Dr Tia-Monique is a lecturer in Contemporary Caribbean and African Diasporic Dance and Performance. As an artist-scholar, she critically engages Africanist dance as a vehicle for creating and interrogating African and African Diasporic worlds through interdisciplinary approaches and embodied research. Her current practice is interested in exploring the intersections of ecological and social injustice experienced across Black geographies through digital performance. For this, she has been awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the Digital Black Dance Ecologies project. In 2022, she produced, directed, and choreographed the short dance film The Noise My Leaves Make which explores Black British women’s intimacy and pleasure in the English countryside. This film was funded during her tenure as a postdoctoral research fellow on the AHRC project Creative Approaches to Race and In/security in the Caribbean and the UK, led by Professor Pat Noxolo. The Noise My Leaves Make has been showcased at festivals worldwide and has received multiple accolades, including being a finalist at Dance Camera West 2023 in Los Angeles, winning the jury award for Best Experimental Short at the Cannes Short Film Festival 2023, and receiving Best Director and Cinematography awards at Black Lives Rising in New York, along with a special mention in the international competition at Cámara Corporizada, Buenos Aires. For the past four years, Tia-Monique has focused on dance data projects, including Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (2018-2022), which received the ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Theatre and Performance Scholarship. She was a project team member on Radical Accounting: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Data as a Framework for Historical Imagination, a dance data commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art featured in the Edges of Ailey exhibition, running until February 2025.