Cassandre Charles

Cassandre Charles is an interdisciplinary artist, working in dance, figure drawing and painting, digital arts, and film production since 2015. Her passion for history, documentaries, and embodiment arts; coupled with her obsession with anatomy and the human form, are key to her visual arts aesthetic and choreography choices. She is adamant of truthful and honorable representation of her subjects; curating art for the public domain; she adamantly believes that arts for advocacy and education is indeed for everyone; and seeks new ways to present to audiences with accessibility for and non-visible differentiations in the body and brain. As a first generation Haitian American in Boston, Cassandre’s focus this upcoming Spring season is on her organizations’ launch party, panel discussion and walking tour project entitled “Ended Up in Boston.” Cassandre, a first generation Haitian American, intends to disrupt the narratives of colonization of Africans in the Caribbean islands as passive to the Black American experience.

Cassandre is a collaborating artist with Monkeyhouse LLC., ANIKAYA Dance Theater, Observations Transformations Cohort, and the Boston Dance Alliance Dance & Disabilities Cohort.  She is a company member of Abilities Dance and The Lipstick Criminals/Ballet Russes. She is the founder and creative director of The Black Arts Sanctuary and United Presents, (formerly The United Colors of Burlesque). She has presented her individual and collaborative work in invitational, grant funded exhibitions including Mass Art Art Museum (MAAM) (Boston, MA), 5 Myles Gallery, (Brooklyn, NY), Open Door Arts (Lexington, MA) and the Malden Mile Dance Film Festival (Malden, MA). Her credits include performance, technical production management and executive producing. 

“Life is a production and I’m it’s favorite stage manager.”