Dorchel Haqq

Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, began to embody history at the Dance Theater of Harlem. With experience from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts then later at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College SUNY, Haqq initiated her discovery of the body as a political statement. While studying at Purchase College, Haqq’s education expanded at Korea National School of the Arts. Haqq explored movement practices with Johannes Wieland, Stefanie Batten Bland, Maxine Doyle, Loni Landon, Sidra Bell, and Kayla Farrish. These relationships aided the development of Haqq’s movement language inducing an imaginative world with a focus on the care of the nervous system. Haqq explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration, and object investigation. Haqq has expanded her practice as an artist in residence with Springboard Danse-curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency, Gallim’s Moving Women, Leimay Incubation residence, the Center for Performance Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center and has received a City Artist Corps Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. Haqq performed with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham for 2 years before immersing in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Haqq is a guest artist in Emursive Theater’s Life And Trust alongside being an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College. Dorchel is a 2025 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow with Nora Chipaumire as her mentor.

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