Akoiya Harris
Diary of Us
Diary of Us is a love letter to Black queer femme love. This piece looks at pleasure as power, pleasure as resistance, and how to have agency over your body in a world where it’s demonized.
Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis
Akoiya Harris (she/her) is a movement artist based in Seattle, WA. Her work uses a queer Black gaze to explore ways in which communal and personal stories can be interwoven into dance works. She has collected oral histories on behalf of Wa Na Waris Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, and Black Collectivity. Akoiya has also participated in the Black Embodiments Studio Arts Writing Incubator. As a choreographer, she has shown work at the Seattle Art Museum, Wa Na Wari, On The Boards, Friends of the Waterfront, Velocity Dance Center, The Moore Theater, and more. H is a founding member of Black Collectivity, a group that explores memory and culture through embodied responses. Following a matriarchal lineage of teachers, Akoiya is a dance educator working with youth at Ailey Camp and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She has also performed with Spectrum Dance Theater, Will Rawls, zoe | juniper, Third Rail Projects, The Congregation, and SoloMagic. She is a 2024 Base Art + Space Resident.
