ERA Dance Company
Events
K.S. on Perseverance (2024) K.S. on Pain, Vols. 1 & 2 (2023) K.S. on Pain, Vol. 1 (2022) Vital (2020) Rendezvous (2019) Additional Work
ERA Dance Company
An Ode to our Humanity

Era Dance Company produces contemporary modern dance theater to serve as a reflection of shared human truths. The company shares the beauty of the human condition by being honest about human experience through creative, kinetic, and abstract storytelling.

 
 

The company is led through the choreographic vision of, artistic director, Jelani Taylor and realized through a versatile, powerful, and engaged group of artists. Creating work that is meaningful, visceral, and nostalgic the company seeks to bring people to dance through an honest sharing of our lived experience.

 

Jelani Taylor - Founder, Artistic & Executive Director

Jelani Taylor is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator from Virginia Beach, Virginia, currently working out of New York City. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Era Dance Company and is the Artists of Color Council Coordinator for Movement Research. Jelani’s choreography has been presented nationally at Inside/Out at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference (IABD), National Dance Society Conference (NDS), and various festivals in Virginia and New York City. He has performed in work by Nathan Trice, Sinclair O’Gaga, and Mariah Lopez. Jelani and Era Dance Company were artist/company in residence at Norfolk State University and a part of the Digging in Group, Artist Residency program at Green Space Studio. He is currently a 2024/25 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement. Jelani graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with a B.F.A in Dance and Choreography in 2019. While at VCU, Jelani was the recipient of the African American Studies Department’s “Black History in the Making” Award.