially supported by an organisation.The Organisational & Institution-Funded Rate is for sessions paid for by an organisation, including managers, directors, access or inclusion leads, HR, learning or professional development budgets.

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Witness your work from a fresh perspective

reflective dialogue

I can help you answer these questions:

Best for leaders, creatives, and cultural workers seeking to be challenged to think about their practice in new ways.Dominic has over 10 years of experience mentoring artists and creative leaders, and providing strategic planning for mission-led organizations.This offering functions as coaching, grounded in clearly defined ethics and a commitment to social change.Dominic works across academic, community, and international contexts, bringing a critically engaged approach to artistic and cultural practice.

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Turn your dream project into a funded reality — from strategy and fundraising to project management, without the headache

funding & project support

I can help you answer these questions:

Best suited for charity and nonprofit founders, organisational leaders, and independent artists.Dominic brings over a decade of professional experience, elevating creative and innovative standards for organizations ranging from social justice-focused nonprofits to fully accessible dance companies.His client and grant-funded work spans the globe, supporting organizations and individuals with diverse visions. Dominic works across the spectrum—from partnering with founders at the start of their journey to helping established organizations build sustainable growth.He has successfully supported fundraising of millions of public and philanthropic funding transnationally.

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Cultivate awareness and the practical tools for a more just and ethical working practice

critical consciousness in practice

I can help you answer these questions:

*Ideal for facilitators & leaders who want to enhance their working practiceDominic’s practice is informed by extensive work in decolonial methodologies, disability/accessibility pedagogy, and culturally competent facilitation.He has delivered over 200+ workshops/classes and engaged over 5,000 participants internationally.His approach integrates critical theory with embodied practice, supporting artists, educators, and communities in developing equitable, access-led environments.

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dominic's approach

" i am not afraid of challenges, they excite me "

Dominic helps individuals and organizations close the gap between what they say and what they do

His framework begins with people before systems. Before any project, policy, or initiative starts, he maps the gap between beliefs and practice.From that foundation, he develops structures that support meaningful purpose.Dominic generates accessible systems that reduce harm and remove barriers for people. He draws on Black studies, Queer studies, and disability intelligence. Embodied knowledge is at the forefront of this methodology, with the understanding that bodies hold particular wisdom for equity that documents never will.The result is working practice that is honest, accountable, and built to last. Read more about his framework here.

"Working with Dominic has been a pleasure. His patience, clear communication, and attention to detail made the onboarding process feel supportive and empowering. I felt genuinely cared for and well-guided at every step." — OsongoSupported in Strategic Planning and Coaching for Let it Happen House (Norah, Yarah, Rosa)

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HOW IT WORKS

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two: send your questions or topic in advance

three: meet with me

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the place where the water boils, 2024

Awarded Best MFA Choreography Thesis, Roehampton University

Designed to be adaptable, The Place Where the Water Boils can be presented as a full-length performance, a gallery-based installation, or modified for workshops and live performance settings. Its fluid structure allows for site-specific adaptations and audience engagement across multiple contexts.The Place Where the Water Boils is a one-hour evening-length performance that explores time, memory, and the body through the lens of particular Black experience, myth, and diasporic consciousness. Drawing from the Potawatomi legend of Fleet Foot, the work navigates illusions, mirages, and layered histories, reflecting contradictions that are both real and unreal.The piece centers on the queering of the body, double consciousness, and the interplay of movement, dystopian technology, and memory. It honors influences such as Ms. Katherine Dunham, Gangsta Boo, BK Tidal Wave, Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, and Yemaya, weaving together embodied practice, myth, and contemporary cultural references.

living without a red cape, 2019

Awarded the KADI Grant

Living without a Red Cape is a 20-minute dance performance designed for gallery spaces, exploring themes of identity, aspiration, and safety. Inspired by Ole Marius Joergesen’s No Superhero and the experimental soundscapes of underground instrumentalist Novo Line, the work navigates the tension between heightened states and softness, jarring the audience with unexpected shifts in movement and sound.The choreography reflects the struggle of living with barriers without the fortitude of an affirmed identity, moving through gestures that evoke vulnerability, tension, and resilience. The performance creates a journey for the audience, oscillating between active, challenging moments and softer, introspective passages, inviting reflection on the ways identity and aspiration are mediated by safety and risk.Though conceived as a continuous performance, Living without a Red Cape is adaptable for different gallery spaces and contexts, offering flexibility for exhibition, installation, or community-based settings. The work asks questions about how we navigate the world without protective armor, highlighting the complexity of living fully with limits and uncertainties.

