Jaimé Yawa Dzandu is a choreographer, movement artist, community organizer, and facilitator with roots in Hampton, Virginia, and Wusuta-Anyigbe, Ghana.

She creates movement-based art experiences that nurture restoration, social connection, and transformation. Currently, Jaimé is the Learning and Community Manager and BOLD facilitator for Urban Bush Women’s BOLD Network (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance), supporting the growth of dancers and community leaders. Previously, Jaimé served as the Interim Director of Program Wellness and Youth Culture at the Lower Eastside Girls Club, where she organized and facilitated year-round wellness and performing arts programming.

She is currently a movement and wellness consultant for Lower Eastside Girls Club and The Center for Well-being and Happiness, where she designed and implemented curriculum, including “Vitality in Motion” and “Teen Restorative Circle.” She has taught and continues to teach dance/movement at cultural institutions, universities, community centers, and studios. As a choreographer, Jaimé creates work rooted in African Diasporic experimental practices, blending dance, natural elements, and text. Her pieces reflect the sacredness of performance, exploring the complexities of Black girlhood and womanhood, lineage, and our holistic connection to nature, which she views as a living entity offering wisdom and healing.

Her choreographic works include ourwombtruth in collaboration with Brittany Williams (Open Season; National Black Theater, Bushwick Starr, Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans), mud diggn’:(Brooklyn Arts Exchange), mud diggn’: homework in progress (Movement Research), mud diggn’: she has always been here, sea (Corridor Gallery), mud diggn’: working with the blues, (BAAD!), bridge blood breath bone, (92nd Street Y and Gibney Dance), An Ode To Our Breath (Raising Voices Festival), and bridge blood breath bone (excerpt) (La Mama). She has performed and collaborated with artists, choreographers and directors who push the boundaries of performance, exploring the intersections of dance, theater, ritual, social justice such as Kendra J. Bostock, BhoodDance!,Ebony Noelle Golden (Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Kayla Hamilton (Circle O), Chanon Judson, Darnetha Lincoln M’Baye, (Roots In Revolution),Paloma McGregor (Angela’s Pulse), Nina Angela Mercer (Ocean Ana Rising), Marguerite Hemmings, Nathan Trice (nathantrice/RITUALS) and Brittany Williams, A proud recipient of the Angela’s PulseDancing While Black Fellowship, Jaimé holds a B.F.A. in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples (Brooklyn). Her community work is a prayer to deepen our connection to our bodies, the land, and one another, fostering care, curiosity, and reverence.