Marie Poncé
Lucayan Arawak-Taino/ Cherokee-Tuscarora
Fellowships: NYWIFT GIBNEY DiP Artist. NYFA LMCC
Board Member & Performer: Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, Inc.
OANYC / Open Artist NYC Founder
.Marie Poncé Arawak-Lokono-Taino/Cherokee-Tuscarora member Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, Inc. Save Dates: 46th Annual Thunderbird Grand Mid-Summer Pow Wow 7/25-27, 2025 & Solo Performance at Re-Opening of Wagner Park Battery Dance 8/9.., Native Hoop Dancer, Singer, SAG-Aftra & AEA Actor/Storyteller: Heyna Second Sons Drum, Artist Fellow: Gibney DiP, NYFA, LMCC; Adjunct Professor Global Theatre:NYU/Stella Adler, The NEC, SAG Conserv., Cherokee & Arawak Language and Culture Preservation.Audio Video Editor, Author: Play-The Roots of Rap...Venues: Queens Farm Museum Booth Mgr, Washington Heights DOT Earth Day, 92Y 30th Anniv.,U.N. Liberia PTSD Civil War Trauma Accredited Trainings, TNC, The MET, NMAI, Brooklyn Museum, Battery Dance Fest, TV, Feature Films, Commercials: Ex, Bridge of Spies, Boardwalk Empire, Spike Lee Joints
We Revive cultural richness into new systems, as existing constraints transform."
Program Support from LMCC & NYFA
"Culture vibrates through our bones,
Our Language revitalizing, Sings as tree frogs in the rain,
Dialogues still Dance as ancient cemis & petroglyphs.
We find life in Grand Mommy's recipes for living fully today."
"Songs and stories remind us who we Always are and come to Be."
OUTREACH:
Community Outreach NYC & Liberia
Co-produced Restoration and Healing, Inc. workshops for 350+ civil war trauma survivors on separate 2 tours, first responders & community leaders and Monrovia, Liberia.
WORKSHOPS:
Founder/NEC Monthly Meets/Open Artist NYC at Riverside Church &
Norwood Pharmacy Annex (64 partic.): Hands on artist entrepreneurs workshops, Harlem Artist & Craftsmen Supply Store (32 partic.),
Harlem 130th St Ball Court (36 Partic.) Riverside Church MPR Native Culture and Crafts with Thunderbird Dir. Louis Mofsie (400+ partic.)
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR in ACTING & GLOBAL THEATRE:
SAG-Aftra Conservatory (408 partic.), Negro Ensemble Co. (148 students)& Wardrobe Supervisor
NYU/Stella Adler (118 students)
Project Manager for Artist Crafts Booths at the Annual Thunderbird Grand Mid-Summer Pow Wow at Queens Farm Museum (yearly, last full weekend of July) Mentored by former Manager Rosemary Richmond (Akwesasne Mohawk of the Bear Clan), Exec. Dir. of AICH since 1987 (American Indian Community House)
ACTOR:
NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE CONSERVATORY
Films &TV:
Bridge of Spies, Boardwalk Empire, Waitress: ABC's One Life to Live, Commercials, Spike Lee: Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Bamboozled, Coming to America, ...
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Community Workshops and Programs Gives Arts Access to Harlem Neighbors!
Marie Poncé
Member Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, Inc., NYFA, Gibney DiP, LMCC and Pick of the Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland Awards, Founder of NECARTZ/Open Artist NYC, Battery Dance, The MET, NMAI, Project Manager: Native Crafts Booths at Annual Grand Mid-Summer Pow Wow Queens Farm Museum Producer Small Group Facilitator (Trauma) Restoration & Healing Inc Clara Town, Monrovia, Liberia Marie Ponce's family rebuilt the Audubon House and built Key West, Florida landmark houses with indigenous wood bending techniques, used for ocean faring boat building.
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