J’aime Griffith is currently a grad student at the University of Oklahoma studying modern dance in the OU School of Dance. She studied at Grambling State University and the Ailey School and began her professional career with Samba/Salsa Entertainment, Awaken Dance Theatre, and Atmosphere. For the OU School of Dance, she choreographed and designed/constructed costumes for Am I There Yet, Disposition (Young Choreographers Showcase, 2020, 2021), Our Spring Will Come, Headlines, Piping Tunes (Modernist Adventures in Music and Dance 2021), performed Ashes, Ashes, choreographed by Austin Hartel (Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, 2020), and taught modern dance level 1 and modern dance level 2. In her free time, she teaches modern dance at Freedom Dance Studio in Oklahoma City.
Stills from I Dream of Greenwood, with creative direction by Marie Casimir, produced by Michelle McChristian, and directed by Kollin Williford / Courtesy of Scissortail Media
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