Angela’s Pulse nurtures innovation, collaboration, and community-building through performance platforms, facilitation consultancy, and leadership development programs. Angela’s Pulse centers Black stories, spaces, and people as a liberatory practice for all those we engage with—across generation, geography, race, and culture. Angela’s Pulse is an incubator, a womb space for visions to grow. They value circularity, iteration, and emergence in all they do, as resistance to the linearity of racist-capitalist patriarchy.

Co-founded in 2008 by Paloma and Patricia McGregor, Angela’s Pulse was named for their mother, Angela—an artist, teacher, and activist who continues to inspire their work. Angela’s Pulse has spent more than a decade nurturing communities through short-term engagements and longer-term partnerships. They convene and facilitate interdisciplinary communities across generations and geography in order to develop rich, relevant artistic work. Angela’s Pulse’s embodied methodologies for collaboration—including reading, writing, storytelling, drawing, and dancing—create vital and enduring connections between people, places, and visions. In 2012, Paloma McGregor founded Dancing While Black (DWB) as a platform for community-building, intergenerational exchange, and visibility among Black dance artists whose work does not fit neatly into boxes.

Jerome Foundation supports Angela’s Pulse’s Dancing While Black program. Operating at the intersection of aesthetics and organizing, DWB supports six early career New York City-based choreographers per year. DWB centers the voices of Black dance artists, providing opportunities to self-determine the languages and lenses that define participating artists’ work. Fellows receive an honorarium and performance fee, a professional development stipend, access to studio space to develop work, and the ability to attend free workshops and dinners with Black master teachers and former DWB Fellows. Fellows also participate in monthly fellowship meetings—including the DWB cohort, Master Artists, and DWB Alumni—to share practices, ideas, challenges, visions, and work and attend performances and talks presented by Master Artists and practitioners. Since the inception of DWB in 2012, they have supported 30 emerging Black artists as Fellows, incubated more than two dozen new works, published a landmark digital journal and held countless intergenerational convenings for community members to share, connect and simply be.