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.

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 Fellowship 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, free workshops with Black Master Teachers and former fellows, community meals, access to studio space to develop work, a professional development stipend, a produced showing, professional photos and video of their work, and access to a vibrant network of peers and mentors. 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 2012, DWB has supported over 40 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.