Mickey Davidson

Mickey Davidson has primarily been a choreographer for her own company Mickey D. & Friends, a group of dancers and musicians who explore and perform the interlocking relationship between music and dance. The company toured DANCE! RHYTHM! DANCE!, JUBA,JUKIN AND JAZZIN, MELLOW MOVES, and SWINGIN’IN at the Savoy. From 1993 to 2013, Davidson was director of Okra Dance Company, taking over the leadership from its founding director Phillip Bond. Davidson was one of three choreographers for the European tour of the Broadway production of Black and Blue. She set and maintained the swing and blues choreography inherited from Frankie Manning. Davidson enjoyed a collaborative relationship with poet/playwright Ntozake Shange for more than 20 years. For the 20th anniversary production of For Colored Girls, she won an Audelco Award for choreography under Shanges’ direction. Davidson’s performing experiences include affiliations with Sounds in Motion Dance Company, Norma Miller’s Lindy Hoppers, Charles Cookie Cook, Savoy Swingers, Roots of Brazil, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Sharon Freeman, Ahmed Abdullah, Jeanne Lee, Oliver Lake, Frankie Manning, and the late Steve McCall, to name a few. She is a veteran of arts in education, serving NYC, New Jersey, and Connecticut school systems (1977-2014), through performances and residencies in African American dance styles and their connection to American history.

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