The Museum of the City of New York
Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor
April 11, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Celebrating the creativity and joy of New York City dance cultures, Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that explores over 200 years of social dance in the city, from the ballrooms and bars of the 19th century to the parks, living rooms, and clubs of today. The exhibition illuminates how New York’s dance cultures and their related dance floors create spaces of collective celebration and social possibilities that have an impact everywhere.
The Harlem Fantasy ’82
Bozar Brussels
May 18, 2023- September 18, 2023
The exhibition, and the accompanying public programme, celebrate the origin(s) and contribution of Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey, and the Royal House of LaBeija which laid the foundations for a global movement for the self-expression and advocacy of queer, black and brown communities.
REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN
IMA MFA Thesis Show
Department of Film and Media studies and Integrated Media Arts MFA
Hunter College
Saturday May 20,2023 2-9:30pm
A multichannel video installation that honors five women leaders of the Haitian Revolution who had been nearly non-existent in the historical record. Through rhythmic imagery, Noël examines the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and mental health, making connections between the women leaders of the past and present as well as her own story as a Haitian woman and the multiple identities that exist within her..
“Women revolutionaries are almost non-existent in its historical documentation in spite of their important roles as fighters, military leaders, and spiritual guides. Revolutionary Women aims to fill this gap. It re-inserts these erased women into the history of the Revolution through telling the stories of Cécile Fatiman, Dédée Bazile, Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, Victoria “Abdaraya Toya” Montou, and Sanite Bélair. ”
