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| Tamisha A. Gay (Photo by Carrie Schneider) |
A brown black woman looks over her left shoulder directly into the camera. With her hair in an afro, soft eyes and a half-smile, she sits in front of a black background.
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| Tamisha A. Guy as Bebe Miller’s rain (Photo: Christopher Dugan) |
A black woman wearing a bright red dress and tights, facing left, arching, arms extended, pops one leg into the air, aiming to connect both knees.
caribbean born dancer Tamisha Gay Kyle Abraham’s New York-based award-winning theater company AIM recently completed its spring season at the Joyce Theater, celebrating its tenth anniversary with AIM by Kyle Abraham. Confessing that she went through a period of deep meditation and longing for home, Gay spoke of her fervent goal of performing live for her family and community in Trinidad.
Listen to Tamisha A. Guy speak body and soul podcast here.
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| Katherine Kirk, left; Tamisha A. Guy, right, in duet Motor Rover (Photo: Whitney Brown) |
from Motor Roveris Kyle Abraham’s new work with AIM, which features two black female dancers. The dancer on the left has a shaved head and is wearing olive pants and a top. She puts her hands on her chest and looks straight to the right. The dancer on the right, wearing dark gray clothing, extends her right hand and looks down to the right.
Tamisha Gay (She/Her) is a native of Trinidad and Tobago who began formal dance training at Ballet Tech under the tutelage of Eliot Feld. She later attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and the State University of New York at Purchase, where she double majored in dance and arts management. She has completed summer courses in Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Springboard Danse Montréal, and has performed works by William Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, and Mark Morris. In 2013, Gay graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Purchase and soon joined the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 2016, Gay was selected as one of the dance magazineShe also received the 2016 Princess Grace Award. In 2017, she was named one of the best dancers of the year by Eurodance. In 2021, she was awarded the 2022 Wilczek Award for Creative Promise in Dance, which honors foreign-born scientists and artists in the United States. Tamisha joined AIM in 2014 from Kyle Abraham.
For more information on Kyle Abraham’s AIM, click here.