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an interdisciplinary art practice that is research-based:
choreography / video / text / found objects

My art practice is shaped by African diasporic lineages and embodied knowledge. This is experienced through both ancestral and lived understanding. I am always attentive to how histories of fugitivity and adaptation inform contemporary ways of expression.I’m interested in how the Black, queer, disabled body holds knowledge that doesn’t fit a linear narrative. Within my work, I often attend to modes of survival and the mundane, treating them as artistic forms. I am interested in the quiet creativity embedded in everyday acts of persistence.Within my work, I utilise speculative, science-fiction–inspired aesthetics that engage with memory and imagined futures, situated within an Afrofuturist political lineage.I create experiences that explore contrasts: between past and future, truth and rumor. I examine how memory, displacement, and imagined futures are experienced.

working practices are grounded in
equity and accessibility

selected previous projects

selected awards

My teaching practice is influenced by modern & contemporary dance lineages:
Inclusive Practice & Katherine Dunham Philosophy

over ten years of teaching & facilitation

Dominic collaborates on art projects and mission-led work for a more honest and just future.

Dominic works with individuals and organizations to close the gap between what they say and what they do — to bring purpose into meaningful practice.He is both a dance artist and a leader who has led organizations, designed programs, and fundraised millions for socially-conscious work.Dominic's expertise is transnational, with a deep understanding of organizational particularities across diverse types of collective entities in the USA, UK, and Europe.He utilises Embodied Practice, Ethical Baselining™, and Emancipatory Resourcing™ in all of his collaborations.

" My practice was created inside systems that often fail people like me — and that knowledge, felt in the body, is the foundation of all that I offer. "

1.) Embodied Practice

the people and their bodies are not separate from the work

Dominic is a research-based dance artist; choreography, movement direction, dance education, and movement dramaturgy. His practice is interdisciplinary, often incorporating video, text, and found objects.For individual and organisational change, he utilises embodied facilitation.Dominic supports integrating accessibility into project and organisational working culture, centering embodied knowledge and disability perspectives.People (and their bodies) are the strategy.

2.) Ethical Baselining™

identifying ethical alignment with the people in the room

Many improvement plans focus on professionalism and manners; Dominic focuses on ethics.He actively addresses systemic harm and ethical ruptures within collectives and organizations. He is committed to supporting working practices to become more just.Ethical Baselining is identifying the ethics of a group of people, using one's ethical proximity to colleagues and wider communities as a grounding principle.Before any project, rehearsal, organisational policy, or initiative, Dominic identifies the truth of what's actually happening within the ethics of choice-making. From there, systems of supportive and interdependent accountability are integrated.

3.) Emancipatory Resourcing™

conscious fundraising, project design, and community-engagement

Become resourced by meaningful purpose, and move beyond fear-based preservation.Emancipatory Resourcing is Dominic's non-extractive approach to guiding funds and people in ways that reduce harm, remove barriers, and empower the collective. It's aligning the choreography of funds, time, and labor with the collective purpose, so that resourcing upholds ethical practice.Dominic collaborates on conscious fundraising, mutual aid, and project design that center people—identifying the why before the how.He also guides collectives and organizations toward more self-management & shared leadership structures, though this is not a requirement for every collaboration.

Whether you're an independent artist navigating harm, a founder whose culture is breaking down, or an organization rebuilding trust after a rupture — the work begins in the same place. It begins with people and their bodies.

field notes

⭐ i was a midwest boy with big dreams

Ever since I was a child, I was choreographing in the living room, proclaiming that I would “be a star”. The dream has since matured. Today, it’s less about fame and more about using my art practice to move towards justice and truth.I’m from the Midwest, USA, and named after my godfather, a close friend of my grandmother known for his magnetic energy and generous spirit. His boldness and love continue to live through me and my work.As a queer, disabled, mixed-race Black person raised in a low-income, single-mother household, my identity shapes how I move through both life and career: a deep understanding of societal barriers.

🎓 my educational & professional background

My earliest education comes from my family’s historical oral traditions, rooted in Black American and Indigenous lineage. I grew up on stories of strength, leadership, and civic engagement — political awareness and social responsibility are in our DNA.My other education includes:

For over a decade, all of my professional experience centers on community engagement and socially conscious work. This spans across dozens of projects that center on dance, birth justice, youth enrichment, community healing, and beyond. Some of my key credentials include:

😊 I love a good meme

Both play and critical consciousness are essential to how I move through the world. Whether sharing memes or studying theory, my commitment to a more honest and just future remains constant.Sometimes dressed up, sometimes in sweats — always ready to move.
No suits. My professionalism lies in the integrity of the work.While rooting my life in Brazil and working transnationally, I am continuously building community and fostering joy in myself and others.

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