30/03/2026
Woman moving culture. Know your HERstory!
We continuing our with Dance Collective🖤
Charlene ‘Chi-Chi’ Smith is a performance artist whose career covers commercials, television, film, Broadway and global stages. Dancer: LL Cool J, Salt n Pepa, Shakira, Missy Elliot, Diddy, Janelle Monae and more. Choreographer: National Commercials, MTV’s VMAs, “Mom Genes” PSA, off-Broadway theater productions, Bacardi Rum, and more. Best Mom to Best Kid Kane Emmanuel. Chi-Chi is starring in The Hippest Trip: Soul Train the Musical.
Catch performing with
SpeakMyMind
A Journey of Black Femininity, Womanhood & Cultural Memory
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Tennessee Performing Arts Center
May 17, 2026
3:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets available at TPAC.org or TPAC box office.
Commissioned by Works & Process and developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bethany Arts Community (2022–2024), Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), and Office Hours at The Kennedy Center (2023). Iterative performances have been presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, SummerStage, Dancers Responding to AIDS Hudson Valley Dance Festival, and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.��‘The Black Dancing Bodies Project: SpeakMyMind’ is a 2023 New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project grantee, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and Mellon Foundation. ��Additional support provided by the Mid Atlantic Arts Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots program. Follow + tag
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